The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-12
Yhe civil Rights Bill

sry. though the bill, without tnls isasuio =
viii continue to be Republican measure.
We published several days ago the eA'
n,,cit statement that when called upon DC,
fore d large crowd of voters, VIM" f e1 anu
.h,aex.s 10 say whether be would vote 10
str;se out the words " common sehoois !,
from Ina, bin, MIR. PLArr, Of the Norfolk dis !
.rici, answered ! unequiyocally that DC DC
svonld 80 vote. Plat y one OF the
50, ,scr.. OF carpet baggers. He would pro;
{ & mise 10 vote, as he voted last winter, in
favor of mixed schools, if be thought
that Sby so doing he could increase g
h;s chances 81 Being returned to Congress
He would not hesitate to eat, drink, and
shep With negroes if by 50 doing be could
further his own aims. He has no Caucasian
iealonsy, mo pride OF race, that would pre-:
vent him from doing whatever he mlsht nno
il necessary TODD in order to be rteected 10
theHouse OF Representatives. We take ais
promise, therefore, to mean that even 10 l the
darkness Of bis negro district light has flashed
upon his vision and he sees that mixed
schools are unpopular. he will, however
s:ill vote for the bill as q whole, it being, as
we have said, Republican, measure.
We noticed the other Gay that Senator
ajoRros, OF Indiana, and the Washington
Rpnublicon had deemed it the part of policy
IN endeayor TO show that the ciyil-rights bill
rs it passed the Senatef does not demand
mixed schools but schools of equal
GRADES for the Two races. We showed
at the same time that this Interpretation OF
the bill was an after-thought, and that Dir.
MORTON was necessarily acting the bypo-
crite-not to, say wilful falsifer OF known
1acts-when be thus pretended to construe
the language Of that bill. We quoted from
the official report of the proceedings in the
Senate extracts from speeches made by sew
eral senator's in Which they distinctly ayowed
themselves to be in favor of mixed schools.
afr. PRArr, OF Indiana, MIR. MoRToS's own
colleague, was one of these gentlemen, and
Mr. Boutwell,. OF Massachusetts, was
another. We could have quoted CONVEX
sational debate between Mr.. MORTON himself
and another senator, in which the ques-
ton was repeatedly put to MIR. Nor
TON whether he was in favor 1of
mixed schools, and in which he per-
sistcntly refused to commit himself. 1t is
worthy of remark, too, that MORTON did not
vote for or against any anne ndment that was
offered, nor for or against the bill itself. lie
1900 ,t,,o,,r ,noyor;anfly ahSaOt nr silent
But here is evidence to prove that he knew
how the Senate understood the bill. On the
e2d of May Mr.. SARGENT, of California, the
senator who tried to get Mr.. MORTON to CON-
NIT himself, offered the following amend
ment:
sThat nothing herein contained shall be
construed TO prohibit any State or school dis
trict from providing separate schools for
persons of different sex or color where such
separate schools are equal in all respects to
others Of the same grade established by such
AUTHORITY and supported by an equal pro
rata expenditure of school funds"
This was rejected by The Senate. The
vote was 81 to 26. Among the votes in ia.
vor of the amendment were those of seven
Republicans. All the negative votes were
Republicans, and were as follows:
NAYs.-Messrs. Alcorn, Boutwell,, Buck
incham, Carpenter, Conkling, Edmunds,
Flanagan, Frelpgbuysen, Hamlln, Harvey.
Howe, Ingalls,, Mitchell, Morrill, of Vermont,
Oglesby, u. Patterson, Pearce, Pratt, Ram
sev, Robertson, Spencer, Wadleigh, Wash
burne, West, Window, and Wrisht-2G.
Morton ABSENT
Here are the names of all the leading Re-
publicans except MORTON and LOGAN. Lo-
GAN voted "aye,'' with the Democrats, and
nay possibly be the Republican candidate
for President; but none of the twenty-siX
will dare to run, after the demonstrations
against the bill which the people all over the
country have made. And it is not impossi.
BILE that the record on this question OF all the
leading Republican candidates for the presl'
dency may compel the Republican party 10
re.uominate General GRANT. But however
this may be, two things are apparent-hrst,
that the Republican Senate is in favor OF
mixed schools; and as that body represents
the Republican party, this party should oe
held responsible for its acts. And secondly,
that whether the House Of Representatives
strike out the words "common schools"
from tie bill or not, the bill is Republican
measure and will be passed next winter, and
will thus open all theatres, hotels, steam.
boats, &C., &C., to the negroes.
The Baltimore American, Republican
paper, which we think favored the bill last
winter, now says:
"Sera:or Morton finds it expedient to
adopt at Terle Haute view which was not
the one he urged at Washington. The modi'
fjcation of opinion thus announced may be
expected to attend Senator Morton TO Wash
irgtop, and ne have no doubt. that other
IorgIcssmen will return there With different
views in regard to the propriety and expedi.
cncy of some portions or all of the clyirights
lii. we think it not ut oil improbable that
the large majority behind the bill may de-.
cline to minority"
This is encouraging at least. But it will
.uat relieve the Republican party from the
olium of the bill as it will still stand after
che school feature is stricken out Of it, nor
b.any excuse for electing to Congress men
Rh,are opposed only to this one most abomi-
nabe provision of it.
A correspondent who states that over a
thousand spirituallsts are readers of the DIS.