The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-02-08
a2irlluoud 1ispatth,
u,,,,,psn.y FEBRUARY s, 1877
carnenter's Substitute.

Carpenter'S SuDSIilute'
The man whose conscience "ou'o ho' pr
NIT him to steal ten thousand doltsrs Da'
;vs,;f,cd him in stealing nine thousand, must
have been related to the senator IRON WIS
co,sip rMr. CAgrESrEnl who on Monda!
last made an ingenious speech to prove Inc
unconstitutionality of Mr.. suMsEEs supple
n,cntary civil rights bill and then offered 'i'
following as substitute for 1t:
SECTION -. Whoever, being cotis IN -,
,;o, or natural rcrson and owner % u,
rharpe Of any public inn or OF any piacs " :,
rIhIir amusement or entertainment LOT W.
q license from any legal authority Is REQUIRE a.
or Of any line Of stagc-coachcs' 49, I;er:
o.hcr means Of public carriage OF ls'sseh. :, -.
or freight, or Of any cemetery NJ H sctncl
benevolent institution, or an! pun.I nndo,v.
q ,ppo,tcd at public expense "i y! distinc.
m mt for public use, shall maze ' ,;,n r thnrc.
ton "a to admission or accohiho o.i aa,ts,
in of any citizen of the I 1ea 2.' :s nond;.
of race, color nationality, or previous oUn.
ton of seryitude, shall, on conflc'ioii
5000 for each offence, TO De reco'eleu ~
information filed by the district attoines ~
any court having jurisdiction, upon ,tle st ,h'
plant of any person injured, ohe-i"M W t,,o
use Of the United States, anu one-hah W '''~
use Of the complainant
In but two points, we believe, does th's
hill differ from SUMMERS. BIZ. CARPENTER
acknowledges that Congress bas no riSil' -
prescribe the qualifications Of jurors, ana
none to legislate in regard to church resuia-
lations In all other respects, his Dill Is d.
Objectionable Us SUMMERS. IL Wouiu open
all places Of public amusement OF choerth''-
mont oll hotels. all benevolent Institutions
and all public schools, to negroes. IL WONT
,nplv os well 10 odd Fellows and al suc'i
societies as to hotels and SCHOOLS.
We need not say that such a law woulo
be IN outrage upon the white people OF Tue
South. Nor need we try to convince ahyDo"!
of what all must know, that tic passage OF
the bill-if it shall pass-wil be due rainier
TO hatred and jealousy of the people VINO arc
TO he thus outraged than to love Tor the ne
gro. or course neither SUMNER nor CAR
rrSrER associates with negroes upon terms
OF equality; nor would either Of them Pa-
tronizc hotel whose proprietor should Pun
Lin into room or bed that had just been
occupied By negro, or force him to SIT az
the table side by side with negro. There
arc so few negroes in the northern State,
and they are so well trained by the northern
pcople. that travellers in that section OF tic
country would never be much annoyed by ne
crocs, even if these were allowed to make
themselves guests at all the hotels. In Tie
southern States the case is different. Here we
have as many negroes rs whites and if tho
former are permitted to force their company
upon the former, much disgust, annoyance,
il-will, and trouble, must follow.
The common-law rule that inn-kcepcrs
must accommodate all corners who behave
themselves, and arc not known to be Infamous
characters, or bearers Of disease, or indie
Gently clad, originated in England where all
the people are white and at time when
tables d'hote were unknown. No such rule
would ever have been laid down by the
learned jurists of that country if one-llalf Of
the population had been negroes, nor if til"
custom had been to invite guests to n COM
mon table. The English landlord fed his
guests in that day, if not now, as our rcStau-
rant-kecpers feed thers-each man in his
room, or stall, or apartment. Negroes could
be fed in that way here. Would that satisfy
either SUMNER or the negro! BY no meats.
No white man could be annoyed Ivy that
mode of doing business; and the absence OF
this annoyance to the white "rcbels y would
in the estimation Of both Cutlcc and SUMMER
empty the bill Of all its merits.
CARPENTER would have the negroes and
the whites educated together. Would that
sort Of forced association between the two
races benefit the whites? No ono believes
or prctends to believe that it would. Would
it benefit the negroes, Not in the slightest
degree. Surprising that the whites would
agree to send their children to the same
schools with the negroes, the result wollld
be that the whites would constantly make
the negroes sensible of their inferiority. No
one person of either race would be benefited.
Why, then, insist upon the passage of slcha
hwY For no other reason than to humiliatc
the southern people.
We have been surprised to see how many
senators ayow themselves in favor of SUN
HER's bill. We had not supposed that it
could pass the Senate at all but it seems
now to be highly probable that it will be
added to the amnesty bill as means of kill
ing this measure of pacification for the coun-
try and Of justice for the disqualified men OF
the South. We still believe that no such
bill can get through the House of Rcpresen-
tatives.
Iuurcp Irtoy-1'he State Journal seems TO