The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-07-14

ciliiu -hall also pc educated colorNyi chill
dren have been mobbt-l AMI dcnit,l tl1,
right 10 go 10 any school-even their own
separate schools The whit. child need
cd no protection: the black child lid.
SIXTH CHAEGE.-That la spcyCh q
Mound City. last Fall. We advocated the
absorption Of the black by ihe white
race-amalgama,iuu. Thi, i ulislvp-
resentation. and We would t- glad 10 tx-
lieye il has been made mi>takenly: bat
we are sur. if We were 10 call ]; 10 the
attention Of Mr.. Pouer's Democratic
friends. they would say 10 u. Thai Ne
ought not Ia eNpeci anything t.l.sar ir-'-n
a man who Was i.ssu1 enough - - an
inferior officer in a ni--er -,-itn,l;-
What Ne advocated j; Mound C5iv We
advocated in our speech Ai Cairo In the
courthouse. and no one 5-n sar Ne svea
alluded to The subjce: q amals4-n2;io-.
We did say. that o8. goverumeni- IL
stead Of adopting the policy q exclusion
the exclusion OF the people Of 4ny t.-s-
ton or class from our territory. had
! adopted the policy Of ahso-p.ion-h2d
opened the door Of tie Republic 70 ,he
incoming o, Germans. lri-h. Fress Il.
English, the A,ia,ic and the Afric..n.
with their prcjulie,-s aud Religions iie.s.
and had made them the equal II the L.
tiye-born citizen before the law. We ell
deayored TO sho% the Danger, that ex-
listed in this condition Of affair. and
stated that the harinoHisine oi AL ,f,,-s-s
| incon.ruuu, t-i,-InfHf> Eas rl4- urrs-..r
prUuIem OF American .taiesInau.hip. m
this connection We caliei attention
10 the fact that Rome. having
absorbed divers peoples a. We have. was /
threatened with anarchy, but prevented
the disaster by Imperialism. before which
the Republic fell. We then proceeded 10
show that our government was In
danger from anarchy resulting IRON the
policy of absorption that we must not
think of attempting to avert the danger
by lmpcrialism: that our safety was
otherwise 10 be secured-by leGring moth
ing "ndo''e 10 maintain the physical rigo5.
and intellectual aeticity Of the ADtsriean
race; by teaching all the absorbed peo-
pie the English language. zone Ian
guage." "a Draper says, "implying one
literature, q tendency to uniformity in
the processes OF thought, and to identify
in fundamental ideas''-all this To be-
done by giving to every child in the Re
public an education that would enable him
to understand our political institutions.
This is, as briefly az we can state il.
what we said about absorption. II does
not even squint at amalgamation il looks
the other way: and yet Mr.. Potter
charges that by absorption we meant
miscegcnatiolI, which would be the alb
| sorption OF the white by the black race.
\ little black changes the color of much
white paint but much white can be lost
in little black. We are anxious TO be-
lieve Mr.. Potter misunderstood, aud has
not wiliully misrcpresented us.
SEVENTH CHARGE.-That in 1868 We
We're IN favor of a greenback currency
and paying the bonds with grecnbacks.
and opposed 10 contraction of the cur
rency: that in 1874 we were the tool of
| the National bankers and bondholders.
loud in defense Of contraction Of the cur-
rency and of the act making the bonds
payable in gold.
AT the time the greenback bill was be-
lore congress. every Democrat in the
land denounced it as unconstitutional and
the grcenback legal tender n.
an unconstitutional currency. We
thought 50, and still believe so. The SUI
prelne Court Of the United States sol.
EMMY declared that the legal tender ac,
{ could be justified only as war measure
ana the Democrats applauded. We did
; so did Mr.. Potter. President Grant. n
} the suggestion of the Republican leaders
} packed the court and had the dccis ion re
: versed and greenbacks declared copsti
tuiiohal money. The Democrats de