The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-25
Tho Color Line.

Tho Color Line.
The Valley Virginiam processes to think
that the late Democratic State Convention
" "a, down uponv the Dispatch aud the
STATE in the matter Of drawing the color
line. Well, IL 1t did, how does II happen
thai the color-lIue resolution adopted by
that Convention is advocated by those
journals and opposed by the Valley Vir-
oinian' Has that paper "changed Its
base OF is ii still Sighting upon the same
lincs
What led the Lynchburg Convention to
adopt a resolution in favor OF allowing
negro trustees 10 manage negro SCHOOLS
and demanding white trustees to manage
white schools! We answer that the action
OF CAMERON, FARR. and BLAIR in appoint
my two negroes trustees OF the pubic
schools. white and colored, in the city OF
Richmond, was the prime cause OF the
adoption OF that resolution. The members
OF the Convention saw, with the State and
DiSpqieh. that II would never do to allow
white schools TO be controlled, and white
teachers 10 be elected or dismissed, ~ ne
gro trustees. They also saw that to provide
tina. whites might control negro schools
but negroes should not control white
schools would be to discriminate against
the negroes on account OF race or color
action forbidden by the fourteenth article
OF amendment TO the Federal Constitution.
What could the Convention do. then, In
this matter other than what it did? IL was
shat up 10 lust that action. IL either bad
10 draw the celor-ine entirely through the
pubic-sehool system, or to come out in
favor OF permitting the law TO stand as 1t
j., or 10 violate the Federal Constitution.
OF course such men as composed that BODY
were not going TO violate the Federal Con-
siituton knowingly. Nor would they con-
sent 10 let the law remain rs it is, since 1t
allows negroes to be trustees OF white
schools. They, therefore, decided to
draw the line just as it was drawn-entire-
" across the public-scbool system. They
declared for negro trustees for negro
schools as well as for white trustees for
white schools. We are not able to see that
in thus acting the Convention sat down
upon mot our Words the State and the Dis
patch.
II the Convention " sat down upon" the
Dispatch and the State, II must have been
because those papers had come out against
the appointment OF negro trustees for
negro schools. But they had never come
ont thus. Certainly the demand OF the
Convention for white trustees for white
schools was exactly the demand which
those journals had called upon the Con-
yention to make. They asked for rcsc-
Tuition in favor Of the policy of requiring
the appointment OF white trustees for white
schools. and they did not ask in vain.
They asked for a fish and they got fish
not stone.
We will quote once more the resolution
adopted by the Lynchburg Convention. II
grows in public favor day by day. 1t has
made IFS own way into the goodwill OF the
voters. 1t needs no commentator. We
like il so well that we have already repro
duced it twice this week in our columns.
Here 1t is for the third time:
1--WE oppose the mixing Of the white and
colored races in the public schools, and the
placing OF cOlOred trustees and teachers
over white children, and are in favor OF
preserving the school organizations for the
two races rs separate and distinct as possi-
bic. giving 10 the colored people for their
schools all the preferences and privileges
which we demand for the white, including
colored trustees and teachers, and making
TO discrimination in the distribution OF
school funds on account of color; and We
pledge the Democratic party to adopt all
necessary legislation to perfect this plan as
Lest for all concerned"
ave oppose the mixing of the white
ina colored races in the public schools"
So did the State and the Dispatch.
"We oppose the placing of colored
trustees and teachers over white children"
So did the State and the Dispatch.
1--WE are in favor OF preserving the
school organizations for the two races as
separate and distinct as possible" SO
We're the State and the Dispatch.
Now, we would like for the Valley Vir-
q;niaa TO point out in what part Of the
above resolution the Lynchburg Conven-
ton "sat down upon" the Richmond De-
mocratic papersl Also, why the Virginadn
dclounces a resolution which "sat down
upon" those papers! Alse. to tell us
whether il does OF does not approve
OF every declaration in the above re-
solution except the one in favor OF
negro trustees for negro schools! We
canno. imagine that the VirginiGn iavors
mixed schools; nor negro trustees for
white schools nor mixing the school or
CARNATIONS for the two races; nor any
thing in that resolution except the demand
for negro trustees for negro schools. And
II il opposes that feature of the resolution,
then the Virginian was /" sat down upon !"
by the Lynchburg Convention, and will be
"sat down upon" by the voters next No
vember. The State and the Dispatch en-
dorse the entire resolution. They have
been fully indicated.
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Ii Is amazing the nonsense which the So
called metropolitan Journals talk when
ever they tackle the silver problem
ssooner or later" quoth the New Yorl
Ty,aes, "thc time must come when they