New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-07-02
From the Christian Recorder.
DIR. Fuller on Civil Rights.

About the weakest and wickedest article,
we have yet seen, in opposition to the pas.
sage of the Civil Rights BILL and to the Bill it.
self. is the one written by DIR. T.. O. Fuller
the editor of the Methodist Adcocate Southern
Organ of the NJ. f. Church. 1t is weak, in
that the editor shows his inability to treat
the subject from other than the stand point
ofpassOn and prejudice. 1t is wicked in that
that it proposes not simply to tolerate a
wrong, but absolutely point out-with a
clumsy finger, to be sure-how the rebels,
can eyade it. There are numerous" ways
saws the Doctor, to get around it, and as
though he feared failure, he suggests the fol-
lowing:
zone much more available than is general
" supposed is refusal to give employment
to the colored people about towns or in the
country. This in few years would drive most
ofthem from States controlled by the whites"
How humane! How Christian! And
from a Methodist and, Oh tell it not in
Gath, from within the bounds of Bishop IIa-
yen's Southern home. Robt Collier (y? or,
i y astOunded Chicago a few months since, in
| the declaration that he would sooner be in
hell with such characters as John Knox, than
in heaven with such as the Borg ia POpes. A
second thought is all that is necessary to I'M
derstand the words of the fiery preacher. If
heaven be not simply name, but life-if it
be not simply negative, but glOrously posi-
tive in its manifestation of the most lovable
characters, then indeed is ''hell'' made up
or men like John Knox infinitely more desire
able than "heaven,' of such prisoners as
| the BOrgas. An assertiOn-for we cannot
call it an argument-made by DR.. Fuller,
| brought us almost to the conclusion that his
''hell' was better than his "heaven." He
has no objection to Congress legislating Civil
Rights into the Theatres, but he stands back
in holy horror, at the idea, oflegislatng it in
to the churches aud THAT too in view of the
fact that Ames' ON. E.) Chapel, New Or
| Icons pays man to stand at its door whose
business it is to drive every colored face that
approaches, even though it be as white as
Senator Pinchback's or as black as 1t. Gov.
Antoine's into the gallery. 1t is 'anOma-
| lOus," cries this sanity editOr-"out OF
| place, - "a mOnstrOsity in America leglsla-
| ton; hardly to be dignified an abortion. &
| Cool on all the provisions of this bill, it is
| the School clause tnat fires him up. Like
old Nebi's furnace in plains OF Dura, when he
approaches this provision, he becomes heat
ed seven times hotter than was wont to be-"
| and had he not had both a Webster and
Worcester by his side, the probabilities are,
he would certainly have exploded. Just lis
| ten:
"We do not hesitate to say that we be-
lieve it would be better for every public
school IN the South to be discontinued forever
than that the children Of both races should be
thus thrown promiscuously together through
| all the land at this time"
Verify, hath he allowed his feeling to run
away with his logic and bis loyalty-loyalty
to the Constitution. Disseminating the pub
lie schools forever, if they mix them at this
time! Unless, indeed, the Doctor, esteems
| such a course worse than treason, which. by
the way, Is not much of crime in the South,
what has he to say of that Constitution OF
which he ''propably" knows SO little, where
it says. "No attainder of treason shall work
corruption ofblood or forfeiture except during
the life ofthe person attainted." In the eyes
of the Doctor this mixing of schools worse
than treason, would work cor ruption Of blood
| @ and so must be put under the ban forever.
1t is our thought that the NJ. f. Church will
finally succeed in appeasing the wrath ofthe
South.