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
The infamous Glenn Education Bill, making it a crime to teach a
white child in a colored school or a colored child in a white
school, has passed the Lower House of the Georgia Legislature.
It goes without saying that it will pass the Senate and be
signed by the Governor. Practically the law will only operate
against Atlanta University, which has seven white scholars on
its roll, the children of professors in the institution who
cannot be educated elsewhere in the State without insult and
ostracism because they are the children of “nigger teachers.”
Little hope can be had that the law will be defeated. That it
will be executed with vindictive severity goes without saying
also, and, as the penalty of the chain-gang is the maximum, it
is not improbable that these white Christian teachers, if they
persist in their duty, will be fettered by the side of convicts
and subjected to the treatment which, upon the authority of its
own grand juries, has made the chain-gang system of Georgia a
reproach to common humanity and decency. And this is the New
South over which Grady bloviated so pathetically! Is there no
progress, no shame, in that section?
THE CHICAGO CONSERVATOR; (COLORED.)
The Glenn Bill has passed the House and awaits action equally
certain and deplorable in the Senate. The Governor will sign it
and thus consummate the most barbarous piece of legislation
known since the Fugitive Slave Law. There are those who have
perfect faith in the liberality, intelligence and justice
of the New South. To them the Glenn Bill is a revelation.
Having hailed the silver-tongued Grady as a leader of a higher
civilization, they are loth to believe that the very State he
represents is the first to stain its statutes with so unholy a
law.
But it is there, boastful, brazen, and hideous in deformity.
The wheels of progress are stopped and justice is appalled
while the New South brands the missionary a felon and
persecutes God’s noble men and women for daring to do right.
But the curse remains. Poisoned by prejudice, reeking with
injustice, dead to shame, and insensible to dishonor, the State
of Georgia will push on in its reckless course, indifferent
alike to reproof and counsel.
But it will not last long. The reign of injustice is sure to
fail. Though much suffering may be endured to-day, still the
time will come when Georgia will ask to blot from the book a
law so inhuman and vile. Under the circumstances the colored
race can do nothing to avert the evils of the iniquitous law.
It has suffered much in the past and can suffer still more in
the firm assurance that justice will ultimately assert itself
and right will finally triumph over wrong.
THE CONGREGATIONALIST.
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