Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-03-05
A bill ID protect all citizens ii tlieir civil aud

legal rights. rs
1s-: cnactcd by The Senate aud House Of Repre-
sentdttes Of The United States Of An,crica in Con-
grcss assembled, That whit ever being n corpora
ton or natural person, and owner or in charge
OF any place of public amusement or cntertan-i
ment for which Il license from any legal author
ity is required; or of any line ofst stage-coaches,3
railroads, or other means of public carriage of.
passengers or freight; or of any cemetery. or
other benevolent institutions, or any public.
schools supported in whole or in part, Mt public
expenses or by endowment for public use, shalt
make any distinction rs toithe admission or
accommodation therein of any citizen of the
United States because of race, color, or previous.
condition of servituie, shall, on conviction,
hereof be fined not less than 500 no more
than $4,000 for each offense and the person or;
corporation so offending shall be liable to the
citizens thereby injured in, damages, to be re-
covered in an action of debt
SEC. That the offenses under net aud nc-s
IONS TO recover damages may be prosecuted be-
tore any territorial district or circuit court of
the United States having Jurisdiction ofcrimcsl
at the place where the offense was charged to
hHae been committed rs well as in the district
were the parties may reside, as now provided
by law. sa
Add to the end dissection 2 the follow.
ing
And all the provisions o. the act entitled Gan
act to protect all persons III the United States
| IN their civil rights, and furnish the means of
their vindication," passed April 6, 1866 relating
to the enforcement of civil rights, with the pen-
altics there provided. are made applicable in,
the prosecution of oilenscs under this act. &
Whether Congress has the right, underi
the Constitution, to enact such law
(Which do not belicve,) or whether such,
rights pertains solely to the Safes, (Which
is my opinion,) | will not stop to discuss,
for not only has that question been fully.
debated already, but even if the right of
Congress to pass this bill we're undoubted
should still oppose it OH account of its
ruinous inexpeaiency. My remarks will
be confined altogether to the detection
and exposure Of the false political, social.
and chronological principles upon which,
this proposed legislation is basel, and tic,
injurious results necessarily consequent
upon its adoption. If my treatment OF
the subject should seem. somewhat ,spe.s,,'
lntivc and discursive, trust it MAY ba
pardoned. and attributed 10 my desire to
avoid following ina beaten track and
repeating what has already been said.
We have heard much in this debate
about cquality-the equality of men and
OF races Of men. That kind of rhetoric
has been fashionable in America for a
century past. The illustrious Jefferson
appears to have inaugurated it when he
penned the celebrated sentence, "All men
are born equal" That sentence was
analyzcd twenty-five years ago byanother
famous statesman Of our country, and
shown to be not only not true, bus to con
tain more error and untruth than has
ever been embodied, perhaps, in the same
number Of English words. 1t is Il senti-
ment which may serve very well and
often has served well, rs the war cry of
rcvoluionists, but calm philosophy, aye,
plain common sense, smiles ut its absur-
dity. "All men born equal" Why, sir,
no two men are born equal, or ever live
TO become equal. In face, in form, in
fortune, i'll intellect, in everything, each
man is unlike every other. Not equality,
but infinite inequality and variety, is the
law of this universe. 1t has been said
that Shakespeare never repeats Such
was the compass of his genius, that every
effort of his mind evolved new idea.
Does God then repeat? No, sir. Each
thought emanating from the all-pcriect
mind isa new thought, and each act a
new creation. He made the oak 10 battle
with storms, and the daisy to shelter un-
derneath, the eagle to soar above the
clouds, and the mocking-brd to sing in
the thicket. All nature is full cf con
trasts and unlkenesses. And not only
does this variety pertain to the natural
world, but in that higher realm to which
faith points of, cone star differ from
another star i'll glory" So that from the
grains Of sand and the rocks, upward
through the living, tho animate, the in.
telligent, the spiritual, the angelic exist
ences, to the very throne of God, all being
in one grand chain of progressive and
successive links, whcreofthere are no two