Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-06-19
WILMINGTON. DEL. JUNE 10. 1874
The Accident of color.

says.
well, we have, to-day, reelected Eepubli-
can President We have a Congress heavily Re
publican in both branches. The aforesaid great
party is III complete control OF the Government
Yet the Supplementary Civil Rlghta Bill Is still
hanging between heaven and earth, and 1t Is
agreed on all hands that : chance for becoming
a law is slight ~ TO b. practically no chance at
ull Why The Lili is IN the direct line OF the
uarty's logic. /. is the capsfone, so 20 speak, OF
ihe Reconstruction edltice. All the previous en-.
actments lead up TO it, all the so.cmn warnings
aud expostuations of the canvass of 1872 point
10 it, the party is fully committed to it by us dec
iarations not less than by It's record. Yet 1t
'.haugs fire" Why Because Republican Con-
gresham and influential journalists have con
Guided that this business Of lcgsiating for the
negro has been "run into the ground Because
the Republican President, whose reelection was
50 essential 10 the security and happiness OF the
African race in this country, has been making
friends oil late with the former masters and is
understood to desire nothing more than chance
10 veto the measure which Charter Sumner
pleaded for with his dying breath
The Radical party fears 10 disobey the "mln
behind the cigar lie now secs that they are a
pack of towards, who lave been degrading the
white man aud clcvating the negro all too long.
And the Radical leaders have discovered that the
people are becomn. t"Ahe to tae injury and
the South they tegIn to dl~coyer that great
and brave people have been stricken down hy
cruel system OF government as no people were
ever tortured by government before. And what
has been the result: The semi-sayages that have
been made governors by giving them the ballot,
have dis ressed every State in which they were
allowed to govern. The Radical party not only
gave the negro the ballot but they deprived the
white man Of the use Of the ballot and reduced
him to the condition OF a Russian surf or a Brit
sh slave, with the negro as his political master.
SO completely has the malice of New England
Rsdicalsm been reeked upon the poor of the
South that white women aud white girls, we are
told, are serving as scuions in the kitchens of
negro ofiice-hoders, tax gathereis, magistrates,
constables and militia men. This may crafty
New England Radical malignity- JW she ,cM
hare to atone for Il in "sack cloth and ashes ,
Such terrors heaped upon race are never for
gotten, and cannot be forgiven. They are too
hinsous; their effects reaching to generations
unborn. The terrors Of war may be e1laced and
soon forgotten. But the calm and siadicd wrong
10 innocent women and lnoficnsivc childhood
grows deeper and deeper with every succeeding
sees the negro enjoying the inheritance that
should be his-that negro votes and negro legis-
lation deprived him OF, that does not feel that
this thing at Washington, pointed TO rs 4 Con-
gress, ought to be wiped out OF existence, if 1t
cannot be changed by the votes Of white men.
Has Radical legislation since the war done any
cd for the negro? We are told that it has
not; that the negro is Impoverished in all the
States and most where lie has most power. Thus
Radical legislation since the war las destroyed
the ability OF the South to aid the North TO pay
the interest on the national debt, by destroy in
the worth and fertility CT the plantations aud it
is reducing the worth OF the land in all the Mid.
die States.
The passage OF the Civil Rights Bill will com.
piete the work Of malice in the South 1t viii
put the negro child in the schools and turn ou
the white child. 1t will not directly iujure New
England and the great wealthy North but may
make an Ireland of the great cotton, sugar ant
rice states OF America. And they will do th
thing if they dare. At the next session after tn,
election has been lost or won, Radical fanaticlsn
will vent its vengeance
The Springfield Republican fayors ils enactment
as the fulfillment of pledge ty the Republican
party and the logical tendency Of all its efforts
1t says
we do not shut our eyes TO the TACT that tn
peholng bill IS open TO grave oljections-som
legal, others practical IL is no part of on
purpose-as it lie, luckily, no part Of our busi
ness-to deal with details. But this much, .
least, Republican Congress and President nigh
do-set the States an example by enactipg that
within the conceded limits of Federal authority
heFa tfath h, .lt+,,
any other citizen on account OF the accident c
color. This much Republican Congress an
President ought to do. Not simply because it !
the logical and consistent thing, but because It
the right and just thing
The accident OF color" is a term given to on
Of the great laws OF God. We are II believe this
tie whole negro race that has passed throug
the mutations OF unnumbered ages, always igno
rant, always black, never civilized and mostl
barbarous, received or holds his color by acc
dent-the 'acctdent Of color" Why DO men lis
ten TO such nonsense? But they are getting tire
Of it. Only yesterday one o. the most consister
and intelligent gentlemen OF our State, who ht
always been an opponent of the Democratic pa
iy, always an anti-sayery man, said to us That /
was convinced that unqualified negro sullrat
was one of the greatest evils aud ought not
continued in the Sonth-the idea that they We
equal to the whites was preposterous. Here
the opinion OF a man Of wealth and ufuen,
who, we believe, does more for the education
the negro than all the ranting Radical politician
of The city put together; the members Of Il
Board of Education not excepted.
Coon PAPER.-Among other good thing
the DELAWARE GAZETTE weekly for this we,
contains the following: Full reports of con