The bee., 1884-05-24
Continued from, last issue.

continued from last issue.
Should we not honor our American 0,Iored
women? Should We not prefer them 10 an
others? Some of the advocates of mixed
schools have deemed it wise to marry white.
women, believing, they say, that it will tend
TO strengthen the intellect. This is some
thing beyond the skill of scientists BY ma
ting a grass-hOpper and a toad you cannot
strengthen the frog. There is but one thing
the advocates Of mixed schools regret and
that is no one has been smart enough TO in
Vent a remedy to make Negroes white. There
are
OTHER NATI0NALITIES
who do not mix and succeed equally as well
as those who mix. What have the Irish.
the Jews, and other nationalities gained by
independence" The Jews have their separ-
ate schools and churches, the Irish have their
Catholic institutions and they produced a
Robert Emmett, the Jews their Rothehilds, a
power In English finance. The Catholics de-
mand you 10 abolish free schools, but not TO
mixed them. When the Jews are insulted
they resent il. The white race don't want YOU
IN their schools and you have not sense enough
o.know IL. What has become of your race
pride? You want 10 stick your nose into a
Dung-h when you know the contents of the
barrel is full of vinegar. You claim that
OUR CCLoRED TEACHERS
have not sufficient mental capacity TO impart
as well as the white teachers, but before con-
clude my argument L shall assure you that
the Negroes have made better progress under
the instructions of those of their own race
than they have under the white race and
some OF the Colored press assert that we have
some OF the greatest and most competent col
ored instructors in the United States. l have
arrived at that portion OF the argument where
L shall endeaNor 10 show that the colored race
don't learn with any more rapidity under the
instruction ola white person than they do un-
der Colored person, and that our schools
VIII compare as fayoraDly with any of the
white schools. Howard University has law
and medical department. When John NJ.
Langston was dean Of the law department,
he graduated some of the finest young men in
that profession. Those who graduated under
Prof. LangSton have made better progress
Than those who graduated under the present
Instructors of the Institution. The whole OF
those who graduated under The present regime
are all in office and afraid 10 strike out and
while those under Prof. Langston and Prof
X. L. Greener have made successful lawyers.
Some are members OF the legislature. Under
Palmer's administration of the medical de-
parlment, two thirds of the Colored students
Jailed, while Jwothirds of the whites passed.
When Palmer was removed and Puryis APP
pointed, these dumb" students, as Palmer
called them, passed. The medical depart
ment is making better progress under Purvis
than il did under Palmer. II is said that Pur-
Wis is one os the finest teachers in obstetrics
and the diseases of women and children in the
country. i take the best medical journals for
my authority. The students claim that they
can master those principles OF medicine better
under Purvis than they could under Palmer.
| This is comparative illustration of the two
classes of INSTRUCTORS, which assures me To an
extent that the colored race don't learn with
any more Tapidity under white instructors
than they do under CoIored. Has it been
proven that by mixing the two races that the
brain OF the Negro VIII be strengthened?
would suggest TO the advocates of mixed
| schools, If they believe that their brain will
be strengthened, then they admit that the
brain Of the white man is superior TO the
black man, which they have been denying in
| their journals. In the District of Columbia,
THE CITY OF MAGNIFICENT DISTANCES,
where the people are denied the right of suf-
| frage, which make them a nonendity in the
| body-pOlitics, place where the Representa-
! tiyes of the United States legislates for us,
with out any dictation, place where our pc
| titions are disregarded. and our remon-
strances treated with contempt, against the
laws of the Constitution, place where sixty
thousand or more Colored people are like
Spartan slaves, a place where the arristocracy
and the money kings, and the monopolists
are supreme, where ignorance, in some in
| stances, predominant over intelligence, where
the poets, the statesmen. the politicians play
| upon mans soul and mind, and where the
! dignitaries of nations come to learn our sys-
! TEN of government, in city where our pub
schools are located. With these perfections
We have the best system of public schools in
the land. Our teachers are unsurpassed, and
our percentage of scholarship will compare
with that of the white schools, and in some
! instances, Surpasss the white schools.
| The white schools in this city are far be-
hind the Colored in the art of drawing till the
| prejudice seems TO be on the part of the
white. The other side claim that it is against
| the Constitution of the United States TO have
separate schools. don't deny that. l don't
DENY the fact that no legal restrictions should
be made nor do deny the principle, but do
aver the practical inexpediency of the adyoca-
CIV of the question at this time, owing 10 the
ruinous effect il will have in the South. But
in those places where the advocacy of the
question will benefit the Colored race then
advocate We must have some restriction,
some limitation. While it would benefit
few, it will be damaging TO the masses. And
the masses must not suffer to satisfy the
whims of prejudiced few. Itis like the old
fable of the Decree of the Gods, five thousand
must perish 10 save the idols of the adultress.
How many laws are enacted which are against
the
CUSTOM OF THE PEOPLE?
You talk as if that were something new. 1t
has been so from time immemOrial.
Continue in our next issue.
MADAME j. A. SMALLWOOD