The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-05-07
CIVIL RIGHTS.

The action of the late VillAinous Con-
yress in passing tho Civil Rights bill in
defiance Of the indignant veto of the
people, at the polls last November, is
destined to accomplish nothing As q
tub thrown to the whale until the de-
eignsiof the Radical crew could be execut-
ed upon the dark leviathan of Southern
seas, It's aims will continue to prove
magnificent failure.
To the coIored mar, the so>called Civil
Rights law has proven as deceptive as
dead sea-fruits that tempt the eye, but
turn to ashes on the lip" He has been
ANONYMOUSLY thrust out of saloons and
barber shops, where he expected to res
gale the inner man, and enjoy his otirsm.
cum dignitate; and his political friends,
with the coolest nonchalance, have said
to him, why, you should have known
the bill did not lift you into such places
as those; there's no provision an the
bill for you there" either to quell your
appetite, or quench your drinketite.'
'EOh, niger will you never quit disgrace
ing Us, the carpet-bag and soallawag por-
ton of the party ?"
Recovering from the back set like a
ship slowly righting itself when knock
ed by a sudden squall upon its beam
end, the colored citizen decks himself
in ''georgi0us array" and with elevated
hopes and inward satisfaction be draws
on his white kids, seizes his gold~headed
cane, and is ready to make raid upon
the theatres, hotels, and the unfortunate
common carriers, when 10 the fiat goes
forth from the Court-thc Federal
Court-sitting in his own bailiwick,-
under his very nOse,-presided over by a
Republican, "a full blooded Republican,
but q conscientious judge, and a
fearless patriot who prefers duty, with
abuse from his own party, to a failure
to perform his whole duty with partisan
appreciation, and partisan adulstion. He
was not to be deferred from proclaiming
the law as it is. What is that-That
the refusal to grant equal privileges, ire.
Epectiye Of color, is a right belonging to
the State; and by deduction, that any
other doctrine or assumption is simply
political pop cock, and nothing more.
''Such a denial is not an offense over
which Congress can give this Court any
jurisdiction These are matters which
-
Judge Emmons supports his legal de-
cision by incOutrovertible argument
Add to this that there have been three
or four other decisions, in as many cases
unfavorable to the constitutionality o
certain provisions Of the law, (by Fed
eral Courts) and especially involving
the principle that "the mass of cIvi
and political rights included in the com
pendulum phrase-the rights of life
liberty and the persuit of happiness
rest entirely under State protectio
and you have the last eva nishing exOdu
of the social features of the late CIV
Rights enormity.
Recurring to the additional facts, tina
the most eminent lawyers in the Unite;
States have recently promulgated To
opinion that, the Civil Rights bi
will, when a case involving it's consti
nationality is squarely before the U. S
Supreme Court, ''go where the wood
bine twineth; )" and that the State Leg
islsturs has also passed law abrogat
ing the provisions of the comnon law i
its operation upon hotel keepers, so Al
to allow them the right to discriminat
as to who may be their guests, and ho'
far they shall accommodate and serV
them--and it does not require a prophe
nor the son of prophet, to predict tha
our colored citizens have been lured in!
hopes by their Radical allies, that wi
never be realized.