The state journal., 1884-07-26
The Public Educational Bill as
Viewed by an Intelligent (P)
Southern Editor

L 49,
Viewed by an Intelligent (q)
Southern Editor
In our first issue we elected to
champion the cause Of our muoh
abused brother, and that we have
done SO those who have read the
JOURNAL from time to time for three
years can boldly and truthfully tes-
tify. Not long since it was our un-
pleasant duty to severely denounce
one of our Northern journalists for
an unjustifab.e attack on our race
because of Mr.. Lynch's election TO
the temporary chairmarshjp of the
republican convention. We are
again called upon to pay our respects
to an equally formidable and danger
Gus crank, whose habitation is the
hot regions of Georgia, which Is but
a Slight remove from the still hotter
region The most disgusting, dis
graceful, meanly conceived idea that
ever eminated from an idiot has Just
been heralded to the country through
the columns Of the Banner Watch
man of Athens, Ga. The follow
ing are his words verbatim, as taken
Glk frHn1 tho 1HIs4e 1HIer1f1aq o6 oBYlletin of Phila
sit is to be hoped that the next
house will kill the Public Educational
bill passed by the senate. Educate
the negroes of the South and you
destroy the only labor of our farmers
Give Sambo smattering of book
learning and a long linen duster and
he at once develops into a first class
vagabond, whose ultimate doom is
the penitentiary."
If education is an incentive to send
people to the penitentiary, what a
vast number of candidates then are
for that dispicable abode. What a
sad commentary to think that all
who lay claim to intelligence are
destined for such fate. Shame on
such conclusions! The editor him
self, perhaps, will escape such fate
because of his unquestionable dumb
ness. Instead we predict that he is
on his road to perdition. The fact
is this smart (O editor is apprehen
sive lest the negro, if given an equal
chance with his white neighbor, will
surpass him; hence his efforts to
keep him in ignorance, if he can
From whatever school this would be
criterion halls, he certainly reflects
no credit thereon. In such niggerly
conclusions we would not give much
$50 to speak, for any colored boy of
ten or twelve if he couldn't more
clearly and accurately reason. If the
poorer classes of the south (of whom,
perhaps, this editor is one), especially
the whites, had more book learning
there would not be so many cold
blooded murders committed and
other crimes more adapted to heather
than to a civilized county or com
munity.
If the next congress, instead Of en-
acting law 10 retard the progress of
education, would pass a bill consign-
ing this pitiable editor and others of
his like to proper care, it would be a
blessing to the country, and from all
over the universe shout after shout
of approval would be given, causing
the very welkin to ring, for surely
the utterances here as quoted are not
the effervesent results of sound or
rational person The mind is dis
eased, and to let him run at large he
might a;temptto spread the contaglon,
Educate the negroes of the South
and you destroy the only labor OF our
farmers.
From this very.sentence we think If
he were to exchange places with
Pompey he would find it more to his
taste, or at least to his fitness, for ne
is certainly out Of place as an educa-
tor in matters pertaining to the pub
lie. l'ompey, from natural reasons It
nothing else, would be more Liberal,
patriotic and urbane.