The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-10-12
The Horrors OF the Civil Rights Bill
and It's Results.

To the Mechanics and WOrk'ngn'eH %
Wheeling and Ohio county:
GENTLEMEN:-No question of Nation
al or State politics which have been sub
mitted to our consideration for our
approval or disapproval, pending this
canvass. bears any relative Importance,
whatever, To the vital and only ISSUE be-
fore us, the Civil Rights Bill question.
This horrible monster stands far out and
above any and all issues and questions
now agit.ting our unhappy country, from
its centre to its circumference. Upon no
class of citizens will the results of tins
unconstitutional outragefall 50 disastrous
IL and opp e.sively. n it will on us. l
will show YOU how it will effect Us aS
class more than it will the other class
lthe rich of our country In short, Yet
comprehensive way. :,
Under our present school system all
the children. both white and colored, are
proyided with means of education. Our
children are taught by our teachers
and in our own school houses,
and the colored children by their teachers
and in their own houses and both are
prosrering and moving along harmon''
mlsly together, in the same community.
Roth are educated out of the same school
fund and that fund is raised from taxes
levied on us all alike, according In our
taxable property. The first great out
ron, and result OF the Civil Rights Bill
when il becomes law, will be 10 take
from the sovereign States of this tnoi!
the preregative to manage and control
their own internal affairs, and as leglt'
innate consequence, they would bc nothing
hut mere vaSSalls under the imperial gov
ernment at Washington.
This bill would take from the states
their power and liberty to leglslate tsrthc
peoplr on any subject whatever that did
not meet with the approval ofthe powers
that be-" at Washington, :,
The next and greatest outrage OF al
the outrages growing out OF this imam
Gus bill, is the utter destruction ana oyer
throw of our State schools. III Is I'M,
sspect ofthe bill that desire to now Cal
v.ur honest and careful attention to, be-
cause il will fall with crushing weigh
and ruin on us as class more than "i
any other class for this reason: tnde'
our present school system, we can educate
our children in all the branches OF
common English education and not fee
the expense oft. en-,
One Of two things We will have to d'
iftbe civil rights bill becomes a law
First 10 send our children with nesroe
Ia mixed schools; or our second alterha
tive will be to- pay for our children out o
our individual pockets, or suffer on
children to grow up in ignorance sn'
without education, as was the case beior
the war. D.. ..
These results will most positively an'
certainly come on us ss Il class If this oil
becomes a law.
Will any of us send our children Il
mixed schools? l can not believe ina
there is a workingman so demoraiized II
This State that he would be willing to se'
such A humiliation and injury inhictee
unon his children, You will have eu
the alternative left you Of paying your
self for the education ofyour children. o
send them to negro schools, if the ciVi
| rights bill becomes n law. =,
THE rich of our country can and WI
avert this calamity from falling on thei
| children. They will employ their owl
teachers to educate their children d