Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-04-17
How it Works.

According to the laws of Ohio no dis
tincri1n can be made in the free schools of
that State on account of race, and negro
children there must be allowed to attend
the same free schools that are attended by
the children of their white neighbors. But
what are human against natural laws?
There is hardly town in Ohio, the white
people of which do not oppose, and often with
violence, the attempted enforcement of the
law referred to, and when suits are brought
against them for so doing, the juries invari-
ably render verdicts for only nominal dam
ages. Last week the disturbance occa
stoned by an attempt to enforce the OBJ
noxious law in the town of New Richmond
reached riotous degree, the result being
the closing of the free schools there for the
remainder of the school season. Northern
people think it all right that there should
be race equality in the South, but they
want, and will have, none of it themselves.
The facts here developed are very i'm
portant in two aspects. In the first place.
they show very clearly that the people at
the North, both republicans and democrats,
are as violently opposed 10 negro equality
as are the people of the South. and that
even where the negro population is SIN all
and can't d. much damage as in Ohio and
other Northern States, the white people,
without distinction of party, are unaltera-
bly, opposed to mixed schools of any grade
In the next place it is shown that while
the laws of Ohio curiously favor mixed
schools, the people there are so bitterly
hostile to them that they place the laws at
defiance and hold them in contempt. Even
where there are only handful of negro
children the whi'es refuse to have auy
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submit to the equality.
And yet, when we of the South protest
against race equality or mixed Schools
the whites by hundreds. we hear howl
about it from snch men as Senators Sher-
man, Hoar, Blair and other Northern
fanatics and political agitators who repre-
sent us as enemies of the colored race and
hostile to good government.
Well, perhaps after awhile the negroes
will fud out who their best friends are
among the whites. and what little reliance
they can safely place upon their professed
friends at the North -Ly chburg AdUance.
Perhaps the most astonishing of many
recent developments of human pervers'ty
is the number of persons from tnis neigh-
borhood Who are making preparations to
migrate to Oklahoma, at heavy expense
aud with fair PROJECT of finding two,
three or four claimants to every decent
acre of soil in the territory, when fair farm
ing land and healthful, well wooded and
well watered country of ch armingly
diversified surface is to be found right a
home 10 the ne'gnboring st,tes of Mary land
aud Virginia. The money spent in getting
to Oklahoma, paying for ones camp outfit,
stalking a treeless badly watered claim, re-
cnrdlng it and getting ont patent, carry
ing on q lawsuit of iudefiuite length, hiring
high priced back woods surgeon to dig ont
the bullets which INSCRIPTIONS Jumpers"
aud brigands have fred into ones body,
and buying a ticket for the east again
when all IS over, would set a young man
up on a first rate ranch within hundred
miles of W sshington, with railroads and a
market almost at his gates, cheap food and
clothing, plenty of help at low wages, the
comforts and pleasures IF civilization with
in easy reach at any hour, and fair chance
of striking something rich in the mineral
line in addition to the value of the land for
agricultural purposes. The rush from the
Atlantic coast to the wild west is like let
ting go of two birds in the hand to run af-
ter one in the bush. Washington Star.