The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-05-17

sOf9 ~ taey llaa succeeded III getting the
offer of a lot ia Baileytown, which the
committee thought admirably suited for
the location, it being situated on the east
side Of the railroad. It IS, truly, thesmost
convenient spot that could be selected,
around which to draw a black line, throw
ing the Fenwick school-house with this
proposed edifce into a separate district
which viii doubtless be the next movement
Of the trustees. The ground selected Is
low. portions Of It during the rainy sea
sons being flooded With water, and IS more
suited 10 the propagation Of frogs than for
the location OF a school house. If this plan
of the trustees should be carried oat, /
would suggest that they cali Il the black
district No. q. Tic report called forth
remarks b. Edward Richardson, who adj
dressed the meeting il an earnest and elo-
quent manner. He hoped that Hthe rights
guaranteed By the amendments 10 the con
sfitution would not be trampied upon be-
cause his race was in a helpless minority;
tnat when he took up arms ID defense of
his country, and in his marches over many
bloody fields. he had hoped that he aud
his people might be sharers in the benefits
resulting from it," His speech was elo-
quence and modesty i-mpersonated. But,
say the trustees by their action, it is true,
wi were safely ~ensconced in our quiet and
peaceful homes, while he aud his brave
comrades were boarding the lion in his
den. One of the board during the war, it
should be remembered, was standing side
by side with the bravest of the brave, but
is a unit with the others in this project.
The trustees, acting as an appointed COM
mittee to inquire as 10 a suitable location,
selected a spot to suit their own views and
reported to the meeting that no other
ground was o5tainable, when Mr.. Jehu
Allen is possessed of acres of the most de-
sirable property for building purposes
which has been in the market for years.
There is not 3 more desirable l~ocatiou in
South Woedstown than about midway on
the south side of the new street recently
opened BY the above named gentlenan-a
lot of over an acre, which he told me he
would have sold the trustees at a fair price
had he been solicited. Said lot is bounded
on the back by a gentle stream of pure
water, and for a public school building
there cannot be a more desirable spot, be-
ing accessible alike to both white and
colored pupils, and in the face of all this
a committee composed of the whole board
report that no ground in Woodstown is
o~btainable. 1t is hoped by many citizens
that the trustees will view this ground,
call another meeting and ask additional
funds, which will be freely given, with
which to build a second public school
house, equal to the present one If need be.
with all the different departments, primary,
secondary, intermediate aud grammar,
with class rooms A B and c in the several
departments.
Such a building viii in the near future
be a necessity and is greatly needed now.
Win not the finances of the people of this
district compare fayorably With other dis
triets. Such an institution would call forth
rivalry between the most competent teach
ers to serve in their high and honored call
ing. No lot outside of Baileytown can be
obtained, say the trustees. Who believes
it? It is well known that at this time
there is great competition in that kind of
property. The coioreG people are discreet
enough to see the object in al this nom
sense. They well know their friends, and
how TO measure their enemies who approach
them in sleeps clothing with honied
words. ! hope cur District Clerk will
remember in future that he must not
refer 70 me in a public meeting or else
where as having bolstered him up in
schemes to erect public school houses ex-
olusively for colored children. 1t was
never done in Millville-
If this move OF the trustees does not take
the colored pupils from the primary de-
partment. their next move viii be to d.
vide the district. uniting Baileytowa with
Fenwiek. GO on gentlemen Z build
your house. as was carried at the last meet
ing BY d VOTE Of saventy-one To sixteen. IT
you should not succeed IN coaxing or driv-
ing tie blue skins INTO II, which yon viii
net. never far, your money VIII not be
wasted. Ifyoa bald 1t fius-proos You can
no doubt sell it to the people Of our boT-
0ueh, who for at least two years past have
been striving to get some safe and seelud-
ed spot to lay away the bones OF the old
yenersted Reliance engine, and this pro-
posed ediiiee viii &c sufficiently capaeious
to hold it with all its trappings, and prob
ably q little spare room for its few friends
who doubtless viii occasionally desire to
visit the sacred spot aud listen to the
chanting refrain Of the croaking frogs.
Oar trustees seem to have been in hot
haste to make of themselves the willing
vehicles of a dirty prejudice which would
drive from our public schools all colored
children, TO the support of which their
parents contribute in the shape OF X
their full proportion
Drive them ont, gentlemen, il you an.
We will some Of us probably live long
enough to ses how it works. The cry is
They are u~ueultuFed, unrefined. Let's
drive them out and keep them So What
is the mattcr9 Have the trustees been,
for the past twenty-five years, locked in a
mesmeric sieep2 Or have they forgotten
that there has been a great war, and thous-
and upon thousands of noble braves slain,
and all lines. black, blue, white and yel-
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