Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-06-04
Tie Senator's Reply 10 President Bart.
lett, Of the MarysviIle hixea
College.
he is Internationally Opposed 70 The
Civil Rights Bili-A Salty
Document.
HOme-Thrust at All Advocates Of
the Scheme TO Destroy the Pub
lie School system.

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NASHVILLE, June S.--The following
Is synopsis of 3 letter from Senator
BrOwnlow, published in Tuesdays
Knoxville Chronicle, in answer TO re-
cent attack on him by Rev. Mr.. Bart
lett, president of Marysville college, q
mixed school. He says:
1 AM OPPOSED TO THIS CIVIL RIGHTS
BILL.
because IL is a usurpation of rights, and
an oppression upon all classes of white
people in my State and section. No
feature of it Is to me more Odious than
that il Is burdensome TO the poor white
people, and i'm utter contempt OF their
rights and interests. i am a friend of
the poor white people, as | have always
been, because / want their children
educated in the public schools at the eX-
pense of those more fortunate than they
who are not able TO send their children
to private schools, and for that i OPP
pose this oppressive and abomiDabie
usupation. The passage OF this civil
rights bill will destroy the free schools
of the State, as it ought to do, for it is
better to have no schools at all than
such as are arbitrarily dictated under
this bill. The mere threat TO pass it is
THE GREATEST INSULT AND OUTRAGE
which has ever been attempted upon
the honest, hard-wOrking people of
small property, or no property at all.
The negro wOIshippers, who believe that
q poor white nam in the south should
not have equal rights with the negro,
and the politicians who urge it, 10 ig-
noranee of the needs or in disregard of
the interests Of tie people Of the south,
say 70 the poor white men, 1--WE know
you do not want TO send your children
TO mixed schools; we know IL congress
forces this measure 1t will destroy your
schools, but You shall have mixed
schosls, or none at all"
THE POOR WHITE TRASH OF MAssA-
CHUSETTS,
whence Mr.. Bartlett emigrated, may
cover and yield TO the insOlent demands
Of politicians, but the poor people of
East Tennessee will never be driven
like sheep to the slaughter-pen by class
of politicians or by any political party.
They know their rights and dare main
tain them. They have always been
freemen, and they will always be such.
The whole Southern COnfederacy could
not subjugate them, and small pOliti-
clans and demagOgues of their political
faith cannot do it. Yes, Mr.. Bartlett,
you can rally the miscegenation and
white lodging politicians who agree with
you that poor white people have no
and ] will meet you with honest
labOrers and poor men whose rights are
and trampled on by that abOm-
inatiOn. He remarks: The negro row
has the equal protection Of laws. In
words, he has eq1al political rights with
the whites. Besides this, in sll the
southern States, he hss -r
EQUAL FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION
at public expense, Though he does not
pay One-tenth of one per cent on the
dollar of the taxes which are collected to
the schools. No invidiOus dis
tinctions are made against him. Edu-
cation in these States is ont of the sphere
of politics. The negro is amply pro-
tected and the national legislature |
should cease legislating on the eduea-
tiOnal question, and creating turmoil !
and bad blood where progress and good
feeling is being secured. For several |
years the greater portion OF the time of |
our Legislators has been occupied in
FOR THE NEGRO RACE.
after amendment to the !
has beer adopted, and law |
after law for the further protection OF |
the negro has been adopted, until he is |
now the political equal or the white man. /
Now that this has been achieved, the |
negro business ought to stop. The country |
at large is becoming disgusted with the
efforts now being made to oppress the
whites by the passage of bill which is
not essential to the protection OF the
blacks. What the people and States of |
the south need is to be let alone by con-
gress, and given a little opportunity for
from the desolation and woes
Of war. The southern people have been
in battle between the sections,
and except small class of
FOssuIZED POLITICIANS,
and a lot of weak-minded young men,
who part their hair In the middle, they
and feel il. In no State is |
the negro deprived of full and equal |
protection before the law; but in several |
southern States, like South Carolina, |
the white man has no rights which the
negro is bound to respect The south
ern people have been sufficiently pun
Ished for participating in the re-
belliOn, and instead of harassing
and further humiliating them,
congress ought to extend them helping
hand. The result Of its passage will he
that the school system will be destroyed,
and the war and race prejudioes which
were being rapidly obliterated, will be
revived with unwonted fury, and the
present generation will not live to see SO
favorable condition. of affairs as exists
1t this time.
A FEELING OF RETURNING LOYALTY
which was growing in the south, will
lie out, and one OF hostility TO the gov
will take its place. The mixed
chOol bill might well be termed bill \
or the encouragement of riot and chaos
u the southern States, and for the hui
OF the widows and the oppres-
ion Of the orphans OF the south. With
ny view of this question, ! am glad to I
ee that the superintendent Of public In
truction for Tennessee has takelP the
step for the
IBoLITION OF THE WHOLE COMMON
SCHOOL SYSTEM
4 the State; that il the bill should pass
he system may be abolished without
lelay. In the fullest and most en-
,hatic manner possible ] wish to see
tennessee express the indignatiJ IN and
lisRust Of her people at this palpable in
'asion Of their rights in their purely do
nestle relations.