The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-07-29
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THE civil rights bill, recently pass
ed by the Senate Of the TnitAd Staten

THE civil rights bill, recently pass
ed by the Senate Of the United States,
and now pending in the House Of
Representatives, presents an issue of
vital moment to the American people,
and calls upon them to decide at the
ballot box whether or not they will be
coerced to the absolute social as we'll
as political equality of the negro race
with themselves. We view with abb
horrence this attempt on the part of
TIE Federal Government to take con-
troll of all the schools, colleges, church
es, hotels, railroads, steamboats,.
theaters and gravc-yards. for the pur-
pose Of establishing negro equality
and enforcing it under enormous PEN
alties of fines, damages and imprison-
ments. We arraign Senators Morton
and Pratt before the people Of Indi-
ana for their votes in favor of this
atrocious measure, and we shall ask
for Judgment against them at the
hands of their constituents, whom
they have misrepresented.-Demo-
cratic Platform.
1t may be qaestioped whether the
political history of any country can
furnish a parallel to the tcnacity with
which the Democratic party clings to
the obsolete ideas of the past, and
hugs the stinking remains of what it
used to call its principles. This is es-
pecially illustrated in it's persistent
opposition to the negro. There was a
time when this sentiment could be
easily and naturally accounted for.
The peculiar position which the party
occupied toward the South, and the
necessity it was under of defending
slavery and denouncing the negro as
brute, or at least as belonging to an
inferior race of beings, created and
kept alive feeling of hostility to-
ward him, which, however uncalled
for, was, under the circumstances, not
unnatural. During the period OF Dem
ocratic supremacy, hatred 1.-The mig
ger" was the test of party fealty, and
the permanent enslavement of the
blacks was looked on by them as a
standing proof of the superiority of
the whites. 1t was natural, therefore.
that Democrats should hate the race
whom they were assisting to perse-
cute, but it is none the less surpris-
ing that the despicable feeling should
have SO long outliyed the conditions
which gave it birth. Slavery is abol-
ished, and it's political influence has
become thing of the past, but the
instructive hatred of Democrat for
'thc niger" is unchanged. True, they
no longer expect, at least the most IN
telligent ones do not, that the colored
people can ever be reduced to slave
ry again, but they do hope to keep
them permanently under such dis.
abilities as will shut them out from a
free career and prevent them from oc.
cupying position of perfect equality
with white men under the law. Driven
to the last ditch of unreasoning NAL
ice. they hope to keep the old feeling
alive by harping on social equality.
The passage of the civil rights bill b,
one branch of Congress furnishe
them an excellent occasion to produc'
their lavorite raw head and bloody
bones, and they make haste to de
nounce it as designed to establish ab
eolute negro equality I'm all tn
schools, colleges, churches, hotels
railroads, steamboats,, theaters an,
grave yards" 1t may be dreadful
!. bill, but if it should become a law
! the Democracy can at least consol
! themselves that it is no worse. If, il
addition to the above occasional re
sorts of the Democracy, the bill shoul
} include their regular stopping place:
: such as the liquor saloons, gin-shops
cock-pits. gambling -hells, and bawd
houses, the condition of the part
!, would be truly pitiable. Until that
: done they have nothing to fear frol
the practical effects Of negro equal
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