The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-09-04
Hotel Iiscegenatien mud Amalgamation.

Hotel Misee&enationn and AmaIgamation
The so-called South Carolina Negro
Legislature have passed the following
Law" 81 ayes to 10 nays:
A bill TO Orere7at discrimination bettceen
persons, By those carrying on business
under license, on account Of race or
color, or BreUi0us condition.
BE IL enacted by the Senate and House
of Representative of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in Gen
eral Assembly, and by the authority of
the same.
SECTION /. That from and after the
the passage of this bill it shall not be
lawful for any party or parties, enga-
ged in any business, calling or pursuit
for the carrying on of which a license
or charter is required by law, NUM-
cipal, State, Federal or otherwise, to
discriminate between persons, on ac-
count of race, color, Or previous
condition, who shall make lawful
application for the benefit of such busi-
ness, calling or pursuit.
SEC. :. Any party so discriminating
shall be considered as having violated
this act, and upon conviction shall be
punished by a fine not less than 81 600,
or Imprisonment for not less than
twelve months.
SEC. 3. No act of incorporation shall
be conferred upon any organization
the rules and regulations of which con-
tain features not compatible with the
provisions ofthis act.
SEC. 4. Ali acts, or parts of acts, in
consistent herewith are hereby repeal
ed.
A negro named Johnson, demanding
the bill, said,-
II notice publication in the daily
paper concerning Nickerson's Hotel.
They seem to be exceedingly frightened
about col0red gentlemen stopping there
to board. Perhaps on some future day
| shall come here TO Columbia, and
there may not be any private house,
and being a gentleman, may call at
Nickerson's Hotel. If do so | don't
want TO be refused. / 1Cd11t the right
and prirjkegeS Of going into that house no
matter 1ch0 IL is Kept 6y, and hdui1lg my
! self cared for, ds 1CeH as any other guest
| Qfthe house. And so I rant to go into q
,corkShop or any other place Of d1tsi-
| ness.
This is what RadicalisIn means,
North as well as South, side-by-side
and bed-by-bed equality, mot that
all Radicals now mean this, but it is
what all are coming to if Gen. Grant is
/ elected President.
GEORGE LEE (NEGRO).
Now / was not one of those who ac-
/ companipd the excursion to Greenyille,
short time ago, bat | understand that
on arriving there the members had no
place to 90 for lodging. To meet
Just such an emergency as this, l am
anxious that this bill shall pass, so that
/ those having hotels shall be made to
pay the penalty if they deny the ac-
/ commodations which we demand. And
/ to this end | appeal to every Republi-
can on the floor to pledge himself to dO
/ equal and exact justice to all. That is
/ the essence of this bill. 1t is all we
/ want it is that which is secured to
/ us by the Constitution of the State and
! the Reconstruction acts of Congress,
/ and it is what we must have.
"What we MUST have" and will
have, of course, is Northern Whites to
! cooperate with the Southern Negroes
in making Grant President, as their
/ common servant and servant-man,-as
he must be, if thus elected.
r. b. ELLIOTT (NEGROl.
| hope that every man on this floor
/ who claims to bea Republican will vote
/ for this bill. / will not insult the dig
nity of the House by appealing to race,
/ or asking a man to vote for it because
/ he is either white or black but | ask
simply on the ground that the meas
ure IS right and proper, and in accord
with the principles involved in the
( whole scheme of reconstruction.
OF course, it is in accordance with all
the Reconstruction Acts of Congress
nay, in a lower, rather than higher
keynOte-for these acts put the negro
above the white man, by disfranchis-
ing thousands Of white men while en-
franchising ali the negroes; whearas,
this S. c. act only puts the negro on an
I equality with the white man-in bed,
/ board, table, shop, &c.
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