The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-15
Rithmond 1ispatrh.
,,oSn,y JANUARY IS, 1872
Tho Sumner Bill.

-rbc syc,r Journal Of Satnrua! last co'h-
-msn,s unon paragraph which appeared IN
this n,per several days ago in relation TO
GsASy's reply to the negroes who asked nun
"a recommend to Congress the passage OF
srxxEs's supplementary civil rights Dill )
it also publishes a full report OF sas inter
view between GRANT and the negroes; aho'
finally, it has long editorial, intended, we
suppose. to make the negroes believe tha'
that journal favors the passage OF the pi'i III
question. Here is a specimen of the articse :
s.1s mon be honest IN believing that ever!
attempt to advance and eni,ghtG: vic nv, ne do
is equivalent to degrading tue Mhas",, ot and
indeed Pity their condition: We lite nan
veil, mt believe there is single wlhe Ll.n
IN VIRGINIA OF responsibility and sense WIZ
does believe il. even though they 'Feqoenl'
assert It."
Now no paper in Richmond has ever as
.erted-and We defy the Stale Joa'"as "
name any speaker or writer of the Conser'a-
tive narty who has eren once asserted-tha'
"every attempt to advance and enlighten the
negro is equivalent to degrading the whites"
For orr mart. we arc in favor of educating
the NEGROES Of encouraging them to bnio
churches and attend them; OF furfshiie
then, will, first-class accommodations OH rail-
roads and steamboats, If they will pay for the
came: Of countcnancing them in their Efforts
70 have fine hotels, theatres, cemeteries, %c.'
Of their own; and, in word, OF accorciDs
10 ,hcm any and every right and privilege
tlat they are entitled 10.
Dot ,Ir. SuxxER's bill, which We character
lied rs an outrage upon the whites, ana
which will never be passed even Dy faaol-
cal Congress, is intended to open every room
in every hotel to negroes; every berth III
every steamboat to negroes; every car III
every railroad train to negroes; every pew III
every church to negroes every class in every
school to negroes; and every lot i'll ever!
cemetery to negroes. It is designed in iact'
not to put negroes upon IN equality with the
whites. but to put them above the whites.
II l. designed to enable negroes to force them
selves into the company of people who 40
not want to associate with them. But 1t IS a
bill that even the present Radical Congress
dare not pass for fear Of the hot Indignation
Of the Whites in the North, whicfshscy know
would consume them utterly.
We want no douhc-dealing or hypocrisy
in this matter. We ask the Stale journal
whether it is in favor Of the passage by Con-
ryrss of the bill which we have described
above! Read the bill itself, or read our de-
fcription of it, and tell the good people OF
this city how you stand in regard to it.
Are We willing to accord to the negroes
the same rights and privileges the Whites
have? Certainly. We would give them the
privilege of excluding whites from Their
hotels: from any bcrths in their steamboats,
that they did not want whites in; from any
Cur in a train which might be assigned t.
them; from every church built with theL
money or held or owned by them; from
every school established for negroes; and
from every cemetery laid out for negroes. Is
not that equal and exact justice: Must WI
be compelled to eat, sleep, travel, be amused
he preached to, and be buried along Will
negroes? 1t is disgraccful to the negroes
themselves that they thus try to force Their
company upon people who do not want IL
They could furnish no better proof that they
regard the whites as their supclors.
Let us hear from YOU, Ar. Stale Journal