The daily gazette., 1880-04-21
entered AT WILMINGTON POST
OFFICE
WEDNESDAY. APRIL n, 1880.

FoILED, through the aid of the
most sensible and genteel Republicans,
in their attempts to degrade our excel
lent public schools to the level of the
negroes, the Radical Republicans are
now determined to persecute the Levy
Court into giving the jury box the
odor of the African. Well, let persecu-
tion come. We hope the honest Demo-
cratic Levy Court men will prove to
have hearts as stout as the Delaware
oak. We hope they will not yield an
inch. This effort to degrade the
white man might as well be met in
Delaware as anywhere else. They
have now got the negro into the COM
posing rooms of the printing offices,
and they will soon seek him to take
the place of the white man in the
mechanic shops. Then with him in
the jury box and poor white man in
the Border Sta es will soon be put on
a level with what Talmage terms
slavery in the Northern cities and
manufactures, where we are told by
the reports of the Congressional Com
mittee pay masters stand at the polls
with list of those who vote and
a memorandum book, observing and
noting down who votes the Demo
kia finlraf xnli,l, 20 ,,f,rtnl
paper, while the radical ticket is sure
to be on dark, red, blue or brown-any
other color than that which will cor
respond with that of their opponents
1t is high time the small body of
fanatics, who, because of the hatred OF
slavery by Europe, have been permi-
ted to call down on the white racc
the terrible consequences of the late
war and would. now force the whites
in the Border States to submit to fur
ther indignities, were given to under
stand that their olitical influence had
be ONE extinct with the institution
that gave them all they ever possessed.
If it should become necessary to put
negroes in the jury box to please that
Radical element of the Republican
party which has always be domi-
neering and exclusive, let there be
separate boxes made for negroes, with
ventilators conveniently ar nged, and
separate rooms in some way prepared.
THE SCHOOL ELECTION will take
place on Saturday the 1st day of
May. Voters should attend this elec
tion more generally than they have
done. Good, moral, competent gen.
tlemen should be selected as cand
dates and it would be better if none
were selected for candidates who were
not well qualified. If all the candi-
dates are men in whom we can place
implicit confidence, and are able
to properly perform the duties that
devolve upon the members of the
Board, it would not matter which were
chosen. 1t has always been desirous
to keep politics out of the School
Board, and in this to great extent
we have been successful. We know
OF no question, however, that is likely
to prove so dangerous to the success
and continued advancement of tine
Public Schools as the one that has
recently occupied considerable atten-
tion of the Board, viz that of the
co-education of the sexes. it is not
necessary to go into any extended
argument upon the subject. The
schools have attained an eminence
now that every good citizen takes a
pride in referring to. SO radical a
change might damage them Tar more
than its advocates imagine. We
would have our Public Schools made
as good as they can be made. We
would make them so good that the
best, the purest and the wea thy
would prefer them thus elevatinp
the youth upon plane as high as
possible. We would not endannel
the present popularity by making
the radical change proposed. 1t cal
hardly fail to damage them MATERIAL,
n the estimation of those prejudice,
against co-education. 1t N be tha
some would prefer to thin the schools
out by driving away from them sue
as would not send their daughters to
public school where boys and girl
occupied the same rooms and wer
t uQht in the same classes. But thi
is dangerous mode, and might leac
to objections to the payment of schoo
taxes by those who chose not to us,
the schools. The schools are becom
ing expensive, and no one knows wha
such change might produce w,r,
prejudice aroused againsc them.