The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-05-16
Civil Rights.
MACK" the Washington Correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial speaks of the
Civil Rights Bill as follows:

Civil Rights Bill as follows:
WASHINGTON, April "a. 1866.
1t was supposed by many who were loud
est in their dcnunciati0ns Of the President
for his veto OF the civil Rights Bill, that
the effect Of this great humanitarian meas
ure would be felt only in the Southern
States and in such Of the Northern States
as contained in their statute books what are
known as ''black laws Thus thousands
of the most patriotic Radicals, who have ma
more desire for social contact with him of
African descent than a member of the first
family of Virginia, were encouraged by
their enthusiasm by a consciousness that it
was none OF their funeral. They were
slightly mistaken. The Civil Rights ap
making distinction on account of color, but
to the customs Of Ohio to the same effect
1t publishes any person who shall, in obedi
cree to any law or ordinance, or custom Of
a community, enforce distinction Oh account
Of color: There is no law in Ohio making
distinction in civil rights on account of col
or but there are customs of communities, y
and these are abrogated by the Civil Rights
Bill. 1t is a custom Of a community, for
i stance, to make colored persons take seats
in the tnp gallery of a theater, but the Civil
Rights Bill Furnishes the manager who for
bids them the parquettee, or the dress cir
Gle, or the priva' boxes. The same is true
of churches. In the most godly of all com
munities there has always been a custom
that consigned the dusky brother or sister
to a back seat in the heaven bound com
pany, but possibly the Civil Rights Bill may
be lodged by entering the plea, which is,
perhaps. quite true, that the distinction is
made on account of wealth rather than col
or, in proof whereof they can show that
questionable sinners of all compilations
are compelled to hymn their way to the hap
py land from the same obscure corner.
A "cu,tom of a community" he'd in sa-
cred reverence by travellers, has reserved
the sleeping car for the exclusive use of the
much abused white race. Under the civil
Rights Bill, the American citizen of Afr.
can descent, can not be denied the privilege
of passing the sultry hours of an August
hight, in a sweltering snooze, in one of
those flying bed chambers. A case in point
occurred in the city a few evenings Stree -
The train was about starting for New York.
The evening was very warm, and the atmos-
phere of the sleeping car, as usual. very
close. A couple Of swarthy Africans APP
pared and demanded accommodation,
which was denied at tide earnest request of
a dozen other passengers, all. said to he
New England radicals, and loyal TO the core,
Except as to the nose. which was copper
ish like The loyal fellows Ill swore they'd
leave the cars if the colored men were ad.
mitted.' They had just been abusing the
President, for his treachery to the oppressed
and down-trodden race; but the prospect of
a night in a sleeping car with two of the
oppressed, converted the entire race into
- id niggers." The conductor Of
the car denied admission to the colored men,
who went off threatening vengeance under
the Civil Rights Bill.
Here we have a specimen of radical phil
anthropy. The same sort is practiced in
the galleries of Congress, on the floor Of
which they preach so much equality. Col
ored people are put in galleries and in
benches by themselves, and this too at the
solicitation of the wives and daughters of
the loyal New Englanders. And Sumner
quietly looks on and says nothingl
do not believe the Civil Rights Bill a
very wise measure, and have expressed such
an opinion ut SOME length heretofore; but
now that it hes become a law, ''the objec-
tons of the President Notwithstanding"
being a law abiding and strictly loyal person,
| am ANXIOUS to zee it carried vigorously in
to execution, not in the South only, but
throughout the every village and city Of the
North-in every hotel. every theater, every
church. and every railroad, to the end that
the principles Of eternal justice. truth, mer-
cy, and righteousness may be fully carried
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