Milford chronicle., 1893-01-20
HELLRNBRAND.
Colored superintendents for Col
ored Schools Yes or No.

months.
Colored superintendents for Col
ored Schools-Yes or No.
Mr.. EDITOR There appeared in your
paper of last week letter under the cap
ton "a Colored Man on the Governors
Message" The writer of the letter COM
mended the Governor very highly for rec
ommending the appointing of "Colored
Superintendent for Colored Schools" "
I procured at once copy of the said mes
sage and after searching it carefully, did
not find the colored man even limited at
except to say that the progress made by
colored children" has not been commen-
surate with the advantages offered, and
that the Delaware, State College is dis
appointment and comparative failure.
In both of these assertions I heartily
agree with his Excellency; but beg to say
the pupils in the colored schools could
not have done better with the grade Of
teachers that they have had for tile grea-
ter part of the past, and that they could
not have gotten better teachers with the
amount of money appropriated for that
purpose,
could not find any reference at all to
a 'cnl0red superintendent" i'll the mes
sage, direct nor indirect. The paragraph
on colored schools closes with recon-
mendation for the creation of "a State
Superintendent of Public Schools" with
out any reference to race or color. Pos
sib1y the writer of the letter inferred that
a colored man was meant because spoken
of in the paragraph on public schools; if
so, he shows Lis ignorance of the doings
of the Legislature of Delaware in the past,
and fthe general AnglO-Saxon principle,
especially when fred by partisan caste
and prejudice. Does he suppose that, the
Legislature that it is said, would not grant
a charter to a colored college, because a
colored mans name was in it,would Gre
ate superintendency for the sole pur-
pose of putting the "hated negro" in it?
Your correspondent referred TO, was so
iubiant over what seemed to him to be
such zine plum" that he was, he says,
'totally oblivious to all else" While 1
am a race man, and willing to make any
sacrifice for the uplifting of my people, 1
must confess, had there been a recon-
incubation for a colored superintendent,
that I can see nothing in the innovation
so dazzling ia brightness nor so enchant-
ingly glorious as to render me oblivious
to many Of the things about me, the need
of which far transcends that of negro
superintendent" In a word, do not
favor the appointment of "colored super
intendents for colored schools" at this
time, for several reasons.
First-Because I think the color line in
Delaware sufficiently wide and distinct.
I have always had horror of anything
made distinctively negro from the op-
posite side. The closer our interests are
identified with the white mans interest
the better will it be for both. The scheme
we're it to be carried out, would SAVIOR very
much of the same intent as that mon-
strous incorporate school district system,
which puts the best schools, outside of
Wilmington, into the hands of men,
scarcely in any sense prepared to take
care of them, and renders them easy prey
for unqualified and designing teachers.
tCoIored schools only are referred to
Second-Because it would most likely
be used for political purposes, aud in that
case some weak-minded, mush-brained,
negro might be enticed into that party
that hates him at heart. and only caters
for his vote-and that on sly. know
it is said that tke party Of our choice Is
dead. Maybe she is; how be it, she ae-
complished great work while she lived
and if she is really dead, we will dress III
our best, attend her obsequies, linger a
her grave, aud refuse to put of our wid
ovbood until out Of her ashes shall spring
a party better than the surviving one
Third-Because there are things tina
we need more. If Delaware is ssineer
t and wishes to help and elevate the negro
let her double the appropriation IoI COZ
: ored schools and increase the building
fund from $500 to 5000. Let her CIV
to our schools part of that $4,000 lyin
IN the treasury with no use for it, SO tha
we could have schoofs houses that woul
y not allow the pupils feet to be frost bit
0 ten and the teachers to Get the rheuma
81 tisn while in the discharge e of their scho'
/ duties, and so that when the prosperity
ID "negro superintendent comes, he ma
have something to superihtend. A whi
gentleman of the beFpoiitical persui
sion, said to me snort time since, tn
Z. d the colored people ought not to expe
Il the State to "fyfnish all for the COLOR
m schools" 1 81 they ought to expect
70 and not only Expect it, but demand
The slave Adding States Of the Uni'
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70 ever pay rate