Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-05

introduced and passed in the Senate.
and while pending, an amendment
was offered, making mixed schools
compulsory, which amendment re-
ceived only four votes. Senators i'm
discussing the bill had distinctly sta
ted that they were opposed to enforc-
ing mixed schools. He did not stand
In his own defense, for he
had not voted for the bill but he would
not skuk from his political friends.
He read from the Civil Rights BUl,and
took the ground that it did not provide
for mixed schools. He did not 50 un-
derstand 1t, and those who passed ii in
the Senate did not so understand it. 1t
provides that mixed schools man exist
but does not say they shall.
OPPOSED TO THE SCHOOL CLAUSE.
HE SAID HE WAS IN FAVOR
AND HAD so DECLARED on
OTHER OCCASIONS, OF IEAV.
ING OUT OF THE BILL, EVERY
T IErISGr ABOUT COMMON
THE COLORED CHILDREN
EQUAL SCHOOL ADVANTAGES
BUT THAT DID NOT IMPLY
THAT THEY SHOULD BE EDU.
GATED TOGETHER IN THE
SAME BUILDINGS, THE SAME
ROOMS AND THE SAME CLAS-
SES. IN WASHINGTON THEY
HAD TWO FINE SCHOOLS, THE
FRANKLIN SCHOOL FOR THE
WHITE CHILDREN AND THE
SUMNER SCHOOL FOR COLOR.
ED CHILDREN. Above ali
things do nothing that is to
bring peril to the school system. tits
to education that men and women
owe their success in life. Start dog
en- young men in life of equal capacity.
and with an education, with another
twelve uneducated, and the twelve
educated ones will rule the others. In
the name of all that is good, let ali
have an equal chance. MANY per-
sons were opposed to educating the
child OF the poor man any way. Envy
aud Jealousy played an important part
in this matter. The greatest calamity
that could befall our people would be
the loss of their free schools He was
in favor of general diffusion of
knowledge, and giving the poor mans
sou an equal start in life with the son
of his more fortunate ueighbor. The
child that is born in the world has q
right to be fitted for citizenship by
receiving an education. Men who are
hostile to common schools will seize
upon this measure to prejudice the
schools, HENCE HE WOULD
LEAVE THE SCHOOL CLAUSE
OUT OF 1T. so WOULD EVERY
REPUBLICAN REPRESENTA-
TIVE FROM TENNESSEE.
Healluded to the state of affairs in
Georgia, where large number of
colored people are disfranchised by in
The white people of this
country could not afford to wrong the
colored people. Let them have an
equal start in life with US. He would
not have his colored neighbours hoy
hampered, but would give him an
equal start in life with his own bow.
and if he outrun him, let him run.
He was glad to have made this re-
newal of his acquaintance with the
people Of the Sixteenth district. They
know whether in the past he has been
faithful to what he had said. He ao-
pealed to those who had heard him in
the past, if his political predictions had
come true.
TUE STATE CANVASS.
He said after the election next week,
we would have another canvass, in
which questions involving our inter-
ests as State would comeup. He re-
GREETED to know that matters were not
going on as well as they ought.
He would take occasion in the future
to discuss some of these questions.
The name of our State has never
been furnished and dishOnored yet by
reputation, and he hoped it never
would. He regretted that he had not
lme TO discuss other questions in
which the people were interested. and
to which he had paid some attention
in Congress.
His speech was well received and