, 1874-05-27

The colored people Of tho country arc most In
need OF friends WHO will teach thom self-govern-
ment and self-reanco. But such Is not the
character Of tho friends they have In Congress-.
The Civil Rights bill, which las passed the Senate
and which il now pending in tile House, they ,11,-
doubtodly wish to see passed.. they would have
us believe, in tho interosts OF the negro The
bill is however. in direct conflict with these iu-
tereats. It will kindlo anew in tho breasts Of
the white people Of tho South, and OF the North.
for that matter, feeling Of antipathy for them
which was fast disappearing. The wlito aud tue
colored populations of tie South havo boon got-
ting along together great deal bottor than any
QUO expected at the clo8e Of tho War, Thoy
haVo been gradually accommodating themselves
to the now order OF things. Tho hereditary fcol-
ings Of the former against the latter have been
dying out. It il to be fearod that tho Civil
Rights bill will revive them.
Tho bill provides that all parsons. whether
citizens or not, shall be entitled to tho equal en-
joymant Of tho accommodations and advantages
Of inna, public convoyances on land mud water,
theatres, and other places Of public amusement;
also Of common aclloola and public institutions
of learning or bonevolenco supported in whole
or in part by general taxasion, aud Of comotories
80 supported. The object Of the bill ia to
m'ngling OF tho two races. It will not do wlat
it il intended, and will do what la not intended,
As Mr. Hamilton said in tho Senate, the
passage of this bill may ca.,so mischief but will
nevor bring about tho naingltng of the two races.
Several Senators thought it inexpelient thas
mixed schools should be established: that it
coiored children were admitted into the same
schools at the South as white children, the Int
ter would not attend them, and that the result Of
enforcing tho bill. would, therefore, be to de.
Btroy tho publc-school eystem In, the South.
Their views, however, did not prevail, and tho
bill wes passed by q majority Of 10. There Ia no
doubt that tho Senate mndo mistake; that it
underesti1unted tho strength Of tho objection
that tue passago of tho bill would tend
to brosk up tho puhlic-school system,
Tho ooaducation Of tho races ut present il
simply impossible. Tue plan eoes not moan
that colorea aud white children shall be odn-
catan together in tho public schools, 1t meapa
TINT white children in tho South, Ut least sball
receive no public education whatever: and Tint
suoh Of thom as cannot be sent by their parauts
to private schools shall receive no education nt
all. It means that tho public acAools South
shall be colorod schools. It means that whore
tho white people in tho South arc In majority.
not another public school ehall ha erected, and
TINT by degroea those ereotcd ahsll bs turned to
other uses. II tho white people cannot, be-
cauae Of their prejudlcoa or from other reasous,
haTo tue bonoiit Of these schools, they are not
going to tax themselves to support them in tho
interests OF the negro population.
Tile colored people themselves, some Of them
at all events, have home enough to question the
policy OF this coeduoatlon o9 tho races, In q
discourse delivered lately by ID. Derrick. =
colored Clergyman and pautor OF ths Third
Street Methodist Church Of Richmond, he said
From !ufornAtiou reoeiysa, ths 0oys,u,aeps now
con.enplatos tho s.saae OF bill ln which tho coodu.
sAtlon oe ths fssss II 10 hs atsat.sa Now, na1 pa