The daily gazette., 1882-10-21
FOR SHERIFF,
PURNAL J. LYNCH.
FOR CORONER,
FRANK E. SMITH.
Mixed SchOOlA.


We invite our readers to carefully peruse
the article on tine third page of to-day's
paper in relation to mixed schools aud study |
the startling facts and cogent reasonings |
therein presented.
The fact that the Republican party denies |
that It is in favor of mixed schools is the |
strongest argument in the world that 1t
will force them upon the people should it
accidentally gain power in this State. Take
for example the enfranchisement Of the
negroes, and think how vigorously Re-
publican orators throughout the Sorth,
in the campaign of 1858, ridiculed the
idea of the freedmen being permitted to
vote and declared that such legislation
would never be enacted by q Republican
Congress. And yet, two years later, every
negro of lawful age in the State OF Della
ware voted at our State election
The question of mixed schools is one that
peculiarly affects our working people and
all who have to depend upon the public
schools for the education of their children.
The rich can send their children to private
schools into which no amount Of PARTISAN
legislation can force colored pupils, but the
children of the poor man will be compelled
to sither associate with negro scholars in
the public schools or dispense with the ad-
vantages of good education.
This is no fancy picture or mere campaign
sketch, us any citizen can see for himself by
stepping across the borders of our State into
Chester co-nty, Pa, where rampant Re.
publican principles have prevailed for years
Here mixed schools are the rule, and
not the exception. Here white children,
to escape the obnoxious association,
must fly TO the private schools, aul the
writer has personal knowledge of case
that happened not twenty miles from VIII
mington, where a young white girl was
compelled to remain away from school, AS
she positively could NOT, for obvious reasons,
maiutsin the obnoxious contact, and her
parents were unable TO send her to private
school.
1t is significant fact that most of the
Republicans of Chester county are wealthy,
or at least well-to-do, people, and though
they impose mixed schools upon the people
as an 'act of justice " they carefully re.
train from placing their own children ia the
schools where they torce the negro children
beside the children of poor whites. They
look upon mixed schools as theory which
they are not compelled to reduce to q
practice, but there is no such avenue O
escape Tor the poor man, whose poverty pre-
vents him from sending his children to the
private schools.
As it is IN Chester county so will 1t be il
Delaware If the Republicans triumph in
this State at the coming election. They say
now that they are opposed to mixed schools
but once In power their views will change
as was the case in respect to negro suffrage
after the election of 1868, and mixed schools
will follow as a natural sequence. The,
will commence in some small school district
where tho plea will be raised that in viev
of the limited number of negro childrci
it will be unnecessary to erect scparat
school for their accommodation, and mucl
better to give them a place in the whit
school, and in this manner will progress
until all the schools of the State are thu
invaded, and the splendid school system o.
Wilmington weakened If not destroyed b.
the obnoxious miscegenation which the Re
publican party would force upon the people
The Democratic party of Delaware is il
favor of good schools for white and coloret
children alike, but separate and distinc
from each other all the time. This is
principle of tho party that can b.
implicitly relied upon, tut we ask ever.
candid voter If it is not reasonable I,
infer, in view OF past events, tina
the Republican party would chang
front upon this question If It once gainct
power in Delaware. 1t has time and agair
violated its solemn pledges to the people
and cares not for past promises when polit
ical considerations are involved. 1t hal