The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-07-23
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Next to Rev. DR.. Beeeher, the Rev.

Next to Rev DR.. Beecher, the Rev.
DR.. Talmage, has the largest congregation
in New York, or Brooklyn He is a
very popular expounder of the Gospel
of Christ, and has been a no less Jealous
propagandist of abolitionism DIR.
Talmage to his pulpit calling, joins still
another scarcely less important He is
the editor of paper bearing the signif-
cant title of the Christian at York In this
journal he occasionally devotes himself
to the discussion OF secular matters,
and among the rest%he Civil Rights bill.
In late number, he enters a vigorous
protest against the bill. 1t is not the
Southern OK that is gored now. The
taurine monster has been pampered and
fed until he has sent his horns crashing
through the sides of the Northern OK;
and Rev. DIR. Talmage thinks it is time
to put a curb on him. The case is al
tered; state rights are inperilled. Society
is to be disturbed by the forced entrance
of an unmanageable and unwelcome ele-
ment. 1t will never do! So DR.. Talmage
says, and he lifts up his voice and warns
the negro that he is Fastening his own
ruin. The only wonder is that this I'M
selfish patriot never made the discovery,
until the Civil Rights bill assumed a prac-
ticable shape in his own section. Here is
an extract from the Christian at Work
1 The civil rights bill, now before Con
gress, Is an impolitic as it Is unjust and
| unwarranted Further, if it be not by
percritism to say that the bill has nc
constitutional warrant, it is open to thai
objection as well. Il is impoltic because
/ it is not demanded by any principle Of
right or expediency it Is unjust because
it violates the inherent right Of every
/ State to regulate It's own extreme af-
fairs, and it is unconstitutional in that ii
seeks to establish monopoly of rights
and privileges in favor of color. The
/ fourteenth amendment, under which
alone authority for the bill Is claimed,
simply defines what citizenship thall be,
and declares that ono State shall make
or enforce any law which shall abridge
the privileges or immunities of citizens
of the United States" Yet here is q
bill which says to each State: you
must send white and black to the same
school" Is ii not easy to see that such
/ a measure is as arbitrary as it is unjust
! By what right does Congress interfere
with the schools of the State, organized
| by the State and supported by the State
Yet this is not only contemplated in the
| bill, but an amendment, allowing each
State to provide separate schools for black
and white, was voted down And what
good is sought to be accomplished Does
Congress really think to force whites and
| blacks into the same school? And if it
succeed, will it benefit the blacks, will it
change his color or better his condition
On the contrary, the result Of this foolish
| legislation will be 10 overthrow the entire
school system of the South it will retard
! the education of the negro; it will arouse
antipathies, and it will weaken public
| confidence in our national legislature
confidence which is already no stronger
| than it should be. The truth is, our
State governments, North, South, East
and West, are sufficiently we'll estab-
lished to attend to their own legislation.