The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03
p....~c Of the Civil Right. BilI.

In the Senate on the ZItn, the CiSh
Rights Bill passed as it came from the
House. without amendment, by %
ayes to 26 naya. The 1nter-Ocean, IN
an editorial, that speaks our MIND
precisely on the passage OF this emil
nently just measure, and well claims
that the Republican party, in this act,
can once more challenge the admIra-
ton of the world, which looked on
in awe while Lincoln placed his name
to the great charter of equal rights
the fermentation Proclamation. =
Continues the Inter. Ocean:
The passage of the civil rights bull
marks a grand step in adya nc .. s j. y
which came down to us as legacy
from the dark ages. We note with
regret, not to say shame, that the
abortion of this just, beni6cent meas
ure is the first great act OF moral hero
ism done by the Republican party
without the aid of the church aud its
ministers. Nor have the newspaper
organs of the church been merely
silent. With two or three honorable
exceptions, they have battled against
the civil rights bill. The proposition
is monstrous; and some years hence it
will not be credited without appeals
to the support of impartial history.
But it is a fact, nevertheless. that in
this. let us hope the last, battle for
equal rights, the church not only fall
tered in the pursuit of its grand mis-
sion, but stained is record by course
of cowardly subserviency to the polit-
ical iaea Of "expediency." To expect
perfection in the church, its organs,
or its members. however, would be to
look for infallibility in divine insti-
tuition supported by a merely human
agency. Let us hope that the time
will speedily come when the church
throughout the length and breadth OF
the land will applaud this last great
work of the Republican party, while
it humbly acknowledges its own short
coming.
The Justice of the course of the Re
publican party is being indicated
more signally at the present moment
than at any period of its history. Since
Sheridan's advent in Louisiana. there
has been peace throughout the South
.ern borders. Massacres have ceased;
assassinations are less frequent, and
riots are unknown. Vel no act OF vlo-
lence has been committed by the Cen
eral or the government he represents,
against the rights, liberties, property
or life of any citizen. Where there
was turbulence, peace now reigns. A
new rebellion was Matching; consplra
tors armed and threatened, and dis
content spread throughout entire
communities. When it became EVIL
dent that the government would sup
press lawlessness with the strong arm
of power, there was hesitation, then
acouiescence. When bad men who
bore arms and threatened slaughter
were properly characterized as public
-bandits-worthy only of out
iawry, SILVER of alarm ran through
the hearts of those bands of desperate
wretches. Thanks to the courage oil
President Grant and the justice OF
Congress, better day dawns. In the
language of Abraham Lincoln
Thanks to all. For the great Re.
public; for the principles by which II
lives and keeps alive; for man vas1
future-thanks to all Peace does moi
appear so far distant as it did. l hops
ii will come soon, and come to stay
and so come as to be worth keeping II
all future time" Peace does not ap
near SO far distant as it did, because
the Republican party has resolved te
complete the great work commenced
tsy Lincoln. standing firmly by tbs
principles of immutsbie Justice