The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-09
CIVIL RIGHTS.
Senator BrownIow on the Civil
Rights Bill.
Tho Oppodtion to Mixed Schools In
East Tennessee.


KNOXVILLE, June g. lo7A
The following IL the substance OF q letter -.
dressed BY Senator Brownlow to Rev. DR.. Bartlets.
President OF Maryvie College. In reference to tho
passage Of tho Owl Rights bill In the United States
Senate, In consequence OF statement made by
the latter favoring Mr. Summers views In tho
first portion OF the letter Mr.. Brownlow states that
this measure IL not necessary to complete the
policy OF reconstruction upon which the republl-
can party entered at the close OF the rebeilions
that that policy contemplated nothing more than
the political acknowledgment OF the blacks, which
was secured BY the constitutional amendments.
and that 1t was no part OF the republican purpose
TO force mixed schools upon the people or to con-
fer upon any class the privileges specially accorded
to the negroes by this bill The letter concludes:
On the general subject OF the so-called Civil
Rights bill ana what It's advocates call protect
negro now has the equal protection Of tho
laws. In other words he has equal political
sns southern States Ss has squa ciss
for eduoation at public expense. though no
does not pay one.senth OF one per cent on the dol
against him. Education 10 these states is ous Or
tected and the National Legislature should cease
legslatlng on the educational question and Great
good feeling is being secured. For several years
the greater portion Of the time OF our Legislators
Amendment alter amendment TO the me- constslusicn
has been adopted, and law after law Tor the
further protection OF the negro has been adopted,
until he Is now the political equal OF the white
man. Now that this has been achieved the Negro.
business ought 20 stop. The country large IL be-
to Cypress the whites in the passage Of . bin
whioh Is not essential to the protection OF the
need Is to be let alone by Congress and given 3
little opportunity for recovering from the desola-
ton ana waste Of war: Inc Southern people nave
and except small class OF lOssilized politicians
and lot Of weak minded young men who part their
hair In the middle, they ackno Wedge and feelIt In
no state ID the negro deprived OF full and equal
protection before the law But In several South
no rights which the negro Is bound TO respect.
The Southern people have been sufficiently pun
stead Of harass,ns and iurthsr h amisatinS them
Congress ought 10 extend 10 them helping hand.
In saying this do not detract one iota OF my pre-
viously expressed opinions or the Jolly or the
Sou nern people and the crime OF their rebeii0us
leaders never supposed That. IA being loyal 20
southern man aud IT, have right to regard the
interests Of my people IS New Engiander
or hs s'' No member 81 either house sss '' q
Congress has suffered more in person at the hands
o 81 me rebels t1a1 myself ana can afford 70 ds
DO not see why others should not do so WHO have
less cause tnan for revengeiul feelings Instead
OF depressing, the nation should hit them mp from
the 'sl0ugh or despord" ana encourage them. II
Is alike Its duty and policy 10 do The iniQuftous
bill under consideration does not afYect DAVIS.
Toomos and she leaders OF the south. It Ii, II
reality, war upon tine hundreds OF thousands Of
destitute widows ana orphans Of the south WITH
Is class, were poor, but little property OF
any description beng lett them Slnce tho
war ended, In several OF the Southern States the
ignorant c0l0red Off1cias and white adventurera,
particularly the latter have stolen everything tnat
The public buildings OF Cnarity, the Orphan. Blind
and Insane Asyiums are lett, but the means for
have been stolen. but the thieves could not pnt
them IN 2 bank vault or carry them IN their
pockets The laud could not De carried away. but
tue greatest Gthcal.y thar large classes Of
IN the southern states. Nearly ali the nope Of the
tenn. Ondor this coiored people have equal eduoa-
tlona facilities with the whites, though they aoD't
coilected for the support OF the schools. the
thousands OF women IN every southern State, wneI
nc sSe 81 o Y
SHAH not 90 to school unless you are subjected 10
the humiliation Of seeing them educated with tho
persecution And the unoouOlsd courage and
6esvs he WIN veto the w vllla nous mn meas
ure II 4 Is passed. The result Of O.
war sos % oS
being rapidly oDllterated will be revived with IN
WOnted Jury, and the present. generation wall nos
live to see so favorable = condition oil affairs 20
exists at this time. feeling OF returning loyalty
which was growing in the Sou n will die out and
one OF hostility to the government will take It,
place The mixed school bill might appropriately
be termed, "A bill for the encouragement OF RIOS
and chaos In the Southern States, aud Tor the
humiliation OF the widows ana the oppression or
the orpnans OF tue south" With my view Of this
question: 1 am glad to see tnat the Super
intendent Of Puolic Instruction for Tennessee
has taken the initiatory step for the sboli-
ton OF the whole common school OF the
to IA hat M
may be abolished without DELAY. In the fullest
aud most emphatic manner possible wlsn to see
Tennessee express the indignat.O ON and disgust or
her people at tails papable INVASION OF their rightS
In their purely domestic relations. II this abOmi-
nation Is submitted TO b. the people 1t Will only
invite the adoption OF sixteen IN amendment "a
tie constitution, deprlvng them o. other rights
and after that some narrOw-minded partisan and
second class lawyer, who lmaglnes himself 3
statesman, VIII propose seventeenth amendment
to the constitution, provided the people shall tncu
have any rights to usurp. w. G. BROWNLOW.
KNOXVILLE, June l. 1874.