The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-24

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lana, and when General Grant promptly
put it down, they made a great outcry
about liberty and despotism and carpet
baggers But it so happened that Mr.
Revcrdy johnson wrote a letter approving
of the course of the President, and, as they
have great respect for his legal ability
we have heard very little since about
Grants tyranny, and the like. But haG
there been a Democratic President fully
sympathiZing with Southern views, who
can doubt that the little flame started il
Louisiana would have been cunningly
famed into whirlwind of fire that would
have swept several other Southern States
in the horrors of another war. They are
not to be trusted, and before they are
trusted in national affairs the American
people will have to forget the lessons of the
past.
Now a word as to mixed schools for
white and colored children, and | will con-
clude. 1t has been charged that we are in
favor of them. Nothing is further from
the truth On the contrary almost every
Republican, white and black, is i'll favor of
separate school house and teacher for the
white and colored races. | am a friend to
education, believe in educating both black
and white to the extent of their capacity.
But | believe that this proposed mixed
school system would destroy, and is de-
signed by its promoters to destroy, the
entire public school system. They count on
the fact that the measure would make the
schools so obnoxious to both races that the
whole public system would be destroyed.
| think it is scheme of rich men, pro-
perty owners, who are thus trying to get
rid of paying school taxes. You will some
times meet Democrats who say they are in
favor of the measure for that very reason.
But it will not succeed, at least not in this
generation. The abolition of the public
school system would be an unexampled
misfortune, it would result in sectarian
schools, and a greater evil than sectarian
schools it is difficult to point out. They
say the colored man desires these mixed
schools. If he knows his own interest he
will not. He knows it will not do, he
knows it would result in no education for
his children, and IN perpetuating the bad
feeling between the two races, and would
ask our colored friends present, whether
they are not opposed to mixed schools,
whether they do not want their children to
be educated separately from the white chill
dren, with their own color, with their own
teachers, with their own school houses.
[Cries of yes, yeS from the colored people,
and applausel.
Fellow citizens, should l be elected to
Congress from this district, you may rely
on my opposing, with all my energy, ex-
tremes of all kinds. The time is not now
for the views of extremists of either side
to be carried out. The country wants rest,
rest and regrowth, and reconstruction from
the losses of the war. | am opposed to
mixed schools, to reputation, to initiation,
and to the other projects which we in Mary
land generally condemn. | think | am in
harmony with the majority of my fellow
citizens, and if elected to Congress, l shall
endeavor to do my whole duty by you all,
to faithfully represent your interests and
opinions, and do nothing worthy of your
censure or lack of confidence. With these
views l ask your support, whether you are
Democrats or Republicans; not because |
am on the Republican ticket especially,
but because | am in accord with you on all
these great questions of the day which are
so vital to the harmony, peace, and general
prosperity of our common country. |
thank you for your attention. Applause.