Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-09-25

affairs in the South, in the course OF when nc
reiterated his opinions, expressed in the Senate
that KeIloggs government is usurpauon ou'
it had been recognized by the PRESIDENT anu
when last week the McEneryites overthrow 1t
the President constiiutionally relnstated 1t; but
while that was the end Of the Louisiana reVo'
luton, it is not the end of the disease, nether
!, # the 6oal remedy. The wrong that had
been committed, he commended, was not In the
Intervention of the President against those
who by force of arms, drove Kellogg to Hight,
but it was when the Federal judge, palpably
overstepping the limits of his jurisdiction and
perpclrating an outrage without precedent 10
our history, was supported by the power OF the
National Government in the act OF virtually
creating State government which had not The
least evidence of election by the people.
After reviewing the causes that lead to the
New Orleans troubles and their legitimate re-
suits, and preference to some OF the prominent
characters in the drama he said he was reiolccd
few DAYS ago to hear that the President was
contemplating the holding OF a terrible muster
| of Federal place-men in the South. Never was
| it more necessary. Let US hope that not sln-
| gIe one of those vino have made the Federal
authority the symbol Of selfish partisan power
and greedy oppression may escape him;
that even large majority Of the Republicans
| ia the North have long been heartily Disguised
with the government Of thieViug adventures,
who plundered the South.
He urged the disbandiug OF the "WLite
Mems League" for he said
Every organization based upon dlstictlon OF
color is not only wrong in itself but harmful to
| both races Let them make the poor negro
| feel that he has not only willing but an ac-
| tive protector 10 every good cltizen. Let them
| understand that the most efficient method to
| fight thieves who rob them is by releutlcssl =
surprising murderous ruthaAs among them
selves who strip them of the sympathy OF the
country Silent disapproval is nothing. Good
| intentions arc nothing Mere public resolu-
| tions are nothiog. Ouly vigorous action will
avail They justly demand that 90 thief shall
| find grace because he is a Republican or be-
cause he is a Democrat. Let party spirit cease
to be shelter to criminals.
II say this as true friend of the Southern
people, who has more than oUce raised his voice
against the wrongs they have suffered, and l
hail with gladneSs the spirit aulmatlng the
Governor of Tennessee, who does not rest until
the nurderers of Trenton are in the clutches of
the law, and the charge of that Kentucky judge
who tells his grand jury that if they fail to ln-
dict not only the men who committed the MUIR
der, but also the sheriff, who Wllfully neglect
ed to arrest that murderer, that he will
find grand jurymen 10 another county who will
do their duty in that spirit which will relent-
Iessly pursue the lawless elements of society as
the common enemy, there is salvation Tor the
Southern people.
Let that spirit prevail in the South and no
partisan spirit in the North will be strong
enough to battle the sympathy which their mis-
fortune deserve. The South will again enjoy
the largest constitutional measure OF self-gov-
ernment, and one Of the greatest OF those dan
gers will disappear which at present threatens
the most vital part OF our republican institu-
lions. After showing the bad effects Of teach
ing the negroes that their safety lies in organi-
cation as race against the whites, and making
them partisan supporters Of corruption and rob-
berry, and deuouhciug the men who did this as
the crueleSt. the most treacherous, aud most
dastardly enemies the colored people ever had,
he discussed the cvlrights BILL After dcclar
lug he could not support the bill because he re-
CARED it unconstitutional, he said if it becomes
law 1t will break up the whole public
school system of the Southern States, and no.
body will be greater sufferers thereby than the
colored people.
"Itis a well-known fact that the States con-
tanning the bulk ofthe colered population there
existed widespread and powerful prejudice
against the introduction of system of common
schools to be supported at the public expense.
We know something of that even 10 Missouri.
1t is equally well known that a large majority
oflhe white people in those States, even large
ajority of those who are sincerely anxious to
secure to the colored children the largest pos
sibe advantages of education in separate estab-
lishments still are very strongly, nay, violently
opposed to any law which, like the civi-rights
bill, would force the admission of colored child.
ren with white in the same school-rooms. That
opposition exists, and we have to deal with it
as fact. Try to enforce under such clrcum-
stances system OF mixed schools and this will
be the result. The old prejudice against the
system Of public instruction to be supported by
taxation, as it still exists 10 the States 10 ques-
ton, will at once find itself powerfully re-en-
forced, and to an attack so strengthened against
defense 10 the snme measure weakened, it is
most probable that the system so laboriou>ly
UuLG upuu VIII SuCCuluU. 1uSlc Is SCdlCCIy a
greater misfortune conceivable that could befall
these communities, but what would especially
the colored people have gained
Now they have at least their separate
schools at public expense as part OF the general
system. Destroy that system, and they will have
no mixed schools, while their separate schools
will perish also. Would the law, then, benefit
the colored race at all? a colored man might
then, indeed. enforce his rights TO ride all over
the country in Pullman palace car, to board
at first class hotels, and to sit 10 the dress circle
of a theater; but such things can be enjoyed
under any circumstances only by very small
plumber of Weather people among them, and
those pleasures aud conveniences of their few
men of means would be purchased at dreadful
price. Interruption Of the pubc-school sys-
TEN, the advantages of which they now exten
sivrly enjoy in separate establishments would
deprive the children of the poor of thing
which is as necessary to them as their daily |