Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-05-27
Tearing the Races Apart.

Mr.. Lamar, of Mississippi, is reported
in our New Hampshire correspondence,
says the Boston Journal, as telling the
Democracy there that "the Government
tore the two races apart" which, in his
opinion, accounts for good deal of the
trouble existing in his section 1t is true
the Government did take the Southern
black man out from under the heel of his
master, but, as for separating the two
classes OF citizens, the great complaint of
Dir. Lamar's political associates at the
South Just now is that the Government
Is doing too much TO bring them into
equal association. This Is the grievance
charged upon the Civil-Rights law, mild
and moderate as that measure is. All
sorts OF plans are devised for defeating
it, just as every other reconstruction
measure has been opposed and resisted
by Southern Democrats and their North
ern allies. We have had by telegraph
the movement made in the Virginia
Legislature to punish by fine and inn
prisonment those who may be charged
with creating disturbances in hotels and
theaters by demanding accommodations
after they have been refused for want
OF room" or other reasonable Tin the
opinion OF the proprietor) specified
causes. Other ingenious adaptations
are proposed for excluding colored men
from steamboats, and railroads
This legislative movement, however,
embodes but II very small part of the in
genuity which is nov being invested by
southcrners in the grand object of max
ing the negro know his place For
instance, some of the bar-rooms in Rich
mond have this conspicuous notice:
| Drinks S5--subject TO discount This
discount, OF course, is made to white
| patrons. We take it that nobody cares
very much about the regulations of
| Southern rog-shops as affecting the fire.
! quenters of either race If the colored
men would stay out altogether it would
| I've the best course they could pursue
but the race prejudice that crops out
there is quite rs instructive AS that
| shown in other places. \ Democratic
organ in Tennessee says that steamboats,
Will hereafter carry none but deck
passengers, the entire cabin being appro-
prlated to the Captain and has staff In
like manner the rear car of each passen.
ger train will be set apart for the con-
duetor brakemen, etc, just like the
"cabooSe' on freight train. "ln this
| way all classes of humanity viii be
huddled into the forward cars like dumb,
driven cattle, as the Civil.Rights law re.
QuireS. But, once under Roadway, there
is nothing in that odiouS law that can
prevent gallant conductor from inviting
what ladies he may please back into his
own luxurious quarters"
They will get over all this in time
down South and then we shall see their
oraIors coming up into New Hampshire
and other Northern States on the eve of
important elections and LAYING their
hands on their hearts and declaring that
their people are universally ObeQicnt TO
The Clvil-Rights law wcald not repeal il
il they could, but they have some other
grievance just then. rs We have said,
this has been the fate of every step taken
in behalf of the Reconstructed Union ana
the establishment OF equal rights 50
emancipation WAS resisted TO the bitter
rnl-uow MeSSrs. Lamar ana Gordon
say they would not have il reversed. So
the las, three constitutional amendments
were not only fought by the whole Dem
oCIatiC South, but they were rejected by
every Democratic Legislature of the
North. What does this means Why. it
means that in the hands Of the ReDuhli.
can masses alone rests the carving for
ward of reconstruction and The reStora-
tjou Of peace and harmony. When these
masses pause. the great work stops
when they falter, reaction and mischief
follow as the night does the dav. Let
"a m be true 10 the cause. then, Tor no.
body else will-Rspub'jt N8ga,iat
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