The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-27
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Pilot do not habitually eat with cOlored per-
sons. But we can assure the Index, and the
rest of mankind, that
GOOD MEAL
of victuals to a hungry man would not
taste one bit the less tOothsOme iust because
n gentleman or lady, with a Ii tie darker
skim than he had, Glanced to be occupants
of the same room. In fact we suppose that
the Index has its daily food delivered 10 it
by the hands OF black attendant, and
cooked by black cook, and yet il Is never
known to turn its back upon a dinner only
from these reasons. or one thing the Index
NAV be Well assured,
We SHALL NEVER REFUSE
to take meals or lodgings. when travelling,
in any respectable hotel. because the pro-
prietors of that public house obey the law
without attempts at evasion. and permit
col0red men and women to purchase food
and
HAVE BEDS
un Ter the same roof The Index NAV do so
Ii il chooses. We shall never get up from
OUR SEAT AT THE THEATRE
and fume, and rave. and swear, and go out
OF the place in huff, because d, cent people
with black skins are allowed as good a view
~ The stage as white persons. when they
feel able to pay the same price The Index
take pains TO vacAte anv ear, on any rail
road. simply because colnred men and wo-
men are seated, in it SO long AS they are duly
sober and behave themselves, do not smoke
viliainOus pipes, and drink still more vii
lainnus whisky out of foul-smelliny, dirty
black bottles. And ii We chance to enter =
car filled with whites. where this sor1 of
thing is allowed, we as truly assure our Co.
lum bus contemporary that we shall use our
very best endeavOrs TO secure a seat (eyen
though in a coach tenanted by black peo
pile. where it is not allowed or counter
anced.
Further, il we should have reason to visit
The handsome city of Columbus. and there
were no free seals TO be had at white
churches, "r it no services were held by the
pastors OF such white congregations,
WE SHOULD SEARCH OUT
a church and attend and listen to the SER
mon, and not make any particular ditficuItv
over 1t. And If a colored family Glanced TO
attend services where we were. we should
not feel called upon by any rule, law, or
code with which We are familiar. TO arise,
turn our editorial nose heavenward and
stalk like an un>avory and perturbel ghost
nut Of the sacred edifice. The Index ma,
do so il it chooses. There is no accounting
tor the acts OF some people.
HAD We BAUGHrER-
which we have not and never expect to
haye-and we
ATTENDED BALLS AND PARTIES WITH HER
which we never expect to do-and colored
gentleman had the right of entree to that
party and was endorsed as an honorable and
correct parsonage. and had
BEEN POLITELY INTRODUCED
to that daughter, we should feel that she
would have the right, as she would have
in the case OF non-colored gentleman,
To DANCE WITH HIM
or not to dance with him, Just exactly as
she should determine la the premises. The |
Index, OF course. could do az it saw proper
We do not desire 70 influence the actions OF
my person on this or any other subject !
,nly we do believe In the exercise OF con-
and preaching for practice, and |
as We preach.
Ill of the above are purely personal and |
private matters, and we claim they are Sll |
ar out@ide and beyond the question Of the |
Civil Rights Law. The State had the un-
doubted right, the power. the wish. to make
hat statute. and its Representatives have
prepared and passed il, and Il stands 70 rea.
on that every good citizen, be he Republi-
AN or Democrat, white man or block man.
viii obey Il, without any attempt to evade
y set ut defiance its provisions. Those who
10 not obey it, are simply yiolators OF the
Sta2e law, and are entitled tn the same |
treatment &c the hands Of the officers ofthe
,t4te that other infractors of legal enact.
nents havs metsd out 20 them, no more add
- tsge. il