South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-25

delay by resorting TO every parliame ntarv
tactic possible, bat tho Rspu blicsus were
too strong for them, ani after an all day and
nights session they succeeded in put,ing on
the gag law aud forcing It's passage. This
bill, II Is true, hasnot yet passed the House
bat It failed simply for want of a sufficient
number of votes to suspend the rules and
put It upon It's passage The Repub.
licius voted for this suspension almost 20 n
man, but fortunately, by calling the yeas
and nays, 10, the Democrats werc enabled
to defeat .ha bill for the present. But il
is on the cilendlr 10 su,h position that i,
can be called up for passage at auy day
next session the Republican party may
choose. Its fual passage depends, 10 my
oolnion, on the results of the elections this
fall. LII the X ,publicans are successful tn
bill will be passed, because the Republican
representatives will taxa their success as An
enforcement OF the measure by the people.
LIZ, however, the manhood of the country
rises up against this petty persecution If
the democracy exert themselves to action,
and through the bIilot box, by the election
OF true man opposed to negro supremacy,
Gao 'arism aud nepo.ism, notify the II ,pub.
llcan party that It's tenure Of power is he Id
by but slender thread, and that the peo-
pie will not stand this infringement unon
their rights, the bill will probably die an
early death as it should. AID even if thew
cannot secure minority in the lower branch
of Congress, they can by an united effort
destroy the large maj prity heretofore had
by the IL 'publeans, aud cheek, to a large
extent, the glowing ten lences of the Re-
publican parry IN tho direction 1 have
named.
The strongest obiscti,n to This bill.
though tho whole bill is utterly objections
able In all ITS parts is its bearing on the
common school system of the Southern and
border States. The whole hope Of the ris-
Ing generation is in the common school
system. Ii il with great difficulty that
large classes of people in these States, once
10 eff Ient circumstances, are enabled 60
provide tue noc4ssarie1 of life, lot alone
send their children of to costly schools.
Already the mere impending shadow of this
bill has cast It's gloom, and is retardi1g the
school systems Of IN iny of these States. If
this bill passes, the school system will be
utterly ruiued, aud there will be no gene
raj school appropriations, except here and
there. WHAT think those of you who earn
your living by ''the sweat OF your brow"
aud to whom the common free schools of
this State are priceless boon, enabling Y Ju
to educate your children, aud give them a
start in life, of the party that attempts to
force such bill as this down the throat
of the public school system, and thus stran-
gle it to death ? Even the probability Of
It's passage has done an immense amount of
harm. L notice in the papers that the State
Superintendent of Tennessee has already
issued circular adlressed to the county
uperiutendents, &c, throughout the State,
advising that no new contracts with teach
ers of either white or c)lore1 schools be en-
tered into by school directors, until the flte
of this bill be lelermiaed The passage of
this bill would be the greatest calamity that
could possibly baflli the colored people
themselves. For it will not only deprive
the children of poor white people Of an cd
ucation, for all time 10 come, but those of
the colored people also. Tho weolthy, of
course, will not suffer, because they can
patr0uize private schools.
And just here, | will add testimony from O.
AeANiNo' 9phAO3 GGuahOI w Q ". IJTDWDtOW,
commonly known as Parson Brownlow, and
who has been, and is, identified with the
Republican party as one Of It's most radical
members, in letter addressed TO Rev. De-.
Blrtlett, President Of tho Msryvile College.
Tennessee, in reference 10 the passage Of
this bill, denounces the measure in uudual-
lied terms, and says the bill might appro
priately be termed "a bill for tho encour.
agem 1nt of riot aud chaos in the Southern
S!atos, aud for tho humiliation Of the wild
ows, and tho oppression Of the orphans Of
the South"
Bat these are not Ell The evil. 4 feel
ing Of returning loyalty, which was grow
ing in the S)utb, will die out, aud one Of
hostility to tho government will take It's
place.
Another evil that you'll result from this
bill, ia law, is It's possible effect upon the
minds Of 500, 900 ignorant voters, 10 spread.
ing decisions as 10 tho powers aud duty OF
Congress, and az TO tho means by which 80.
cial equality is to DO obtained For IL
teaches and leads TO social equality, az well
as political equllity, turn it which way you
may. And tina, this is the purpose OF those
"HO arc pressing tuls Olll nay Do inferred
from tho speeches Of some Of tho promi-
nent advocates Of it in the Senate and else
where, As sample quote from speech
delivered in the Senate by Senator Bout
we'll, on the DIST Of May, on this bill:
"a system Of public instruction support.
cd by general taxation is security, first, for
the prevalence aud continuance Of those /.
IDEAS Of equality which lead every human
being 70 recognize every other human being
as au equal in all natural aud poi,ica
rights and the only wav bv wbieb tbose