Middletown transcript., 1895-07-27

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least by silence. And the colored race
has been the great sufferer. The acss
of a few inhuman brutes have been
visited more or less directly on the
heads of all. This should not be but
it is natural. The vicious should be
punished to the full extent Of the law,
but to the lowly and the weak, to the
industrious and the honest, a helping
hand should be offered. In educational
facilities this has been done in this
State to limited extent. The primary
instruction, however. afforded colored
children in the State. outside the city
of Wilmington, is very inferior. Of
the Colored College al Dover we per-
sonally know nothing but have thought
such trustees as Chief Justice Lore
and II. G. Conrad, Esq, are fully
competent to look after its interests.
That petty Democratic politicians, as
the Republican charges, are attempting
to drag its management into the mire
of partisan politics, is nothing less
than crime. If in.this school can be
educated men and women who shall
90 out over this State as teachers
among their race, who can elevate by
their examples as well as educate in
the schools, who shall teach morality
and the sanctity of the family relations,
then shall the institution prove
blessing to the people of Delaware.
For hame, that the petty politician
should attempt to lay his unclean
hands upon this school, and the greater
shame that he must resort to down.
right lying to make even the attempt.
The Republican is right in it's state
ment that Democrats only founded
this school in order to secure control
of a large government appropriation
for educational purposes which now
goes to Delaware College. 1t was the
giving a small amount to educate the
Negro to control larger amount by
the State. The Eoening Journal, more
honest than many of its Democratic
contemporaries says: "To be frank,
the college was not founded to educate
the Negro. 1t secured place in Della
ware because Delaware wished to Sc
cure large Federal appropriation for
Delaware College, and could not do SO
| unless it admitted colored students to
that institution or provide them with
a separate college," This is the truth
but not the whole truth.
At the time the bill was drawn pro-
viding for the erection of buildings
and while it was pending before the
Legislature more than one effort was
made to draw the government appro-
priation from the U. S. Treasury, but
not until the State Legislature had
settled the matter did Uncle Sam
recognize the claim. The original bill
provided that one-third Of the trustees
should be colored men, representing
the best men in their ranks in the
State, but the Dover politicians would
not have it so, hence their partisan
claim that they have displaced Prof.
Webb with colored man is not be-
cause they love the Negro more, though
his vote is consideration. But be
that as it may, it is harmful politics
and we repeat that it is shame that
petty politicians should attempt to
drag down the State College into the
mire of partisan politics, and to make
it party tool when it should be above
and beyond politics. Such conduct on
the part of politicians will be con-
demned generally by both Republicans
and Democrats, and that condemna-
tion should be both long and loud.