New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-03-03
N DEFENCE OF COLORED CHILDREN.
AIR. HALE RpPIIEs TO THE SOUTHERN OBJECTIONS
TO ruE RIAIR ELL. As AMENDED.

AIR HALE ri PLIES TO THE SOUTHERN OBJECTIONS
TO THE BLAIR BILL AS AMENDED.
WASHINGTON, March Pin the Senate to-
day Mr. Riddeberger opposed the Allison amendment to
the Blair Education bill 1t would give 49, he said. to
colored children for every 81 going TO white
children 1t would destroy the bill and
would destroy the public schools OF Virginia. lie
appealed to the Republican party to consider what
harm it was doing the cOored people whom they
eeeking to help 1t would absolutely destroy ali chance
Of their education. the white people would destroy
the school system through which the money was to be
paid out.
Mr. Hampton said he was sincere friend OF the
eolored man and would be sorry to see the Allison
more ha rm than almost anything that could be done.
Mr. Berry thought the Allison amendment would
ser,ously impair the school system OF Arkansas. There
was no distinction made Ia that state between schooling
for and blacks The effect OF inc Di wona 4e 10
while the whites would have It only -FOUR TO hye months
in year Did Senators suppose that the whlte people
would submit to this discrimination -, -
Mt ingalls, had heard no Democratic Senator give any
ihs 10 IKE care OF the terates in the South
ern States Yet when II was proposed to insert pro
vision directing the money TO he used Tor At hlt par
pose It was said to be an "affront and an insult
and "eynced settled distrust OF the siates Inc liz
tent take the money and dispose OF as Tue
Mr. Hale said that Mr. AsOn's amendment penetrated
the Imposing hollowness OF the b IL showed now tne
bill had departed from s original purpose. Ihai pur
pose had always been declared to pc 70 meet me an n
acy prevailing in the South Ihfty-s1 years ago on
This Senate rights OF the cOlored men were outraged
no IA combination
sior on other side aud law was enacted that made
slavery the rule and freedom the exception For; the
coorcd man. seized the North, heeug from bondage
nav with his feet almost pressed on the Canadian border
Win The cup OF liberty al his lips, was ruhlessly re-
ande1 TO chains and slavery by law passed By such
nb,naon and might here and now be kepifor years
nt ~ due by the defeat OF this amendment His career
hos heen beset by ycisstudes. He was In the Union
Army; his synspathies we're Win tne nag ne gmoen
mr. so,s; aud when the war ended he emerged grim
nd nathetic picture, attracting the attention OF Aner
cnn t,s,esmen Then fell on him tempest that II IL
did not annihste his race, might well have broken MS
snirf, The Ku Klux raiders hsrrcdlDim from virginia
TJrras the Alabama Khan drove him from the polls
The raiders OF Louisiana hung him to the rateIs
n his cabin The hrst citizens OF Kemper County shot
him down i'm the presence OF his wife and children
New-OrleanA, Coushatta and Copiab all told stnry
which the world would read with horror All TINS iline
the cOlOred has kept and piled plough aDn noe
Now what he wants IA education. This amendmeht
wend secure t for him. which the bill az II stood wonId
not If the araendment failed his lMr. Hsles course
was clear. lie would stand or fall with tho anenu-
Inent