Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-10-09
The Civil Rights Bill I'm the south

DIR. RedieId, the observing and candid cor
respondent OF the Cincinnati Commercial writes
from Montgomery, Ala, as follows concerning
the feeling towards the civil rights bill in the
southern states
In the northern part of the state, the other
day, was talking to a republican acquaintance
OF mine, 3 hotel keeper, and a man | have
known for five years. 1 have personal knOwl-
edge that he is republican, and has voted
thai ticket for years But, like every white
Albanian, he IL bitter in his denunCiatiOns of
the civil lights bill. i asked him what he pro-
p sed to do IN reference to his hotel business IL
mat bill became law, And this is his exact
answer:
elf that bill passes and a niger attempts to
eat dinner IN my hotel, he viii take supper in
"Wby, would you kill him % asked.
certainly should, - he replied. - No niger
shall eat a. my table, il 1 am keeping hotel"
Now II southern republican Cherishes such
an antipathy 10 the negroes, what can we expect
OF the southern democrats"
In talking 70 me about civil rights, young
man IN this city used this language - II / was
seated With my sls-er st a hotel table, ana
Niger should sit down to the same table I
NOuld Kill him, il knew ! would be hung in
me, " you would, too"
1 told him I certainly should not.
hat not lii niger tor sitting down 10
the table where YOU aud your vile or sister
SNo"
BE contemplated me with some as.onishment,
4
White man after ali.
Not long ago / overheard a couple Of white
men speegiatinR as to the effects of the civil
rights bill. ore said 10 the other. "SupUlse
you and your wife were taking dinner az the
- hotel, and negro shOuid SIT down to the
sane table. What would yOu COP
~ would XII him IL two seconds"
"What would be the result
authorities"
"a mob OF white men uou1t resc1a ma f-o,,
the authorities"
''WEat would follow"
"1Ee local authorities being pOwerIes- wOuli
have TO call uIcn the general government for
troops"
What them"
Very hkely a conflict between the mob and
''DO you see any possibility. then, Of the civil
rights bill becoming a law without resulting in
tlOcdy collisions, Ii which the general govern
meIt vii Z drawn iII''
- 60 Lot. II that biI becomes a law it will
be the deatE-kneli Of the \ ClsTi can government.
Ii can only be enforced by the b4yOEet, and tue
attempt Will speed Y lead 10 3 change in the
form OF our government
merely give these as specimens OF the talk
one hears IL the touth continually. The north
EN- People 90 rot seem to comp rehsud how deep
rooted and immOvajle the prejudice against
the negro here Is OF rather aga nSt the called
equality a. Contemplated in the eivil-rights bill.
This prejudice J. absurd. bat il j. the part Of
YisGOm 10 recognize II a. n fact, and respect II
aCcOrCirElv Pounding az II with the batter.
II gram q Jaw only Intenslnes and strengthens
II.
Senator sherman, IN some Of his recent
speeches IN Ohio, says that the civil rights bill
i necessary TO give the EC gro educational faCil-
ties have much respect for the Senator, but
be never made a greater mistake Ia his LIE
than To enter tain ard express such an idea. SO
lar from giving the negroes aEv educ ltiOnal
facilities n iii take away all that he has in
the south. In nearly every sou hern state there
II nov a system OF free schools for both races,
supported, OF course. in the main, by the white
tampa. eTs. Let the civil rights bill pas. in the
shape that Senator Siberian voted for IL, and
every free school Will Instantly he wiped out in
every southern state except South Carolina
and Mississippi This is the universal feeling
among the whites. Their indi gnatiOn will ind
vent in destroying sH the free schools both for
whites ard blacks No law can prevent them
from doing this, and they will do IL. Not one
negro II twenty Il able 70 educate his own chill
rem, and II deprived of the free schools thew
must grow Up m ignorance.
IhaVe talked with the school authorities and
the governors Of most OF the southern states on
this subject, and know what the feeling is
81 What The programme vii be X the civil
rights bal becomes a law. By voting for tn at
bill Senator Sherman struck blow at the edu-
CauCnal interests OF the blacks and whit -,
700, Tor that matter which will prove fatal
unless Congress or the veto Of the President
kllis thls most destructive measure. 1 beg OF
MN 70 consider the lifelong pTejudices OK St
ing here, aHd respect them for The black 10 an ;
sake, n rot for the white