New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-12-23
ChiY0lrY in New 0rleans.

For noble. high-toned, whole-sonled chiv.
airy, commend us to "Our best society" in
New Orleans. The school troubles IN that
unhappy city show that the rising genera
ton has learned the creed its fathers based
their ante bellum lives upon damn the
niger" and that fathers and sons have
both forgot the stern lessons Of the war
There is something inexpressbly heroic in
the picture the wires bring US of squads of
white boys bravely pushing colored gills
into the cutters and Immediately afterward
running away trOE c0lored boys. These
NapOleons in embryo evidently prefer the
laurels that are to be got with perfect
safety. Five Of them can triumphantlv
capture the deck of one coicred girl, while
cowardly teacher looks passively at the
scufile, but they suddenly discover how
few colored boys confront them. The
vigilance committee Of the white boys,
who visited the girls schools and
forcibly separated the black from the
white sheep, did not cease their high
toned efforts until they provoked general
riot, in which parents and children punched
heads and knocked out teeth with dex-
teri,y which only long practice could give.
This development of the public school sys
tenn is not one which can be admired. 1t
involved, however, q touching bit of chival.
ry. "No firing took place." we are told,
probably because they we're afraid Of
killing the children" 1t is creditable, in.
deed, that the White League refrained from
indulging in battue of piccaninnies. One
or two vOlleys into that army of little black
faces would have seriously diminished the
negro vote in 1885. The vote OF 1876 will,
however, be less by at least one, for this
schOolbOy riot. One adult negro was dis
posed Of kilograms from Republican
10 no
ocrats claim that he fell dead of ''beart
disease" 1t 1s odd, the way in which
email leaden pellet, shot out of gun and
into q heart, will produce disease Of that
organ. About fifty Vicksburg negroes died
of the same sickness the other day. II is
very prevalent wherever the Democratic
White League exists.
When children deliberately engage in
riots that lead to murder, the responsibility
for the crime rests on the parents whose
finds an echo in that of their
sons. Crime holds high carnival in New
Orleans. The White League, armed and
drilled, oOnironts the State government.
The twenty-tw companies Of United States
troops in the city prevent open insurrectiOn,
but can do nothing more. The street and
school 0utrages of the last few days are
like tiny fssures on Vesuvius. through
which the tourist catches dreadful glimpsee
VI tu0 uuuCI tuO tuIu CEuSt Uu
which he walks. Any hour may usher in
An explosion.
1t ia announced that the School Board of
New Orleans is about to establish sepa-
rate High School for cOlOred pupils. This
may be the best thing to do. 1t is not
advisable to enforce the CO education Of the
races against the wishes Of a majority of
the taxpayers. But the attempt OF q mob
to break the law aud keep the children of
cOlOred citizens out of the schools entirely
is not to be borne. The old argument OF
the avehOlders was that the negro was too
brutal and too ignorant even to be citizen.
While they plead this excuse for slavery,
they took care to justify it by making their
slaves as brutal and as ignorant as penal
laws against teaching them anything could.
Now the sons OF the Shareholders are trying
the old game over again. They proclaim
that the negro is unfit to associate with
them because he is ignorant. and then they
drive him from the schools in which he Is
striving to remove his ignorance. If the
State government is unable to check these
outrages it must be reinforced, SO long as it
is recognized as the legal State admiuistra-
ton. Meanwhile, Congress should pass. as
soon as possible, upon the question Of it's
legality. Delay in this decision mas already
been Pandoras box of evils. If Kellogg
ls not the rightful executive let him leave
the place he has usurped forthwith. Ii he
is the rightful Governor. let him be upheld.
by bayonets IL ne6d be. against all the nobs
that New Orleans chiyalry can raise
Chicago Tribune.