Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1875-03-11
The Civil Rights Bill

they seem determined if they cannot
raise the negro to an equality with
the white man. they will at least
debase the white man to a level with
the negro. The State Jo,rnal says:
1.-The Civil Rights Bill which had
previously passed the House, was
passed in the Senate by a vote of IS
to 26, and has since been signed by
the President, aud is now the hw OF
the land. The bill as it passed Is
not ONLY Gnobiectionable but is an
absolute necessity in several States
of the Union"
The Commercial says, if anybody is
hurt they will please let the editor
know it, The Monroe Register says /:
"The Civil Rights Bill will be pass
ed this session the Republican, party
will by its passage have earned the
indefinite support of all American
freemen, and will hencetorth receive
that support NEST cordially For
this it will deserve success in 1876
and get it. But, should it 90 down,
it will, as Senator Howe Of Michigan
nobly SAYS, go down with colors nail
ed to the mast, and sink with the
happy conviction of having done It's
duty"
The Bill is simply part of the
electioneering policy of che Kepuh-
hcan party, to retain the political
ascendancy which they have ENJOYED
for so long a time, and to secure 4
new lease of power for Grant. Its
principal object is to Stimulate the
negroes to such Objectionable conduct
as to cause resistance on the part OF
white men, and thus to have pre-
text for "dragooning' the Southern
States into subsection, as has been
the case before every Presidential
election since the war. We believe
the law will be dead letter; that it
will work rs own remedy. We
have no idea that Southern men wish
to deny to the colored men any OF
their Just rights; We know that all
the better class of Southern men are
anxious to see the colored race pros
per and to see them elevated, but the
idea of Congress passing laws TO en-
force social equality; to compel a
Hotel keeper to serve negro, or his
white servants to wait on a negro and
obey his orders, is simply revolving.
We are not arguing as TO the right or
wrong, per 50, Of the case, but simply
taking things as they are.
But there are many and glaring
inconsistencies in the working Of the
law. There are a certain class of
white men, who if they applied for
accommodations at some Hotels
would be refused, because the land
lord thinks 1t would be to his diSad
vantage 70 compel his guests to min
Gle with them; he has right to re-
fuse a white man accommodations,
but if a negro Of the same class is re
fused, the landlord lays himself open
TO the penalties of the Civil Rights
Law.
The law is a disgrace to the Statute
books, and W. hope will be repealed.
The evils complained of between the
white and black races will work their
own remedies. The races are sepa-
rate, and were so created by the
Ruler OF the Earth It's futile for
men to undertake to break down the
barriers he ha, raised. and the sooner
this lesson Is learned the better.
The white men OF this country as
Il class have no prejudice against re-
spectacle AMI respectful colored peo-
pie, but against impudent, boorish
negroes, who 90 around Boosting that
they are as good as white men &c, a
prejudice Is excited in the same
degree as it would be felt against 4
white man who pursued the same
line Of conduct.