The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-16
ABANDON THE SCHOOLS!

$ ABANDON THE SCHOOLS!
q Even according to the late Radical Stat
census the white inhabitants of New Orlean
r outnumber the colored by nearly three to one
I the former being 145, 72l, the latter 81, CAT
, Yet nine out of the seventeen city schoo
directors are colored The whites outnumbe1
the colored in every ward, except the Seventh
where the difference is only 222. the Fifteenth
with colored preponderance of 81, and the
Sixteenth where the colored majority is 629.
Taking the population by wards, the COL
ored element would only be entitled to three
directors; and taking the totals for the entire
city, the negroes could only claim five
directorships. But having been awarded a
majority of nine against eight in board of
seventeen, they vote in solid mass on every
question relating to race, with the Joint pur-
pose and deliberate intention to Africanize
the schools.
They voted as unit on the question of put
ting negroes as teachers in white schools
and opening all schools to negro children.
The proportion of colored teachers to white
is much greater than that of the colored
children to the white. Many meritorious
white teachers have been dropped or rejected,
in order to make room for mulattoes or ne
groes, some of whom are recently imported
from Ohio to fill situations promised to them
in advance.
We hear of insults offered by these negro
directors to ladies who have occasion to apply
to them for appointment or to demonstrate
against unjust suspension. glaring and
atrocious case was given in the BULLETIN of |
this morning. Poverty has compelled many
white women to undergo the humilia-
ton of seeking employment from that
source, and they have often been met in a
sneering. supercilious and overbearing man
ner. Like the brutal and ignorant in office,
they want to make their power and Importance
felt by their own race, and also to CRAFTY a
malicious jealousy of the whites.
The low grade of character among the direc-
tors has had its effect upon the tone and bear
ing of teachers, and that effect will soon be
reflected upon pupils. How it can be avoided
IS long as children are left under the cor
'upting influence of the impure is more than
We can tell Children initiate the manners,
lbsorb the ideas, and follow the moral sense
If parents first, of teachers next, and almost
o the same extent.
This pollution ought not to be risked,
because purity in morals and an honorable $
disposition are of immensely greater i'm
'ortance than any amount of book-learnine
an possibly be. There is a moral poison I
'hich attaches to wicked female like an
tmosphere, and this can not be breathed by
he young, the susceptible and the tender
'ithout danger.
Nor can true-hearted, gentle and honorable
dies afford to be associated with those whom
e have heretofore described, and who need
OF be further designated We warn true
dies connected with the Radical schools P
lat suspicionslare commonly uttered through
1t the city which we cannot repeat in these -
'lumns, and which attach to so many
to make it improper for honorable women F.
run the risk of suffering from them. They E.
n not withdraw from the degraded schools r
hour too soon. Those who have been
opped are fortunate in comparison with Of
ose who remain at the risk of having fair no
mes furnished with scandal. =
The withdrawal of white teachers and pu- C.
Is in mass will bring this abuse to culmi-
ton. We conjure and urge our citizens to
in this matter vigorously. The reproach 16
at they will bear any insult, any abuse, and
outrage that may be imposed upon them
ould be wiped out, and this school abomi- =
lion is the right place to begin. /