New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-04

some hundreds coorcd students physicians
and lawyers At time lately they had moro than
eight hundred divinity Students nearly all Of them col
ored Their pupils Of all grades aggregate over seven
teen thousand. and the sixteen thousand coiored
teachers in the public schools Of tho South have
come almost entirely from them But now
In these institutions there is complete Ignoring
OF those distinctions In the enjoyment OF common
public rights so relieouy enforced side byond
their borders and yet Of those unnamablc
from them which the advocates OF these
public distinctions and separations preoic' sho
dread On Of Southern hiltops these schoo's sana
out almost totally without companions or competitors In
their peculiar field refutations visible anu com
plee Of the idea that any interest requires inc 0oio
~saa 81 II. TO Without he S
white Virtually the whole guild OF ScsS M
Southern S,s nnoa sna S% and
Ss Sc M lisrah s s3s
gnSue sos2sT hostile hs n he privileges Of
sy sa sau sas spy
he with good ana ma p Utterly unrepubcsn
res@e Nowhere else enlightened lands and IN this
day a. 50 many nGn er SEE SIMPLEST bubble fights for the
larger part Southern who people 90 Win tne
iba rsskiD Dt them Them G as eonvensnt
! sERvILITY THE PRICE OF PEACE AND AMITY.
But their discoveries would stu on They would
hear expressions justified by Southern white people
Of the highest standing and-more the shame-by North
ern the South, the ground that the people
upon whom they laid dull vicious uncean race,
contact with which would be physically intellectually ana
morally offensive and m.sciieyOus TO higher race Ana
whom tbcv might ask why the lines limited rights
drawn around the conspt uously dull vicious ana uh-
clean protection OF the opposite SORT
in BOTH they would face to face upon the amazing
assumption the lowest white man IL somehow hte
too good for even contact with the highest black
may be necessary for common enjoyment OF pubic
rights; and therefore, that excellence moral mental
or physical, Unborn attained, can buy for man OF
color from these sepaatonists distinction between
the restrictions his civil liberty and tnoso OF the stu
pdes sQuadest Of his race or bring MN ono step
nearer enjoyment OF the rights OF whtc man. or
II at ALL only matter OF the white mans vol
utary c0ndescersioD and with the right disguised as
personal privilege They would find that the race line
is line of physical moral or intellectual eNeeehco
at all Stranger they would Learn that no proportion
OF white blood in their veins unless washes
out the very memory OF their African ncture can get
them abatement those dcpriyatons decreed for dull
vicious uncean but tnat-men women anc chill
aike-hunded and thousands OF mixed race arc thus
daily and publicly punished by their brothers TOR the SINS
OF their fathers. They would ma TIC race hho no'
| line az ALL
They would the contact OF race with race
is not the matter objected but only and every sort
OF contact on an equal footing. They would ma mat
what money, fame personal excellence ana no
fractional preponderance Of European blood can buy can
be bought instantly ana without ono oil thse
things by simple surrender OF the attitude OF pubic
equality They would ni that the entire essence OF tho
offence any and every where where the race limo Is liz
sisted on appaitioa Of the colotd man CT woman
"A h ar her own master; that Is all that AL
this tyranny is intended preserve, and that the moinent
the rcla IA ami servant Is vsby established
between race and there is the hush OF peace
What is that ncgro-what is that NOTWITHSTANDING IN
here private individual Of another IN some
| public place, and the other replies;
That's nothing he is the servant OF that "hlc man
just behind him; she is the nurse Of those children IN
front Of her"
on, all right" And tho " cordial relation Is re-
stored. Such coivcrsCr. equivalent solloQuy' oc
! IN & Souf a a
The surrender point by the coorcd man or
co%iri only by gbt but dane air and
eet Sttitue Of deerence on the other and perpetual
unrest that aiways aecompanss iore,ge oer 10 nav
TOO much peace somehow paying too much Tor
nassSd sIpincncsS and Inconsistencies incident
noisy dsrcspcc, dipu,atous and yet seryle domestic
and public mental service than Is oeTa,ea oy any so
many payments which an intelligent a. rehned COM
sryantboo1 caste instead OF % inliSusi s W.
T 9 a.a Of fI uncaG nilv9uas under public
dsan. Other and greater payments ana losses , Iii Soc
when we turn must to the other hai OF ts,s
asH hr far precedence as they spring this st IN
complete statement Of the condition OF aha'rS
TWO FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES AT WAX.
The two questions these II the ease Is SO plain
them in place how can the millions OF Intelligent
and virtuous white people OF the South make such po
lueal not to say such rorl mlstakef Ana ID .no
second place. how the overwhelming miiiohs Oh 'o
North, after spending the IfikhIiW c"nlS h'J 'PN'' -
war Of l-'65 tolerate this emasculaon OF the American
freedom which that war supposed have secured to all
alikel
As to the Southern people the Is that although
the Southern master.cass corlaly and unanimously
admit the folly slave hodns yet the fundlmenai ar
tcle OF politica faith which slavery rested has not
been displaced people q the North the answer
is simpler still the Union is saved
The Northern cause in Civil War was not primarily
tho abolition slavery although many Northern soldier
and cptan fought mainly for this and cared for no other
issue while this remained The Southern cause was Ho
merely for disunon though many Southern soldier anu
captain would have taken up the SWORD 10 deeu
slave holding stripped Of the disguise OF state soNeehS'
The Northern cause pe-cminenty the National unity
paton-the emancipation Of the negroe'-"aS nor
what the North fought but only what 1t fought WIN
The right secede was not what The South iourh'
for but only what II fought WIN Inc
great majority OF the Southern white people oVed inc
Union and consented to its destruction only wheh theo
seemed be other way to save slavery inc ge"' JUN
Of the North consented to destroy slavery ony wheh 'fc
seemed other way TO save the Union II put III p''
the Union on one side and slavery on the other was
enough when nothing else enough, to dreneh one Oh
the greatest and bippiest lands on eaf.n
with the blood OF hundreds OF ,, 'no %, s
OF her own children. Now, what thing OF su
nrene value rested on this Union. and what On this
slavery that they should have been defended az suen
COST There rested on, Or more truly there unucriaS
each fundamental principle conceived 10 DC aoSo0'is
essential to the safety, order, peace fortune anu N "
society and these two prime ples were antlg 1histc
They were more antaeonistic they we're anupoda
and rreconcabe No people that hold either Of ines
ideas as cardinal In their political creed VIII ever ao"
h. o,ber IN be forced upon from without so long o.
blood and lives will buy dellveronce Both were Doue
from the mother country when America was oflghahS
colonizcd and their advocates In geaef u e
number In the Northern States III the scu'"'u 'A'
wherever there any freedom OF thought ana speech
Tho common subject OF is the great lower mas
NJ society The leading thought OF the one Is that mass
elevation OF the other subJugston The one declare
the only permanent safety on puonc society anu ~
highest development require the constant ce'auo
Of the lower thus Of the whole mass by the Ire
self government all under one common code OF equa
civil rights 1t came nom England but IL was pfac
tlcalIy successfully benenC nuy applied on nauona
scale first in the United States and Americans claim tn
right to call it, and prominently the American idea