Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-07-11
Getting Tired of The Negro.
! From tie ih,iadeLphia Press
CIVIL RIGHTS THROUGH MORAL ON


Whatever may have been said in favor OF the
Civil Rights bin, far as social intercourse IS
concerned, and however ready we may be aud
always were 10 admire the lofty pariy oil Mr..
Sumner in advocating this measure, there is al
ways wide ond rugged space between the man
OF practice and the man OF theory. There Is not
a pli lincple involved in the Ciyh Rights bill but
what i, right but locked mp in those rights are
bitter anlagouisms and prejudices which cannot
be allayed by discussion or removed by an act OF
Congress. 1t will take long time before the
| antpathies Of the races can be obliterated. In
the first place, there is very strong feeling IN
the rural districts against sending white children
to schools where black children are placed Ia
| mixed association. We are not now entering our
own sentiments. Our object is 10 show what tho
mass OF men feel on this subject that is the men
who have children to educate in public schools,
and who are compelled to send their sons and
daughters TO such institutions Go into the rural
districts TO discover this fact, and it will be appa.
l rent in the conversation OF every man you meet.
| 1t may he possible in some parts OF Chester and
| Delaware counties, but when you get into Lan-
| caster, Berks, Montgomery, Lehi Ii, Carbon Lu-
| zcrne, Ia banon, Dauphin, York, Adams, Centre,
Miiilin, Juniata, and all the counties on both
sides OF the Allegheny, there would be serious
trouble in mixing the races In the public schools
trouble which might possibly result in impair
ing our present magnificent system of free edu-
cation. These are facts which, VIC have already
| written. are given not rs our own sentiments,
nut rs SHOWING tHo cOnultton OF puDuc lecllnS,
which cannot be allayei by statute law or chang
ed by theoretical states lnansLp. Take the condi-
tion Of the churches an indication OF public
feeling on this subject. Iu no community s
there mixture OF the races in the house OF God.
ICustom, which Is the unwritten law, has 50 far
ordained separate association Tor this purpose.
In all matters outside of political equality
I-equality before the law-the colored man
must work out his own salvation. The Re-
publican party has done nobly for the emaB-
lcipated slave, For one hundred years the
white man has been struggling to test his abiI-
ily for self-government. While this labor oil
Improvement and elevation has been In pro-
gre-s the black man, by a system of gross in
justice, has been receeding in civilization-be
coming constantly more united for every
station in life. By n sudden emergency thu
slave is made free by the recognition OF his
natural rights, But this freedom has endowed
him with no qualification. That .he must &C
lquire, and when he strives to do this he mus
expect TO pass through the same ordeals givel
to the white man to overcome. He must vii
his way by the process ofgradual improvement
and not by the force Of political expediency
Where the race failto do this theywill natural
descend in the social scale, no matter wha
their political advantages may be. When the
/, win they will need no statute laws to max
:. them the equal in public hall or private draw
n ing-rOOm OF all their brethren be they white
o red, or MongOlian yellow.