The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-03-19
THE DAILY HERALD.
ID. McCALEB, Editor.
The Civil Rights Bill and its Results.

hadlcallsm In the South has cul-
tivated but one hope, to the reali-
cation Of which it has pressed
forward with a zeal and persis-
tency that was worthy of q better
cause. That hope has had for its
eliminating object no less the
social elevation of the negro than
the degradation of the white race.
Civil rights have been 40 complete.
ly perverted in meaning and appli-
cation as to comprehend almost
everything that could by any pos
sibility be made subservient to The
accomplishment of radical designs
1t has even been insisted that legis.
lation on this subject might, with
rropriety, BIO extended to the pri.
vate concerns of every citizen, and
that u conformity with any provis-
ion oflaw in its favor, however I'M
constitutional, might be forced upon
any man irrespective of his wishes,
station or business in life. South
Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi
have: each been put to tho practical
test of experimenting .upon this
idoized object of radicalism, and in
each State the results lave been
the same. And what do they provo?
Simply that civil rights arc one
thing and that social rights are an
other, and that whenever the gov.
ment undertakes to blend these
two, inevitable ruin and confusion
worse COMPOUNDED must follow.
Tho civil rights bill recently
passed by the Mississippi Lesisla-
ture, composed Of ignorant negroes
and mean whites, went into effect
q few days ago. The provisions of
the bill authorized and empowered
every negro in the State to demand
from every railroad, steamboat, ho-
tel, restaurant and bar room the
very same entertainment and ac-
commodations (which could be ac-
corded a white man by their pro-
prietors. No sooner had the ink,
with which Gov. r. G. Powers, the
arpet.bagger who fills the gubcr-
Material chair of that State, signed
his name to the precious parchment
dried itself than every negro in tho
land was clamorous for hotel &C.
commodations. But 10 pres to
change, there is not to-day de-
cent hotel in Mississippi. But they
have private boarding houses for
the accommodation of select guests
without number, into which no me-
gro can enter. This is q terrible
condition for q great State to be
placed in, which has its board of
immigration thoroughly organized
and maintained at a fearful cost to
the people. What accommodations
can traveller expect to receive
who goes to Mississippi to inspect
its beautiful prospects, rich in tax
alton and fruitful in legislative fol-
lies, unless he is fortunate enough
to be one of that select number
who may find admittance in pri.
vate families.
There is but one resort left to the
good people of those down. trodden
States, upon whom et-baggers
and negroes have imposed burdens
too heavy to bear, and that is to
give up what they have left to
them, and move off to Texas, Here
at least they will find a good gov
eminent as we'll as fertile fields,
and q home which will be sacred
from the invasions ofcorrupt meas
ures, such as are imposed upon
them in tho land of their birth,
sanctifed and made holy in their
hearts by scenes and associations
which have grown up with them
from childhood.