The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-09
4 MIXED COLLEGE
NOT SMALL SCHOOL
DR.. Long Makes a Distinction
In the Case.
ADMITS NEGROES is TRUE
yes, The Charge Is True That Have
Taught Negroes"
WAS MISSIONARY WORK NEAR HOME
Nominee Of Republicans For State SuperInten.
dent Of Schools Replies to an Editorial
and Gives His Side of The
Matter

TO the Editor:-In your paper of re-
cent date you assail me III a very unhis-
torical editorial. Will you please be SO
kind and fair as to give this reply as
prominent a position in your paper.
l was at my farm, where I was born
and reared. when the news came to me
that / was nominated for superintendent
of Public Instruction. Not member of
the Republican convention had written or
spoken to me on the subject. before the
convention. You say: Here is another
thing about d. A. Long, who seeks to be
put at the head of the State schools
Then, lin plain English you seek to
make the people of my native State be-
lieve that | favor teaching negro chill
dren and white children in the same
school, This is not true. Certainly YOU
would not handle the truth so recklesslv.
unless you thought you had a right to
infer that you were stating the truth.
So ! presme that you reason from this
as you major premise: Tor three years
he was out of the State, and it has
never been denied, that we have seen.
that during those years he was at the
head of mixed school in Ohio was the
president of Antioch College, Ohio. for
sixteen years. The charge that Antioch
admits negroes is true, but the coIoring
which you give it is false On page so
of The History of Antioch College.
you will find these words: 80 Antioch
has had the following presidents: Horace
Mann, LII D., 1S53-59; Thomas Hill. d.
d., LIZ d., 1892, (afterward president
of HarvardD; Austin Craig, ID. d..
1896 George w. Hosmer. d. D..
lS66-73; Edward Orion, d. D., 1884.
(afterward president Ohio State Univer-
sity); s. c. Derby, A. NJ, 1916; O. ].
Wait, a. NJ, 1929; Daniel Albright
Long, a. NJ, d. d., Ii. D., 1SS3-1S9g.
Antioch was the first college in the
world to admit women with equal privi-
leges with men. Between one hundred
and thirty or forty thousand dollars of
the endowment was given with the I'M
Outstanding that no one should be ex-
cluded on account of race or color. 1t
is close corporation with twenty trus-
tees. The charter did not permit any
one to be excluded who had a good moral
character, and could pass the examina-
lions. These things were all arranged
before L went there. Many thousands
of students attended Antioch, since the
Gays of Horace Mann, Men and women OF
The very best families from Massachu-
sets to California. Occasionally negro.
q Hlndoo, or some other race would ma
circulate, as they had right to do
stranger might infer from your editorial
that it was little school with two or
three teachers and a little handful of
negro and white girls and boys. How
College? Up to the time l resigned in
1899, just one full blooded negro Baptist
preacher. And why do the colored peo-
pie not go to the colleges for white
people? Within seven miles of Antioch
the colored people have Wilbeforce Uni
versity. 1t is their leading institution of
learning in Ohio and the West. 1t has
Fa-vlarge endowment of its own, and the
state of Ohio gives it nearly thirty thou
sand dollars annually Then, too, Mr..
Editor, as you know, every college and
university in the North and West, admits
the men and women of all races, and
with few exceptions, both sexes. Are
we to infer that every man who presides
over, or attends a Northern college or
university, looks with complacency upon
a state of affairs not to be dreamed of
IL. i
do not know of a man, white or colored
in North Carolina, who favors mixed
schools. Yet, every doctor in North Car
DINA who has attended the University
of Pennsylvania, Harvard Yale, Column
bia University, or the University of Chi
cago has attend I'd a mix school" Every
man who voted for the Hon w. J. Bry-
an, voted for a man who attended a
University of North Carolina afterwards
attended Cornell University. Will any
body say that Dr. Winston favors social
equality? Certainly not
All the nice things you say about Prof.
!. Y. Joyner, | can heartily endorse. [
believe him to be a Christian gentleman.
1. teacher of rare ability. and ar educa-
tor whose heart is in the noble work.
During the past month, while assisting
sfn~ the teachers institute of my native
county, for a part of week, / came in
contact with more negroes. in the way
of teaching, than 1 did during the six
teen years l spent at Antioch College.
Ohio.
Yes. the charge is. true that l have
taught negroes. But what little mis-
sionary work | have done in this direc-
q
my home. During the ten years that 7
was president of Graham Normal Col
loge. met the colored men in the Afri-
can NJ. f. Church, near the village, oc-
casionally, and aided those who were
teaching their own race. No man of any
race or party. in Alamance county. viii
say that ! had anything to say TO them
about politics or social equality. | taught
them without money and without price.
| believe in the education of all the peo-
ple. The blessings of education should
fall on Catholic and Protestant. Jew and
Gentle. white and colorcd, Republican
and Democrat, alike.
For the correctness of my statement IN
regard TO the history of Antioch College,
and for any additional history which
you and your readers NAV desire, ! re-
fer you to the following gentlemen who
were members of the Board Of Trustees