Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1894-03-03


The national government spends
Millions of dollars TO secure Just such
and the world has ac-
,ess to It.
And again
"Whv did he not say that the teachers
in hrs Richmond Home Mission school
are held in high respect, both for their
own and their works sake -
And yet Rev. c. II. CoRFY, ID. D.,
(white) president of the RICHMOND
Home Mission school, within thet
past thirty-sIx months was given
moving orders, because the accom-
mediation la the same house with
them of the white president of a
Negro school was distasteiul TO the1
other guests of this boarding instf.l
tuition. The reference to this school,
is particularly unfortunate. 4
Was the uuceremOniOus treatmen9l
due to the Rev. Dr's Yankee antece1
dents or to race prejudice ? Saw
the RELIGIOUS Herald:
Gle might have learned, if he ha{
been willing to learn, that some OF cut
Richmond girls taught in the Color
Normal school, and thatnO one thong
OF il as in the least degree affecting tay'r !
social standing"
r 1t is not natural for Us to ostr
ezs our own, and the facts cit
to accomplish their purpose.
{ Were they givls from other lo'
ties rather than "our KNas
Girls fair test could be made.
. And yet this same Colorea Nor
= School has heretofore been e.
mere training Institution for e.
= rienced white graduates OF the j
mond schools As soon as they
regarded as efficient and a vac
= occurred, they were transferred e
: white school, Ii the task wet
- distasteful, why should they
this transfer? Aud why sho
= be accorded ?
- They, no doubt understood that
- this transfer would take place n
- some time. Hence they accepted tie
position and the money. It says
r. "He might have remembered TIA
when Dr. Upper, of Shaw Universi ~
elr died no higher need of praise and hoGo
was paid TO his memory than b. 81
-. Southern press. He might have IN
toned the fact that in every Soc feri
lte State, the whites being in control, til,ns
me ands and tens of thousands of dollar
fl,..w. srntf.4
Tic nance of system OF public schools 10
at the colored people. He might hav
100 Ispoken of the establishment of norma
schools for the training of colored tegci
Us ers. OF asylums where their insane m
nc ltendeylv and skilfullv cared for, OF th
innumerabie gifts OF the whites tow
az the erection of churches for the co
the people, OF the multiplying evidenc
ion kindly interest in their spiritual and
II terial welfare
This journal seems TO forget The
.h there are two classes of wLite peup
- in the South, the liberal ard 81
no bourbon.
oct The one, aided by the stro
bor of the national government
The laws forces upon the other
-har provements which he cites,
Time-thirty years has
!. "a strated that Rev. Or. T.
si-~-A- e-s--a LA a,rc
v,th who had abused and =, asi
GIRL The liberal whites of the 81
. IN serve credit for what they he'
with for the colored people In the
were OF education. They were Left
tentative. They had eithes to
.cb q tablish schools for them or AL
was them to their own. This was
NO q law. They had to educate them
Hs 10 a matter of self protection. A N
also of iliterate free people endange
arge. not oniy one SOUTH puo tue i'epu
,rrad as we'll. What is said OF educatiS
institutions is equally as true of
tv IN insane asylums. If you think
nreiu- are beneftting only the insan
taking care of them, try the ex
I mon ment of throwing wide the d
aroed and giving them the privilege
s two looking after themselves.
7 well Besides the increasing ratio OF
mnr MACS will come the injury to the
dividual. But why pursue THU
, been cussion further. Let us con,
rder Of outrage be the parties white or
bovol who commit it. Let us put
mo nm. lawless mobs and discourage
preiudice; let us discountel
.oIorod the practice of magnifyiI
man crime committed by a colored
on two and looking with an Indifferent
4 not on the same offence when CONN
Ter fit by white man.
We believe that thousands of
of the men in the South are actuat
o ga ev- right principles, accept the hi
les their guide and stand ready I
20 these with hberal-minded colo~Ad '
;udoe Is work out prosperOus
inrv q their beloved section.
II damo 1t Is not the commission of
,rnev il against the colored people Il
!. ,.oun. jure the Southland, but the
a dem to punish the perpetrators
nocret,, outrage that causes the wa