The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-30
Rock Island, Illinois, Saturday, May 80, 1874.

by forcing such an issue, political parties
IN tennessee shall be readiusted on the
color line. 4 minority party rent in twain
Is not likely to prove formidable to the or
posing organization.
From the Memphis (Tenn. Appeal
The effect of the enactment of the Civil
Rights bill can hardly be anticipated. Ev-
erybody sees how it sweeps away the pub
icschool system in all these States, how
these great buildings, erected by the tax
payers of Memphis must become tenant
less; or, becoming private property, be
devoted to private schools. Every indi-
vidual and sect opposed to the free-schooI
system, will now fin4 an ally in every
white man. No county court in Tennes
see, as now organized, will make appropri-
ton to maintain free school system, and
the Legislature will be forced to make
some special disposition of the State
school fund The result will be the re-
excitatiOn against the South of all that
melevolence in the East which was recently
supposed to be almost extinct Party
leaders observed that this condition of
popular feeling supervened, and were con-
scious that the only hope Of protracting
radical supremacy consisted in the organi-
zaflon OF another negro crusade against
the South. Therefore, this ever
recurring necessity for the removal of the
negro question in some of its detestible as
poets. In the midst of this new sensation
al agitation, the opening Of a southern
gateway to the sea will be forgotten; tar
itf and currency reforms become unimport-
ant; and monopolists of power, held by
virtue OF the ever-renOwhed African i'm
brogllo, prosecute, leisurely, schemes of
plunder Stupendously stupid are we to
0e always duped by our passions, and plum
dered while enraged.
From the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
! We believe that this bill is pressed by
the majority in Congress for two evil pur-
poses, (l) to widen the gulf of separation
between North and South, rekindle dying
animosities, and renew those sectional an
tagonisms IN which that party, from its
birth until this hour, has lived, moved and
had its being, and (2) to aff1ict this South
ern people with an odious law which 1t is
hoped they will violate, to the Republican
advantage. At any rate these results may
; follow It's enactment, and if those who are
are pushing it In Congress are so blind as
not to see it they have no business in the
Council Halls of the nation, To speak
plainly and to the point, if they foresee
these results and defy them, they are
traitors to the peace of the nation; if they
do not foresee them they are either fanat-
les or FOOLS and they may take their choice
Of the two appellations.
From the Mobile (Ala) Register
The bill is utterly sweeping in its charac-
ter. 1t provides under heavy penalties
that negroes shall be admitted to the en-
joyment Of all privileges allowed white
men by institutions supported in whole OF
part at the public expense or under pub
lie license. 1t includes entrance to the
dress-clrcle of theatres, to the parlors anC
dining rooms of hotels, to the saloons O.
steamboats,, and to the sleeping cars. L
provides that negro children shall be
taught side by side with white children il
the public schools of Mobile, and turns up
on tn streets the children of both white
l and blacks, simply because they do not si
IN the same school room or upon the samt
D bench, 1t is the most infamous bill tha
, ever disgraced a civilized and enlightened
people. 1t attacks honorable prejudice
which have their birth in the instincts o
Nature, and destroys great charitable in
stitutions in order to obtain favor for tn,
hour with a certain number of votes
: Whom the gods would destroy they frs
Il make mad.
= From the savannah Ca News.
Whatever may be said of the dying ou
J, out Of untriendly memories and the restO
ration of fraternal relations, the Civ
Q Rights bill has come to be considered
q party measure Of vital imp ance-as tn
only means Of retaining control of that i
e legally created political power, the negr
/ vote . There is no evidence Of
e general desire on the part of the people o
: the North that such law, fraught with $
Z much of evil and so unpromising of an
II good shall be passed, Few if any of tn
; Republican journals of the North urge th
+ measure, while some of the more model
ate and conservative among them openl
/, oppose it on the ground that it will be pro
a. a. ductive Of evil to both races. In the S0ut
y y many Radical papers, and some of I'll
u most prominent and influential Radio;
e :. leaders, with a large percentage of the we
u disposed negroes oppose the passage of tt
u: Civil Rights bill The measure is dali
81 growing unpopular, and will soon have fe
advocates outside of the carpet-b bagge
- who hope to improve their political pro
y poets by the strife and discord which il
y = attempted enforcement as law would cr
~ ate in our Southern communities