The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-03-10
rho Civil-Rights FlareNp.


The Civl-Rights Flare'up.
r,o feverish excitement produced mere
49, ,he civ;,.riyhts bill can be of but short
duration, we should shinS. socmi c'"
rn;uxline, or fraternisation OF the wp''e "'"
h,ack races is an inpossibksy. All the saws
that Congress can pass. backed os ah Tue
Sawor. Of the Government used by GsasT,
cannot enforce Il. The country may "'su~
(,od tha. this Is so, because soca' eqaah's
between the races would Involve aeeta '.-
tion of society and the decay OF the "oSe1a-
ment. a..
The neopse Will regulate the su9rct.
White society is so2acienty indestrncRble h
n ,brs couxtry to resist the worse than mad
attempt of the Radical Congress to override
the laws OF God Senator EArok,'o t Con-
necticut, boldly tod the corruptiouists and
fanatics in the Senate that all the laws OF;
Congress could not force cosored men upon
the jurics In Connecticut; and we may SAP
that all those laws cannot make the races
equal in this State. They can nsither ese-
yate the Negro to the platform with TIE
white man nor lower the whitcsnan to that
of the negro.
It Ia q sad consequence, however, Whsch
falls epen some men that their robustness usay
be destroyed. The msaagsr OF a theatre
and the proprietor Of hete are the owners
OF their own property, sud should bye7ery
consideration be permitted to conduct Shelr
establishments in the manner that suitss hem
best and that they think VIII! yield them the
largest croft provided they preserpe'srder
and give not scandal. This would seem 10
be their,iualenabe right. They pay their
license land should be protected 10 sorcgula-
ting their business as best'to enable item to
live and pay the burthens OF the Stale Soa
mar sheuld be allowed to keep theatre for
black people, or white people, or'aoy other
class; or u hotekeepert TO admit only certain
classes, TO exclude beggars, and dea,crs, and
smali,pox patients, &c. They should be al.
lowed these rights for their own advantage
and fol the safety Of their guests.
Toaeny them these rights wonfdtOe tanta-
mount to placing their property as tie mercy
OF the Government ADD making BILE to be
ruiged OF the caprice Of .anaticisR, 'or worse
passions.
The vile Radicals of Congress hsve invaded
private property in the nestvicio,ts and ma
Ignant spirit, and The result may be the ruin
of some persons, but the natureof the races
wilhsettle the question finally. The people
will solve it.
The insuperable aversion Of Eace-Whlch
shows itself the moment q question is made
looking to the enforcement OF eeuaity-ls
no less apparent 10 the North than in the
South. Look at Pittsburgh, where manu-
factory has employed negroes from this city
to underworld the whites. Doesa.nan think
that the hostility Shown there towards the
negro is temporary sentiment: 1t would
be @ foolish idea to think SO. The feeling is
as old as the day that brought tbesnegro and
the white man face to face. Itis rs lasting
as time, and if measures succeed inqueling
open resistance on the part of the whites
their true feelings will only be stfied, and
will live and grow 10 bitterness against
another day of their violent exhibition.
We have not the slightest apprehension
that the civl-rights law willforce the equality
which its vile authors prolessed toantiepate.
There,are too many white people'in this land
for it to be conquered by Africans, and it is
question of superiority. The whites must
be overwhelmed or they will rule. But the
Federal Government is in the process Of
revolution, by which sensible and, patriotic
men will be put at the head of national
affairs. They will not seed 'the,support of
negro votes to keep them in power, and will
not pursue policy Intended tohnmiliate
the white race and place the black race over
it. The day for this per%ersion of;justice
and this destruction of cisliz ttOn is gone.
Whenever the civil-rights bill may be car
ried to the Supreme Court it will be. declared
unconstitutional. That it will producessome
trouble is certain. 1t has already done this
but its chief ipi ury will be to the negroes.
themselves 1t tends to widen the breach
between the negro and the white man,; but
the negro will be the Chief sufferer thereby.
Every disturbance of the public peace gReE-
ing out of this bill will react terribly against
the negro. 1t may trouble the white man
ladies, fearing trouble, may stay away froEa
public amusements; places may be in eonse-
quence shut up. Eut what does the negro
gain by that? Nothing whatever. lie loses
immensely by forcing the white man to con-
slider how he is to become altogether snde.
pendea!.Qf the negro snd when that inquiry
begins it will be facilitated by number Of
considerations relating RIO the social troubles
from Ereconcilable distinctions Of race that
will be of fearful import to the African.
This aiYil-rights bill, then, is machine by
which the negro Ia placed in stread-mill that
only brings around in its revolutions instru-
ments Of torture for himself. He can get
nothing but evil from it. Nature will tri.
umph oyer it, and it will prove utterly futile
for any purpose for which it was passed.
Society will triumph over it, and be at rest
when maRgnants such as MokgoE and CHAND-
LER, The kypocrites such as SHERMAN and
CoNKLINe, and the brutes such as MORTON
and BUTLER. are dead and damned by all
civilized society.
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Mr. Htsater on the Currency.
The New York Herald solicited the views
49, tho Hoy,