Richland beacon., 1874-07-18

thS NOAOtSu oioh ktCotCoh.
Yet, it is q fact that they spurn him
from their social presence. Such is
the native, instructive impulse of our
race, and it can neither be ignored nor
denied.
The legislation in question will pro-
duce these effects, and, in the south, it
requires no propheticken to foresee it.
1t proposes to force, under heavy pen
alties, the white and colored child into
the same school-room, and objections
BILE nersons into churches, cemeteries,
places of public amusements, hotels,
etc. The collision, therefore, is inevi-
table. What would be said of the
senate, had it included in this IRISH,
German, French, Scotch, or any 9TH
foreign born citizen? 1t would be re-
garded as simply ridiculous. Yet, all
are citizens. The favored colored
man is no more q citizen, in any re-
spect, than the naturalized foreigner.
Then why this individual class legis-
lation, as to the colored racer
But it is said that this bill is the
logical contamination of reconstruc-
ton. This is a mere pretext. When
congress- made the colored man a citi-
zen,i exhausted its creative bower up
on him, except to enact laws for his
government in common with other
citizens. Any attempt, directly or in
directly, to give him special privileges
and immunities over other citizens, is
against the free spirit fthe constitu-
tion. As far as formal legislation can
effect it, we are already sufficiently
reconstructed. The ordeal was sufi-
ciently severe 1t ought to have been,
as far as possible, gentle and harmo-
nious its laws equal, impartial. benc-
6cent. 1t is the duty of every gov
ernment to acquire, BY its acts, the
confidence and love of the people. 1t
should not repel them by obnoxious
and oppressive Legislation. gov
ernment rests on patriotism despotic
government finds its strength in bayo-
nets but bayonets never have, never
can, enforce obedience to obnoxious So
cial relations. Neither government,
nor any outside party, can prescribe
the character or component elements
Of our society. Such relations are
self.created and imposed, and will sd-
nit of no dictation Instead Of being
consummation of reconstruction, the
present bill will react upon Whist has
already been done. II will assuredly
disturb Whatever Of harmony and
tranquility may have existed under
the present status Of the two races
II will be IN Inauguration Of discord
AID may prove in the end; more fatal
than our recent civil conflict. Thai
was not Q war between the races.
There was no issue of race in it (; and
bloody, ruinous and cruel, as it was
neither party sought to exterminate
the other. But q war of races in thi:
country can end only in the extermi
nation Of the vsnquished. Every
thinking man knows that when uiti
mate race issues are involved, all 9th
er considerations are ignored. Their
must be supremacy in the one or th'
other-tbere il no middle ground
Human nature is the same in ell ages
and countries, aud such, ss ] read it
is the history Of the world.
Let not that history repeat itself
with us, in the madness of these times
The two races now stand in the soutl
recognizing each others rights, as fix
ed by law, and the reciprocal benefit
! flowing from the one to the Other
Under these circumstances, thei
peaceful and harmonious existence to
!! gether seems possible, and might n
fsult in the mutual advantage Of both
oytain.y to the advantage Of the col
oreA man. Then, why disturb thi
status2 The political party that doe
il. BY seeking 10 force upon the whit
| race the provisio.. Of the so-cslled ci,
. u rights bill, will, in NJ. opinion, ,hav
ample leisure TO repent
But I shaYe already written 10
much ct length % bynsSvv7ed qnestios
and in great haste, amid Tpress
!, business engagements. Yet, you ca
--l--&vsuc substanc6 drmyviews know
. If you see fit, and think it win do an
good in your section. And 1 ar
Colonel, with sincere regard, 20,
, friend and fellow-citizen
WIN. j. HARALSON.