The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-07-28
Radical Moan for Mixed Schools

the action OF the Schoo'
Board of the city of New Orleans IN
separating the white and black ch'''
,l,cn in the public schools:
"Can Governor Nichols consistent.
" speak of the clearly guarantee"
rights of the colorcd people III tue
schools as "simply matter OF feel
ing in regard to which he is "po~-
cllcSs to act
THE EFFECTS.
The effects of this i'll advised, iIIr-
yal measure of separating the races
in the schools, which the city board
ATTEMPTS without Democratic rrh!'Ec,
can not be mistaken. 1t breaks up
that union of the people, so necessary
for the peace of the State, and draws
the color line rcmor<clcSsly in the
tacc of The most solemn pledges an
administration could possibly pnf
forth for its guide. 1t is completely
at variance with all correct ideas "f
the republican form of government,
and Chilly arouscs the Indignation
of the culorcd people. The act OF
separation in itself is an attempt t"
fastcn Il stigma npon the race, tor
which no honcycd words can atone.
They simply demand the rights OF
American frccmcn and nothing more;
they would be unworthy of the great
boon conferred upon them ii they
patiently submitted to less.
The "Bourhon CLEMENT of course
comes in for a heavy share of +. BIS
fierce dcnuuciati.>n. "Broken pied.
sc<," "vioatcd law,' arc coplouSIy
quoted by this learned Doctor who
practicrN in a camp that never kept
pledge OF ohryrd Il law. BE this
as it may, however, the tilt with a
straw of this modern Don QniXotc is
easily met.
Laws passed in all solemn form, by
magnatcs, be they ever so learned,
that are at variance with natures
mandates are but as wasted paper.
Public schools, although founded by
laws of human enactment, must br
regulated by social rules, by natures
wants, else they become dead Letters
The politicians of the South, and
when we say politician VIC Go not
mean that tenn to apply to the dem.
asoyuc and tho trickslcr, of whicl
class, the article referred to clcall!
prove, Elmcnson Bentley belongs, hn
we mean the statesmen and think or:
of the South, are deeply interested
in the education of the negro. The
reasons for that interest are NANTES
to all practical minds and need no
bc repeated but those politicians ar
) not in favor of social degradation
of their own race in order to attfml
, the elevation of the black.
Let Nellie, white, and Cnify, black
, attend school together; drink wisdol
f from the same spring of knowledge
occupy the same form, sambol o
the same green, and what will be tn
result , CuHy loves Nellie and woul
marry her when the age of maturit
y is reached, and when married whf
e race springs up as the progeny OF til
y alliance of extremes in civilization ?
@ Has the astutc Bentley looked b'
r. You'd his nose on this subject, as !
~ seems to have when laundering Il
W demoyogical appeal to the blacks &C.
=. demand the rights of Amer lean fire.
men, Bentley, we fear, is of til
!" class who have been suffered to roa
}" at large simply because there was
Il harm IN them save the annoyance
;e the public ear by their noise :; ip 9th
OF words, Bentley is an ass. It's gre
De pity that Bentley did not die wi
Ii. the "ear|y flowers he should la
ID passed away with the "crowd of |
.;s fellows" Packard and Pitkin and t
=, like, for he has become dangerous.
The negro is we'll satisfied to la
his children educated. He cares r
to to thrust himself into the VIII
or. schools, and as he is assured insti|
~ tons for the instruction of his you
tv, equally as good in conduct and co
m. potency as the white institutions
an is fully satisfied. 1t il only wi
,so such fellows as Bentley Grouse tn
of Indignation that he makes a fool
himself and begins to talk nonsen
'"' The public school question in
w. State is reduced to this: The viii
ho pay so per cent of the money for G.
,ht cational, as they do for all other p
lid poses, and they are perfectly will
the to expend this money for the rnrp
nat of educating their own and the bl
he children, allowing each equal fa'
for ties. If the black man is salts
-, with this, as he should be, well
good ; if he is not, then the sc!
'"N system of this State will be destro
w at once.
nv This being the case, Bentley
our his class will at once see that
rim perrctuity of the system of pu
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