The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-26
A PLEA FOB MIXED SCHOOLS.

ingenious argument in favor of mixed school
Of white and colored children has courteous
ly asked for space in our columns for its pub
LEGATION, doubtless thinking it would have
effect and produce no change if inserted IN
Radical sheet and read only by Radicals. W
give place to it because, while neatl
written and With an amusing pla.
of sociological wit cleaning owe
it, the substance of it is not calculated to ado
much strength to the heresy which this on
"Southern White Man has seen fit to espous'
and advocate The heretical seed has faller
upon unfriendly and uncongenial SOIL and
would not grow and fructify, even with much
more copious watering than our enthusiastic
correspondent sprlnkles it withal.
Want Of time and room forbids an elaborate
reference even to the salient features of this
singular document. To treat it in detail would
moreover require a repetition of what has
been as often reiterated by the BULLETIN as
the taste and patience Of its readers will
permit.
Between whites and Africans there is now
and has always been an antipathy Of instincts.
These instincts appear under all conditions,
and no familiarity, or social blending, or I'M
natural hybridity, can conquer the Unborn,
centrifugal and mutually r4ellant propensity
which causes the two races to shun each
other. This antagonism is such as to give
solid grounds for the belief that the only con-
dition under which the two races can co-exist
peacefully is that in which the superior race
shall control and the inferior race shall obey.
Caucasians revolt against the domination OF
the negro, and have never endured it; negroes
have corresponding aversion to white rule,
with less spirit and capacity to escape from it.
Where the two races have dwelt together un-
der one rule, it has bee n the rule of the whites
during al historic time. Every attempt to
combine and mingle the two races in
intimate relations is a governmental and
an chronological failure has always
been 30, and must always prove 80. Our in
ference is, that the farther apart they keep the
better will it be for both. The less the blacks
have to do with the whites, and vice cersa,
the more likely will they be to have peace.
They should lei one another as nearly alone
as possible. Business requires intercourse,
and in the exercise Of rights as citizens, mu-
tual contact and association are made, in a
limited degree, necessary. As laborers and
employers, as buyers and sellers, as owners of
property, as borrowers and lenders, there must
of necessity be intercourse; but if we want
peace we should let necessity be the limit Of
this intercourse Interference is the mother
of strife, mischief and numerous brood Of
evils. Let the negroes, therefore, keep to
themselves and be at peace, while South
ern white men do the same. Let us let them
alone. Let them mind their own business in
their own shops, their own dwellings, their
own social gatherings, and, above all things
else. in their own schools which the whites
pay for.
Caucasian civilization is the growth Of forty
centuries, and is still growing; African 'bar-
barism is quite as old and without sensible
decrease. White tendencies are to law,
liberty, advancement, conquest and culture;
African proclivities are towards savagery and
OF course we speak of them in
heir natural state, as they are in their own
country. A few hundred thousands OF
hem became apprentices to the civ
lization of the white man, and
While under that tutelage they prospered,
multiplied and learned more rapidly than any
Al Io- Thay
Ave had some Of the benefits of the great
light Of the white mans clviliZ ition. They
lave taken many steps in the way OF pro-
,ress, but have yet far to 60. Will they still
vail themselves of the white mans know
edge? Will they still continue pupils
n the great school of civilization.
Will they stay with us, work with
is, learn with us, under the same free gov
rnment2 If so, they must not NEEDLE with
ur rights, nor attempt to rule us, nor put
hem selves into obnoxious attitudes, nor be-
ONE the tools by which the wicked and mean
f our race seek to rob and Cypress US. or
heir own free will and in good faith they
lust work with us for the general good, and
OF agains! US for the profit OF a few scoun-
rels. In his attack upon human instinct
ur correspondent represents mixing for
-29th part of the time" as something
ute insignificant, but in our view the
reathipg of any foul gas or mephetic exhala-
Or even 10th Of each day, is much too |
,ng. If constant mixing is Injurious, then
atrial mixing must be partially injurious.
If it were true that the school-room |
neither requires nor induces social equality"
3 we cannot admit, yet mixture of races in
chool-rooms gives chances for association,
nd such association must be on terms Of
quality For our part we hope never to see
he white boys and girls of America forgetful
t the fact that negroes are their interiors.
Nor can we grant much weight to the lac
sal argument Of our Southern White Man"
he white boy baby nursed by negres'
oes not become even SO much of mulatto
hat he must be sent to a negro school.
Iany infants which are nourished on the |
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