The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-04-03
The VITO Messases

on the Civil Rights BIZ.
Our space will not permit our pub.
fishing the whole message, The ex.
tract given embraces enough however
to convince any unbiased mind that the
position Of the President is impregnablc.
do not propose 10 consider the poll.
cy oflhis bill 70 me The details of the
hill seem iraught with evil. The white
race and the black race 0f the South
have hitherto lived together under the
relations Of master and slave--capital
owning labor. Now, suddenly, that re.
laticn is changed, and, as to ownership,
capital and labor are divorced. They
stand now each master of itself In
this new relation, one being necessary
to the other, there will he IL new adjust.
ment which both are deeply interested
in making harmonious Each has equal
power i'll settling the terms, and if left
10 the laws that regulate capital and la.
bor 1t IS confidently believed that they
will satisfactorily work ont The problem.
Capital. It is true, has more intelligence
but labor is never so ignorant as not TO
understand its own value, and not to
soc That capital must pay that value
This bill illustrates tins adjustment. It,
interviews between capital and labor,
and attempts to settle questions of no
lillcal economy through the agency of
numerous officials whose interests it. will
be to fomcnt discord between the two
races for rs the breach w,dnns their
employment will continue, and when i,
is closed their &c upation will terminate
In "ll o'r history, in all our expert
ence as people living under Federal
and State law, no such system rs that
contemplated by the details of this bill
has ever before been proposed or adopt.
ed. They establish, for the security of
the colored race, safeguards which 90
infinitely beyond any that the General
Government has ever provided for the
white race. Rn fact, the distinction of
race aad color is by the bill made to
operate ih favor Of the colorrd and
against the white race. III ey interfere
with the municipal Legislation OF III,
States, with the relations existing OK.
e!nSive!y between State and its citi.
z"nS, or between inhabitants Of thrsarnr
S'ale-an absorption and asSumptiou of
power hy the General Governments
which, it acquiesced in. must sap and
destroy onr iederative system Of limited
powers and break down the barriers
which preserve the rights of The States
1t is another step or rather strie!e, TO.
wards Capitalization and the carcc,lrra.
tl"h ot all legislative powers in The Nj.
rIoml Government The tendency of
i'r bII'nnat be to rcS,,scitatc the spiri
OF thc rrhelion and to arrest tho pro
grcsS 'f those Influences which are NOR.
closely drawing around the States the
bonds ot union and peace.
My lamented predecessor, in his pro.
clamation OF the first of January. 1862
ordered and declared that all persons
held as slaves within certain States and
parts oil States therein designated w.r.
and thenceforward should be free and
fnrhrr, that the executive governmen,
OF the United States, including the mil.
'tary and naval authorities thereof
wonid recognize and maintain the free
d'm Of such persons. This guaranty.
has been rendered especially obligatory
ana sacred by the amendment Of the
ConstItation' abolshing slavery through.
ont the United States. I therefore fnIlv
recognize the obligation to protect and
defend hat class of our people, when.
ever anil wherever it shall become ncc.
'ssary, and 10 the full extent compatible
@''h the Constitution of the United
States.
Entertaining these sentiments, it only
remains for me to say, that will cheer.
fully cooperate with Congress in any
measure that may be necessary for the
protection OF the civil rights of the fee.
men, as well as those of all other classes
OF persons throughout the United States,
by judicial process under rqnal and i'm.
partial laws, i'm conformity with thp