The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-12-29
The New Civi!-Rights Bill.

The New Civil-Rights Bill.
The civil-rights bill introduced by the
notorious BUTLER into the House of Repre-
scntstiyes is the last and worst of all the
schemes for humilating the southern peo-
pie. That passed, nothing remains to be
done.
That il will pass we thiuh altogether pro-
bablc, yet measure more !raught with evil
TO the negro never was entertained by Con-
gress. Upon the SUBJECT OF mixing the
white and black races i'll the schools,
some of the leading Republicans Oh this State
have decidedly declared themselves against
it. Air. HuaHEs, The abicst Of the Virginia
Republicans, and their recent candidate for
Governor, whose nomination 10 be Judge OF
this Federal District is now pending in the
Senate, was unqualified in his objection to
mixed schools. So are The three Republican
papers in this Stlte-thc State Journal,
the Lyrchburg Press, and the Norfolk Day
Book. And we learn z.om good authority
that some of the most enlightened of the
colored ministers OF toe gospel regard the
proposition to mix The races in the schools
as full Of mischief.
Why should Congress desire to disturb
our school system! The white people pay
nearly everything for It's support, and it is
proceeding quietly auG successfully. With
what sort Of spirit can the ruling party in
Congress expect us to receive such law as
that commanding a mixture OF races in the
schools? Backed by such law, how is the
tax-gathercr TO approach the white tax
pgyers The taxes for Tie education OF the
negro have been paid-the school-hou$cs
haze been built-.cachers have been paid
and the negro children have been taught
With q most creditable Kindness and good
faith by the men who recently owned the
negroes, and against whom those negroes
vote at every election. ShoulJ such conduct
be rewarded by demanding that III addition
10 all this the white taxpayers must mix up
their children With the negro Chi ldrcn, and
establish that complete intercourse between
them that will urqucStiOnahly lead to con-
sequences the bare thought of which is
shocking aud intolcratlci Let our cruel
rulers bring such consequences homo TO
themselves, aud think on them well before
they do so fearful thing as to vote for that
bill.
Each State is the best judge Of lis own So
ciety-its wants and interests what will
promote its order and virtue, and what will
promote its growth and cou!eutment. The
northern States have no complications grow
ing out of questions Of race, and canAot lie
judges Of the southern societies on such
questions. Unqueslionably, the negroes
after the war should have bcen pu! upon
probation Of term Of years TO fit them for
the responsible privilege OF voting. No
man can say that they were fit 10 vote when
The right to vote was conferred upon them
without knowing that he lies VIXEN he says
so. So should other privileges be conferred
with caution upon the negro. His fitness
for them can only be established By time aud
education. TO force thcm upon him before
that time will be injurious to him and
dangerous to the general order and content
ment Of the country.
That the measures Of CoDgre;5 bearing
upon southern society have up TO this time
but teUded to cause decay in all thing that
make States great is as clear us the noon
days sun. 1t 1t puts this last measure Of
cruelty and impolicy upon Us we think We
foresee fearful consequences. We will not
attempt to paint them. But we will Say
this: that there MAJ be a state Of society
worse than barbarism tSeif-that is, IN iguo-
bic and self-humiIiatcd state of social de-
prarity and hybridization from which there
ian be no resurrection. Rather come bar
oarism-a return TO that stern nurse OF man. |
hood. the adversely and strife Of rudimen !
AIRY social existence, out Of which a noble |
md great people may again emerge.
Congress may thipk that the welfare Of !
party requires this finishing touch to the
measures for the degradation Of the superior |
ace in the South. And we know bow par.
les in power are always moro ready to
hasten party measures than they are to ma
ure those for the public good. This party
impulse may now expedite this party legisla-
on-ths worse than party legi>lation-this
sectional legislation TO completion. If |;
should the men who figure in II will live TO
MOURN over their act. 1t will be q deed from
which they will be glad to hide themselves
before the end of their earthly pilgrimage,
u else they are alike dcad TO juatice and
The LOGIC OF EvESTs.-That deprayity,
RIGHTEOUSNESS. and indeceMcy must follow