The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-23

1t. Unfortunately, neither White. Sheets.
Pelham, nor Rarier was am ing The OPP
ponents of the bill. Those five Republl-
cans, who voted against the bill, were
true to their instincts DIS white men.
One of them was Roderick X. Butler.
He represented mountain district in
Tennessee. and by his vote reflected the
wishes of mis- constituents, who were
mostly white men. White, Pelham. Ra-
pier and Sheets considered that most of
their voters were negroes, and they re-
expense OF the white men of Alabama.
1t was the deliberate judgment of these
men who pretended to represent Alabama
in the National Congress that the negro
party. They legislated for him and
thought to satisfy their white constitu-
tanned by the record
But, notwithstanding the bill reads as
It does, and Notwithstanding the explain
atoms in the Senate, and the vote on
Sargeant's amendment, some still con-
tend it does not provide for mixed
schools.
Morton on Civil Rights.
On the 31st of September, 1874, Senator
Morton, the leading Republican of the
Northwest, made speech in Terre
Haute, Ind, in which he said:
When the negro, as a free man, pre-
sumes to stop at the same hotel, or to
ride In the same car with them white
Democrats) or to send his children to the
same school with theirs. or to kneel in
shocked. and declare that social equality
will degrade and destroy society. They
think to make a few votes by appealing
to the prejudices and fears of the white
people about mixed schools. In towns
and communities where the children of
each color are numerous enough to be
formed into separate schools, there will
he no trouble on the subject, and there
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populated or neighborhoods in which
there are few co'ored children, and
where their pro ~ of the school
fund would be M..14 insufficient to
rents are not able 10 ,..-intain private
schools for them, If they are not adj
mitted into the public schools they must
grow up in ignorance and without edu-
cation And what harm would these col
ored ca -d.Hn do in the public school?
They wouiu Interrupt nobody, though in
many places they would be the victims
of Insult and oppression. The man VINO
would say that under such circumstances
these colored children must grow up
without education, to be poor, ignorant,
helpless and perhaps vicious throughout
their lives, simply because it would be
offensive TO have them go into the same
school house with white children, himself
needs education In the principles of our
common humanity.
This means that in such places as the
have separate schools If he desires to
have them but in North Alabama, where
their numbers are few and where the
people are poor. the blacks must be ada
mitted to the public schools to sit side
by side with the whites. and teach them
the sublime doctrine that d poor white
man is no better than a negro! How do
North Alabama Republicans relish such
chat from the leading man of their
party?
Accordingly the negroes in our State
Legislature, as soon after Governor Lew
is was elected as the Legislature was or
ganized, introduced a Civil Rights Bill
very much like that OF Mr.. Sumner, The
bill was defeated in the House by parlia-
mentary tactics No direct vote was
ever taken on the bill. but the test votes
show that every Democrat was against
it and nearly every Republican, white and
black, were for It.
To show the spirit with which the ne