The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-30
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From the Richmond CVa.l Whig.
We have little heart for comment on the
action of the Senate in regard to the Civil
Rights bill. There is hope, but
faint one, that the Democrats will be able
to defeat its passage throughthe House, by
flibustering, as they did last year. Should
it pass that body it will then have to go to
the President for his approval He would
cover himself with glory, and do solid
service to both races and the whole
country by applying the veto to this i'll
advised bill Should it become a law the
whole public school system will be wreck
ed in such of the Southern States as are
under Conservative control, and the bitter
antagonism between the races, that had be-
gun to abate, will be revived in all It's for
mer intensity.
From the Nashville (Tenn) Union.
In one shape or another, the Radical
party must move on, under the pressure of
800, 600 negro votes and the new issue is
likely to be made up. We are
not afraid of the issue. Let it it come. 1t
is the dying struggle Of Radicalism.
Whom the gods would destroy, they first
make mad
From the Nashville (Tenn) Banner
The bill, we need hardly say, directly
provokes, excites, and cultivates the antip-
athy of race aud caste by forcing into
prominence distinctions that are ineradica-
| BILE. 1t enforces conflict by causing the
law to give an equality which the Creator
has denied, and ruinously Injuries the race
| it pretends to serve by placing 1t IN posi-
| ton of antagOnism TO a superior and doml-
nant race. No laws on such subjects are
sound or effective save in so far as they are
declaratory of actual conditions. If the
| law designates line of action that is
/ in accord with the tendencies of human
pride and passion there is harmonious op-
GRAFTON but if law and human nature are
in conflict it is human nature that prevails,
and every ineffective law that is made is a
direct loss to the moral power of the State.
| While this is all 50, the faction whose pow
er is fast waning does not care what the
practical operation of the law may be. The
men who vote for it do so as those who bid
desperately on a last call.
From the Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche.
What do the Republicans, who seem de-
termined to force this measure, mean
Do they desire to further cripple aud re
tard the progress of the South; or do they
: look upon this bill merely as temporary
expedient, designed to hold the colored vott
until after 1876? The latter most prob
ably; but if so, they are likely to reckon
without their host; for, as counted in th'
: organization of the next Congress, the los
will be far greater than their gain, Their
is such a thing as going too far.
The Morristown Spy says the Republi
can party in Fast Tennessee is unit il
approving Senator Brownlows opposition
to mixed schools and the Civil Right
bill. The colored citizens of Mays
vile, East Tennessee, met on the lot
and Indignantly denied that 'th
: colored people do not demand the pa;
Q sage of the Civil Rights bi
with the mixed school clause" The
also declared that I'VE heartily indors
Q the resolutions adopted by the State Co
= ored Convention, and earnestly reeommen
o the colored citizens throughout th
Q State to call public meetings and indors
y the principles adopted by the Colored Cor
0 vention at Nashville There eau be 4
Q doubt that Senator Brownlow. who oppo
y es mixed schools, represents the sent
10 ments of the East Tennessee Republican
If, as the Memphis colored politicians an
. Maysville resolution assert, the colore
" masses indorse the Nashville Convention
% demand for mixed schools and socl
'o equality, the issue is squarely made up
nearly all the white Republicans will
driven out of that party. These eolore
political zealots must blame themselves