The daily gazette., 1874-09-18
For the Delaware Gazette.
The CirH Rights BW-Mired
Grant com WmHfe" an

For the Delaware taZet,c.
The CirH Rights BW-Mired
Grant CODiMNfed az
its FdrOr.
The Commercial has at last sounded
retreat from the advanced positioh II
has hitherto held as the champion ol
negro equality.
Alarmed by the popular condcmna'
ton of the Radical party everywhere
throughout the country it proposes 10
desert the cause of the negro man
and brother" In the signal Democratic
victories in the State and munlcipai
elections of the past few months, IL
sees the handwriting ON the wall ana
prudently concludes To be little moro
backward in coming forward in be |
half of the colorcd wards of the Ma
| tion"
| In recent editorial it asserts that
its fellow Radicals, Morton " Co,
now "disclaim that the passage OF the
| Civil Rights Bills would carry mixed
schools with it," Indeed And does
the sapicnt Commercial really expect
that the white men and women of Mel
| aware will refuse to believe the evl-
| dence of their own senses Does the
| Commercial pretend to be ignorant o1
the Congressional action upon tins
bill If it will examine the proceed
ings of the L. 5. Senate it will ma
that the following was offered as an
amendment to this atrocious bill pend
ing its passage through the Senate,
viz -
" Provided, That nothing herein
d" contained shall be construed To pro
" hibit any State or School District
Z" from providing separate schools Tor
persons Of different sex or color,
4" where such separate schools are
" equal in all respects to Others OF the
same grade established hy such au-
{" thority, and supported by an equal
pro rata expenditure Of the school
" funds
This amendment in opposition to
"miXed schools was supported hy all
the Democratic Senators and was
voted down by solid Republican vote
: And vet the Commercial has the pre-
sumption to say that the Civil Rights
: Bill does not mean mixed schools,
Again, the Commercial artfully sug-
gests that President Grant would veto
this infamous hill. But, unfortunately
| for his would-bc mouth piece, Prcsi
dent Grant himself has spoken exactly
: to the contrary, as will appear by the
following which We copy from the
Philadelphia Press. of Tuesday, for tho
thoughtful pcrusal of the people o.
Delaware -
PREsIDEBT GRANT INTERVIEWED.
8 | Especial Despatch to the Press
~ "WAsHINGToN, d. C., Sept. IA
Hon. ]. Amber Smith, of Virginia
who was present to-day at an inter
d " view between President Grant ant
# " Senator Spencer and Representative
f. - HAYES and Rapier, says that afte
% :" Spencer and his colleagues had stated
,. their case the President manifested
some impatience, and did not seen
y to coincide with their ideas. In tn
II course of the conversation the ques
le ,ion of the Civil Rights Bill wa
1t brought up. The President sat
e. " that making this question an issue h
> ,hrought the Southern Republican
- had made mistake they had agl
= tated it at IA wrong time. Mr. Pres
Il ident, said Spencer, 1T was reporte'
that had the bill passed you woul
20 have vetoed it, How is that
ay Z" Had il passed at the last session
4" said the President, i would certainl
have done so, but should it pass a
~ {" the next session | can not say l wi
81 veto il, 1t may become my dut
is "to sign it, The responsibility wi
gg " rest with the Southern Republican
en who have forced this question upo
i'm the party. y
"a The reasons Of this partizan Pres
~ dent then, for opposing the tyrannic
'e bill were not as the Commercial all
ull yes, because he doubted the constit
ick tionalityn or thought that it "wou
not benefit the colored people" b
he because it was impolitic to agita
the question before the fall electio
and because it would hurt the part
Ihe 1t would be wrong for him to sign 4
ct bill before the elections, but IL won
hat be right to do so afterwards. Wi
ent this specimen of Presidential lol
af. and morality before our eyes, and
&c view of the reckless action of Congr'
upon the Civil Rights Bill, can II
A' sane man doubt that Congress inter
ter to force the negro into our VIII
IN s schools, or that Grant intends TO ;
he prove the bill wheneverit shall be p
his sented for his signature
low Further comment Is unnecessary
The Commercial is confronted by
" votes of its own Radical Congressn
Ills and by the confession of its own pa
diet Zan President Its mouth is closed
lish the vote of Lofland and by the vo
of Grant. The people cannot be II
oes led by it. They penetrate its des
- and will defeat it. 1t long ago for
> III ted their respect by its past advoci
use. of negro equality. Let it now hay
get care lest it lose the support of its biz
the allies by its present inidelity to the
ont A still tongue is said to show "
h;to head. Unless the Commercial is
-, indiscrect as it is inconsistent it '
hhi ltake charitable hint, and hold
emu peace on the subject of the Civil Rig
ious Bill. DELAWARE
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