Year: 1874

uelVu tuG 0Uutu' DuL Wnen thAt DubliI


opinion was on the point Of becoming 8
90 strong that no partisan spirit In DOW


er could have long resisted Il


what happenedS The bloody rio


In New Orleans in 1868. The or.
ganization Of Ku Klux all over the South
the bntchery ol Grant Parish in 1878, tbI
murders Of Coushatta, the slaughter d


helpless negro prisoners in Trenton


Tenn, not to speak Of minor atrocities


What was the efectG The growing sym


pathy with the victims of plumber wa.
turned into sympathy with the victims oil
murder II is TO be hoped that by this
time the people Of the South have learned
that those who disgrace them by deeds Of
bloody violence are their worst enemies


Let them act upon that lesson. Let them
dissolve their White Mems Leagues, for
every organization based upon q
distinction Of color Is not only
wrong In itself but IS harmful 10
both races. Let them make the poor
negro feel that he has not only a willing
but an active protector In every good
citizen. Let them understand that the
most efficient method TO fight the thieves
who rule them Is by relentIessly suppress.
ing the murderous ruflians among them
selves, who strip them Of the sympathy
Of the country. Silent disapproval Is
nothing, good intentions are nothing,
mere public resolutions arc nothing Only
vigorous action will avail. Only the
practical punishment of the maleisctors
will serve. They justly demand that no
thief shall find grace because he is Re-
publican-with them because he Is q
Democrat. LIE: party spirit cease to be q
shelter TO the criminal No White Mans
League will do them any good. An anti
rutllAn league Of which every good
citizen Is an active member Is the
only thing for the South. l say
this as q true friend Of the Southern
people who has more than once raised
his voice against the wrongs they have
suffered: / hail with glsdness the spirit
animsting the Governor of Tennessee,
who docs not reSt until all the murderers
ol Trenton are in the clutches Of the law,
and the charge Of that Kentucky Judge,
who tells his Grand Jury that If they fall
to indlct not only the man who commit
ted the murder, but also the Sheriff who
wiliully neglected to arrest that murderer,
that he will find Grand Jurymen In
another county who will do their duty in
that spirit which will relentlessIy pursue
the lawless elements Of society as the
common enemy. There Is salvation for
the Southern people. Let that spirit pre-.
vail in the South and no partisan spirit
in the North will be strong enough 10
bSttis the sympathy which their mis-.
fortunes deserve. The South will again
enjoy the largest constitutional measure
olself government, and one OF the greatest
ot those dangers will disappear, which at
present threaten the most vital part of
our Republican institutions. After show
ing the bad effects Of teaching negroes
that their safety lay in organization as a
race against the whites, and making them
partisan supporters OF corruption and rob.
berry and denounciDg the men who did
this as the cruelest, most treacherous and
most dastardly enemies the colored people
ever had, he discussed the Civil Rights bill.
After saying that he could not support the
bill because he regarded it as unconstitu-
tionsl, he said II it becomes a law it will
break up the whole public school system
ot the Southern States, aud nobody will
be greater sufferers thereby than the col.
ored people. II Is o well known fact that
in the States containing the bulk of the
colored population, there existed q wide
spread and powerful prejudice against the
introduction OF the system Of common
schools to be supported at public expense.
We know something Of that even in Mis-
souri,. 1t is equally well known that a
large majority Of the white people Of
those States, even largo majority
OF those who are seriously aDx-
ious TO secure 10 the colored chill
dren the largest possible advantages
OF education In separate establishments,
still are very strongly, nay violently, OPP
posed TO any law which, like the Civil
Rights bill, would force the admission OF
colored children together with white
children in the same school rooms. That
opposition exists, and we have to deal
with It as fact. Try to enforce under
the circumstances the system OF mixed
schools, and that will be the result. The
old prejudice against q system OF public


instruction, 10 be supported by taxation
as It still exists in the States in question,
will at once find itself powerfully rein
forced. It is most probable that systems
Of instruction lab0riously built up will
succumb. There is scarcely a greater
misfortune conceivable that could beiall
these communities. But what would es.
pecially the colored people have gained
Now they have at least their sep.
arste schools at the public expense as
part oil the general system. Destroy that
system and they will have no mixed
schools, while their separate schools will
perish also. Would the law then beueflt
the cOlored race at allI A colored man
might indeed then enforce his rights TO
rlde all over the country in Pullman
palace car, TO board at q first-class hotel
and sit In the dress circle of q theatre,
But such things can be enjoyed, under
any circumstances, only by the very small
number ot wealttier people among them,
and these pleasures and conveniences oi
their few men Of means would be pur-
chased at dreadful price. The inter
ruption OF the public school system, the
advantages Of which they now extensively
enjoy In separate establishments, would
deprive the children OF the poor of q thing
which is as necessary to them as their
daily bread. But In still other respects
the enactmeant Of such law would not
be beneficial TO the colored man. 1t
would be dangerous venture 10 the COL
ored people II their social position were
made the objective point OF a new strife
under circumstances 60 uniavOrable, now
that they have the political rights OF citi-
zenahip. II IA much wiser and safer for
them TO trust 10 the means they already
have to make themselves respected, and
leave all else TO the gradual progress Of
public opinion, which has already out.


grown many prejudice that a lew Jrars
ago seemed invlncible, He ihen says
the way TO solve the nost difficult