The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-22
MIXED SCHOOLS.

MIXED SCHOOLS.
The people of New Orleans have little ide
to what extent the schools of the city hay
been and are being mixed. There is scarcel
a school in the Third District in which negroe
have not been introduced, and in some ther
is a preponderance of negroes over the whites
The blacklist negro boys and girls are place
in the same room with the purest Caucasian
children, and the white parents are being alb
solutely compelled to withdraw their children
from the schools, such are the demoralizin,
and disgusting influences to which they ar
subjected. In the name of :decency, and TO
the honor of our race, we protest against thi
infamous practice being permitted longer.
The white people pay the taxes and sup
port the schools, and it is entirely within
their power to prevent their being made thu
| hot beds for the dissemination Of the mos
injurious doctrines, the nursery Of vice and O.
all sorts Of denominations. This matter de-
mands serious attention, and the issue should
be squarely met and disposed of; acquies.
cence is damaging to us as people, and will
bring upon US in the future evils upon which
no white man or woman can reflect with pa
tience.
1t is impossible to convey any idea of the
injury inflicted upon refined and pure white
children by constant contact and association
with the vicious and depraved negroes who
are placed side by side with them in the
schools, on terms Of perfect equality, and we
Insist that the damaging and beastly practice
shall be broken up, even if the white children
have to abandon the schools en- masse for
time. Better that than the evils which are
sure to ensue from the daily and hourly contact
with negro children, and the slow but sure
of pernicious doctrines.
We can not expect any relief SO long as a
drunken and incompetent negro is the Super
Of Public Education in the State,
and so long as such corrupt and vicious little
white jackanapes as Boothby have any au-
thority. What we can do, however, is to
abandon the schools and refuse to pay the
school tax, unless separate schools are pro-
vided for the races The evil complained of
has grown to such magnitude that it should be
throttled at once by energetic measures, and
It can be done by united and persistent effort
We were waited on this morning by gentle
nan who has just been compelled to with
lraw his children by reason of the influx into
he school Of grown negro wenches, who were
placed in the same room with his little
daughters
We believe that the true policy of the |
White people was to have Withdrawn from the
chools the very moment the negro Brown
vas placed by Federal bayonets in charge,
nd we are likewise convinced that unless we
esire to see the Public Schools of New Or
cans scandal and disgrace the separate sys-
EN- must be insisted upon and accomplished
The evil has grown upon us SO insidiously,
nd the School Board has managed the intro
uction of negroes into the schools so inge-
iously, that only those who have had occa-
on to visit them know of the large number
negroes who to-day sit in the same rooms
18th the whites. The thing ought to be sup
ressed at once, and can be, if the white pa
'nts will act together. II
The schools cannot stand without white {
lpport-then let them fall-abandon them
atil the vicious and ignorant men who con-
Of them are removed and the separate school
stem be inaugurated. This will require
me sacrifice, some self-denial, perhaps lit
> delay in educating the children, but the
'od that will surely be achieved will more
an compensate for it all.
We do not object to the education of the +
gro. On the contrary, we desire that he o
all have every possible educational advan- 1
ge, but we contend against the forcible ad- p
ixture of the schools, because it will newt
ly contaminate and injure the white chill g
en- and do the negroes no good. Then let
e white parents move in the matter and en-
rec their rights. o
Dr.. Clarke, sturdy opponent of the mixed
ucation of boys and girls, even of the same
&c, contends with much force that one result
S to make very poor kind Of men out of r
men, and very poor kind Of women out of
,n." o.
We agree with him entirely, and are also of Il
> opinion that the admixture of the races in
, schools will result in making very poor :, y
5roes OF the whites, and very poor whites a,
the negroes. CT
The system is an abomination, for an in
lite number of reasons; it is discounte- IN
need by the best thinkers in all sections of
country, and has lust been emphatically ca