The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1869-12-18

The Legislature of Alabama, composed
of -scallawags, carpet baggers and negroes,
are endeavoring to force the blacks into
social equality with the whites in more
ways than one Commenting upon the
common carrier bill, now pending before
the motley crew who are making laws for
that State, the Mobile Register of the 18th
says:
If the negroes of Alabama were capable
of reasoning dispassiOnately about their
own interests, they would excaim in refer
ence to Pennington's common carrier bill,
"Save US from our friends T. The greatest
enemy of the black people of the South
could not devise a more mischievOus and
ruinous measure for the interests of the
colored race, than that which seeks to force
the issue of social equality between them
and the white people. In the first place
it opens a contest 10 which it is not possible
for them to achieve a triumph. And, then,
the contest can result only in evil None
but fool or a tiend would voluntarily seek
TO SOW dissension and bad blood between the
races. If this measure is pushed, that will
be the certain consequence. For while the
people of Alabama are willing to allow the
negro race all the political and civil rights
which belong to them in their new character
as citizens, and, as are defined IN existing
laws, while they would aid in their educa-
ton, promote their moral we'll being, and
protect all their rights OF person and prop
erty, it might as we'll be understood that
they will not permit social equality to be
thrust upon them law or no law. They are
In sufficient numbers to support their own
hotels, their own churches, and their own
theatres, and other places of amusement,
and If not, upon judicious application, the
white people will help. So, too, upon the
thoroughfares of travel, in rail cars and or
steamboats, they are entitled to such accom-
modations as they choose to pay for, hut 1t
must be in cars or on parts of boats exclu
siyely devoted to their use Can any black
man believe that the white authors of this
bill have their happiness in view, when they
push them into the assertion Of a claim for
an empty privilege, which will keep them
in hot water, and provoke violence and col
Iisions lust so long as it is pursued. is it
not wiser and safer, and In every respect
more comfortable, for negroes to ride In
cars allotted expressly to them; to board
in hotels kept for their own use, than to
souabble through life for privileges
which add neither to their dignity or
rights. nor promote their comfort.
Will any respectable colored man tell us, II
the editor of this paper should go home one
dAy and invite his negro servant, who waits
upon his table, to sit down with his family
to dine with him as a guest, and should in
sist upon it. who would be The most unhaP
nv and uncomfortable in the false position
he or the servant2 In truth, well bred
negro, who knows his duty and his place
could not be induced to accept suca an lnyl
tation; indeed, he could not be placed IN a
nosition where he would be more thorough
fv embarrassed and unhappy. And this Is
the real feeling of the great mass of the col
ored people. 1t is only the brazen faced ne
groes who love mischief and delight to tam
5er with the feelings of other people, who
would avail themselves of the PROVISIONS OF
the hin. and it takes no prophet to tell that
Collision. violence and bloodshed would be