The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-08-24
A SPECIMEN BRICK.

the propriety of voting for one or more OF
the Republican candidates for the legisla
ture, aware that by so doing you are cast
ing vote for mircd SchOOis' How would
you like your child to be compelled to sit
alongside a negro at school?
Just think of it moment.
Yet are you not aware that the Republi-
cans of Maryland propose to pass just such
q law if they ever get control OF the State.
Isn't it so in every state they do control?
Do you want it here in Mayland-in
Cecil county?
Do you want your daughter, who may
be a teacher, required to teach negroes?
This is no bug-a-boo, it is a menacing
danger, and you, if you vote for Republi-
can for the legislature, will help to bring
the evil upon you.
We people of Maryland want no negroes
in our schools. We provide schools. and
good ones, for them, and the taxes CT the
white people support them. They should
expect no more, but the rising generation
of negroes, lazy, and worthless as they are
demand an equal recognition, especially IN
schools, and the Republicans, if they have
the power, dare not deny them.
There are times and circumstances which
may Justify you in voting for friend on
the Republican ticket for a cOHRty 0ficc but
you cannot afford to vote for them for the
hgisidtWte. There is too much at stake
cecil Democrat, AHg. IL, 1879.
We willingly give space to the above
delightful specimen of campaign ltera-
ture t?l which last week graced the col
umns of our contemporary the cecil DEM
OcIrH.
1t is gem of its kind.
Now, negrophobia as a personal disease
has worried many individuals all their
lives, and doubtless will continue to worry
them so long as prejudice exists and God
does not hold men to a strict accountability
for their intellectual deficiencies.
With the personal preiudices of the Edi-
tor of the DcmocrM on the negro question
we have nothing to do, since it is of no
earthly importance to any one except him
self.
1t is only when he attempts to hold up
the bug-a- boo Of mixed Schools as a rod of
terror over demoralized Democrats in Cecil
county, that his mental vagaries merit
notice, or deserve comment.
Even then they are more fifty the subject
of ridcule, than of serious argument or
positive denial.
Read between its lines. the above I'M
worthy appeal to the abominable prejudice
Of race and color, is notifying confession
of defeat, and frantic cry for help.
His appeal to the lowest passion of his
political followers is as lugubrious, is his
disregard of truth is reckless.
His assertion that the Republicans of
Maryland intend to pass law establishing
mixed schools in Maryland is palpablr,
unmanly and entirely gratuitous assunlp-
ton.
The Republicans of Maryland propose to
deal Justly with the colored man, and to
accord him every civil and political priyi
lege to which he as citizen is fully
entitled.
We deny, that mixed schools have ever
been a subject of political discussion in
Maryland, or that they have ever been
dreamed of, except in the disordered brain
of negrophObists.
Neither race desires them, and the most
advocate of race privilege for the
colored man has not even suggested them. |
In the face of this fact, which we chal-
lenge our contemporary to disprove, how
silly to every reader of his |
article appear his bug'a-boos as he parades
them, and how void of manly character
his stilted egotism, when he declares "that
the rising generation of negroes lazy and
worthless as they are, demand an equal
especially in schools
1t is indeed their right to demand recog
milton in their privilege as citizens to edu
,atonal facilities equal with those which
the whites enjoy.
1t is an equality of political right not AN
equality of social privilege.
1t is in the interest of whites and blacks
alike, that the privilege and facilities of
be equal TO all men regardless Of
race color or previous condition of serv- |
tude.
1t is no less essential to the prosperity,
peace and good order of the State, that
these educational privileges should lie
equally bestowed upon all.
1t is the highest humanity and the wiS-st
It's Gods decree to-day, touching the
race problem in America, and foreshowed |
in the wisdom and foresight of that great
instrument of humanity himself, the mar
tyred Lincoln.
The story of the black mans emancipa-
ton has been written in blood, but under
the benefcent teaching of wise statesman
ship, the history of his elevation as race,
is attuned to the chords of humanity, intel
ligence and peace.
only fools fail to interpret Alright the
unseen hand of Deity, in the recent race
history of our country.
A REPUTATION FROM BALTI-