Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1866-05-03

BY the highest motives TO cultivate the noble
faculties man The vacuum left by these tansplanta-
tions would, as Mr.. Jefferson contemplated on this
event be supplied from the North, and our northern
kindred nations. No part Of the Garth is inviting
to the white than the sunny South All its pro-
ducts golden, and of cheaper acquisition Than gold
itself in richest mines, and nothing has prevented
this region from being filed with such population,
but the protection which has been extended to the black
race while held slaves by the strong Of the white
race. Such exchange ofpopulaon, while adyantag-
cous to both races, would make government homo
gencous and secure in peace, by peaceful methods
This result is inevitable. Radical policy may hasten it
by causing to force itself by that nhuman process
which delivered the noncivzed portion Of contin
from the barbarian tribes, its original pcssessoIs
But is altogether better that the wiser course pointed
cut by Mr.. Jefferson should be adopted.
The Civil Rights bill is scion of this more
formidable predecessor. 1t purports to grant
civil rights to the blacks TO place them as citi
Gems on perfect equality with the whites, Its
dictum is that there shall be no discrimination
between the races in regard to civil rights, and
yet the very first step in the code takes from
the State courts their independence as judicial
tribunals, and breaks down the authority of the
people who create them. II the judges of the
State courts decide against any OF the grants
or immuni,ies conferred upon tie freedmen by
the Civil Rights bill, the judge is to be fined
or imprisoned for it, no matter how conscien-
tious his decision or whether it be founded on
his views of the Constitution or the laws Of
Congress, or the constitution or the State which
he is sworn 10 administer. There is no such
penalty affixed in case OF Judgment against
a white man, whose person or property may be
involved in the Judges decision. In case
confined to seek justice in State court. The
negro is privileged 10 prosecute 10 the State
court, the District Court of the United States,
or the Circuit Court of the United States. So
lie may drag the white man through all the
tribunals Of the country. Is not this discrimi-
nation But there is another Of sill mere
practical importance. The bill requires that
commissioners be appointed throughout the
States to become prosecutors of suits tor freed.
men i,igarts. Tkis new tribe Of pursuivanis
Of litigation are TO receive premium from the
treasury CT ten dollars for any suit they can
induce the free Omen to permit to be brought in
his name, and five dollars additional is 10 be
paid On Tie warrant when issued For SINH.
lar service State justice receives twenty-five
cents. A poor man nowhere in the world has
such assistance in asserting his rights or re-
dressing his wrongs. lie has to pay the tax
and fees when he appeals 10 the court for jus.
tice, and the lawyers as counsel but for the
freedmen there is hest OF commissioners ap.
pointed to inotig.tc and prosecute suits, promp,
cd by fees in advance, which alone would make
it lucrative pursuit, to say nothing of what
might be obtained from the plaintiff or extort.
ed from the defendant There seems TO be
some discl limitation Of races where we find the
purse of the nation opened to enc race and
stimulating huntsmen TO hunt the other as
sort Of prey. This must be meant as n realia-
tion on the whites (athough puroIed and prom.
Used peace at their own bomes) for the cruel
ties Of Senator Mason fugitive slave bill -
The latter, however, only reached few ind.
yduals. The hired beagle of the civil rights
bill will hunt the white man down at his homo
or drive him from it, and he is commissioned
to drag State judges from their courts to
trial before United States courts, and thence
to the punishment they adjudge for error of
opinion.
1t is Obvious trcm the course of Congress, as
already manifested that it means to maintain
its power now held ever the national govern.
ment, and tyranny over the South, by the new
use to which the African population is to be
converted. Mr.. Stevens made this evident
when he asserted in his speech that giving
them the franchise would defeat the weight of
the South in the government. II is clearly
the design Of the measures already preached to
subordinate the South to the North, as Ireland
is subordina'ed to England, by the distractions
and hostil.ies that inevitably arise between
two nations, brought to confront each other in
the same state and government, asserting an
association on terms fan equality which the
nature, habits. prcjudices, the very forms, com
plexion, us well as the education and status Of
the races in the government, from its origin to
this hour, render Incompatible. England has
her Orangemeu and Irishmen in eternal strife,
and urbi,rates between them with the sword