The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-08-19
THE OPENING GUN.
OBJECTS AND AIMS OF THE RE-
aft PUBLICAN IsAKrY.
kAOAN Ill
what ID Has Done and What IL Pro
poses to DO.
A MASTERLY VINDICATION OF
ITS POLICY.
Scatbin- Review of the Democracy
s'i And Its History.
GREAT SPEECH OF Hon. q. II. NOR.
TON. u. =. SENATOR FROM md
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Delivered at Terre Houfe. Friday
i Evening, July 81, 1874. <
THE OPENING GUN.
MASTERLY VINDICATION OF
ITS POLICY.
Scathin- Review of the Democracy
s'-t - And Its History.
GREAT SPEECH OF Hon. q. Il. NOR.
TON, $. SENATOR FROM IND!
Delivered at Terre Haufe, Frid"!
.g~ Evening. July 81, 1874.
A PERSONAL ARRAfGNMENT.

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~1s'" sTconcluded. Fl
PERSONAL ARRAfGNMENT. 3 -
The resolution in the Democratic
rlatto orm which am considering says;
1--WE view with aborrence this attempt
on the part of the Federal Govern
ment to take control Of all the schools
colleges, churches, hotels, wralirqads v
steamboats,, theaters and yeTaVeyards,
for the purpose, of establishing negro
equality and enforcing it under enor.
nous penalties of fines, damages and
Imprisonment. We arraign Senators
Morton and Pratt before the people OF
Indiana for their votes in favor OF this
atrocious measufe. andwS shall az for
judgme ut against them atthel hands of
their constituents whom they have
misrepresented."
arraign the authors Of this resolu
ton for gross ignorance of the pro
visions Of the Civil Rights Bill which
passed the Senate, and OF the Constf-
tuition Of the State of Indiana. The
.billdoes not attempt to take control
of all the schools, colleges, churches,
hotels, railruads, staaMboatss theaters
aud graveyards' on the part OF the
royernmen mt of the United States, but
leaves that ccntsvf pfeeiseH where il
is now. 1t simply makes it a penal of
tense to dcpsiye,the negro pi has equal
I ENJOYMENT OF those INSTITUTIONS be-
cause of his race and color. The pro-
Vision of the civil rights bill in regard
to schools is in these words: That
i. all. persons within the jurisdiction of
the United States shall be entitled to
1 the full and equal enjoyment OF the
accommodations advantages, facilities
land priyilesesx~*s~xr $~of common
schpols sa9& I'm aic instihltIons Of
learning or benevolence supported m
1 whole or in part by general taxation.
t. 1t will be perceived that If coiored
| children receive the full and equal en-
! ioyment of the common school system
|. it is IA compliance with this act, and
that the act goes q 4affssf tiEln Il
secure to colorcd children the eqna
,sbencfit of The schools and the scontro
4 q these schools is left to the ioca'
autliorities, but where they are de
priyed oft}lese equal Sbouefits, punish
ing by appropriate penalties those
officers or persons by whom they are
SO deprived.
CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE C0NsTITUTIo,
iyy or INDIANA.
1.-The first section of the Fourteentl
Anne endment togthe Constitution of tn
United States, is in these words: 2
AL persons born or naturalized il
the United States, and subject to tn
iuris diction thereof, are citizens OF th
United States and OF the State where
7 in they reside.
This provision places gths childre
of colored ,iers oirs born in the Unite
States expressly within the operatio
OF the first section of the Eighth Al
tcle of the Constitution of Indian
= | which is in these words:
knowledge and learning general
diffused throughout the communit
being essential to the preservation
free government, it shall be the du
of the General a ssembly to encoura:
bv all suitable means, moral, intelle
tual, scientific and agricultural in
- provement, and to provide by law +,
a general and uniform system of cor
mon schools wherein tuition shall !
without charge and equally open
all
It will be seen that this provision
the Constitution of Indiana is eve
: more explicit than the Civil .Righ
Bill, and declares ip terms not to ]
misunderstood that the General A
: tsembly shall provide by law for ge
eral and uniform system of comm
- schools wherein tuition shall be wit
| out charge and equally open to a
Now will these gentlemen who la
arraigned Senator Pratt and mys,
y show how the colorsd children of !
diana can be kept out of the comm
:. schools without violation Of t
Constitution of the States.
: DECISION OF AN INDIANA COURT
= Ina recent case brought by a coli
ed man against the school officers
G Lawrence township, Marion couD
It for excluding his children II ON I
: public school, the Superior Court
8 Marion county decided that under
n operation OF the FIRST section OF t
q eighth article. of the Constitution
d Indiana. eplored children had eq'
Ii0HtS Win W illlC III tIlC HuUlIt sCIo
e and could not be excluded from til
e equal benefit and enjoyment. The
cision was made by Judge Perkin
y distinguished member OF the Den
it cratic party, and for many years VI
III the bench OF the Supreme Court.
III The old bugbear of social equa
IN which has so often done service. in.
s. cause of the Democracy, Is again
raded to alright the souls of til
I'd who do not feel entirely confident
TX their social position. How often "
id We told that if slavery were abolis
s. there would be social equality
n tween the races;and then how solel
ne ly was it declared from every stu
in Indiana that if negroes were
rd mitted to the right OF suffrage, so
)" equality would be inevitable? "
these dreadful contingencies h
ii happened, and social equality Sc
en- to be as far off as ever But now
are assured that the Civil Rights
en- which in respect to schools, is bu
us re-enactment Of the Constitution
do Indiana, will certainly produce
q much dreaded result.
The school, hotel and gravey
he questions are about the last hold
democracy llpve upon the preju
aeainstraceand color, and we
expect to see them make the mos
u. them.
us The future is long, and revelat
in history and reason alike teach us
ew justice and the right will triumph
re the end. The doctrine of civil
yn political equality. to all races of
has been firmly entrenched in