The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-01-15

and representative Of the district for which
Calhoun once sat in the House, rose to reply to
the late Vice President of the Southern Con-
federacy, and made what Is universally admit
ted to be the speech of years for eloquuenee and
force. The theme was consonant with al else,
being the civil and legal rights Of q class OF
citizens who, few years ago, were not citizens
at all, and had just enough civil. and legal
rights to discriminate them from non-human
animals, Congressman Elliott did not spare
the aged Georgian orator, but turned against
him his efforts as the second officer of the slave
oligarchy to blot out the name of these United
States, in whose national hall of Representa-
tives he yesterday strove to postpone the day
of iustice for the colored man by glittering
generalities, dreary platitudes and pure abstrac.
lions of human rights and liberties. 1t had
been arranged that General Butler should close
the debate on the Civil Rights bill, after Mr..
Elliott had finished his speech, but the tipe
between bis finish and adjournment was filled
I'D by further debate and business, and so the
debate went over without the speech that Gen.
Butler will now, in all probability, never make.
1t is no longer secret that the bill did not
meet the approval of President Grant, and those
who have either desired to know the Executive
pleasure in advance of Legislative action or
who openly or in secret dislike the measure
now know the fact just stated. If no change
be wrought on the floor of the House tomorrow,
from present intention the bill will be recon-
mitted to the Judiciary Committee on the pre-
tence of recasting it for the purpose Of getting
the amendments in their proper places and
removing objections to phraseology and ambl-
euity. and it will be no more heard of during
the present session.
The Presidents assigned reasons for casting
a prospective veto toward the bill may be
summarized as follows: He is opposed to
mixed schools 80 long as any prejudices OF race
and color exist, preferring that the contest, If
there must be one, be fought out by the adults
at the ballot boxes, and youth and education
left as free as possible from disturbance. Sec
ond, the bill, reduced to practical propositions,
means social equality formulated into law and
enforced by legal punishments, and against
this very thing the exponents of the republican
party have pledged themselves time and again.
Third, the bill is an attempt to forestail the
slower but healthier operation of public opln-
ion upon a subject that cannot be handled in
any other way, and will be productive of de-
plorable mischief to both races all over the
Union. Fourth, it is. a strong measure, entire
" confined in its practical operations to the
Southern States, the relations between the races
in other portions of the Union being amicable
and constantly improving, and the representa-
tives of East and West in Congress exhibiting
significant desire to keep out of the contro-
versy. Fifth, however we'll defined the intent
of the law it will be used as terrible engine
of oppression in the South, by arranging ana
prosecuting under it persons attempting to
cont: aua those determinations that have al
ways been recognized as proper, without refer
ence to race or color. Sixth, it cannot fail to
greatly weaken the Republican party by the
reaction that will spring up against it as soon
as its practical working is seen, as one OF the
many unwise, reckless and cowardly pieces of
legislation for which the party in Congress has
become too notorious. Seventh, If the bill
was one to be approved, instead OF being scout
ed, the glory and credit would all 60 to its
champion, Mr.. Sumner, and be carried by him
away from the republican party to further
strengthen an opposition that threatens to crys-
talize and consolidate itself before the next
Presidential election.
- WASHINGTON, January I, 1874.
It may be stated with absolute certainty that
the nomination of Attorney General Williams
for chief Justice of Supreme Court will '.be
withdrawn tomorrow. His letter of with.
drawal is written.
In the Senate, Morton gave notice that when
the salary bill was disposed of, he would ask
the Senate to take up aud dispose of the Loui-
siana case Stevenson gave notice that when
the Louisiana case was taken up, he would
move to refer the whole matter back to the
committee of privileges and elections, with
authority to take proof as to the validity of the
election Sumner presented petition from
thirty-fve thousand citizens of Ohio against
the proposed theological amendment to the
constitution. A tedious debate over the salary
bill exhausted the day, and there was no exec
utive session.
In the House, resolution was adopted call
ing for the names of paymasters of the late
war whose accounts are unsettled. Crutchheld,
of Tennessee, asked leave to offer an amend
ment to the supplementary civil rights bill,
providing a penalty against. any woman who
refuses an offer of marriage on account of
race, color or previous condition of servitude.
Laughter. Butler, of Massachusetts, object
ed. In the course of his speech, Butler said:
s1f he might be allowed to speak for the Re.
publican party he would embody the doctrine
in sentence, not that all men were equal,
but that every man had right to be the equal
of every other man if he could. All constitu-
tions, all laws, all enactments, all prejudices,
all caste, all custom, all thought against that
were unjust, wlcked, unchriselan, ana certalniy
must be brought to naugbt This bill only
removed all impedimeuts to every man to be
the equal of every other man if God had given
him the power"
Monroe, of Ohio, from the committee on
education and labor, reported back adversely
the resolution offered yesterday by sypher, Of
for the relief of the starving poor in the
Southern States The committee had talked
over the matter fully and freely, and the result
arrived at was, that the committee did not re-
gard it the proper sphere of Congress to enter
on the system of providing tor pauperism in
the States. If this precedent were established,
it would soon be found that Congress had en-
tered on the whole business of taking charge
of pauperism generally throughout the States.
The report was adopted, and the committee
was discharged from the further consideration
of the subject. The civil rights bill was re-
committed.