Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-07

Negro Legislation I'm PennsyIva-
nfa-What May be Expected i'm
Ohio If the Negro is Made n VO-
hing Man and n Brother A
A sample of the Legislation, which
Radicalism has passed for the Negro in
Pennsylvania, will give the people of Ohio
a foretaste of that which may be
expected in this State, when the
Negro is made the political equal of
the White.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania, at its
last session, passed alaw to make the Ne
gro the social equal OF the White man.
This act, passed under the whip and spur
of Radical caucus and by Radical ma
jority, is fair test of the purposes of that
party.
This Negro car law comprises two Sec
tions; the first prohibits all railroad COM
panies from excluding any colored person
from any of their cars, whether passenger,
ladies, or sleeping cars, and from restrict
ing such persons to any particular part of
such cars, under penalty of $50O-to be
paid to such colored person.
The second section provides that any con-
ductor or employe of road, who may ex-
clude from, or restrict to, any part of car,
such colored person, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall
be fined $500; and also, shall be imprisoned
for term, not more than three months,
and not less than thirty days.
1t is pertinent to say here, that the stat
ute book of Pennsylvania, contains no
law preventing the exclusion of white
men, from ladies' cars, or their sleeping
cars; in fact, the every day practice, qui-
etly submitted to by travellers, is, to ex-
clude them from these cars.
When this pecaliar Act was passing in
the Senate, Democratic Senator moved
an amendment, providing shat comfort
able seats in the cars, or comfortable separ-
ate cars, be furnished to this class of peo-
ple," but the majority, viz: eighteen Rad
icals voted the amendment down, as they
did likewise, an amendment proposed by a
Senator, providing shat Negroes should
not be permitted to force themselves into
ladies' cars, or their sleeping cars.'
All the Democratic Senators voted in
favor of these reasonable amendments,
but the Radical majority refused to con-
slider them, and hurriedly passed the naked
biz. Were not these amendments right?
In the opinion of the Radicals, the Ne
gro is more than the White mans equal; !;
he must have the right to the best seats, or
to sleep in the White mans berth, and to
sit by the White woman's side.
The bill went into the House of Repre-
sentatives on the 18th day of March last,
where the previous question was called. for
the purpose of cutting off any debate. The
Democratic members presented the fore
going amendments, but each, in turn, was
voted down by the majority, viz: 56 Radi-
Gals to 35 Conservatives. A Radical Gov
ernor signed the bill, and it is now law.
Every sensible and humane man desires
to have the decent colored people made
comfortable at home, and everywhere else,
and when well behaved, they are rarely i'll
treated by Whites. Under legislation of
this sort, the worthless Negro, who cannot
gain admission to the house of the decent
colored man, is allowed to force himself
into companionship, to sit by the White
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or daughter for hours in the cars.
The Conductor, who may attempt to pro-
tect from this offensive companionship, the
wife and daughters of the white man, while
absent from his care, will do so, at the peril
of fine and imprisonment.
We will be humane, but at the same time,
we will cultivate propriety and decency.-
A bill to force Negro children into all the
divisions of Public Schools was also sup
ported by a majority of the Radicals in the
lower House of the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture, last winter, and Only wanted two
more votes to become alaw. In Cleveland,
in this State, under Radical rule, White
children cannot go to the common schools
without being sandwiched between the
children of Negroes.
Such is the legislation Of State under
Radical rule-such will, no doubt, be the
Legislature of Ohio as soon as Negroes are
allowed to vote in this State,