New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-05


ton. Nothing be further from the truth President
Grant is popular In Tennessee to-day than he has
been. The sole issue In election was the Civil
Rights BILL Aud the letter wrote me, Ia view OF the
election since held prophetic You writing on June
rs. the tendency OF this "w be to unite the
great body perhaps should say ALL OF the white race OF
that section in political action against the coored race
and In such contest the former certain TO obtain the
ascendency unless South Carolina be an exception"
Mississippi may be added TO south Carolina as sustain
but In no other Southern State, with this bill adopted
Wllithe Republican party have any chance OF success
With This load OF mixed schools to the only result
OF an election in Tennessee will be to take the census OF
the white and black voters and "a there are only 10000
c0ored to 100000 white voters 1t does not require mucn
genius for mathematics to show that the Republican
party is doomed In this State and the South
IL IL no longer question TO whether we will have
mixed schools In the Southern States where the whites
have the majority The elections already held show
editor OF Harper's Weekly who assaiIs your and nv
position to be made Pope Of Rome unless the National
the power TO do this By passing Mr. Hoars bill for
system OF compulsory educaon but to do so it will be
necessary TO station Federal troops In every county
the border States. have been written TO by large
number of persons in different Northern States who
desire TO settle In Tennessee 10 know the effect OF the
passage OF the CIVIL Rights bill school system
THESE writer's tell me they will not settle in q State
tell correspondents that the white people OF Ten
nessee are very anxious for immigration They feel
1t that 1t be truly prosperous. and have its
vast developed without ii that earnest
as liberal system OF free public instruction any
Middle, Western New England State, and perhaps
more liberal system In view OF their stratened nan
ca condition. That under the constitution and laws OF
Tennessee the negro is not dscr against that
fund.- though he does not pay mill the dollar OF
the taxes assessed for the support OF these schools But
Gus correspondents that they might better not to
Tennessee until it settled whether Congress will pass
this bill for the coeducaton OF the races for the pres
ent generation OF Tennesseeans will abolish
the whole system, and be deprived OF
development Of their resources sooner than submit
to this measure Both now perfectly equal in
the enjoyment OF free school privileges in Tennessee.
Tie privileges and the restrictions work equally upon
them A white child Is just as much restrained from
school, aud the abstract right OF one race in the
premises Is abridged just as much as that of the
coored schools and go colored teachers Under this
benecent system the great OF the children OF
editor OF Hdpers Weekly that such restrictions
attach TO our school law the result of prejudice III
this he true 1t has the merit OF bearing equally in its
restrictions upon all classes and both races
II is the part of wise staesmanship 10 respect the
preudces OF the people TO certain extent, and II is
entirely evident that this prejudice must be respected
in Tennessee or the free schools destroyed and the
children to private schools left without the OF
education The school law In this State does not in any
the public schools 1t only affects them in their social
aspects by proydlrS that they snail DC e9g6ased IN
requirements Of Republican principles, embodied in the
doctrine that all men shall participate equally in the
,
servtude the benefits conferred by that Government
The demands Of the impracticabes who clamor for
liked schools have such grounds for their support
either in principle or policy as the claim or the coored
to equal suffrage and the other civil and political
rights which have been conferred upon them There is
similarity principle between the supposed dscrim
nations OF the school laws OF Tennessee and other
Southern States and those real determinations in the
m ,ter OF tesfying In the courts, voting and holding
existed TO the prejudice of the colored people excl-
sively. The separate school provision Is restriction
upon both the denial Of the right to testify in
the courts vote. aud hold Office was discrimination
against the cOoed race IN the political Interests or the
Tennessee school law transeresses no republican
principle and makes no discrimination against any race
or people. A., 49,,
people do not enjoy equally the benefits OF school
system supported by pu0e taxation let Congress rec
substantial benefit in the matter or education, they
should abandon the idea of mixed schools where there
is race Discrimination and insist upon provision
guaranteeing to them equal benefits in every State.
This position be sustained by every argument that
could be urged in behalf OF their right to testify in the
courts to vote and hold Office and Is sustained by the
cardinal doctrines Of republcanlsm As basis for the
settlement OF this question the Repuo-
cans OF the white race from the South made TINS pr0pO
siuon during the last session of Congress And In doing
they foretOld the disasters which have come upon
the party from a different policy. This very equitable
proposition did not receive even respectful consdera-
alton. IL was scornfuy rejected by the DOotDiacks,
BARRIERS pastry bartenders aud thieves III Con-
gress from the Cotton States.
when canvass OF the State for him, or any
effort in mis- behalf. III Oneenth the enbrt made 20
secure Indiana Ohio had been made FOR Grant IN Ten
nessee there Is no doubt he would nave carried the
State by good majority Yet the Democracy pave Just
this majority does not express the bitter hostility
with which the Civil Rights 6l Is regarded by the
entire white population OF the state l Is no eXaggera
ton TO say that the very name Republican Is become
odious with thousands OF the adherens OF that party
because Of This attempt TO compel the cOeducation OF
the races. TO proper appreciation OF the fu sglin-
canoe the election in Tennessee Is necessary to
state that with few exceptions, the candidates OF the
Republican party declared against the Ciyl Rights Dll
and at the same time received the mass or the cOOred
votes Yet there were many thousands OF white Re-
nnblicans who voted the Democratic ticket
against candidates OF their own party who agreed with
them on this question because Republican Senate had
nassad the bill Had the Republican candidates in
late election declared for the CVii Rights NIL the Dem
ocratc majority would not have been less than 100000
The masses OF the North and some leaders IN Con-
Qess are ignorant of the condition or affairs In the
sntpcrn states az TO suppos that there loyal and
RennLcan people IN those States except the negroes
and few white political leaders This true OF South
Carolina a me oiber sonthern sa Te
nessee furnished IS 900 white men to the Union army
d has 75 GOO white Republican adherents without the
civil Rights bill Kentucky, Missouri, and other South
ern Border States IN like CONDITION. A matter OF
noIicv 10 say nothing principle it better for the
Rnnbcan party to reject mixed schools and do without
The cOlored vote than ESTABLISH them IN the ooulh ana
have that vote - ----.,-.,
nv Congress has been committed before. Made blind
by a too long possession OF majority IN Congress aud
in its greed tor power, the Democratic party passed the
Fugitive Slave law. OIraging the moral convictions OF
the Northern people, Now certain Republican leaders,
Marty measure that which the whole white people OF
the regard with adherence effort to grade
them while there Is necessity or occasion for IL In tine
nroecon of the blacks IN their civil and political rights
yo truly saw that they, the white Republicans the
eouth are better Judges OF what Is practicable and
needed by their section than any member coming from
the other section"
cannot refrain expressing nv thanks Tor me gen
erors sentiments contained In your letter ana 10 HE
TRIBUNE for giving them publication Your letter mas
been republsbed all the South. and it, publication
has done good Such expressions from the representa-
rive Republicans OF your section VIII do much 10 alay
the bitter sectional feelings and preudices engendered
Inv the agitation OF this question Inc white people or
the south OF all parties do feel that the full protec
ton Of the African race in their ciy and political rights
renuire LEGISLATION for compulsory social intercourse.
They do not believe that those who urge IL do from
intelligent regard for the welfare of the coOred people
Rn the Republicans regard the result OF ignorance
section. or heartess selshness and