Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-05-12
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A Congressional enactment or a DC
cisIon Of theS upreme Court 10 absola'e-
.ly required to prevent tho Caucasian
Democracy of.this country from com.
hitting the objectionable sin of ,misceg-
enation. In the STATE Capitol Reporter
of the 9th inst, we end a clipping from
tho Greensboro tNor,h Carolina) Patriot,
which is conclusive on this point. Very
indignantly, the -esroiiua patriot de-
clares that the result of recent decisions
of General Candy prove that the 'infa-
nous Civil Rights bill fafistoproride any
sufficient preventive Of miscegenation,
thus carrying out tho principles, and
teachings of the Radicals. Applications
having been made by the whites for
license to marry negroes, the Clerk OF
the Court wherein application was made
refused to grant II, General Candy was
appealed to and decided that he knew
Of no law to prohibit tho marriage, but
thought the law would permit il IL the
parties were inclined. Among the cases
referred to the General were a few in
which the woman had children by the
man. But the Clerk was not satisfied
with tho Generals Interpretation, and
convened half a dozen Greensboro law
ysrs, whose decision agreed with Can
by's. The Patriot man then branches
out as. follows :;~s
"Such is a plain, dispassionate statement
Of the matter. Three or four instances have
since occurred Of marriagei between negroes
and whites in this county. or the character
Of such whites We have nothing to say. The
consequences to fow from this radical change
In our social laws, we leave to the imsgina-
ton Of our readers-the subjects loathsomei
We will let It rest for the present."
Now, let us be as d~ispassionate in
criticising as lie has been in stating his
case. We are In no degree advocates Of
miscegenation, nor do we require any
legislation or judicial decision to curb
our inclination in that direction, but
we submit that If it is to go on, it is
better for society that its fruits should
be legitimate than otherwise. Whether
children are full white, full black or
half breeds, it is better for them, better
for their parents, better for society and
tho interests Of their country, that they
should be.the offspring Of lawful union,
With father and mother to recognize
them, u home to cling to and remember,
aud with educational advantages, than
that they should grow up fasherless,
homeless bastards, with ignorance. as
their enforced condition, a, was the
case under the /" social laws' in which
the editor of tho Patriot seems so much
to dread a "radical. change" That AN
affectionate mother should long to unite
in holy bonds Of mstrimony with the
father of her children, is, in tho estima-
ton Of this refined cavalier, ga loath-
some subject the act which made
her the mother of those children was
consonant with those social laws
the effects Of change 10 which Is left
'tto the imagination of our readers"
In all candor We submit 1t to rejecting
men, Democrats - we'll as Republicans,
is it better that certain designated per.
sons should breed bastards under an
ia -.
ayowedly sacred "social law" or legiti-
mate children by virtue Of a ''radical
change 2"