The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-03-02
r,a ryv;,. Ripb4s Law-What It Is.

AS TINS Dill LVS peCoiue
nee It IN glii that our readers may kn'"
vhat its features arc. Here IT Is:
Wherep q Il is essential to just government
70 rcccyuizs the equality OF all men oe'ore
he law. and hold that it is the duty Oh thc
;ovrr ument, In its dealings with inc feo-
,,c 70 mete out equal and exact Just'ce 10
n If whatever nationality, race. color, or
persuasion, religious or polticA anu ~
,aing the appropriate object OF ieglsiation 10
,nac, great princip pies into law theleiote
Re y enacted. de-, Tint all persons within
Tho ;ur,.d;,.tiou of the United States shall be
smiled to the full and equal enjoyment OF
no recommendations, advantages, facilities,
snd n,;yileees Of inns, public conveyances
on land or water, theatres, anu otner lfaces
OF public amusement, subject only to the con-
ditions and limitations established ny law,
and applicable alike 10 citizens OF every race
and color, regardless of any previous coRol'
ton OF servitude.
SECTION 2. That any person who SHALL VIC
late the foregoing section by denying 10 any
citizens, except for reasons by law applicable
TO citizens Of every race and color, ana re-
CARELESS of any previous condition OF serVi'
Jude. the full enjoyment Of any OF the &C.
commo da,ions, advantages, facilities, or prlRll'
leges in said section enumerated, or oE aid'
IMP or melting such denial, Shalt tor every
such offence forfeit and pay the sum OF hVe
hundred dollars TO the person agSrie'eo
thereby. to be recovered in an actioa OF
debt. with full costs; aad shall also ior
every such Csfence be deemed guilty. OF
misdemeanor, aud upon conviction tnere.
of shall be fined not less IMAM NV,
hundred nor more than one thoosano
dollars, or shall be imprisoned not less that
thirty days nor more than one year pro
vided that all persons may elect TO sue iol
the penalty aforesaid or TO proceed unoel
| their rights ut common law and by otate
statutes; and having so elected to proceed 10
the one mode or the other, their riSnt te
| proceed In the other jurisdiction shall oe
barred. But this provlso snail not Apply N
criminal proceedings either under his act OF
the criminal law OF any State. Aadproo'oeo
fs.rtlser, That judgment for the penalty 10
| favor Of the party aggrlevcd, OK judgment
upon an indictment, shall be a oar 10 eltneI
prosecution respectively. :.
SECTION 3. That the District and Circuit
| Courts of the United States Shall nave, e4.
clusively Of the courts Of the several oIa.es,
cognzance CT all crimes and Offences a"alns'
and violations of the provisions OF tnts act ;
and actions for the penalty given by the pre-
ceding section may be prosecuted ID Tue lti-
ritorial, District, or Circuit Courts OF the
limited States wherever the defendant may
he found. without regard to the other party.
And the district attorneys, marshals, and
drnuty marshals of the United Sites, and
commissioners appointed by the Circuit and
Territorial Courts OF the United States, With
ooHers of arresting and imprisoning or
hailinp offenders against the laws Of the
United States, are hereby specially author
ICED aud required to institute pro.
ceedipps against every person who shall
violate the provisions of this act, and
cause him TO be arrested aud imprisoned or
bailed. as the case may be, for trial before
such courts Of the United States or Terrific
rial courts as by law have cogDizance OF the
offence, except in respect of the right OF
action accruing to the person aggrieved !;
and such district attorneys shall cause such
proceedings to be prosecuted to their terml-
nation as 10 other cases provided, that no.
thing contained in this section shall be con-
strued to deny or defeat any right OF civil ac-
ton aecruing TO any person, whether
by reason of this act or otherwise.
And any district attorney who shall
WlIlfully fail to institute and prose-
cute the proceedings herein required shall for
every such offence forfeit and pay the sun of
$500 to the person aggrieved thereby, to be
recovered by an action of debt, with full
costs. and shall, on conviction thereof, be
deemed guilty of msdemeanor, and be
fined not less than $1,000 nor more than
$1,000. And provided further, That judg-
ment for the penalty in favor of the party
isf rin OFT
or Judgment upon an indictment against
any such district attorney, shall be bar to
either prosecution, respectively.
SECTION f. That no citizen possessing all
other qualifications which are or may be pre-
scrbed By law shall be disqualified for service
as grand or petit juror in any court of the
United States, or OF any State, on account Of
race, color, or previous condition of servi.
tude and any officer or other person charged
With any duty in the selection or summoning
of Jurors who shall exclude or fail to sum-
mon any citizen for the cause aforesaid shall,
on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty Of
nlsdcmeanor, and be fined not more than
i've thousand dollars.
SECTION 5. That all cases arising under the
provisions Of this act in the courts of the
United States shall be renewable by the Su.
prcmc Court Of the United States, without
regard TO the sum in controversy, under the
sane provisions aud regulations as arc now
provided by law for the review Of other
causes in said court.
1t will be seen that the bill touches only,
first, hotels; secondly, public convcyances !;
thirdly, places of amusement; and fourthly,
juries. A more stringent law is upon the
statute. book of New York, but has never
been enforced. Negroes must be admitted
to inns, but they may be lodged wherever
the landlord, chooses, and if they should dis.
like their quarters and sue for damages, they
will not be abe to find easily i jury that will
give them anything. Besides, there are peo-
pie enough to dispose ofsuch negroes without
calling upon hetel-proprietors to kick them
out, and without any words or understand
Ing with such pnqprietors, or "aiding or in
citing them in any way. Observe, there can
be po-otience against the law unless the party
offending either hnnself denies some of these
" advantages, &C., TO negroes or else shall
"aid" or incite some one else who does
so deny them. TIE landlord won't deny
them, aud the boys who kick the darkies
woa't say word to tise landlord on the sub
ject. They will not laid" nor "incite !"
anybody to deny tbeaa, but will simply
- clare de Kitchen" Suai, prosecutions and
sEeh suits WILL not amoant TO much. The
law will be dead letter within year.
AS to public eenveyances, aegroes already
enjoy their " facilities " as mach and % fully
as whites.
AS to places of asausement, VI, apprehend
NO troubia IEsnSe- w IJ,.ru. If Mao,