"The schools required by the statute are to be maintained for the benefit of the whole town, _as it is the wise policy of the law to give all the inhabitants equal privileges for the education of their children in the Public Schools_. Nor is it in the power of the majority to deprive the minority of this _privilege_.... Every inhabitant of the town has a right to participate in the benefits of both descriptions of schools; and it is not competent for a town to establish a grammar school for the benefit of one part of the town to the exclusion of the other, although the money raised for the support of schools may be in other respects fairly apportioned." Here is Equality from beginning to end. In the case of _Withington_ v. _Eveleth_, (7 Pick. R., 106,) the Court say they "are all satisfied that the power given to towns to determine and define the limits of school districts can be executed only by a geographical division of the town for that purpose." A limitation of the district merely _personal_ was held invalid. This same principle was again recognized in _Perry_ v. _Dover_, (12 Pick. R., 213,) where the Court say, "Towns, in executing the power to form school districts, are bound so to do it as to include _every inhabitant_ in some of the districts. They cannot lawfully omit any, and thus deprive them of _the benefits of our invaluable system of free schools_." Thus at every point the Court has guarded the Equal Rights of all. * * * * * The Constitution, the Legislation, and the Judicial Decisions of Massachusetts have now been passed in review. We have seen what is contemplated by the Equality secured by the Constitution,--also what is contemplated by the system of Common Schools, as established by the laws of the Commonwealth and illustrated by decisions of the Supreme Court. The way is now prepared to consider the peculiarities in the present case, and to apply the principle thus recognized in Constitution, Laws, and Judicial Decisions. * * * * * SEPARATE SCHOOLS INCONSISTENT WITH EQUALITY. It is easy to see that the exclusion of colored children from the Public Schools is a constant inconvenience to them and their parents, which white children and white parents are not obliged to bear. Here the facts are plain and unanswerable, showing a palpable violation of Equality. _The black and white are not equal before the law._ I am at a loss to understand how anybody can assert that they are.