Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-04-03

concealed, ike the eneHy III Jno
Trojan horse, all the elements OF destruc-
tion to our lederate system. propose TO
show YOU how utterly anarchical and
ruinous it is. The President could not
sign it without at once agreeing to make
our Government French beurocracy. 1t
is an all-absorbent of State rights, powers,
and institutions. In its capaciOus nav, all
that is valuable of domestic control is swal-
lowed by the hungry pack who have al
ready fed to repleti0n on the substance OF
the people. This law pretends to secure
civil rights. Its professed object is to carry
out the constitutional amendment aoollsh-
ing slavery. 1t has nine sections. Inc nrst
declares who are to be the beneilciarles OF
the act, and the righs t. be conferred the
second applies penalties to white olksTj
such rights: the third provides tribunals
for the infliction of the penalties, and the
other sections provide system OF spies,
detectives, commissioners, posse ana an
army to enforce the bill. This is the skele-
ton of the bill but its dRtnsuS and body are
gotten up on the doctrine OF equality OF
races, in every matter of social concern.
If black and white marriages, black jurors,
judges, and legislators are not at once pro-
vided for, they are IN fttttro for the bill is
large stride in the direction of negro
equality. Yet, this is not the main oblec-
tiOn to the measure. III these things are 10
be done at all, let them be done by the local
power. If the Federal Government is to
Interfere, by all its engineering OF office
and Daraphernala of judicature, to create
eluality, then farewell to the old plan and
system Of Government. Better at once re-
solve Washington into Paris, and the UNI
ted States into France. Proclaim a coup
detdt with eleven lrelands and Hungaries,
and make bureau of spies, c0urtiers, and
burn our own written Constitution. There
is no iniuuity cOmprehended in the abuses
of Government which this bill does not
sanction. Let me analyZe it: 1t under
takes TO make citizens OF every one born in
this country. beg pardon, INDIANS not
taXedr are excluded from the peci0us boon
of civil rights" An untaXed Sioux, not
having any African blood; not being
Gipsey, or Coolie, but native OF the woods;
or nomad of the prairie, who enjoys
among other prerogatives of his natural
state the inestimable blessing OF
being an uutdDed (think Of that!
untd1ed) Aborigine-the untutored, yet
Tree Indian, is to have no civil rights!
True, ne is supposed to be"a man and
blother;" he is supposed to be mortal, II
not immortal; but he is an untaXed Rec
Man; and though he have the heroism OF
Tecumseh, and the eloquence Of Logan, he
must stand in the rear. Yon lazy, black
savage, Just from the rice field or the cot
ton plantation, the caIicatures OF Whom
furnish the eXtravaganZas OF our concert
saloons, ignorant and gross, barbarian al
most, is to be made a citizen at once! why!
Because Africa hls heated his blood and
colored his cuticle. Manhood is set aside
for color! This uncultured black savage
is not only preferred by the bill for civil
rights to the untaxed Red Man, but he is
preferred to the fofeigner who is white
| This is Massachusetts feature. 1t prefers
to the white who is unnaturalized the black
who is born here There is only one way
| TOR an Irishman or German to procure the
blessing OF civil rights under this bill
have surgical operation performed on
some of his features, and be dipped into nj
| trate of silver! The President recognizes
this unjust discrimination against large
numbers of Intelligent, worthy and patriot
ic foreigners, and in favor of the negro, to
whom, after long years of bondage, the ay-
enues to freedom and intelligence have just
been opened" But what sort of rights
does this bill propose to. give! To make
! contracts, sue testify, hold, sell, and ac-
auire property, and Ito have the full and
equal benefit of all laws and proceedings
for the security OF person and property as
| is enioyed by white citizens" This allows
no State to do as it pleases in local matters
about the races. Slavery is gone; but this
| law would re-enact fetters for the States.-
This law pledges the army and navy to
overwhelm any State whose internal police
makes even an indirect distinction of color
or race. Under color of any custom,
such distinctions are forbidden. The law
creeps into sociallife, and by its tortures
and penalties it would make courts, church
es, corporations, hotels, railroads, white
men everywhere, do what God has not
done-obliterate color from the minds and
actions OF men. That cannot be done. a
society, as Tom Hood writes, was once
started in Exeter Hall to apply soap, brush
es and water to the blacks to wash them
white. Much treasure and many years were
exhausted, and the only result was in
the end that the negroes turned gray
before they became white! Perhaps the
worst feature of this bill is the abolition
of the State judiciary. This the bill vir-
tllally does, by taking from the State courts
all independence, and Furnishing their Of
ficers who render judgments in antagonism
with the law! 1t does the same tor the
State Legislatures and officers. 1t actually
offers premium of immunity for those who
disregard the Constitution, which they are
sworn to obey. The bill is thus bold at
tempt to compound all power in the Fed
eral Government, and destroy the simple
immediate, and rightful remedies and
tribunals provided by State authority. Not
satisfied with this blow at the State Legis-
latures and judiciary, it makes it etfectual
by an army of paid officials, who are COM
missioned to play the Federal spy, and who
can call the Federal armies to their aid -
Without further detail, the bill is odious as