The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-12-20

The Civil Rights bill agreed on BY the
House Judiciary Committee provides that
no person shall be excluded from any pub
lie place or building on account of race,
color, or previous servitude, under penalty
|ofa fine Of not less than 500 nor more
than $1,000, An action for damages may
be instituted The bill includes schools,
churches, theatres, cemeteries, railroads,
steamships, etc We do not believe that
such law can be enforced, if enacted.
It win do more TO preeipitate war of ra-
ees than anything whish has yet been done
by the miserable faction Of negropholists,
who are determined never to let the negro
question rest, while it is capable Of being
made hobby of. The Baltimore San, Of
Wednesday, makes very proper and timely
alIusion to the subject, as follows
This bill, which is the progency Of Mr.. sum
ner's sentimental genius, ought to be called a
social rights rather than civil rights bill. II
does not in reality, as no statute can, elevate
particular class. This is work which can
only be performed by men themselves The
association Of man is matter Of taste, and no
one has a right to force himself upon the So
ciefy Of others. White or black people can
only commend themselves to the consideration
and society Of others by their own Legitimate
advancement II there are preiudices in the
matter, they cannot be violently wrenched
away by law, but must give place more or less
to tie manner Of conducting themselves. Il
is political pusillanimity in any legislative
body TO attempt the enforcement BY law Of
social equality for We hold II to be pcryer-
sion Of the English language to call this pro-
posed uncivil Legislation 70 force one class Of
people upon another civil rights bin. The
fancy phianthropist, Mr.. Sumner. whose bet
bantling this miscalled civil rights bill Is, did
not accept the ciyil invitation Of the colored
men to address them in their late civil rights
convention in Washington. He gracefully
waived the honor Of mixing with then, on this
occasion, as he does on all others, and told
them he could do more for themin the Senate,
from whence he lottily and patronizingly looks
down upon white and black mortals alike as
outside baEbarians. This dainty political
Pecksnih desires no such personal contact
himself with the colored men as seems con
templntsd. He is ready TO break up every
thing BY his Unreasonable selfesteem and
sentImentality, but not 10 permit the objects
Of his idolatry to come between the wind and
his nobility. Brains and character were kept
out Of Congress, and carpet baggers and other
adventurers, without regard to race, color and
previous condition, are admitted, because Mr..
Sumner would yield nothing unless his falsely
named evil rights bill becomes q law. Hotel
keepers and others whom the law is designed
10 reach may not care for themselves Is 10 the
admission Of those whom the civil rights bin
90 called inelndes, but people all around them
want the privilege Of choosing their own asso-
Gates, just as Mr.. Sumner does when he pre-
fers The Senate to The colored civil rights
convention, 1.-THE mingling Of the two races
IN the places indicated In the bill Is TO come,
Il win como Of itself, BY the coIored people
raising themselves BY their own efforts, as
other men do, to proper consideration, instead
Of gpeechifying and passing resolutions in
political conventions, initiating thus some Of
the worst vices Of the idlest and most dena-
goguicai ofthe whites.