Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-18

gers" and "Nigger Teachers's Are Treated.
 ATLANTA, Ga,, April 10. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Yesterday I received an invitation from some of my young gentlemen and lady friends who are employed as teachers in At lants university to accompany them on an excursion to Stone Mountain.
 Your readers will remember Atlanta uni versity as the institution dsvotea1so the higher education of ooiored people in the Gate City, from which State aid was with drawn by the Georgia legislature last sum- mer because four or five white children of members of the faculty were permitted to receive the benefit of instruction given in the classroom along with the celored students. or course this was no attempt on the part of the university authorities to foist coeduea- ton of the races upon the southern public. It would be 6 serious embarrassment to the university if white youth should apply for admission to the school, since 1t was founded for the benefit of the brother in black-for whose higher. education the southern white people do not choose to provide-and is over crowded with students now. But the four or five white boys and girls were sent there because, pitiful to relate, there is no white school in Atlanta that begins to give such an education as the university affords
 The faculty ceuld have withdrawn their children from the school, educated them at slight expense by private tutors (so that they would not have been subject to the taunt of being the children of "nigger teachers" as would be the case in the public schools), and so have saved the State appropriation of eight thousand dollars. But in that event the university would have been coerced into drawing the color line. It would have taken upon itself the responsibility of going on record as in faver of aggressive separation of the races. It will readily be seen that the school, while preferring to restrict its work to the eolored people for obvious reasons, could not afford to take such position.
 gladly accepted the invitation to which have referred for two reasons: First, be- cause it is privilege to get an opportunity to associate with accomplished, highly cul- tured young ladies and gentlemen anywhere; and in many parts of the South it is priviL lege which the paueity of good colleges for whites makes rare. Second, because it would afford me the best possible opportunity to discover how the color line is drawn on the railroads hereabouts, inasmuch as several members of the geology class in the institu- ton had been invited to accompany us.
 In relating the experiences which sab- sequently fell to our lot, want to make few statements first which will serve to indi- cate the spirit in which awaited develop ments:
 I. am a firm believer in the thew South" No one who contrasts the South of today with the South of twenty years ago can honestly deny that the progress made since the war, socially as well as materially, has been marvellous. think that we ought to be very hopeful, very patient and very chari- table in judging the South. Indeed, the very phrase new South is evidence of prog ress when used, as it often is, by southern CT. It shows that the people are willing to admit that they have outgrown much that was disereditable to them in the last quarter of century.
 II. ana so liberal that I am willing to en- dorse the Grady theory of eequal though separaten accommodations for the races. think that the South would be doing all we could reasonably expect of her for 8 good while to come if she simply carried out this theory evenly, with recognition of the nat ural equality of the races. But theory and