The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-09-30
The Mixed 0ehsol Qaessaen In she
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League movement has grown on
OF . determination on the part Q
the Republican party to force tn
mixed school system upon the com
munities. This plea in justification
will not stand the test of truth
The Republicans of Alabama, i,
their State convention at Mont
gomery, Alabama, q few days ago
deliberately declared in their unan
imously accepted platform tina
The Republican party does no
desire or seek mixed schools o,
mixed accommodations for the col
ored people, but they ask that in
all Of these the advantages shall be
equal" This is clear and pointed
on the subject.
This evidence may be confirmed,
If confirmation is considered neces.
sary, by tho statements of the
Southern Republican press and by
the declarations of colored repre-
sentative men. The editor of the
Florence Ala ] Republican, August
IL, says:
The assertions of Democrats that
the Republican party desired mix
ed schools, social equality, &c, are
void Of truth and full of slanderous
misrepresentation, intended and
manufactured for the sole purpose
OF deceiving and leading astray the
voters of Alabama. It certainly
stands to day without parallel in
the history of the vile deceptions
and contemplate farces practiced
by political parties. We have vet
to see or hear of a Republican
newspaper in the State, or q prom
inent Republican speaker, recoe-
nized by the party as rejecting the
sentiments of the party, who advo-
Gates MIXED SCHOOLS, SOCIAL EQUALITY,
or the RACE ISSUE; and we defy the
Democratic party of Alabama to
produce a single instance Of the
kind, The Democrats themselves
have made these issues, they have
manufactured these false theories,
and when they begin to see the
inst indignation of the people and
their united determination to de-
feat the party who brings forward
these infamous measures and in
vent and defend these dangerous
doctrins, they at once begin to try
10 palm off oh the Republican party |
The authorship of their own detest-
able and corrupt productions.
The sentiments of the colored |
race on the subject of mixed schools
IRE expressed in q speech by
Charles Smith, a representative
,olored man, delivered at a Repub-
lean meeting July 20. at Union
Springs, Alabama. II desire to
iefine my position he said, II de-
ire to be understood, for L have
'een misrepresented by the Dem
'cratic orators who spoke in this
lall week ago He then endeav-
red to define his position regard.
ng civil rights, and said all the
olored people want is civil and
POLITICAL equality before the law;
hey do not wish to deprive the
White man of a single right, but
hey ask the same rights under the
mites. "Arm me and my race, he
reclaimed, equally, and we are not
fraid to start with you in the race
+ life" He then alluded to the
ace issue, regarding which he said
hat the men who cry for war are
OF the men who will do the fight
,g. He don't believe that the
'hristian white people want war.
lie would pray to God that dark
our would never come over this
outhern country when the blood
the white and colored people
'ould be shed in warefare. Pic
lring the direful consequences Of
war of races, the speaker contin- +,
ed: ASK the men who did the
ghting in the last war. Ask the .
idows and orphans of our soldiers {
D they want another war. Ask
le MANNED and crippled, and see .
neither they are in favor of war. !
o to Virginia and kneel at the !
cred tomb of the illustrious Lee, I
I'd bring back the response to
'ur prayer-will that response be 3
T war; Ask God if he desires
ut this Southern soil be drenched :
blood. Let us have peace d
ace now and forever. The day d
hen 1 utter sentiment that may {
get distrust or strife, may on
at day, 1 say. my tongue cleave b
the roof of my mouth. Let us b
scribe on our banner: Peace on u
rth, and good will toward men, .
liz il no time for war. This is q :.
No to go to work and build up
3 waste and desolate places of Fl
is country. I want the colored CT
ople treated with a degree of =
rness. We want neither mixed