Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-26


The Whig, as usual, garbled our article
by cutting off the gist of theargument, and
thereby placed us unfairly before its read
ers; but we are willing to stand by all
it has emphasized, without even so much
as saying 'the italics are ours'' We be-
lieve in giving the negro children all the
chances and opportunities we give the white
children in securing an education and at
the public cost, as it is for the public ben
eft; and, as we have said, we would allow
black schools to be taught by black teach
ers, though far from believing that they are
as capable of teaching and training even
their own color so well, of intoxicating
proper morals, or planting wholesome germs
in the minds of youth, as properly trained
white teachers; yet we have no objection to
the trial being made; and if they must have
even negro superintendent and trustees,
why give them these also; but not by mixing
them in with white teachers or officers or
giving them any authority over or privi-
leges in white schools We must have no
mixing of the children, the teachers, or the
officials that will bring colored people in any
manner whatever in contract with the white
schools. The United States Government
has colored regiments in its army, but it
officers them with white men. There are
negroes in the navy, but not on the quarter
deck; nor will there ever be an American
regiment in the field or an American on the
sea commanded by a negro, though one might
be found as fit to command as Sherman or
Porter.
We all believe, and, in fact, know, that
it would be better for the interests of edu-
cation and Religions it is in the interest
of the political government of the world
that we have white officials-were the pull
pits of colored churches filled by learned
and pious white men instead of ignorant and
often debased black men, and the schools in
charge of white teachers; but rather than
force these upon them or have any conflict
over the matter, we are willing that they
should separate themselves entirely from
us, and run their own schools as they do
their own churches, always demanding,
however, that the money appropriated the
States, cities or counties for the purpose
shall be expended under the direction of the
proper officers thereof having charge of the
duties of education, and that these officers
shall be white men.-Ricltmond State.
The appointment by Gov Cameron, of
his negro varlet, as trustee of the white
schools of Virginia, is an act of infamy.
Apart from the question of color, it is the
same thing in effect as if he had appointed
himself. For his body servant, in his ac-
ton as school trustee, will but carry out the
views of Cameron. If this man was his
white servant or his white son, the appoint
ment of one so near to, and SO dependent
upon him, would be infamous. But the
appointment of his negro servant to such
position, in bitter conflict with the most
intense race feeling, is an act of infamy,
saturated with malignity, to the white peo-
pie over whose children and their teachers
he has put him. It was done to crafty his
hatred to the white people of Richmond,
who are intensely opposed to Malone Re-
publicanism, and at the same time to give
him greater influence over the negroes of
the State, that he may array them in bitter
antagonism to the white people of Virginia
AS infamous as the act is, the motive was
baser If the negroes are wise, they will
scorn the man who thus seeks to influence
them into such folly. If the white people
are not base, they will repudiate a party
that is corrupt enough to uphold such con-
DUCT Charlottesville Jefersonian.