New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-02-12

ume 2, page ~, To advantage. 1t appears
that they were written by Edmund Waller
Earth praises conquerors for shedding blood
Heaven, those that love their foes and do 'em
good.
1t is terrestrial honor to be crowned
For srewing men. like PUSHES. on the ground.
True glory t is to rise above them all
Without the advantage taken by their fall
lie that in ficht jiminishes mankind
Does no addition to his stature find:
But he that does "A noble nature show
Obliging others, still does higher grow;
For virtue practiced such an habit giye9
That among men he like angel lives:
Humbly he doth and without envy dwell.
Loved and admired by those he does excel.
Mr. Speaker, that which seems to be most
I Objectionable to many gentlemen, some of
whom are in favor of the hill in other re-
spects, is the provision prohibiting discrlmi
nations in the public schools on account or
color or race. 1t is feared, and so said bv
some gentlemen who favor the bill, that to
/ Incorporate this feature in the bill and To- at.
tempt to enforce it, will destroy the school
system in the South especially, and operate
AS Il check upon the education of the children
of both races.
! Mr.. Speaker, it does not seem 10 me that
these fears are well founded. About the
same line of argument was urged bv many
good people as to the abolition of slavery
tive franchise, and ut every step in the grand
march toward freedom. Yet, sir, in nearly
every instance these objections and apprc.
! tensions vanished, and were IN a crca rart
lost si"htrof upon trial. Then, too, sir. the
principle upon which YOU comcedc, if Won
please, the right OF the coiorcd man to the
privileges of the car, the inn, the theater,
the witness and the jury box, apply in this
| case rs we'll.
lp~ Il f.. Y
/ INF. Cox whose speeches are always to be
read with interest and profit, well said in a
speech delivered here recently:
SIS it not irrclragabc that if the risht to
the inn, railroad thcatcr, and cemetery be
conceded to the black (as provided in he
| civil-rights bid To the same extent as to the
white to enjoy them, Though the enjoyment
of the grave wand is perhaps melancholy
hiarity.) that the same right should he eX-
| tended t. them as to the schools? The col
orcd members are Correct in their reasoning,
assuming these premises. Indeed, all the
anus des HoiyS who have spoken, if right at
all, are right in demanding equality alike in
school and inn, in cemetery and car. When
you debar them from the school YOU as much
keep up the bar sinister as by keeping them
from the playhouse. Would it not be Il
craven logic, unworthy of the struggling
blacks and their admirers, to insist on the
one and not the othcr::'
NON-PROSCEIPTIvE SCHOOLS PROMuTIvE
or HARMONN.
Sir, as to the practical working of non-pro-
scriptiye schools, or, in other words, schools
where black and white are taught in the
North and East as well as in the South, il
does not appear that either race is injured, or
that the cause Of general education suffers
At Yale, Harvard, WiIberiorcc, Cornell,
Oberlin, the testimony is that both races get
along well together. Nor is the South with
out such schools. In Madison, Kentucky.
there is the Berea College, notice of which
| read from The imeyicaH Missionary for No
vember, 1873, page .i3 and pa. 1t reads as
follows:
LESS than thirteen years ago sixty-fyc
armed men drew themselves up in line before
Professor Rogers house, close to the spot
where now stands this new building, and
notified the professors and trustees that they
must leave the State within ten days. Icss
than six years AGO half the whites left the
school because black men were admitted to
its privileges; but the white students came
back in time, and some Of those who par
ticlpated III mObs are not ashamed now to
he recognized as friends.
Here are gathered from twelve TO fifteen
hundred people from the mountains and frosa
the B.ue Grass Country, lterate and Hitter
era, mechanics, and professional men; a
very mingled crowd, bot very attentive and
orderly audience.
" ii Is an interesting sight, that large num-
bcrs under the green roof, listening eagerly
through the morning and evening. But the
fact that southern born whites and blacks. in
nearly equal proportion and in large numbers,
have tor the past six years, rected together
ana III perfect harmony, makes this institu-
tyJi .,l Of
throughout the nation, and makes it of more
than local Importance Ii requires no arcu-
ment to show how much the cOored people
VIII be benefited by such an education.
lhere Is nothing like Just such a school as this
to teach mutual respect and forbearance. TO
dignity labor, to enforce a regard for the
person and property of all classes, and to take
away some OF the arrogant supcrcliousness
OF caste and race"
| also cali attention 10 the following from
the New York Ai,iepcai,m. January -. 1874.
headed "Ciyil Rights aud Yale College :"
Where the principles of inpartiality have
been brought 10 bear, whether in reference to
schools, cars, churches, or hotels. there has
always been iirsta huge cutlery from the whole
nero OF white tyrants; then, upon the first
trial, an ostcntatious repugnance on The one
hand, ana visible sensitiveness on the other.
'''''''J oNI' anu ScllSlllVeneSS
forgotten in general acQuiescence and OBJ
livlon: Ii Mr.. Harris has forgotten it. Will
he please listen to 4 chapter in the history of
Yale College.
In the year 1881 there was an effort put
forth to secure college for colored youth.
AL that time even the crumbs which fell from
the mental boards Of the various COLLEGES were
denied these people. 1t was proposed to
locate tins college i'll the city Of New Haven.
But when this plan became known violent
opposition at once arose. The officers of the
city called public meeting The city-hall
was densely packed, and the whole afternoon
was gwen To the consideration OF the matter.
The following is the pablo record of the
result:
Ut city meeting duly warned and held
IN The city-hall, in the city Of New Haven. on
Saturday, September 10, 1881, to take into
consideration project for the establishment
III this city Of a college for the education of
colored youth, the following preamble and
resolutions were, by said meeting, adopted.
namely:
hereas, i'll the opinion Of this meeting,
ale College, the institutions for the educa-
ton oil females, and the other schools already
existing in this city, are important to the
community and the general interest of science,
and as such have been deservedly patronized
by the public; and the establishment of a
college in the same place, to educate the
coiored population, is incompatible with the
If not the existence of the present
institutions Of learning, and will be destr,lc-