The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
only two to the white children, further inter
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only two TO the white children, 1urtncr lnLeT-
est would be added to their official career.
It would be interesting TO know by what
process of reasoning or by what mathematical
system Of calculation the Board OF Trustees
were enabled TO ascertain to day the length
of time the New School would shorten the
school term of the township. Would the
Trustees own school be reduced to four
months, and the other white school to two
months. and the allowance of the other chill
school facilities, be cut down to two months :?
Did they think we asked for about ne-third
of the total amount appropriately for the edu-
cation Of the white and colored children OF
the entire township?
We deny that the title of the White Hall
school house would revert to the former own
er, even If the Trustees school should be
stopped. Let them give the proof
THE WAY MIR. SEYMOUR AND HIS CHILDREN
WENT TO WHITE HALL.
Capt Carwile says:
ut is true also that Mr.. Seymour taught the White
school for several years. and came from the side
where the ob"cling pnr'es live, and brought his
children with him, some of whom Were Of The mtn-
imum agen
It is true that Mr. Seymour, taught that
school for year. 1t is also true that no
man on the East side Of Hard Labor lives
nearer to White Hall than did Mr.. Seymour,
and IT. Is also true that Mr.. Seymour came to
the school on horseback, or in his buggy: and
rode with him.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CoLoRED "RENT-
ERs" AND WHITE "RENTERs"-THE
FORMER GET A sCHooI-THE
LATTER DO NOT.
The riddle embraced in the following long
sentence Is SO confusing that we really do not
understand the negro situation at White
Hall, nor are we exactly certain what Is
meant by recitlng the fact that the negroes
unmurmuringly submitted to their ruling, at
q time when we were appealing firm their ac'
tion against us. II they wished TO explain to
the Commissioner what mighty men they
were in their own locality, it would seem TO
us to be a n inopportune time to boast OF their
power. If they meant to create the impress
sion that the negroes of White Hall were bet
ter citizens than the white renters" on the
East side Of Hard Labor creaI, the official
mputation against neighbors who are In .ev-
cry respect as good as the Trustees. will be bet
ter understood than explained. Especially Is
this true when 1t Is remembered that they
were not seeking from the Trustees ccrtifi-
for that official aid in the educatior OF lheir
children, to which they thought thoy were
justly entitled, however much they may
have been mistaken. The Trustees say:
"We will s,atA further as GERMAN to this article
that on the same grounds rs the appellants based
heir applcation coIored school applied for md
for the reasons 1t WIS declined to be established,
from the fact Of their being in reach Of other schools
and will here state ncidently that their applica-
ton mnch reasonable from the fact that the
crored children had to cross the same creek ana be-
sides walk two and half miles. and ut this writing
children Of the coored race are walking from the cross
roads Mt White Hall to schoo at Bradley and these
children arc Of those parents who Implied tn ls for
new col"rrd school, and when refused, accepted the
situation philosophically and Went ON iu the even
ten0r OF their way"
With permission, we would state that the
colOred renters" on the East ide of Hard
Labor creek, have enjoyed the benefit. of a
public school for years, ana this coloreu
school house being not distant from the
very spot on which the white renters" pray
for Il school.
Another matter: If the Trustees did right
In refusing a school at White Hall for colored
children. why did they grant school at the
same place for their own children? Could
they not walk to Bradley US well as the negro
children?
Another matter: The constitution of the
State of South Carolina provides that the
fright of the people n ** to petition the
"Goy;ernment, y or any department thereof;
sai never be aordged linen WY q" the
to offer the gratuitous insult contained
in the last lines of the above quoted SEN
ience? 1t was bad enough for them to refuse
to the white 'renters" the same benefits that
they had been for years cCnferring upon the
colored "renters," but the white renters are
amazed that educated gentlemen should offer
such an insult to every friend of the pro.
posed school for white "renters" In the same
locality where coored "renters' have gotten
their school year after year without question.
The Board OF Trustees may rest assured that
the patrons Of the New School are in earnest
In their desire for a school. NO attempt on
their part at wit at our expense in the su-
premest mome4t of inflicted wrong will drive
us from our purpose, nor will any unworthy
effort to bring us into odious comparison
with. the negroes at White, Hall prevent
us from getting our school, or at least
from learning the reason why we cannot gel
it. We intend to be heard. We donot intend
to be Laughed out Of court" nor do we in
tend 10 submit unmurmurngly to what we
conceive to be n must grevous wronS-even
though it comes from Il Board of School TruS..
tees who may assume dictatoria powers, and
who may have the endorsement OF ~
School Commissioner with autocratic procliv-
ities
THE WHITE "RENTERs" ON THE EAST SIDE
OF HAHD LAEoR GET local REPRE-
sESTATIoN" EVERYWHERE, EX-
CEPT IN THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS.