The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-04-27
NUMBER IL.

But it is altogether better that the wiser
course pointed out 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 citizens on perfect equality with
the whites. Its dictum is that there shalt
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 peo-
pie who create them. II the judges of the
State courts decide against any of the grants
or immunities conferred upon the free linen
by the civil rights bill. the Judge is to be
| fined or imprisoned for it, no matter how
conscientious his decision, or whether it be
| founded on his views of the Constitution or
the laws of Congress, or the Constitution
or the laws of the State, which he is sworn
to administer.
There is no such penalty affixed in case
of a judgment against white man, whose
person or property may be involved in the
| judges decision. In case a white citizen
of State sues another, he is confined to
seek justice in a State court. The negro
is privileged to prosecute in the State court,
the District Court of the United States, or
the Circuit Court Of the United States. So
be may drag the white man through all the
tribunals of the country. Is not this dis
elimination? But there is another of still
more practical importance. The bill re-
quires that commissioners be appointed
throughout the States to become prosecutors
of suits for freedmen litigants. This new
tribe of pursuivants of litigation are to re-
ceive a premium from the Treasury of ten
dollars for every suit they can induce the
freedmen to permit to be brought in his
name, and five dollars additional is to be
paid on the warrant when issued
For similar service a State justice re-
ceives twenty-five cents. A poor white
man nowhere in the world has such an as
sistance in asserting his rights or redress
ing his wrongs. He has to pay the tax and
fees when he appeals to the courts for JUS
tice, and the lawyers as counsel; but for the
freedmen there is a host of commissioners
provided to instigate and prosecute suits,
prompted by fees in advance, which alone
would make it lucrative pursuit, to say
nothing of what might be obtained from the
plaintiff or extorted from the defendant.
There seems to be some discrimination of 9
races where we find the purse of the nation
opened to one race and stimulating hunts
men to hunt the other as a sort Of prey.
This must be meant as a retaliation on
the whites (although paroled and promised
peace at their own homes) for the cruelties
of Senator Mason's fugitive slave BILL The
latter, however, only reached a few indi-
viduals. The hired beagle of the Civil
Rights b will hunt the white ma
Eat his hon. yassss---@a ssssea from
gcommissioned to drag State judges
/ their courts to trial before United S
courts, and thence to the punishment 4
adjudged for error of opinion.
1t is obvious from the course Of Congress,
as already manifested, that it means to
maintain its power now held over the Ma
tiOnal Government, and tyranny over the
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. 1t is certainly
the design Of the measures already preached
to subordinate the South to the North, as
Ireland is subordiuated to England, by the
distractions and hostilties that inevitably
arise between two distinct nations, brought
to confront each other in the same State
and government, asserting an association on
terms of an equality which the nature, hab-
it's, prejudices, the very forms, complexion,
as well as the education and status of the
races in the Government from its origin to.
this hour, render incompatible. England
has her Orangemen and Irishmen in eternal
strife, and arbitrates between them with
the sword.
1t is the policy Of our rump parliament
to produce the same relations between the
two section of our country, instead Of the
happy Union which Lincoln and johnson
have labored to renew.
The Congress is now revolutionary con-
ventiop. The Presidents comment on the
schemes it proposes is as just as that in
which he rebuked Davis and his followers
when they abandoned the Senate to breach
the extinct rebellion. He raised his warning
voice then against their designs, in tho
speech which he made in the presence of
the conspirators. He characterized their
crime by the name with which the whole
world now brands it.
The Johnson Club, now inaugurated.
predicated its political action on the Prin-
ciples and policy avowed in his message and
on his views Of the schemes Of the enemies
Of the Government, disclosed in his speech
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