The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-06-25
CLEANED THEM OUT.
How the Negro is Treated in a Repub-
ican State.
a NEG Ro SCHOOL BROKEN UP
BY Mob Of White. People. The
Negro Teachers Attacked
and Driven Out Of
the Town.

i The Atlanta Journal says those who
really imagine, or pretend to believe,
that the Northern ahd Weston States
are paradise for the negro, while the
South gives him no chance to enjoy
his constitutional right to life, liberty
and the pursuit Of happiness, must,
blind their eyes to frequent occurren-
ces which show better than Republi-
can party platforms and bloody shirt
speeches, how the negro is really re-
garded and treated in those sections
where love for him is most eXurberant-
ly professed.
They should be interested, for in
stance, in the accounts given by ILL.,
nois newspapers Of the recent treat
ment Of negro school near Colorado,
in that State. All OF these accounts
agree that there was no provocation
for the bruel treatment which was
visited upon the teachers and pupils
Of this school by a white mob compos-
ed Of white Illinois citizens. The
Normal and Industrial School for Ne
groes, upon which the outrage was
visited, is conducted on the lines of
the practical education that is given
to negroes at TuSkegee and in other
Southern schools, which are dealing
most successfully with the problem Of
negro education.
The Eldorado institute seems to be
model Of it's kind, and no complaint
has ever been lodged against it. But:
it: is negro school and that was
enough to fire the fury of the wb;aeci
zens Of Illinois in its vicinity. On the
eve Of the commencement. exercises
they organized a mob and established
a reign Of terror for the negro teachers
and pupils of this institution. These
were driven from the neighborhood,
the school buildings were attacked and
badly injured and the crops which
were being cultivated by the negro
students were destroyed.
Nothing Of this kind has ever hap
pened in the South. Negroes who
had perpetrated revolving crimes In
this section have provoked mob Yio-
lence, but no negro school has ever
been attacked by a mob in any part OF
the South. The Chicago Tribune, the
leading Republican newspaper Of the
West denounces the Eldorado outsage
as "a disgrace to Illinois" and calls
upon Governor Yates to 80 to the
limits of his power in the effort to
bring the perpetrators Of the crime to
justice. The Tribune says that me-
groes have sometimes received severe
treatment in the South, especially du-
ring the Ku-klux days, but there has
never been in this section an instance
Of breaking up Of negro schools and
the driving away Of their teachers, or
the destruction of their crops. The
Tribune adds:
The Southern people appreciate
the Importance Of a practical educa-
tion for the colored people. They
have high opinion OF the work car
ried on at Tuskegee. It would be inn
possible to raise a mob to break it up
or break up any school like it. 1t is
reserved for an Illinois mob to endeaY-
or to prevent the education of black
men in a way calculated to make them
useful to themselves and to the COM
munity.
If an outrage like that at Eldorado
is allowed to go 1npunished it wiH-be
apparent that there are some sections
of Illinois where the negro, honestly
trying to better his condition, is expos
ed to worse treatment than If he were
domiciled in any Of the States south Of
the Ohio"
This is an honest admission that
there obtains in Illinois, a Yirulent
feeling against the negro which is not
found in the south and which the peo-
pie Of this section regard with disgust
and Indignation. II q school in the
South which wss doing good work for
the practical education of negro youths
along lines that will help them to be-
come useful citizens should be attack
ed, terrorized and plundered by mob
Of white men what a howl would 60
up in the North. But most Of the
newspapers Of the North which are
continually reading lectures to the peo-
pie of the South about their duty to
the negro have very little to say in
condemnation of the Eldorado mob
and it's despicable work. The Chicago
Tribune is an exception, and it has
the candor to confess that such an
ottrage would be impossible in this
section.