The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-10-28
A cuArAcTERIs1Ic INcoNsIsrESCY.

| ACuAUACTERys1 INCON>IS1 ENJOY.
| There Is no single point npon which tho
| Republicans of the North have insisted
with more answering Grmness thnn the
abolition of all distinction between tho
| whites and blacks in the Southern States,
and this attitude on their part has not appar-
entity been at all modified by the equal. and
| II may be added the successful determine
| ton Of the Southern people that these DIS
| tinctons shall not only be maintained as they
now stand, but that they shall even be
strengthened Probably thero was never
more hopeless undertaking than the effort OF
these Republicans to oblterate the lines OF
division that separate the two races in the
South 20 tho great advantage OF both. ana
yet prolonged discontinue, repeated failure
does not seem to have brought 70 them the
slightest discouragement.
What is the object of this persistence Is
IL that the Northern Republicans are really
anxious to promote the welfare Of the negroes
by a mistaken idea that 10 place them upon
general footing of equality with the whites
would tend 10 their moral and social eieva-
ton. or are they after all actuated exclusively
by dosire TO humiIate and degrade the whl'e
people by exposing them to an intimate con-
tact with an inferior race with all the invisible
but not the less substantial barriers raised by
caste thrown down?
We are forced TO the inclusion that the only
motive of the Northern Republicans IN pro-
claiming the necessity of reducing the two
races in the South 10 an equality is simply
- not
the black. If it we're really love for the black
then the Northern Republicans would DO Tor
the negroes in the Northern States al that
they have insisted upon the South dong tor
the same race in this section. But TINS Is not
the course which they pursue.
Some time agoa great disturbance was raised
in prominent negro college at Atlanta by
the effort Of the managers to associate whites
and blacks in the classes. and although TINS
attempt on their part was IN direct dehahce
of the constitution and laws of the State OF
Georgia, which were passed for the good OF
the whole people. as shown by irnmemoriai
experience, yet the most emphatic encourage
ment which these managers received was
from leading Republicans of Pennsylvania
of general interest in the Southern negro.
What would be the natural inference to be
drawn from this interference All dlsin-
terested and impartial men would at once
say that if the same question were
10 come up in Pennsylvania in any In
stitution controlled by Republican IN
fiuence. without one moments hesitation.
IL 1olo- 6 lirbt fast al atTurffOU
in fact with an emphatic pleasure which
would find resounding expression, the ke-
publican trustees Of such en institution would
admit negro pupils to its classes and IN
doing SO would consider themselves as gov
erned by a principle which only the bar
barous people of the South would DENY
Is this the manner in which the Pennsyl-
vania Republicans act when confronted with
the issue which the managers of the Atlanta
College sought TO thrust upon the people of
Georgia? On the contrary. when short
time ago a negro endeavored to obtain adrnls-
sion to Girard College at Philadelphia, an In
sttution which is under the management of
Republican trustees, the right was promptly
denied him. and in words which would seem
to show that bis application was regarded as
an act of presumption. Under the terms OF
the Girard beQuest no negro was to be adj
mitted TO the college, which reveals that even
in Pennsylvania, the State of Thaddeus Ste
vens, there has existed very inhuman pref
udice against the negro race, but this pro-
vision was made before the abolition Of
slavery by the Constitution Of the United
States. and it is doubtful whether such dis
elimination would now stand the test Of legal
examination. The Republican trustees Of
this institution, however, are not anxious to
look into the law Of the case. They accept
the letter of the bequest, and with unDeccm-
ing alacrity have enforced it in this instance
of a race which. according to their often ex-
pressed opinion, is only oppressed and denied
their rights in the South.