The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-01-07
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appointmentof officers. Referred. :
JOINT RRsoLuTIoN FOR RE1rEr OF GER
j TAIN sRcTroNs OF THE SOUTH.
! Mr.. Sypher asked leave to introduce
JOINT resolution which he said had the or
proval Of the President. The resolutjo
recites that well authenticated reports a,
that In certain localities OF the South Nh
people are. In condition oil starvation
lowing to the failure OF the crops. AND
directs the Secretary Of War to isSuC
army rations in such quantities as NAV b
required. ~ = -
Mr. Willard, OF Vermont, moved ID
reference to the Committee on Educa.
uon and Labor, with leave TO report a,
any time. 30 ordered.
VIRGINIA LEa1aLATURE oDJEcTs TO Ctyu
RIGHTS BILL.
Mr. Bowen presented a resolution oi
the Virginia Legislature protesting againsi
the passage OF the supplementary Civil
Rights bill. Read and referred.
On motion OF Mr.. Lamon, the Commit
tee on Elections was discharged from fur.
ther consideration Of the s1pplementarv
Civil Rights bill.
MR, BECK BECOMES FACETIoUs.
Mi. Beck gave notice OF an amendment
providing that the law shall not be ID
construed as TO require hotel keepers 10
put Whites and blacks into the same rooms
or beds, or TO feed them at the same table,
or to require that whites and blacks shall
be put into the same room and classes AT
school, or IN boxes or seats in theatres. or
In the same berths on steamboats, or other
vessels, or in the same lots in cemeteries.
DURHAM PROTECTS IN Favor OF STATE
SOVEREIGNTY.
MIR. Durham protests against the blllJas
an attack on State rights and State SOW.
ereignty, and as calculated 10 embitter
the Anglo Saxon race against the Airi.
can race; as calculated 10 destroy the
whole common schoolsystem OF The South;
as retarding the education OF the blacks,
and as likely to provoke war OF races
that would result In the determination OF
the black race in America.
,RLL1oTT ADVOCATES TIR BILL.
Mr. Ellltt, lcolored) OF South Carolina,
addressed the House advocating the bin
reading his speech from manuscript with
Q very fine delivery. He referred to
the service men Of his race had done the
country on the battle field in the late war
and in the war Of 1919. He reminded the
gentleman from Kentucky (Beck) who
was always 80 active against the negro in
1851, that the negro has that patriotism
and love OF country which had ever char.
scterized and marked his history on this
continent. He came to the aid of the
government inits efforts to maintain the
constitution. To that government the
negro now appealed, and that Constitu-
tion he now invoked for protection
against outrages and unjust preiudices
founded on caste. In replying to the
Of Mr. Stevens OF Ga. Yesterday
Mrs Elliott contended. that Congress
certainty had uuder the Fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments to the Consti-
tuition, complete power to pass this law,
and to protect all citizens Of the country
in all their rights. He discussed the
doctrines ol the decision of the Supreme
Court in the New Orleans slaughter
cases, and asked the gentleman from
Georgia (Stephens) whether they gave
color even to the claim that Congress
cannot legislate against the plain dis.
ordinations made by State laws and
State customs against that very race for
whose complete freedom and protection
hose great amendments TO the Consti- |
luton were elaborated and adopted,
1t could not be pretended that
the evils Of which the colored peo. |
pie complSined-their exclusion from
inn, from the sleeping car on
the railroad, and from the right Of sepul. |
ture were the exercise of the police now. |
ers OF the State. These things arc a dc.
1ial OF equal protection OF the laws which
those constitutional amendments were
framed to guard against. He shared |
these feelings Of high personal regard |
which perVaded the House in respect To |
The gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Ste
phens), but when that gentleman lent his |
voice and influence to defeat this measure, |
he (Elliot) would not shrink from saving
hat It was not from him (Stephens) that
The American House of Representatives
would take lessons In matters of human
lights. No consideration should restrain
aim from saying that the gentleman now
Uttered to the government which he had |
lone his utmost to destroy q very poor
,eturn for its 1nagnanimity In coming
1ere and seeking to continue, by the as
'ertton OF doctrines obnoxious to the gen
'ral principles Of the government, the
burdens Of oppression which rested on
hose who had never failed to pray for
he success Of the government which that
gentleman had sought to blot out from the
yalaxy otnatons. Applause on the floor
IND in the galleries, which were illled
With coIored people flD frITf1
1t was scarcely twelve years since that
gentleman had shocked the civilized
world by announcing that the highest
orm Of government was one that rested
IN human slavery. The progress of time
lad swept away that pseudo government,
md the race which he (Stephens) ruth
essly spurned and trampled upon was
lere now. TO meet him In discussion, and
o demand that the rights enjoyed by It's
ormer oppressors should be accorded to
hose who; even in the darkness OF
Ilavery, had kept their allegiance true to
reedom and the Union. That gen.
.leman had learned much since in 1851,
1ut he was still a learner. He (Stephensj
Ihould put away entirely. these false and /
atal theories which had Inarred his 9th.
9rwise euviable record. He should ac.
,ept in It's fullness the great doctrine that
American citizenship carries with It.
.very civil and political right that man.
rood can confer. He should lend his in.
luence and his mastery ability to com.
'lete the proud structure Of legislation
Which made the nation worthy Of The
reat declaration that had realized
Is birth. Let him do that, and
le would have done that which
would most certainly redeem hfs reputa.
ion In the the world and best yintiicate
he wisdom Of that policy which had per.