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The y. \. Times in its issue Of Wednesday
continues lis attack upon the Civil
Rights Bill. This assault upon a measure
opposed to which are arrayed all the forces
OF partisan bgotry and caste prejudice,
appears less strange from such source than
ii would have appeared had it not been pre-
coded by an editorial in the previous issue
introducing in complimentary phrase Senator
Eaton, OF Connecticut, as one who has ideas
that the Republican party ard the country
might accept with profit. Wcmay be allowed
here to express our doubts whether Senator
Eaton, Bourbon as he is, copperhead as he
was, the man who now says-"First,
the State Of Connecticut, "and then the
Federal Union,' will be accepted as the
guide and Mentor OF the Republican party,
even on the direction Of the Times
We publish on another page what the Times
has to to say against the Civil Rights bill.
That paper has made some pretty strong
points in its day, but nothing in the shape OF
| argument that we have ever seen in lis
| columns can be compared with the utter
weakness and worthlessncss of its objections
to the bill referred to. Here is its leading
IN Obody would think for moment of MAX
| ing such a law as the one now proposed for
the benefit of the Irish or German immigrant,
and it is not singular that the popular sense
| ofjusticc, which is always in advance Ofthat
OF legislators, should be already asking why"
| the negro should be thus especially favored
| The answer to the above will instantly Oc-
cur.o every intelligent reader. The Irish OF
German immigrant is not turued away from
our public schools, excluded from our railroad
| cars, refused accommodations at our hotels
| or burial in orr cnmntnrias- There ore It il
| true, immigrant TRANS for the TRANSFORMATION
| Of the strangers newly arrived on our eastern
border to the interior, but these are provided
at reduced rates for the accommodation ofthe
immigrants, while any of them who choose.
having the money, can en- JOY iirst-class ac-
commodations in travelling. 1t is not 50
with the c0l0rCdm rot even with the most
distinguished. Hon often has Frederick
| Doug glass, the celebrated orator, who is a
welcome guest in thousands of elegant homes
on two continents, been turned away from
hotels by narrow-minded landlords on ac-
count OF his race, rather than ofhis color. So
this argument of the Times falls to pieces at
| the first touch. 1t has no more strength
than rope of sand. If Irish, Germans and
other foreigners were treated as the negroes
are, we would favor Civil Rights Bill for
| them.
Again, the Times say, Gift is intended ''to
break down social prejudice, it will "prove
futile sc. 1t isnot intended to break down
social prejudice. 1t doesn't propose to make
gentlemen of the ours who wantonly insult
colored people at every opportunity, and are
in the habit, as Mr.. Seward pointed out of
spelling negro with ''twog s." But it does
say the race shall have certain rights enjoyed
| by all others without objection. 1t is much
more important to the most of them that they
should have facilities for travelling educational
privileges, and the right to attend public
gathering, than that they should be allowed
to sit in a jury box, or vote.
Once more, the Times, 'This bill is Sin
fact 4 distinction against all classes "cxcept
the negroes Such trash in the sh ape OF
argument is hardly worth noticing. We are
surprised that the Times will descend to what,
to most of its readers, whom we suppose to
be intelligent Republicans, will appear more
like demogogueism than journalism. 1t
shows, however, weak even Il Samson may
become when justice and right are abandoned
in favor of tinkling expediency and popular
prejudice. --Rochester Express.