The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-06-25

slst it. Let the school Commissioners set
1t at naught and defy it. If they are ar
rested let the State appropriate money TO
defend them. We did that in the case of |
the registers of election and the Ku Klux |
act, and this here Civil Rights bill is a
hundred times worse. Then, if this thing |
still goes on, and there's DO help for US IN |
the Supreme Court, why We can't fight the |
whole United States Government, and we |
must close all the schools, of course
"Maybe Grant Will veto it." said third, |
''as he vetoed the initiation bill" Grant |
be hangedp was the answer; che had |
stake in that matter; but he don't care |
curse how many niger walk over Us; 1t
don't hurt him, and 1t gets him votes down |
South when ne comes up for his third |
term" "What RI ht have these here Mas
sachusetts Congressman" said another,
''to say that you and shan't pick and
choose the company our children go to
school in, just as much as they? There
are no niggers there 30 the law don't al
feet them, and it wouldn't no how, for they
steal enough to be able to send their chill
dren TO private schools, But the law
won't allow Us to do that. We support
these schools; they are ours; we find all the
money for them, for the niggers don't pay
commissioners, the trustees; we build the
houses, select the books and all that, and
here come lot of cursed fools of Congress
men from away yonder in Massachusetts,
and Iowa and Wisconsin say we shan't
select the scholarsl We amt objectIng to
the niggers learning all they can. We want
'em to go to school. We're perfectly will
ing to pay for their children and our own
| too, but we won have them IN our schools,
come what will"
The public schools in fact, are the main
| root of the oil jactiCn 10 the Civil Rights
| bill. They will virtually be destroyed by
the measure, and for the time being the
| educational interests of all will suffer Sc
yerely. Here in Maryland this will not be
the case long, for our school system is so
/ perfect and strong that it can withstand
greater trials than this. Means will speed
| ilv be found for evading the law as regards
| the white children while as for the negroes
the already effective school system provi-
| ded for them will be quietly abandoned, so
so that in the end they will be only suffer-
| ers But in the other Southern States,
! where the schools are not so well estab-
| HsheS, educational progress will be likely
| to raceiye such a check, if this bill should
mass as il will not recover from in a gen.
] Grafton. The blind folly of this iEiqultous
| interference with the principle Of self-gov-
eminent lies chiefly here. Education, the
greatest need of the South in her present
/ anomalous and nest wretched state, will
! be annihilated by it, and "the barbarlsm
/ of slavery" will be enlightenment itself IN
comparison with the direct consequences
of Summers pet measure. The Southern
States have an aggregate Of over .0OO,OOC
| illiterate persons ten years old and over
being ive-sevenths of the ilhteracy of the
country. To combat this the South has
made what must be considered, with her
4 limited means, a herculean effort. Think
of Virginia adding 1900 schools TO hel
number in single yearl Think OF Ala.
bama increasing her school taxes S2OOOOI
in two years. This progress, this struggle
this desperate effort to dispel The clouds o
ignorance is instantly par1lyzed If the
Civil Rights bill should pass.
So far as the rest goes the ball does no
amount to much. The travelling pnbht
will not be affected much by 1t, nor vii
the dead turn in their cofins on accoun
of it. Tns Baltimore hotel clerks are Yery
iolly on the subiect, but the BARRIERS TAX
1t an grand seiteltT. "By zoun," say
Ferrandini, 'ff a nigre come to my plac
/ |
not be wise to come if he have some PIN
pies On hls chin. The Civil Right bill So,
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Messieurs, the gentleman of color" At tn
Carrollton this morning l asked an oileC
and ourled Asyrian bull in the office, wit
has hair parted exactly in the middle an
his shoulders thrown maguIticently back
, what they intended to do IN case the cul
lud gemmen tried to enforce che Clvi
Rights bill on them7 "Dol' he cried, wit
sublime disdain, ''why take EN- IN, OF cours
| | and do for 'eml The traveller selects th
i. hotel, me boy, and in doing so gets all tb
lay allows him. But the landlord selecl
the room he goes to after he gets IN. an
| | the waiter selects the food1 See me2
! | there enything IN the CIVIL Rights bull
! prevent me from sending our colore
+ guests to the main truck, three or fol
!, | stories higher than the elevator goes2 In
! agine q darkey with good appetite pay
a | inc 81 and trying to mastleste and digest OF
| of our civil rights beefstsakE for breakias
. Is there ANYTHING in the bill to prevent |
a from feeding darkies on chuck and VIII
a 1 leather? How often do you think SAINT
. / will come back after visit to our hous
. He likes to get his moneys worth as We
: | as the next man, and he's sensitive, to
;. Sambo is; he won't like going to pla
a. where the walters are either 80 deaf tn,
n can't hear his orders or 50 familiar tn
q spill hot soup down his back. tell y
n this whole civil rights business Is hui
= bugl Talk about Introducing their broV
n carcasses into our cemeteries, Tor lHstant
Il Why, dead niger wontd come to
lei sooner than be buried among white fol
M herel You know terribly afraid Jney 8
81 of body snatchers? Well there's leag
MI of young doctors and medical students ht
IN | pledged ard sworn TO resurrect every n
av ger that gets himself buried in any Of Q
he cemeteries. And they'll DO it, too.
10 there anything particular IN the Ci
cb Rights bill against Ku Kluxing dead d.
Mt keys2 Not if / know it, there amt" A
as the magnificent creature turned patel
at ly away, evidently disgusted to find me
ne simple.
Ily Merchants here say that there is aim
.te a revolution in public opinion in E
af- Tennessee, and the Civil Rights bill
i'll completely whipped ont Republicanisn
e. Buffers Thornburg's and Crutchfel
districts. In fact some Democratic pt
el- ticians hereabouts are secretly in favor
lily the bill, and hope it will pass, for they
Is the effect of it will be the annihilatioI
get the Radical party in less than six mont
nd They argue that the enforcement OF
the bill could be prevented for two years, !
of til decision upon its constitutional
ans could be got from the Supreme Court,
ak at the expiration of time Congress wo
ols be certain to repeal it. UPsHUE
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