Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-12-20

cOuio convert Nun, ahO now these
very people have been civil zed. Christ
Isnized, and educated by the Only
means with which it was possible to
accomplish these results want TO rule
and make laws for those who taught
them and falling In this they talk
about b!oodshed, hogshesds OF blood,
&C."
Your announcement does not |
agree with STANLEy's assertions. |
What has been the record of the mis-
sionaries?
They have often served as adj
vance agents for exploring parties
who while pushing the gospel with
one hand, showed the whiskey Jug
with the other. They served to de-
moralize rather than Christianize
the African.
They were sent to educate the
heather children there existing but
proceeded to get others instead.
The result has been that mulattoes
are most numerous along the path
of the missionary. 1t is no wonder
that the natives killed them, but
rather surprising that they ate
what was so fraught with corrupt
ion. You certainly could not have
read the accounts of STANLEY's Rear
Column, in which civilized men ex-
| ceeded the coast-corrrpted natives in
their debaucheries. The aboriginal
inhabitants of every country have
been debauched wherever they have
come in contact with the civilized
white race.
The writer then proceeds to make
a plea for mixed schools, that il
white teachers in Colored schools
He would have a fair-haired, deli
cately formed, handsome white ladies
sit all day within the closed confines
of Negro school-room breathing
the same atmosphere. and associat
ing with pupils of the despised race
in order that they might receive tn
paltry salary. This is his idea @
2 school management.
; He would turn the dialy-hands O
the clock of progress backward. H
would make Richmond, the capits
r OF Old Virginia, and the spot wher
e educational facilities of which I'll
teachers form a part, are the bes
n appear ridiculous in the eyes of I'll
o country and be the laughing stoC
se of the world in order TO satisfy a
lie insane prejudice of his which W,
re presumed to have been inferred
y Appomattox and which Meth
/" GRANT nor LEE wished ever to ha'
y q resurrection.
ie But to the selfish part OF the pr
is position. Where does the mon
Id paid to these Negro teachers g
be Let the white merchants On Ma
by and Broad street answer?
en- There is no feeling of resentme
on the part of these hard -worR
OF Negro teachers. Let the prin
to pals who exercise fostering ca
over them tell as to the excellence
80 their work
las Thank Con, there are white men
lls charge of our city affairs who ha
iii the best interests OF our communi
aid at heart. They know that with /
not present management the gr,
uu questions now c)nfronting us I
mi az; being slowly but surely solved,
pcs They know that ignorance is
greater tax on this community tn
;he the educational one which serves
re- dissipate it's influence and end
1m sway. They are aware of the &
ed. that crime tLrives where ignoral
,ed is most manifest.
les The Negro is progressing. He
en- lawyers, doctors. historians, G.
gressmen. senators, authors, sci
100 fists, inventors, college presider
90 professors, editors, electricians, i
ION chinists, Doctors OF Divinity, dr.
tho gists, real estate agents. merchar
are bank presidents, bank directo
YER and cashiers in his midst. He
I'VE become a land owner and a tax-p
of er. He is advancing along all
nd the avenues the white man
III. traversed. He has attained hol
,o+ in the best colleges in the count
low Harvard, Cornell, Philips Exeter h,
,;te placed him at the head of the lis
Taw q place he had won. Cypress
,on spurs him on to greater Efforts
is buying every hog path and inv,
ing in every piece OF real estate i
- possible for him to obtain HI
striving to own the earth, and tn
~ by establish firm foundation NJ
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