Wilmington journal., 1874-07-17
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.EIIL MCKAY, ESQ, AND CIyEE
RIGEsTS.

rs true Indication of his views upon
tie question Of negro equality. We
do not think SO and have god rensons
for not thinking so. We proceed now
t0 give them.
Mr. Neill Mckay WAS nominated by
tle Radical Convention held in Fay
et5eyillc on tho 10Th of May. 1874.
That Convention formally by rcsolu-
ton endorsed "the principles Of the
Republican party rs set forth in the
State and National Platforms.
Now what docs tho National Plat
form say? The last National Radical
Convention met iii Philadelphia in
JuIv, 1872, and formally resolved:
3. Complete liberty and exact equal
ify in the enjoyment OF all civil, polit-
ical and public right should be catab-
lished and effectualIy maintained
throughout the Union, 10y efficient and
approiriatc State and Federal legisla-
ton. Neither the law nor it's admin
i.tration should admit any discrimina-
ton in respect of citizens by reason Of
race, creed, color, or previous condi-
ton Oh S6Thljlt.G.
Upon this platform General Grant
was rc-nominatcd and was reelected
by the Radical party. The President
sent III his annual message to Congress
and u2on the question of civil rights
delivered himself of the following
views. Said he:
"The effects of the late civil strife
lave been to free the slave and make
him citizen. Yet he is not possessed
Of the civil rights which citizenship
should carry with it. Tlis.is wrong, and
should be corrected. TO this c0rrcc-
tim Isf01ad con2DejHct7, so far as erc-
entire iuHitc3icc can urGU.
Social equality is not thing to be
Icgislated upon, nor shall | ask that
anything be done to advance the social
status of the colored man, except to
give him fair chance to develOpe
what there is good in him, girc him
access to the schools and achCn Hs
t5aUeis let hin, feel assured that hit
conduct aCiU regulate the tC0tnc3ac
and fare he a0iU recciUC.
If President Grants Interpretation
of the National platform upon which
he was nominated and elected is Tot
to be taken as true and orthodox, will
some Radical friend be kind enough
correct one?
But what does the State plat
form say? At the last State Raj
cal Convention, held in Raleigh, on
1F II
Kay was delegate and prominent
one too. He sUas one Of the Con13,a|iiice
soho made and reported the 2otato..,t.
Now the seventh resolution of that
platform is as follows:
7. That we fully endorse the acts of
Congress. passed to secure equal
rights and protection to the citizens of
the United States, in the several
States; and we respectfully recon-
mend a continuance of the present
laws and the adoption of such further
legislation as will more certainly as
sure to the citizens, full and practical
enjoyment of all their rights, privil-
edges and liberties.
Now be it remembered that Mr..
Summers Civil Rights bill was then
pending before Congress. Mr.. Nc
Kay was not then satisfied with the
laws passed to secure equal rights but
desired further legislation for the fur
ther and 3)ractic0I CnjOYHaC1lt of all
"their rights, privileges and lihertiCs.''
BE it remembered that it was during
the summer Of that very year that he
told the negroes if they would rally
and elect him there would be no par!Or
and no kitchen. And it was during the
same summer also he told the negro es
to vote down the wealth and intelli-
genco of the State.
We ask any candid man are not these
declarations Of Mr.. Neill Mckay made
to the negroes from the stump, per-
fectly consistent with the State plat
form he fixed up for his party at Ral-
elgh, and with the National platform
ut Philadelphia, and with President
Grants message to Congress
But let us come down to a later date.
The Fayetteville Convention that NOM
mated Mr.. Neill Mckay, nominated
INN with full knowledge of his ''no
parlor and no kitchen" views, and also
endorsed both State and National Rad
ical Platforms. The nomination Of
Nh Aelll Mckay, upon such platforms
and his acceptance, would have been
sufficient to tell what his position was
upon the Civil Rights question. Espc-
cIally would it have been full proof
When 1t was known that delegates to
That Convention, before and after the
nomination, and the adoption of the
platform, illustrated practically their
views about social equality, by eating
together at the same table, at the same
lime, without regard to race or color.
Ii Was natural enough that white dele
gates and negro delegates who ate to-
gether at the same table and Mt the
same time, on their way to the Con-
Ventlon, should nominate Mr.. Neill
Mckay, for Congress, and on srch q
Platform, and quite as natural that
having done SO, they should on their
return home continue their practical
Illustration of negro equality by eating
together at the same table and at the
sumo time without regard to race OF
ooior. The nomination, the platform.
ana the eating are all of piece.
lh'S it would seem ought to have
oeen enough to satisfy the most rabid
.I uIii Hlghter. But it did not satisfy
."o convention. Not content with en-
uofslng the State and National Plat
Iofms, and nominating Mr.. Neiu Nc
may the Fayetteville Convention made
platform of its own on civil rights
and it is as follows:
90 aeesotocd, 2. That the equal rights
VI all men before the law is O cardinal
pth,lhcipie th of the. Republican party, and