Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-06
Was IL an Infringement of the Civil
Rights Bill!

A good story Is told of veteran politi-
clan residing in this city, who has been a
prominent leader in the Republican party
since its first organization. We give the
bare facts of the case as testified to by eye
and ear witnesses:
A morning or two since, our Veteran was
returning home from market with well
filled basket. 1t was moist, and he was car
rying an umbrella. At street crossing he
met colored lady, who was going to mar
ket with an empty basket on her arm
Both lady and Veteran were walking Oh
the same tagging. The latter, being heav-
lily laden, would not give the path, and the
negress considered it beneath her dignity,
or base surrender of her rights, to do so.
The consequence was that Veteran and the
female American of African descent met
face to face, and their market baskets col
lided with resounding crash.
The lady in black stood firm in her tracks
Notwithstanding the recent passage of the
Civil Rights bill over the Presidents head,
Veteran was equally determined to main
tain his position. Accordingly 1--WE blush
for radical nature while we record it), he
pushed the stiletto-pOinted end of his UNI
brella at the breast of the fair one in ebony
binding, and endeavored most ungallantly
to shove her to one side. But there she
stood as immovable as the pillars of Her.
cules, exclaiming: your no gentleman,
sure, if you was, you'd get out of de way
for de lady"
This public exposition of Veterans rude
ness, who, we believe, prides himself, or
used TO in his younger days, upon his def
erence and urbanity toward the fairer part
of creation, reused him to extra exertlon,
and pushing his umbrella home with all
his muscular energy, his colored sister
Shocking to relate) was thrown partly
down. But with the instinct of self de-
fense inherited from her sable ancestry,
she instantly regained her equilibrium,
and with clenched fist at the extremity
of her strong right arm aimed a fierce
blow at Veterans face. But he, keen in
apprehension and quick of sight, raised his
umbrella, to ward off the threatened
"smasher." The fist of Dinah, in conse-
quence, struck the umbrella, and with such
violence, that it was thrown into the face
of "A bystander.
By this time, quite crowd of curious
people having gathered to the scene of ac-
tion, Veteran seeing that the affair was
likely to become little too public, and
perhaps, having some fear of the Civil
Rights bill before his eyes, caught up his
basket, and stepping to one side, passed
through the throng ofspectators, and shak-
ing his head and gesticulatinS violently, as
though something was sadly out of joint,
made his way homeward, leaving his col
ored lady antagonist triumphant and in
full possession of the field. She eagerly in
quired his name, saying: "If IOnly knowed
his name I'd sue him sure. Didn't you see
him strike me with his numbered? He's no
gentleman to strike de lady. He's no
gentleman, sartin, not to give de road to de
lady"
We are not advised as to whether the
colored female has concluded to bring her
action in Civil or Criminal Court, or ap-
peal to the Freedmen's Bureau.