Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-05-22
The Negro as an Educator.

Slowly but surely the Mahonites are
proving that in order to reach their selfish
ends they are willing to place every city,
every town and every county in Virginia at
the mercy of negro politicians. This they
have repeatedly denied through their organ,
but the fact that the denial came from that
source should be sufficient in itself to prove
the charge.
The action of the State Board of Educa-
ton in putting negroes on the School Board
OF this city is fair test of the real charac
ter, the INSCRIPTIONS character, of the fol-
lowers of Mahohe, and shows plainly what
these adventurers will do whenever an OPP
portunity is given them to elevate the negro
and degrade the white man in order to gain
political support. The small number of
whites compared with the large number of
negroes in their party makes submission to
the wishes of the negro imperative, and lit
tie by little the demands of the negroes will
be granted till mixed marriages, mixed
schools, and every other form of an abhor-
rent social equality will stare us in the face.
Inc progress Of the Malone party towards
these evils is slow but sure. Just as the
corrupt adventurer, whose name that Or
ganization bears, has steadily led his fol-
lowers step by step into the Republican
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the people of Virginia into the hands of an
inferior race. He finds ready tools in Cam
eron, Blair and Farr-a curious combination
OF abused talents and dense Ignorance
happy family consisting of a fox and two
asses.
Cameron appointed his messenger" as
one school trustee for Richmond, and the
other sable trustee is possibly an intimate
of Blair's and Fairs.
The next step will be an attempt to put
negro teachers over white schools. Of
course Cameron, Blair and Farr will be
compelled to send their children to such
teachers for fear of losing votes, but are
any other white men ready for this I? 1t can
not be. 1t cannot be that for Office or for
any other sordid object our people are will
ing to see their race put under foot. We do
not hate the colored race for these things.
We pity them for they have been misled
They are ignorantly asking for what they
can never receive, and are thus making
requests that can only give them trouble.
1t is the white renegades who have aroused
false hopes in their breasts that deserve the
severest execration. 1t is these creatures
who have so far lost the sense Of shame
that there is no outrage they would not
commit if Office were the recompense no
crime of which they would not be guilty for
the sake of public plunder.-Rich. State.
THE WoLF AND THE LAMB.-A hungry
Wolf one day saw a Lamb drinking at
stream, and wished to frame some plausible
excuse for making him his prey. "What
do you mean by mudiling the water am
going to drink % fiercely said he to the
Lamb. ''Pray, forgive me-" meekly an
swered the Lamb; 'Ishould be sorry in any
way to displease you, but as the stream
runs from you towards me, you will see that
such cannot be the CASE" So in the case
of the Richmond School Trustees. 1t was
Governor Cameron who raised the negro
question; not our side. 1t was Cameron
that put R. A. Paul, his negro messenger,
or body-servant, as q tstrusteeh (what a
perversion of terms) over the white schools
of Richmond. 1t is an honor to negro
schools to have white trustees over them.
1t is degrading to white schools to have ne
gro trustees over them.
Yes, it was cool, calm, deliberate, un-
provoked, unnecessary interference with
the schools of Richmond. The white trus-
tees were reforming all their duties, and
muddying the water for nobody to drink.
They thought not Of wronging anybody
OuG JIG W Oh potuCcu OOWu upon IleIu
For what? 1t was done 10 please the ne
groes, and nothing else. If there had been
any good object in view, white trustees on
ly would have been selected. Itwas done to
make votes. The Democrats merely ae.
cept the issue chosen by the Coalitlonists
They stand for their own race. Let the
negroes teach negro schools and govern ne
gro schools; but in the name of all that is
dear to the Caucasian race, let none but
white men be seen upon the stage Of the
Theatre when lively boys and lovely girls,
their parents sitting in the body of the
building, shall next month occupy the stage
of that building. Pray, Governor Cameron,
go there yourself. Don't send Paul. Don't
send your negro messenger. And when
you shall have witnessed day after day and
night after night the beautiful sights which
you may there see, sit you down in sack
cloth and ashes, and study out some method
of righting the inexcusable wrong you have
done the white people of Richmond.-Rich,
Dispatch.