The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-10-05
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THE MIXED SCHOOL BOGEY.

idle and absurd to talk of any change.
Well, who provided that separate system
Did the Republican party ?"-Cecil Demo
crdt.
Most certainly it did, and it taxes thu
credulity of any man of reasonable intelli
gence to believe, that our contemporary
seriously asks, "who provided that separate
system ?'', when as local School Commits
sioner, he should have at least a Limited
knowledge Of the history of the free public
schools of his own State.
But unfortunately our contemporary
like his greater Democratic prototype Mr.
John E. Hurst, inherits the dread Of negro
domination.
As the Sun says Of Mr.. Germans Guber
material candidate "there sounds in hi
ears an echo from the far past-the voice o.
his old colored nanny telling him, while
putting him to bed, that the bad black mar
would catch him if he didn't be still and
go to sleep like good little boy"
AS in the case Of many Others, the wis.
dom of maturer years, he's not effaced the
'legend of the ancient colored dame" and
now the "bogey" Of his boyhood, is made
to do duty in the field of politics, to catch
votes.
But while our contemporary is raising the
ghost of the ancient "dame," the won
der is, that he forgets to use its antidote,
in the shape Of ancient history on the
school question in Maryland.
In fact, the issue of mixed schools never
has been raised in Maryland, and would
not now be raised in this year of grace and
common sense but for want of better cam
paign material.
Gormansm, as an abnormal phase or per-
verted type of modern Democracy cannot
any longer be maintained in Maryland by
ordinary appeals to the average Democrat
sense of personal allegiance to party
Born to none of the hereditary inherit.
ances of his professed faith, there centres
around Mr.. German none of that ancient
heads of the old landed proprietors oil
Maryland Democracy.
He is an interloper in leadership, resting
his pretence of brain only on the tlimsy
evidence Of shrewdness, cunning, tricky
and smartness
He has no respect for the traditions of hi
party, but revels in the. sharp tricks o
politics, the politics that pay the policy
that wins for him.
His Democracy is only of the spoils type
1t appeals to the greed of his followers
it seeks to stir no higher emotion than tina
of pelf and self.
1t wo,ships no high models, it revere
no lofty party sentiments.
1t disdains principles, and enthronc
passion and prejudice as the party shiE
boeth.
1t must 90 down deep into the Mack sid
of men S characters to resurrect the ghost
of half dead prejudices, to do present worl
for its own perpetuity.
Hence Mr.. IIurst's condescension to g
down into the graveyard of buried passions
of race in his speech at Cambridge OF
Tuesday.
Hence Mr.. Ash's chronic plea of the
negro baby act, his constant cry of "Run
white Democrat, run, the colored mar
after you.
He bowls it under his hat, in the fac,
Maryland registration list, that sho *;
POS, 932 white voters against only AZ. 26&
colored ones.
He grits it between his teeth in the face
of the historic fact, that the Constitutional
Convention of 1864. which was wholly
Republican, adopted a State Constitution
at Annapolis in April of that year, which
the people ratified the following October,
which provided uniform system of free
public schools in Maryland, and which
constitutional provision was followed by
ample legislation in the General Act of
Assembly passed by a Republican Leg
islature March 81, 1865, which made
ample provision for the establishment of
our present system for "all mhHc youth
between the ages of six and nineteen
years. who were to be entitled to free
instruction in any of the public schools of
the State.
Under this Republican law, with the
philanthropy and wisdom that character
lied the Republican leaders of those days,
they did not overlook the despised race
Approaching the fact that negroes had
souls and that they needed the benefits Of
education as well as the white children
they established Scpatatc schools for them
looking to universal education.
This provision is contained in the fol
lowing language:
SECTION /. The total amount of take.
paid for school purposes by the colored
people of any county and the city Of Bal
timore, together with any donations that
may be made, shall be set aside for the
purpose of founding schools for colored
children, which schools shall be established
under the direction of the School Commits
sioners, and shall be subject to such rules
and regulations as the Board of Education
shall prescribe.
SECTION =. 1t shall be the duty of the
city and county School Commissioners t.
visit such schools at least once in eacl
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