The bee., 1884-05-31

BY w. CALVIN CHASE.
Continued from last ISSUE
Draco wrote his laws in blood and the most
simple offense or crime was punishable by
death, but when the people become more in
telligent, such severe laws were repealed or
disregarded. There was decision made at
one time TO the effect that the Negroes had no
rights which the white man should respect.
Al that time they had no rights. because the
poor Negroes Were in slavery and every COM
mon sense person knows that no master res
pected his slave and in the second place the
Negro was not in a position to respect each
other. and those who were in position to do
SO did not and it is so at this time. / have
four
CARDINAL PRINCIPLES,
why am opposed to the advocacy of the ques-
tion at this time:
LIST. Because it is a secondary principle to
the rights of man.
ID Because il is not question of mixing
the schools in the South, but shall the Negroes
be educated, which is one of the cardinal prin-
ciples of Southern Bourbonism and such agi-
tation would tend to the disadvantage of the
Colored people in the South
Sd. The sentiment of the Liberals to unite
the masses against Bourbonism must DC suf-
flciently developed, which will be the first
principle ofthe rights of man before the con-
sideration of the secondary principle can be
successfully carried into effect, which the ma
jority of the Colored press from the South VIII
endorse.
4th. AS an example. the State of Virginia has
not sufficiently developed its liberal sentiment
and not a leader nor prominent man would
dare to make the mixed school question an
issue in the State at present. Why? Because
while the liberal movers are in favor of ac-
cording equal political rights to the Negro,
the right of mixing the Colored children with
a
sacred and nothing but radical change i'm
the body-politics will obliterate the prejudice
of the liberals against mixed schools 1t is
OUR DUTY
to be aware and to protect the national and
domestic tranquility of our country and main.
tain our rights as citizens when it is consist
ent with the principles of custom and govern
ment. We claim to be watchmen, but we
sleep at our post of duty and it is pictured in
the following language of the eminent judge
Story: "Itis in vain that statesmen shall form
plans of government in which the beauty and
harmony of a republic shall be embodied in
VISIBLE order, shall be built upon solid sub
structions and adorned with every useful
power of time to diapidate its walls or crum
bic its massey supporters into dust; if the
assaults from without are never resisted, and
the rottenness and mining from within are
never guarded against. Who can preserve
the rights and liberties of the people, when
they shall be abandoned by themselves
| Who shall keep watch in the temple, when
the watchmen sleep at their post? Who shall
call upon the people TO redeem their posses
sions and revive the republic. when their owr
hands have deliberately and corruptly sur
rendered them TO the oppressor, and have
built the prison or dug the graves of their owl
frends?" Why then should we advocat,
mixed schools? Why such false hypothesis
You debase the memory of your ancestors
shall oppose the advocacy of this question a
this time until the four cardinal principles o
the rights of man are obtained. L shal
oppose il as freely as l would cross the angr,
Atlantic or the restless Pacific, and notwith
standing the 262 years of oppression, let thi
declaration go forth as did the tyrant of syria
cuse when he gave life and freedom unto Da
mon, that the Negroes are manly and ask TO
nothing which they don't justly merit. bat th'
day is coming when we shall be the Ceasar
king of the Roman Empire, as it were, ant
they our subjects.
| Concluded.