The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-08-12

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haps vicious throughout their lives,
simply because it would be offensive
to have them 60 into the same school
house with white children, himself
needs education in the principles of
our common humanity.5sIbo@
EvEN-HANDED JUSTICE.
But the punishment and suffering
will not fall upon the negro children
only; the community which inficts
the wrong will ultimately have to pay
for it in someway Such are the mystic ).
rious rulings ofprovidence Even now
the people of the South are complain
ing bitterly OF the ignorance Of the
celored voters by whom they are sur
rounded, and by whom, in some of the
States and many Of the districts. they,
are outnumbered. The poisoned chal-
ice is commended to their own lips
Only a few years ago the people of
South Carolina. Louisiana and, in
fact, every Southern State, made the
education of negroes a felony. For
teaching them to read and write their
teachers were fined, imprisoned, cast
ont from society and often put to
death; SO that the negroes grew up in
mass in the densest ignorance, for it
was thought that. would make them
the most subservient slaves. And
| mean white men now hate to see the
negro educated for fear that he will
become their intellectual superior.
But there came grand revolution.
The masters had embarked, in wick
ed rebellion in which they were de-
feate0. The slaves were made free and
clothed with equal civil and political
| rights with their late masters. In some
| Of the districts, and in two or three
States, they were numerically in the
majority, and took the reins ofgovern-
ment naturally into their own hands.
| They were not as a mass very we'll
qualified to govern. and the moral as
we'll as the intellectual education Of
many of them was sadly defective, for
/ slavery is a very bad Instructor in
morals, teaching honesty neither by
precept nor example. When the white
! people come to US with loud com.
plants Of misgoyernment by the me-
groes in South Carolina and other
Southern States, answer them that
the negroes are just what they made
them. Their former masters must take
the bitter with the sweet. 1t is impossi-
| bic that the brutal slavery Of two hum
dred years should not be followed by
some consequences which are disa-
greeable to their former masters. And
what are all the sufferings and the
evils resulting from misgovernment by
the negroes in all the Southern States
combined compared with the intoler.
able sufferings and hardships result
ing from the institution ofslavery fol
. even one short month! But the Negro
of the South is improving rapidly, and
is everywhere distinguished for hi:
desire to get an education Even the
old are learning TO read and write
and all are anxious for the education
of their children In the State oi
: South Carolina, in which the negro
, population is so largely in the ascen
dant, and over which there is so mucl
Democratic groaning, they have to
day a better system of schools than i,
G most Southern States Ef
n To he continued next week.
A funny affair in a court of Law
lately came off at Chicago One Ame
g liza Donnerschlog brought suit agains
: Augustus Behrens, who had lpromis
5 ed to marry her, but had failed to kcel
e, his word. The lady demanded onl
h two hundred dollars in damages-no
+ an exhorbitant price for her disap
C pointment in being obliged to retail
=, The suit came to trial before Mr. Jus
S tice Banyon, and Mr. Behrens, not dc
S nying the principal facts allege
k against him, excused himself by say
t ing that Amelia insisted as condi
e tion of the marriage that her mothe
e should keep house for the young con
e pie and this Agustus could not con
e sent to- Il told her that | loved he
d deeply, and was ready to marry hel
il hut did not wish to marry her mothe
d also, who was a woman Of lordly an
le unpleasant habits and insisted on feec
n ing me too much on cabbage, vege
G. table l always disliked.'" r.sf
II After; this frank avowal Of his pul
l. pose, and his un- -Tcutonic distaste ft
ell the national vegetable, Justice Bar
st yon said Which would you rathe
lie do. marry the lady and take her mott
n er to live with you. or. pay two hui
r dred?" Agustus firmly: :. will pa
te the two hundred dollars Wher,
a, upon the worthy and enlightened ma,
RS istrate delivered the follow judgmen
ALLOW me to shake hands with 80,
F.. I envy your firmness. There was.
!. period in the life of this Court, Nj
a Behrens. when it was in circumstal
:. ces somewhat similar to'your own.
~ ~ it had had the moral courage yo
u possess, it would have saved abo,
a twenty-6 FIVE years of misery and unha
~ piness. The alternative was presentt
lI's to this Court whether it would mar
hhe Young lady and her mother or p;
ae ae 1925 in gold. The Court was poor
ro r that time. 1t was earning an unsati
&c factory living at the restaurant bus
~ ness It yielded. 1t took the your
~ woman and mother in law and ke
~ the one hundred and twenty five dc
~ lars. For quarter of a century Il
:" Court regretted its hasty action. 1t
~ glad to meet a man who cherishes ha
~ piness more than he does none
n ns The order of the Court is that the d
bpp fendant stand discharged, and that Il
'o complainant, who has been, trying
us bring man into slavery to mothe
tn in-law, be fined ten dollars and eos,
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.. To those Of our merchants and bus
* ness men who have chronic habit
-. / cnmnlaininr of :. hard finoas y ,