The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-19

ing the. yeas and nays, &c. the Demo
Gratis were enabled to defeat the bill fo
the present, But ii 10 on the calendar il
! such position that it can be- called VI
i for passage at any day next session thu
Republican party may choose. q Its ifna
! passage depends in myIopinioh u on the
results of the elections this. fallgif the
Republicans are successful the bill will bt
passed, because the Republican represen.
tatIvss will take their success as an en-.
dorsemcnt of the measure by the people
If, however, the manhood Of the country
rises mp against this petty persecution
if the Democracy exert themselves to ac-
ton, and through the ballot box, by the
election of true men opposed to negro
supremacy, Cesarism and nepotism, no
tify the Republican party that its tenure
of power is held by but slender thread,
and that the people will not stand this
infringement upon their rights, the bill
will probably die an early death as it
should. And even if they cannot secure
majority in the lower branch Of Con-
gress, they can by an united effort des-
troy the large majority heretofore had by
the Republicans, and check, to large
extent, the glowing tendencies Of the Re-
publican party in the direction l have
| named.
The strongest objection to this bill
although the whole bill is utterly objec-
tionable in all its parts-is its bearing
on the common school system Of the
Southern and border States. The whole
hope of the rising generation is in the
common school system. 1t is with great
difficulty that large classes of people in
these States, once in affluent circumstances,
are enabled TO provide the necessaries
of life, let alone send their children
off to costly schools. Already the mere
impending shadow of this bill has cast
its gloom, and is retarding the school
systems of many of these States. If this
bill passes, the school system will be ut
terly ruined, and there will be no gen.
eral school appropriations, except here
and there. What think those of you
who earn your living by 'the sweat of
your brow and to whom the common
free schools of this State are priceless
boon, enabling you to educate your chill
dren, and give them start in life of
the party that attempts to force such Il
bill as this down the throat of the public
school system, and thus strangle it to
death? Even the probability Of its pas
sage has done an immense amount OF
harm. notice in the papers that the
State Superintendent of Tennessee has
already issued circular addressed to the
county superintendent, &c, throughout
the State, advising that no new contracts
with teachers Of either white or ColOred
schools be entered into by school direct
urS. until the fate of this bill be deter
mined. The passage of this bill would
be the greatest calamity that could
possibly bcfall the colored people them
selves. For it will not only deprive the
children Of poor white people of an cdu-
cation, for all time to come. but those Of
the col"red people also. The wealthy
of course, will not suffer, because they
can patronize private schools.
And Just here, will add testimony
from Radical source: Senator w. o..
Brownlow, commonly known rs Parson
Brownlow, and who has been, and is,
identified with the Republican party as
one of its most radical members, in let
ter addressed to Rev. DR.. Bartlett, Prcsi-
dent of the Maryville College, Tennes-
see. in reference to the passage of this
bill dcnOmccs the measure in unquaIi-
fed terms, and says the bill might APP
propriatclv be termed "a bill for the en-
ro,,ruremcnt of riot and chaos in the
Southern States, and for the humiliation
of the widows, and the oppression Of the
orphans of the South"
But these are not all the evils. A
feeling of returning loyalty, which was
growing in the South, will die out, and
one of hostility to the Government will
take its place.
Another evil that would result from
this bill, if law, is its posi-
bic effect upon the minds of 100000
ignorant voters, in spreading decisions
as to the powers and duty of Congress,
and as to the means by which social
equality is to be obtained. For it teaches
and leads to social equality, rs well as
political equality, turn it which way you
NAV. And that this is the purpose of
those who are pressing this bill may be
inferred from the speeches of some of the
prominent advocates ct it in the Senate
and elsewhere. As sample | quote
from speech delivered in the Senate by
Senator Boutwell,, on the Dist Of May, on
this bill:
"A system of public instruction sup
ported by general taxation is security,
first, for the prevalence and continuance
of those ideas of equality which lead
every human being to recognize every
other human being as IN equal in all
natural and political rights; and the only
way by which those ideas can be made
universal is to bring together in public
schools, during the former period OF life,
the children Of all classes, and educate
them together.
The public school is an epitome of life,
and in it children are taught so that they
understand those relations and condition
of life which, if not acquired in childhood
and youth arc not likely afterwards to
be gained. To say, US is the construction
placed upon so much of this bill as l pro-
pose to Strike out, that equal facilities
shall be given in different schools, is to
rob your system Of public instruction of
that quality by which our people, with
out regard to race or color, shall be as
simulated in ideas, personal, and public,
so that when they arrive at the period OF
manhood they shall act together upon
public questions with ideas formed under
! the same influences, &c.
Mr.. Boutwells effort was to enforce
! such close associations of the races, espe-
cially in the primary schools, that they
would learn to love one another; that, by
early contact, the repugnance of one race
to the other might be overcome, and
that in time they might be prepared for
the great consummation by which the two
alien races may be mixed in ono.
And again: A convention of colorcd
men was held in Washington last winter
to take naturalization in reference to this
dill, and one oftheir prominent members
and orators, Mr.. Clark, OF Ohio, address
ed the convention thereon. To show