New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-16


the new apAointees. Their friends are
indignant, of course, because others have
been preferred; but that is a private
affair, with which the public have little
to do.
One thing is certain: There has been
no attempt to 'Africanize" the schools
any more than was done by the constitu.
tional convention of 1865. The school
laws are simply in accordance with the
constitution, and the board of directors
execute the law. With the exception of
the case Of Mr.. Edmunds in the Bows
High School, we have not heard of case
where colored teacher has been placed
over white pupils. Mr. Edmunds is about
seven-eighths white, and young man of
fine ability and gentlemanly manners. He
is fully competent to teach mathematics,
and there is nc objection in the world to
him except the other fraction in his blood.
We do not think his selection for that
especial place is wise one, though there
is nothing but unreasonable prejudice to
urge against it. OF course, the boys will
be encouraged in their course of disre-
spect. The fault will be theirs and that
of their advisers. Mr.. Edmunds is a
native of this city and connected with
very ''old' and decidedly ''best" family.
But it is not unusual here to punish a
large amount of white blood in persons
composition to get at a very small amount
of colored. Mr.. Edmunds' case follows
the rule.
If the Bulletin knows of any improper
which have been made, it
would do well to furnish the board with
some of the facts, that the proper action
may be had. 1t is not the correct thing
to do to throw blame on the whole force
and subject some of the purest and best
ladies the sun ever shone upon to unjust
suspicion and obloquy.
There has been no attempt to Africanize
the schools. Parents and pupils are gen.
orally satisfied with the teachers, of whom
nearly four hundred have been in the
service for terms varying from one to
twenty-five years. There is no need for
anybody to volunteer advice as to the
course to be pursued to avoid the inputa-
ion of association with the immoral.
The teachers know each others characters
90 well to need the assistance of out
'lders. Therefore, when the Bulletin
lowls for the pupils to abandon the
schools, it is disregarded as impracticable,
Incorporate people usually are. It's
mpassioned appeals fall on apathetic
spirits, and the children crowd the schools
With their shining faces, without much
'eference to the storm that RACES around
he Gravier street organ of anything and
that is anti-Radical The at
enhance is large for the season of the
ear, and new admissions are reported in
learly every department every day.
Possibly there may be case here and |
here where the very best scholar was not
elected fos appointment. Again, the
chools have been deprive of the SER
ices of those who are an ornament to the !!
ystem. But isolated cases do not estab- |
ablish a principle any more than one
wallow makes summer. A very little |
ease nable talk will go further than any
of ill-tempered denunciation. |
When the schools are called an ''abomina-
ion, people see at once that there is a |
or an exaggeration, and it makes
cry little difference in effect which it is |