The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-10-12
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The Civil-Rights gill I'm the South.
Or. Redfeld, the observing and candid
correspondent Of the Cincinnati Commercial,
writes from Montgomery, Ala, as follows
concerning the feeling towards the ivil-
rights bill in the southern States:
In the northern part of the State, the other
day. | was talking to Republican acquaint.
auce of mine-a hotel-keeper, and man |
have known for FIVE years. / have personal
know ledge that lie is Republican, and has
voted that ticket for years; but, like every
white Albanian, he is bitter in his denun-
Citations OF the ciyil-rights bill. asked him
what he proposed to do In reference TO his
hotel business il that bill became law; and
this is his exact answer:
"If that bill passes, and niger attempts
to eat dinner in my hotel, he will take supper
10 hell" 4
"Why, would you kill him7" asked.
al certainly should" he replied. Ono
niger shall eat at my table, if am keeping
hotel"
Now, if a southern Republican cherishes
such an antipathy to the negroes, what can
we expect of the southern Democrats?
In ,akingto me abont civil rights, young
man in this city used this language: " If |
was seated with my sister at hotel table,
and nigger should sit down to the same
table. I would kill him, if knew | would
be hung in five minutes, and" he continued,
looking at NE, "you would, too"
told him I certainly should not.
-. What pot kill bigger for sitting down
to the table where you and your wife or sis
ter wcre?"
"No."
He contemplated me with some astonisE-
ment, and doubtless concluded that wasn't
much white man utter all.
Not long ago overheard couple of white
men specializing as 10 the effects of the civil
rights bill. One said to the other: Sup.
pose you and your wife were taking dinner
ut the - hotel, and negro should sit
down to the same table. What would you
do 2"
II would kill bin in two seconds"
"What would be the result ?"
al would probably be arrested by the civil
authorities"
"Wh4t then?"
ga mob of white men would rescue me
from the authorities"
"What would follow"
s.The local authorities, being poWer!ess,
would bave to call upon the General Co.
vcrnment for troops"
"W hat thepE
every likely conflict between the mob
and the troops"
"Do you see any possibility, then, of the
civilrghts bill becoming law without re-
sulting in bloody collisions, in which the
General Government will be drawn in!"
u do not. If that hill becomes law it
will be the death-kpe!l Of the American Gov
eminent. 1t can only be enforced by the
bayonet, and the attempt will speedily lead
to change in TIE form of our Govern.
ment.'
| merely give these as specimens OF the
talk one bears in the South continually. The
northern people do pot seem to comprehend
how depp.rootcd and immovablc the prclu-
dice against the negro here is, or, rather,
against the socaFcd equality us contenpia-
ted in the civil rights bill.
This PREJUDICE is absurd, but 1t is the
part OF wisdom to recognize it rs fact, and
respect it accordingly. Pounding at it with
the battering ram of law only intensiiies and
strengthens it.
Senator Sherman, in some of his recent
speeches in Ohio, says that the ciyil.rlShts
bill is necessary to give the negro educa-
tional facilities. have muckrespect for the
senator, but he never made Il greater mistake
in his life than to entertain and express such
an idea. So far from giving the negroes any
educational facilities, it will take away al
that he has in the South. In nearly every
southern State there is now system OF free
schools for both races, supported, OF cours'.
in the main, by the white taxpayers. Let
the civil-rights bill pass in the shape that
Senator Sherman voted for it, and every free
school will instantly be wiped out in every
southern State except South Carolina and
Mississippi. This is the universal feeling
among The whites. Their indignation will
find vent in destroying all the free schools,
both for whites and blacks. No law can pre-
vent them from doing this, and they will do
it. Not one negro in twenty is able to edu.
cate bis own children, and if deprived of the
free schools they must grow up in ignorance.
/ have talked with the school authorities
and the Governors Of most of the southern
States on this subject, and know what the
feeling is, and what the programme will be
if the ciVil.rights bill becomes law. BY
voting for that bill Senator Sherman struck
q blow at the educational interests of the
blacks land whites, too, for that matter)
which will prove fatal unless Congress or the
veto of the President kills this most de-
structiye measure. beg of him to consider
the lifelong prejudices existing here, and
respect them for the black mans sake, if not
for the white.
Charlottesville Chrontcle.l J.
Many of the most thoughtful men and most
sagacious statesmen of the country have
| reached the deliberate conclusion that, with
| unrestricted suffrage, popular government
| will not do. We have drifted far away al
ready from the theory Of representative re.