Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-09-11
Issues Of the Campaign.
APPOINTMENT OF NEGRO scHooL-TRUs-
TEES.

| 1t is very evident that Mahoneism is on
the decline. There are many causes con-
tributlng TO Its overthrow. Its methods
are not such as Virginians have been ac-
customed to. But of all these causes, we
think the appointment by the State Board of
Education OF two negroes as trustees of the
public schools of Richmond City, is at this
time operating more than any other one
cause to consolidate the vote of the white
| people OF Virginia against the Malone can
| didates for the Legislature. The fact that
! the Board OF Education, composed of Gov
ernor Cameron, Attorney General Blair,
and Farr, Superintendent of Public Instruc-
| tion, actually appointed two negroes, as
| trustees of the Public Schools in the me-
| tropolis, to fill vacancies, and that said two
| negroes are now acting as such has become
| known to all the white voters of the State.
| If this is done in the City of Richmond, en-
quiry is made On every hand, will it not be
done in every county in the State when an
| opportunity is offered? That the opportu-
| Rity was sought to be created by joint
/ reSolution, reported to the House of Dele
gates on the 18th of March, 1882, by the
| Malone Committee on Schools and Col
| leges, vacating the offices of all district
school trustees in the State to take effect
on the 31st day of July, 1882 is not perhaps
generally known, but such is the fact Had
| the party been able to get this joint resolu-
ton through, the fact that Cameron, Farr,
and Blair recently appointed some negroes
to fill vacancies in the Board of Trustees
for the public schools Of Richmond City, is
presumptive evidence they would have
done the same thing in every county in the
State, at least in all those counties, where
there are considerable numbers of negroes.
Is it not reasonable to believe in the light
of subsequent events that the object of said
joint resolution was to create vacancies that
Cameron, Farr, and Blair might do this
thing? Let all their candidates for the
Legislature be pressed on this issue and
they must 90 10 the 1UaU, except in counties
where the negroes have decided majority
Think of negro trustees in all the counties
in the State, or at least in our part of the
State, being put in authority over the white
teachers of our public schools, female as
well as male. Think of these teachers
being compelled to come into contact with
negro trustees, occupying the relation of
persons in authority over them. When it
comes to this how far removed are we from
mixed schools ? Mixed school Boards, lead
inevitably to mixed schools, mixed schools
to mixed marriages and after that who can
toretell the consequences? 1t is maxim
that two curri iences differing in kind
one an inferior and the other superb
or, cannot be kept in circulation at the
same time in the same country one or the
other is driven out. So it ought to be
maxim that the white and negro races can
not be mixed. The attempt to do this
would result in one or the other being driv-
en- out. Separation and not the interinix-
ing of the two races conduces to harmony.
In nothing did the Lynchburg Conven-
tion show more wisdom than in demanding
separate school boards, as well as separate
schools.-Culpeper E9p0nent.