The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-10-02
Gov. vvarnouth's Veto.

Gov. Warmouth's Veto.
It would seem that there is no end
to the Selements of excitement and
agitation in the reconstructed States.
The veto of Governor Yarmouth, of
Louisiana, of the bill to secure color
ed persons in their right to travel in
public vehicles, and be entertained
in public hotels, &C., making it a
crime to refuse them equality with
the whites in these respects, and the
storm of indignation which this has
caused among the blacks, are among
the latest phases of the irrepressible
political and social perturbationa
which accompany the process of ra-
dical reconstruction" Gov. War
mouth, as is well known, is an ultra
radical, and not long ago distinguish
ed himself by letter to the Presi-
dent. setting forth an incredible
number of murders of loyalists in
Louisiana, and desiring arms for
their protection. But it appears that
the most advanced radical cannot
keep pace with the expectations and
demands of those whose want of edu-
cation and training in the exercise of
self-government leads them to con-
clude that civil equality includes
equality of every kind, and that all
barriers which intervene between
them and the white race must be
thrown down, and that rs abruptly
as slavery was abolished. The aboli-
tion of slavery, instead of being the
end, as was universally supposed, of
the political question connected with
the colored race in America, seems
only to have become the starting
point of O new career, from which, at
a single bound, millions of ignorant
people, leap at once to the full pos
session of the rights of citizenship,
and, scarcely is this accomplished,
when new demand is made, looking
in o social direction, which staggers
even the facile temper of an extreme
radical Governor to accede to. Yet
Governor Yarmouth says nothing in
his veto which need set his unassum-
ing colored constituency in such q
fume. He tells them that the rights
sought to be enforced by their bill
are established in the Constitution
which, he says, "gives to all persons
perfect equality of civil and political
rights" in which he includes the
right to travel and be entertained,
&C.; thus himself falling into the
gross error of confounding civil rights
and social privileges. Questions OF
personal association, as he remarks
in another part of his message, can
not be controlled by legislation, and
are recognized by whites in their in
tercourse with each other, sometimes
for the sake OF convenience, such as
the exclusion of gentlemen, unless
accompanied by ladies, from the la.
dies car on railroads, or the ladies
cabin in steamboats,. What gentle
man ever imagined that his civil
rights were infringed upon by sucE
nm arrangement? Throughout this
country, at the leading hotels in Bos
ton, Philadelphia, New York, Balti
more, Washington, as we'll as the
South, the distinctions of race are sc
generally recognized that coloreG
travellers never think of Offering te
lodge at them, but go to houses O
accommodation of their own. Tb,
Baltimore Sun advances the idea tina
the equality of civil and politica
rights, secured by the organic law O
the land, is nowhere supposed to ap
ply to matters of this kind. Yet til,