Economy-Education-Mixed Schools: Speech of Hon. S. S. Cox, Member of Congress from New York City, on the Education and Civil-Rights Bills, Delivered January 13, 1874 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Economy-Education-Mixed Schools: Speech of Hon. S. S. Cox, Member of Congress From New York City, on the Education and Civil-Rights Bills, Delivered January 13, 1874

Therefore, in conclusion, I o pose this bill as over-legislation. It will be barren of practical reen ts. Many years of service have taught me some lessons of humility. I did not miscalculate at the begin ning of the war, as to the way it would end, as some did of my part I expected that slavery would be riddled to death by the bullet. Did not miscalculate as to the Freedmen's Bureau and its mischievous results; nor as to the consequences of universal suffrage, now seen in the radical States South compared with the conservative States - as to their taxes, peace, prosperity, and credit. But I did miscalcnlate as to the effect of enlisting the blacks as soldiers, and as to their re ception and conduct here. Besides, I had thought that in time they would see the importance of dividing their vote between the parties, and thus, while avoiding collisions with the white race, command more care and respect.

It is hard to prescribe for the evils which have own up since and out of our civil war; but there is a rule whio is safe: Put not your faith in legislation to rectify social troubles and race divis ions. The pendulum of the gentleman from Iowa is swinging just now in favor of laissez fairs, and away from that subtle form of fetichism - the blind adoration through the centuries, of overnmental omnipotence. We are admonished against this, by t e size of our files, by the clog g of our business here, by the paralysis of our ih dustries, by the urry of our bourses, by the panic in our banks and marts, by the changes in our politics, by the expenses of our living, by the insecurity of our property, by the luxury of our millionaires, by the poverty of our poor, by the prodigality of our officials, and by the insecurity to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which are the consequences of a bad administration even of the best form of government.

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