New-York tribune., 1872-02-12
VORD FIFTH THE CHIVALRY.

We have not, as is obvious, taken livery
interest in Mr.. Summers Civil Rghta project.
Whatever its essential merits, we did not ap-
prove the policy of engafting such measure
on General Amnesty. We want Universal
Amnesty unpurchased unqualified, unbalanced
by any set off, Just as we obtained Impartial
Suffrage. We have supported each from the
outset, not as make-weight to something
else, but because it was essentially and un-
changeabiy right.
Now that the scheme Of attaching Civil
Rights to Amnesty has resulted in the tempo
rary defeat of both, we ask the sometime arls-
tocracy of the South to look at Civil ut you
please SociaD Rights in the light OF these ac-
complished and undeniable facts.
II is q fact that the Blacks are here-nearly
Five Millions of them-and are not going
away. handful may go from time to time,
but at least ninety nine of every hundred will
stay.
It ia fact that they are free, and cannot
be rcGnslayed You might as well attempt to
recover the dew of last Fourth -Of-July morn
ing as to reenslave these Five Millions.
1t is a fact that they vote, az others do.
and are eligible to Office. Six or eight OF
them are now Members of Congress, as more
will be, since majority of the voters are
Black in at least twenty districts.
Do you suppose, can you imagine, that these
Colored Members of Congress are always to
Journey to and from Washington in smoking
cars? Can you really afford to insist that
they shall?
We saw most respected minister of the
Gospel driven out of a Philadelphia horse-ca
-coifTbeied to stand on the front platform or
get off altogcther-about the time that Phila-
delphia gave several thousand majority for Lin
coins reelection. OF course. we knew that
could Mt last, and it didnt.
Hardly a year ago, Frederick Douglass-a
Soutbron born, of whom the South will yet
have the sense to be prOud-was returning
from a most important mission to Santo Do
mingo in company with Senator Wade and
other associates on chat mission. Reaching at
length Virginia steamboat, almost III sight
of a table, there was call to dinner, and the
Commissioners went forward, when Douglass
was rudcly stopped at the doOr-he was a
niggor and must MT presume to eat with Wbte
folks! SO the Commissioners all lost their
dinner, the company lost the pay for it, and
Virginia had her revenge for Gettysburg and
Appomattox.
Are We men or children who play such silly
games as thlSf
Suppose the friendship of Iiayti should
become important to us-and the strong often
have need of the weak, thousand
examples would show. We telegraph Hayti to
send special envoy TO Washington. and
| she sends one who lands at w-OrleaDs or
Savannah-shall we order him into negro
car and refuse to let him eat till he reaches
Washington If no, why treat him better
than the member from Florida or the Senator
| from Mississippig
A few days since White family. having
| hired a private box at a theater, went thither
in due time, anticipating an evening OF
pleasure, but their childs nurse was yellow,
and could not be admitted; so the family
went home and sulked through the evening.
Who profted by their loss9
Men of the South you were once accounted
shrewd politicians Does this look like it !
Are you not allowing your women to rule
yOuf We en- t,eat you to heed the English
mans exhOrtatOn to his departing friend.
" Be good to yourself, John" We need no
| Civil Rights bill if you will only evince a
little hOmely common sense. But showing
your representatives in Congress and their
wives into filthy smoking-cars while you COM
lpel them to pay frst-class fare is folly
which you will surely be ashamed of when-
ever your heads are cool. Isn't it the wise
way to do what you ultimately must while
yet you gracefully may
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