The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 9, September, 1887Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 9, September, 1887
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
Such leaders as this school provides for their race cannot
be trained elsewhere in the State. The maintenance of the
University in full vigor is therefore for every reason, for
the common interest of the 817,000 white and of the 726,000
colored citizens, one of the most vitally desirable objects in
the State. The proposition to send the teachers and managers
to the chain-gang unless they expel their own children from
their schools is preposterous. The good sense of the State
should prevent the further prosecution of the scheme. Every
sensible citizen of Georgia would admit that nothing could
be more unwise than to stimulate hostility of race in the
same population by means of penal laws. Each race in Georgia
undoubtedly prefers separate schools for the present, but to
punish and disgrace the few persons who are indifferent to the
separation, and by that course to retard the indispensable
education of half the population, would be an unspeakable folly.
THE JERSEY CITY EVENING JOURNAL.
In Georgia there is still existing, as we read, a dread that
white people may be forced into miscegenation with negroes in
spite of themselves. The Georgian ought to know himself, and
it is droll to hear him pleading that some one will save him
from “marrying a nigger,” in spite of himself. The principal
objection to public or private schools, in which the two races
should be together, is that this would lead to intermarriages
of the races. Under pressure of this argument, the Georgia
House of Assembly has passed the bill making the teaching of
colored persons by white persons a penal offence. A State law
already forbids mixed public schools. The new law is intended
to prohibit white persons from teaching colored persons in
Sunday-schools and private educational institutions. The
condition of the Georgia white, liable at any moment to run
off and marry a negro, is indeed lamentable. And, joking
aside, does not such a state of things show how completely
uncured, how woefully unreconstructed are the average ex-rebel,
ex-slaveholding people of Georgia? Such a state of things as
this proves, that wise were those men who years ago urged
that only territorial government should be given to the
States just conquered from rebellion, and that they should so
remain governed until time sufficient should have elapsed to
eradicate all traces of the old semi-barbaric habits of their
people. A community which adopts such a law as that mentioned
is decidedly unfit to bear a State’s part in the general
Government of the Republic.
THE SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN.
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