The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-04-19
The Civn Rights Bill.

The following is an extract from
the speech OF Senator Salisbury, Of
Delaware, made in the Senate, n few
days since:
rise to say, sir, that, in my indg
ment, the passage of this bill is an
Inauguration of revolution. It is
well, slr, that the American people
should take warning and set their
house in order, for it is impossible
that the people Will patiently submit
to it. Heaven knows that we have
had enough Of bloodshed, enough Of
moaning in every household There
are too many new-made graves for
any one to wish to see more Attempt
to execute this law within any State
OF this Union, aud, in my Judgment,
this country will again be plunged
into all the horrors of civil war. In
my own State, an humble State in
point OF numbers, but State of gal
liant sons, your law will never be OBJ
served by the judiciary of that State,
most of them of the Republican
party: There is not, say, Repnb-
llcan Judge, we never had n judge, SO
dead to the teachings of the great
lumlnarles of the law, rs to attempt
to enforce such n tiagrantly uncon-
stltutlonal law or act rs this. Shall
not again enter upon the constitu-
tlonailty or unconstitutionality of the
act But, sir, if it be not grossly,
palpably, fagrantly unconstitutional,
then tive-and-twenty years of some
what dillgent study of the law have
avalled Inc nothing. In conclusion,
Mr.. Salisbury predicted that the
passage of this bill would lead to
hloo1she'l, war and disunion."
The civil rights bill having become
law, it was but proper tribute to
Congress that, in the presence of that
body, Cntlee should, without delay,
show that he regards himself rs some
what better than his radical friends.
The New York He,.nil states:
During the proceedings in the
Senate Chamber, ON Thursday, when
the euloglums on the late Senator
Foote were being pronounced. Il
pompous negro entered the diplo-
matte gallery and took seat in the
midst Of tho foreign representatives.
he had evidently studied the civil
rights bill carefully, and thought that
a negro was rs good rs an ambassa-
dor from any of the foreign courts.
lie was IN presence Of the radical
Senators who voted for the passage
OF the bill over the Presidents veto.
and very naturally concluded that his
rights We're equal to those of any man
on the floor of the Senate or in the
gallery set apart for the foreign re-
presentatives. Now, although this
colorcd person was prevailed upon to
retire, after some effort on the part uf
the door-keeper, because he happened
to get INTO the wrong place, it is uues-
tlonable whether, under the proyi
sions of the civil rights bill, he was
not justified in concluding that he
had the same privilege to sit in the
gallery rs anybody else Ii he fell
into q mistake in this matter he only
shared IN the error committed by the
radical Congress when they voted for
an equality which is obnoxious to the
great mass of the people, and never
can be recognized, though n thousand
laws were passed to make it legal.
Halifax advices of the 18th inst.
state that the city physicians or the
emigrant ship England concnr in
pronouncing the disease. As:atic
cholera. No case has occurred among