The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-17
The Civil Rich . Eli.

From the (hOman) CathOI1C On1NerSo "
Cleveland, Bishop Gilmour's Paper.
The Civil Rights Bill has ceased te
be party measure, and has become.
National law. We cannot see therein
any cause for the lamentations which
escape the Conservative Republican
and the entire Democratic press. The
effects Of the bill will be harmless to
the white race, and only just to the
blacks. The cry raised against 1T.
that it is a political interference with
social affairs-indicates that those VINO
make the cry have not read the PRO
visions of the bill. 1t prohibits dis
elimination On account of color IN
public conveyances, hotels and thea
tres-that is all Murderers, thieves,
gamblers, confidence men, ruffians,
and Williams of every type may enter
railroad cars. steamboats,, and stages,
and nobody says them nay. They
will be entertained in the theatres
and at the hotels, provided they pay
for the entertainment. Nobody thinks
of excluding them so long as they be,
have themselves decently. Nobody
thinks that the presence of thieves,
gamblers, and Williams in public con-
veyanccs, hotels, and theatres estab-
fishes q social equality between them
and people who are not thieves, gam
blers, and villains.
Color is no more to be reckoned
among crimes in the United States.
A man is not yirtucus because ne IS
white, nor vicious because he is black.
A woman who is white is not for that
reason pure, and she whom God made
darker is not for that reason to be
treated worse than the brute which
the white lady may carry in the hrst-
class car in her lap. Dogs may travel
in comfortable coacheS-may occupy
the hotels. Shall women-though
they be dark-have less consideration?
The white scoundrel may smoke his
cigar Oh the deck of steamer, seek
ing a victim. The black woman,
though her heart be white as an angel,
though her heart be as dear to God as
that OF the Gaintiest Caucasian in
the land, is brutally showed down
from the deck into the hold, to be the
companion of indecent dock rats, to
be exposed to frank Insult, and 10 be
subjected to whatever forms of out
rage and infamy the brutes, white
and black, around her may invent.
Oh, for shame!
AS for Catholics, they cannot be ii
vided on such il question. All men
and women are equal before God and
i'll the Church. The accident OF color
does not alter the fact of humanity.
Men are men. women women, be
they black, yellow, white or red. The
same obligations OF virtue rest upon
them equally. They are sons of the
same first mother, children of the
same God. and the same heaven will
finally contain as all
Democratic DefaIcatio,.
The era of official defalcatians COM
menced with the return of the Demo
cratic panty to power in the several
States. Some months ago huge vaeu-
ums were discovered in the vaults of
the treasures of several counties OF
Indiana and Ohio, where the funds of
the taxpayers ought to have been
found Small "Tammanys' were I'M
earthed in various Democratic quar-
tiers, and it became evident that
Democracy had gained nothing in
honesty by its long vacation from
official trusts. Tweed had been pun
ished, but not by Democrats. Tam
many was in disgrace, bat not in the
house of its friends. 1t was plain
that, as Of old, to the leaders Of the
Democratic party the proyerb ito the
victors belong the spells" meant not
simply the honest salaries attached te
position, but such pickihgs and
stealings as might besecured without
danger of incarceration In the Peni-
Tertiary. The last defaication un-
earthed is In the treasury of the State
of Georgia The news does not come
through the Democratic newspapers of
the State. A prominent citizen of
Georgia NAVEL says: The news.
papers will not say much about 1t.
A committee of the Legislature, it
seems, made an Investigation OF the
Office and reported, on the 23d ult.,
large defalcation, and advised that the
Treasurer be requested to resign.
But this he fatty refused to do. The
reason of his refusal appeared when
one Warner, a member of the Legis-
lature from Meriwether county, asked
iii the Treasurer had not done what
was complained Of by the Governor
direction p We quote what the
Chairman Of the Republican State
Central Committee OF Georgia says
about this huge defalcation which the
Democratic Legislature has tried in
vain to cover up. lie says:
The committee have refused to
whitewash him, and made their second
report this morning, reahirming all
they had said in their first report, and
giving additional and more damaging
facts. Their first report charged the
Treasurer with having paid dishonored
paper the second time to the sum of
Sl52. $50; with having paid SS,917 50
in direct violation of the plain pro-
visions Of the law governing his Office;
with having claimed to have paid
1909. S1759 through bank in New
York, when he had no scratch OF a
pen to prove it; with claiming to have
money scattered all over the State, in
different banks (Which was in vio-
lation of the laws of the State, il truc),
without having a scratch of pen to
show for it, and without anything in
his office by which to ascertain how
his account stood with any of these
banks; and farther state in their re-
port: Your committee have no re-
liable data before them by which to
No way to find out what
IS III the treasury NO way 10 un0
out what has been paid out of the
Treasury Their second report, this
day made, reiteratcs all they said in
their first report. and even charges
the Treasurer with using 100000 in
bonds Of the State, without author
ity of law" when he ought to have re-
turned them to the Treasury and can
celed them. They charge him with
having 800, 900 in bonds in his office,
which he first told them were paid,
and which he afterward told were not
paid, and it really seems he did not
know whether they were paid or not.