The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-08-04
Communicated
Mixed Sch OOls.

Nv Editor
read your last week 5 leader Grad
ical Moan for Mixed Schools,' to sew
elal freedmen Of intelligence in this
ncighhorhood, among them one en-
incnt preacher, and each one dcclar-
ed that they did not dcSilc Il mixing
of the races in the schools nor other
wise. One man said that Blunt was
the only negro in the parish who was
arsins the black people to "stand up
for their l,ghts," about this school,
matter. 30, sir, nine freedmen ont
of ten, would vote O-morrOW against
mixed school, and none of their race
save such villains as the Blnnts, Lew
is, &c., arc in favor of the system. A
very Rev. colorcd Divine said to the
writer this morning, "that if you
put the white children and the black
children together, the whites would
get all the learning, for they would
be always whipping, kicking, stamp
ing and soaring the black one so
much that they could not learn.
AGAIN, this sort Of treatment would
bring on collision bctwcen the races
and what would become of us, noW
thot tie troop are taken o~oy. No, no,
let us have schools, but no mixture.
All We ask is the education of Oul
children, aud that must be brought
about 10y the money ofthc white man.
for the freedmen pay no taxes, and
therefore cannot aid in this great ben
eft to our race. like very much the
piece you have just read from tn,
VlNplcAToR, aud it is best to let wei
r to do alone, for the first thing Blum
, knows, we will have no public schools
! at all, and the freedmen arc too poo
! to pay for private schools.'
S "Now, the above we'll spoken word
J arc the true sentiments of the negroes
and they are satisfied with thei
present status, and it therefore he
comes our solemn duty, as citizen
c who love peace and order, and VIII
Il desire the ignorant and degrade
a freedman clcrdlc|, rather than f.
r him TO remain in his present debase
S condition, to call upon Blunt and re
c quest him qaietly to leave this paris
Y at once, on the grounds of his being
thief, common villain and 4 dar
= gerous, hypocritica} preacher ~ an
u enemy to boil, the white and blac
II races of the parish.
+ Blunt's doctrine to the negro j
t, that mircd schools wil be the enteri,
t. uc7ge to social equality, and fa'
omolgumation Of tie rurrs. Now, th;
y they have political rights he think
~ and tell them, that those of soci
y c1ua'itY, must and will follow.
i In conclusion, suffer me to refer f
y a moment to Liucoln'S Republic;
# platform in which he declared, tn
!, this wos 4 uhi|e man'syorcynment, an
;, should always remain so. But it
=, best to give Mr.. Lincolns own word
l.. lie said
y II am not. nor never have been
~ favor of making voters or Jurors
es negroes, nor of qualifying them
he hold office, no intcrmarrying the
III with white people, and will say
- addition to this, that there ls PI1
~ s1CAL DIFFERENCE between the viii
and black races, which, believe, Il
or forbid the two races liring together
he terms Of social ond political equality
and. inasmucl as they can not so liz
- while they do remain together, the
TO must hc a position of superior a
ne inferior, and |, as much as any otl
h! man, am in favor of having the {
nr perior position assigned to the VIII
race
Every white man in the parish
" State desires the education of
-, black children, but at the same til
''' the proud soul of every Louisian;
" recoils back with instructive hor
:. at the bare idea of social eQualit
y. thing thousand regiments of Blu
'"' will never bring about, only over
destruction of the virtue, honor a
''' chivalry of the entire white race
Use the South.
led A CITIZEN