The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-06-24
Enemies 10 Free Schools.

The press OF the State has been aroused
hy the insult offered to NirginianS by
Cameron, Farr, and Blair, by their conduct
i'm taking advantage Of a technically of
law and turning out white trustees OF the
city schools Of Richmond and supplying
their places with negroes.
The animus OF their conduct is appa-
rent. They wished to punish the white
citizens OF Richmond because Richmond
has always been bitterly opposed to Ma
hone and his railroad schemes even long
before he entered the political arena.
But let them rest assured that the eyes
OF every white man I'm the State has been
turned upon the scene OF negro trustees
presiding over the exhibitions and die
Eating who shall be teachers and how white
schools shall be conducted. Let them rest
assured that the white men Of every Sec
ton OF the State are cogitating the matter,
and there will be 4 I" reckoning" some day
not far distant But did Cameron, Farr,
and Blair have an eye TO the good OF
the colored men when they put them
so prominently before the people Of the
State in their new r6ie? Did they honestly
believe that the educational interests Of
colored people were advanced? Did they
think that by bringing this conflict on be-
tween the two races that they were doing
the colored children Of the State = great
good? Hardly. There is not colored
man OF sense who does not Gf he would
see that they struck blow to their public.
school interests that will never be balanced
by the reelection Of Billy Malone to the
Senate or putting any Of his followers in
office. The colored man OF sense can see
that they only care for his vote. and do not
care one iota ii, by obtaining il, they in.
lure him in the education OF his children.
which is OF more importance to their race
than the position that Cameron, Blair. and
Farr has placed him in as a school trustee
The greatest evil TO the cOlored man and
his " orSt enemy is he who would raise the
race issue in Virginia. lie can but see that
II Is step towards an end that politicians
will drag him that will not only initiate
against him now but his children after him.
We wish to see the colored people Of the
State educated. We wish them TO become
intelligent and honest voters. We wish to
see the time when they will think fol
themselves, and not allow inscriptions
politicians to bring them to the polls as
dumb sheep to the slaughter. When that
time comes then you will find that they
Will not be massed in one solid body on
any subject, but will differ and have diff.
ferent opinions on the several problems OF
government, both State and national, as
White men have.
But they will sooner or later find out
when they array themselves solidly against
the white man, the white man will take
care OF his own interests. When they find
the Malone politicians going around the
country begging enough votes from white
men to add TO the l2S,000 negroes in the
State to help them carry their point. it is
not only an insult to white men, but to the
negro. IL Is as much as to say, We have
Tue negro en- ndSSe on account OF his igno-
rance, and we can find enough white men
who are willing to affiliate with them to
carry the Stale and put her under negro
rule. For the negroes being In the ma
iority, led by designing men, can dictate
measures which step by step will lead TO
mixed schools, mixed marriages, and the
evils that will flow therefrom.
The Mahoneites may cry out as much a,
they please about this being "all bosh,"
but II Is not so. Ii Is step, and a marked
one, In that direction, and II Is for the PEG.
pie OF Virginia to say whether they win be