The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-07-19
CRUTCH FIELDS AMENDMENT.
His Idea Of the Proper Thing In Civii
Rights.

His Idea Of the Proper Thing in Civil
Rights.
From the Memphis Appeal
| There was never II sharper blow de-
| livercd than that given Ben Butler and
his family and friends of the eastern
aristocracy by the member of congress
in the Chattanooga district. The jolly,
nervous mluntaineer was seemingly
the most ardent friend Of the civil
rights bill. He sought, at all times, to
force vote upon the measure. lie
tortured poor Maynard most cruelty.
Maynard never voted against Mas
sachusetts in his life. Nominally II
member from Tennessee, he has faith
fully served his eastern constituency,
and Maynard, like Barbour Lewis,
was most anxious to prevent vote.
He often endeavored to silence the
original, impulsive, untamed member
from Chattanooga, but always in vain.
Never was Maynards impotence SO
violent rs when Crutchlield rose in his
place, and to the utter dismay of May
nard Butler and Lewis, and to the
confusion of radicalism in the house,
said: "Mr. Speaker have n neat
little amendment, which think abs0-
| lutely necessary to the perfection OF
the civil rights bill. | will read it,
Mr.. Speaker, and move its adoption"
1t was clap Of thunder from clear
sky, and the whole house listened
while Bill Crutchlield, in clear voice,
read as follows:
"Section 3. BE it further enacted,
That any white lady refusing the at
| tention Of IL negro, on account OF race,
color or previous condition of servi-
tude, shall be fined for each and every
oftense not less than five hundred nor
more than one thousand dollars, and
imprisoned not longer than six
months"
We have the original paper in
Crutchiield's own handwriting, rs read
before the house, now lying before us.
Tack on this amendment" said
Crutchfield, when his partisan friends
gathered about him to protest against
this reductiO at dbSWTi,UR. "tack on
this proper amendment, and pll vote
| for the whole thing"
Butler waXed very wroth. Crutch-
field swore he would spend his whole
salary in testing the devotion OF But
Ter and his sort to the negro. he did
not doubt their earnest affection and
respect for the colOred race, and since
social equality was as desirable north
rs south, he would have certainly
twenty of the finest black beaux each
session at Washington, selected from
the comeliest on his plantation, and
give each congressman with marriage
able daughters the choicest benetac-
tons of social equality, Crutchlield
was not willing that the operation of
| the bill should be confined to southern
schools. He proposed TO exhaust the
scheme of beneticence, as approved ny
Wharimaster Shaw, of Memphis.
Crutchiield was bitterly denounced
by his partisan friends. He has Wis
tied Boston, and was there mercilessly
condemned for his broad sense of JUS
tce to the 'man and brother" He
says that for the life OF him he can't
understand it. He thought Butler and
his allies in dead earnest, and that
they really esteemed negro as good
as themselves. But Crutchtield is
brooding over it to-day in Chattanooga,
and is often heard to solil0quize,
"Whats sauce for the goose isn't sauce
for the gander. Civil rights are very fine
for southern, but won't do for north
ern society"