Generally the blacks showed no desire for mixed schools unless urged to it by the carpetbaggers.

In the South Carolina convention, a mulatto thus argued in favor of mixed schools: "The gentleman from Newberry said he was afraid we were taking a wrong course to remove these prejudices.

The most natural method to effect this object would be to allow children when five or six years of age to mingle in schools together and associate generally.

Under such training, prejudice must eventually die out; but if we postpone it until they become men and women, prejudice will be so established that no mortal can obliterate it.

This, I think, is a sufficient reply to the argument of the gentleman." The state systems were top-heavy with administrative machinery and were officered by incompetent and corrupt officials.