Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-25

They are too cheap, and as a conse-
quence, human life is too cheap.
MAYNARD's HATRED OF THE
SOUTHERN WHITES.
When the National Educational bill,
originally introduced by Mr.. Geo. F.
Hoar, of Massachusetts, was before the
House of Representatives, Mr.. Here
ford, Of West Virginia, on Feb. z, 1872,
offered the following amendment to
section eight:
provided, That no moneys belong
ing to any State or Territory, under
this act, shall be withheld from any
State or Territory for the reason that
the laws thereof provide for seperate
schools for white children, or refuse to
organize a system of mixed schools"
The amendment was agreed to-yeas
lis, nays 81. Among those who voted
in the negative, and, therefore, against
giving Tennessee her share of the COM
mon school fund, because she would
not organizes system of mixed schools,
was Horace Maynard. Without this
amendment, the bill clearly placed it
in the power of the commissioner APP
pointed under its provisions, TO with
hold the share of each State which re-
fused TO sustain mixed schools, and
Mr.. Maynard favored the bill, knowing
that such was its character. His whole
record shows him to have favored
mixed schools for the South whenever
the subject came up in any shape what
ever.
But the mixed school feature of the
bill, which received Mr.. Maynard's cor.
dial support, is not the only objection.
able one. 1t was prominently cen
tralization measure. 1t placed in the
hands of the Federal Government the
control Of an immense sum of the pub
lie money, in such a way that it could
be used to further the interests of the
dominant party. For the expenditure
of this large amount it could not in
any way be held responsible, and il
would undoubtedly have been used to
reward those States which gave a steady
adherence to Grant. The bill paved
the way for even greater abuses. II
added to the already enormous patron.
age of the Executive. 1t placed under
his control another brigade inthe army
Of office-holders who swarm through.
out the country, and, like the daughter
of the horse-leech, necessarily cry,
"Give, give" 1t gave the proceeds Of
the sales of the public lands to the
States for school purposes, but reserved
to the General Government a superin-
tendence, through its officials, over
the expenditure of the money. The
duties Of those officials and the general
management and control Of the fund
would from time TO time be prescribed
by Congress, and school system ut
terly variant from the State system
would almost certainly be adopted.
But even this is not the worst of it.
The bin conferred on the commissioner
of education the power to decide what
States and Territories would be entitled
to receive apportionment and what
amount, a most dangerous power to
delegate TO any man under ordinary cir.
cumstances, and ten-fold more danger.
Gus to every Southern State when the
man who would make the ap.
portionment would be most relentless
and vindictive foe to the Southern PEG.
pie. He would proceed to apportion
the education fund among the States
and Territories. Under the provisions
Of the bill, this fund would be applied
'solely to the payment of teachers
wages" The cost Of constructing
school buildings, purchasing apparatus
etc, would fall on the States and Ter.
ritories. In the Northern States
where comparatively honest and com.
petent men have had the management
of local affairs, the people would not
feel such an expenditure to be bur.
den, and the grant from the Federal
Government would have been most
welcome addition to their revenue. In
the South, however, it is different. The
disastrous effects Of the war, and the
still more ruinous results ,of the
subsequent misgovernment and rob-
berries of the Radical carpet.
baggers have well nigh beg.
gered the Southern people. Any OBJ.
legation to expend money in establish
ing a general free school system would
involve them in hopeless bankruptcy.
Could anything be palmer than the OBJ
ject Of this measure? 1t was to impose
upon the plundered Southern States
conditions with which they could not
comply in their impoverished condition.
The bill was cunningly contrived to
confer a boon on the Northern States,
to crush the Southern people, and to
strengthen the po. itiOn of the Presi-
dent.
And, with allits outrageous features,
this bill received the hearty support of
Mr.. Maynard, from first to last. Can
such a man be a friend of the poor
white people of Tennessee?
THE Democrats certainly act wisely
in selecting Col. Henderson as their
standard bearer in the Second Con-
gressional District We heard his
speech at lockwood, and were pleased
both with his manly bearing towards
his councillors and the ability he dis