Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-03

not essential to the protection Of the
blacks. What the people and States
of the South need is to he let
alone by Congress and given little oppor-
tunity for recovering from the desolatiOn
and waste OF war. The Southern people
have been whipped in the battle between
| the sections, aud except y small class Of
| fosslized politicians and q lot of weak
minded young men who part their hair i'm
the middle, they acknowledge and feelit In
no State is the negro deprived OF full snd
equal protection before the law. But
| in several Southern States, like
| South Carolina, the white man
| has no rights which the negro 10
| bound to respect. The Southern people
have been sufficiently punished for parti-
| cipation in the rebellion, and instead of
harassng and further humilating them
Congress ought to extend to them help
| ing hand.
! In saying this do not retract one iota
Of my previously expressed opinions Of
| the folly of the southern people and the
| crime OF their rebelious leaders. ] never
! supposed that in being loyal to the Gov
! eminent ! ceased to tie n Teunesseean and
| a Southern man, and 10 have q right To re-
gard the interests of my people as a New
Highlander or Western man regards the
interests of his. No member of either
House of Congress has suffered more i'll
his person at the hands of he Rpbe 5 than
myself, and If can afford to do simple
Justice to those who have been in error. L
do not see why others should not do so who
have less cause than / for revengeful
feelings.
Instead of expressing the Nation should
lift them up from the slough of despair and
encourage them. 1t is alike its duty and
policy to do So The ubiquitous bill under
consideration does not affec Davis Toombs
, and the leaders of the South. 1t II, in
reality, wac upon the hundreds
nj
, orphans of the South. With the termina-
ton of the war. the Southern people, 81
class, were poor, hut little property of any
! description being left them. Since the
- war ended, in several eff the Southern
States the ignorant colored officials and
white Hdven tuTers, particularly the latter
9 have stolen everything that was portable,
r everything that could BE- carried of The
e public buildings of Charity, the Orphan,
l., Blind and INSANE Asylums are left, but
Q the means for their support are wanting.
e The buildings would have been stolen but
e the thieves could not put them in n bank
4 vault, or carry them in their packets.
l The land could not be carried away, hut
o has been rendered worthless by taxation,
! which j. 80 high a- IL amount 10 conf ca.
# ton. 1t il with the greatest difficulty that
O large ella Sea of peupe once ia affuent
r circumstances, are enabled IT, provide the
o necesSaries of life in the Southern STATES.
a Nearly all them hope of the rising
d generation is in their Common
If School system Under this the cofnred
people have equal educational f,rilll it4,
At ! with the whites though they don't pay
IT one mill on the dollar "f the tax,s which
Ie are collected tor the suppO' of the Schoos.
lie The thousands OF women in every
Of Southern State, who though the widows
Or of Rebels are ~ no wise resp nsihle for the
1t war are told I" Y ,ur children -hn not go to
: school unless you are su'jec'rd tn the
20 I'm lipf ian nf SlpiuU Them IInCn eel in
NJ classes with the children of NCur former
~ slaves - The manhood Ofthe country ought
8, to rise NJ AGAINST the petty persecution.
er Aud thr und"ubpd COURAGE aud e. ner'
Il. osity of Prc-id4m Grant l. ads me 10 tie.
n lieye he will veto the villaiuouS measure
to If it il passed The result of it's passage
Ii will be that the school system will he de-
w stroyed, the war and race urejuhicrs which
ay were beng rapidly ohlitera'ed will be re-
i'll vived, with un @Onted fny, aud The
n present genera ion will not live tn Ser
all so favorable II condition of affair
es as exists at this TIM. feeling of re
an turning loyalty which wa growing in HI
.ir South VIII die out and one hostility Il
n the Government viii take its place Tn
a mixed schonI bill might app oprately b.
n termed "A Hlll 'or the encnur cement a
r. riot and chaos IN The southern -tatrs AIT
for the humiliation nf the widow AM III
oppreS, ion of the orphans oi the South"
with my view nf thus qne-'iui
l nm glad to ste that thu sup I
intendent of Pubic In-trr.ti"n IA
Tennessee. has taken The init'at"ry ste
for Ihr abnliti'n ot the who'P IN ~"
school y ten IT the Stnt., 90. Ina II III
bill shOnld pass the sN>tein Iuh he aho
i-hed vi II Ut del4N In tne l'esI IN
most ,mphs ic manner posi- wish
+ho see tennessee TX pres 49, n gut tn ~,
H., disgust uf he. people AZ III 800 J.
10 vasion of cir rirh~ il 50 ..ur !. II
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