The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-31
THB CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.

In our own State we have had a Civil
flights Bill upon the statute books for
Two years, and its operations have tended
IN no wise to produce the collisions so
commonly predicted. The intelligent and
educated colored man if he happens not
10 be imbued with a certain amount of
common sense, Possesses at least an
amount of PRIDE, which of itself would re-
strain him from forcing his presence and
his company where it is not welcome and
where, If it is and he is respectable and
well behaved there is no reason why his
equality should not he actual as well as
social. For our own parts we are forced
TO confess our regard for the race as
being one full of humanity, full of Gu
pabiiity for higher attainment and des.
tined to higher. degree of development
socially, morally and induatrially; and in
proportion to its advancement in either
or oil, does he become more conservative
and more exclusive. We then have
no antagonisms to erect as are being
attempted elsewhere, particularly in the
West and North, and where his supposed
and pretended TRENDS were said to have
arisen and existed. We have lived among
them all our Hve6 We were rocked in our
infancy by our kind and tender old maum-
mas, waited upon in sickness and In health
by faithful family servants who lnwere din.
to their graves with unaffected tears and
sighs some Of our most beloved and re-
spected ancestors, and we acknowledge a
debt OF gratitude for their friendly guar
dlanship in our absence during the war
OF our dstenceless women and children:
and We can meet them now with q warm
ana sincere friendship and say God
speed in the battle of life; go hand.
In hand with them to the recuperation of
tur impoverished conditions aud onward
and onward for their improvement and our
own and fear no violence to our highest
sentiments in according to him start
henceforth in the race of civilization
among them will ever be found two
classes whose conditions will be so dis.
1inctlve that their own lines of demarka-
lion WI be as wide and Us well defined as
mat which exists between the more cul
diVated and refined of the white race and
those less trained and cultured of either
4 he one will consist of such as are as high
:Sy intelligent and educated as they are
capable Of (; the other of such as are as
untutored and degraded as the need of
: such advantages makes them. In propor-
tion to the advantages embraced by the
first will their pride and conservatism be
ircrenstd. In rcpor,ion to the degrada
tion OF the letter are to be expected all of
lie excesses and improprietics which at
condition ofignorance inevitably exhibits
All the latitude therefore of any Civil
Rights Bill can never reconcile these on
posing elements to such an extent rs +,
1orce the presence ofthe latter upon n So
c'al equality with the former, and this in
evltable difference of caste which must
exist 40 long as society lasts is a savin,
clause in any apprchended difficulties to
arse from an attempted enforcement of
Inc 18th, 14ih and 10Th Constitutional
Amendments over naturally constituted
parrisrs OF tnste and preference. Our
experience justifies our belief that the
least apprehensons of complications like
~ to arise out of an enforced political
tquaaty are to be expected where the
eolored majority are in the ascendant
In our midst where the colored element
predominates there have been the fewest
demonstrations of desire upon their
parts to assume any unwarranted pes;t;on
ard we must say that there has been no
desire or intenti discoverabIe upon
their parts to compromise their own pride
and self respect by any assumed superior
'ty over that which custom and condi-
ZION imposes as the due mead to respec-
liability and good citizenship IN whatso.
ever colorror casteit may be found.
from the educated and intellipent of
inc colored race whose home is to be
amongst us we confidently predict 40
much conservatism and so much exclp
sivism among themselves that anv effort
10 make use of them to entertain I'M
blood among the races will prove futile
from the ignorant and vicious of the
Fame race there need be no fear of other
than an enforced obedience to the natur
"i order which society rs constituted
according to organic law which man
heither made nor can alter. w
hafs ana Entertsinment mt tho opening OF
the Mansion House, Port Royal City.