The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-04-15
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.
SOLID AGAINST CIVIL RrGHrs.

| SOLID AGAINST CIVIL RIGHTS.
THE MOST UNPOPULAR LAW EvEe PASSED q,
| THE NATIONAL LESIsLATURE-CAs rs CIrET
| In PROOF.
Redfeld, Of the Cincinnati Commercial
has renewed his correspondence from th,
South on the civil rights bill, and the way i
is received IN the S)uth: The civil rights
bill is perhaps the most unpopular Law in
the South that an American legisla. ure evei
passed. The feeling against it is so unsni
nous and 50 bitter that If the whole Unitec
States army was concentrated in single
Southern state the law could not be enforced
in its full scope. There is no class
among the whites who give it coun-
tenanance and support. Radicals, reb.
els, old wings, conservatives, ex-
| federals. and, in fact, all, or nearly all. men
with white skins, are arrayed in opposition
tn this measure. In the whole state of Ten
nessee 1 know but three white men who
| favored the passage OF the law. All three
have been the recipients of Office at the
hands of the blacks. Canddlv, doubt il
| there are in the whole state 100 white men
who will say that they favor the measure
and its enforcement. In the face of such an
opposition as this, how can a law be en-.
| forced? We find among its most bitter op-
ponents those who advocated negro suffrage
in 1865. 1t is regarded ss piece of class leg
| islation, which gives the colored man the
benefits of sundry pains and penalties
which a white man can not bring to his 6ld
A white man may be refused hotel accom-
n,odstions for reasons sufficient in the eyes
Of the landlord, and for this congress gives
no remedy, but a coloTed man has had his
damages assessed, and put at high figure
at that. Gen. Stokes expressed the feelings
of toe unionists who advocated negro suit
| hnf ha ~ xfrxht
he said to a crowd of colored men at Athens,
last fall: "I oppose that infamous civil rights
bill because you already have all the rights
that have.
AND ILL BE DIP YoU sHAkL HAVE ANY
MoREp
Stokes claimed to be talking for the ex-fed-
eral soldiers OF East Tennessee when he said
that. The Southerners say that they intend
to evsds and ignore the law. IL not in one
vav then in another. They claim that it is
Unconstitutional in the first place, and
passed by an expiring congress, which had
been repudiated by the people, in the Sec
ond place. But without inuuiring for Tea-
sons, it is enough to know that the Southern
whites are open in their threats not TO sub
nit to it. But, If the administra-
the republicans, will there not be an
earnest effort made to enforce this law, and
viii not we have trouble ali over the South
before il is settled, one way or the other?
At one of the Memphis theaters a few
nights ago two colored men bought tickets
and applied for admission to the dress circle
Thay got as far as the door, when Mr.. Man.
sger Davy said: "Boys, you don't want TO
20 in there" "Do you refuse us?" they
asked. "No," he replied, "but 1 simply
suggest that If you enter the dress circle
there may be consequences unpleasant to
you. Ny advice is, not u try it." The col
Ored men saw that there was line prospect
of q row if they persiSted-a row that would
terminate badly for them (ts does every
effrsy between the races AT me SOuth), and
they withdrew, receiving back their money.
In CONVERSATION afterward with an Avail
anche reporter, M<. Davv said II am sat
isfied, from the temper OF tho public on this
question, that, if these colored men had
entered the parquette, they would have Jared
badly. The question has to be met, however,
and Just how to meet it is what puzzles
me-" Pullman, of car lame, has met
the issue at the threshold, but in a manner
which
WILL LEAD TO TROUBLE
on the Southern lines. He has issued orders
that colored men bs given equal accommo-
dations with the whites for the same money.
Now, you may prepare for sleeping car diff
culties. The negro in the sleeping-car viii
be new phase of the everlasting question,
and NAV abide with us some time. Last
Saturday, on the train eastward from Ma
con, Georgia, we are informed by @ local
paper, that large black negro entered the
sleeping-car and presented the conductor
his ticket for upper berth No. 10. The con-
ductor, We are told, examinded the ticket
very closely, trying to find getting-out-
place. but, aiasi there was none, Pullman's
orders holding him up to the
scrstch. "The lower BIRTH" continues
the account, twas occupied by a Baltimore
lady, who Immediately lett it and took re-
fuge in the passenger car. where she re-
mained seated during the night" The Mo-
bile Register, speaking of this, says: "Mr.
Pullman shows ne disposition to prevent the
intrusion of negroes into the sleeping cars.
OF course no decent white citizen Will here
after patrouiZs a man who allows his WI g
and daughter to be brought into contact with
negroes. We hope the Southern press will
represent the dangers to which our travellers
are exposed from the fanatical efforts OF Mr..
Pullman TO transport foul odors, yermin
and disease.n The Meridian Mercury, in
speaking OF equality in sleeping cars,
says:
PUT A BUCK NEGRO TO SLEEP
in the same section with an elegant South
ern lady, do you, Mr.. Pullman, and expect
to run your cars through these Southern
states? Pshawp 1t seems that RIr. Pull
man intends 10 serve the colOred people tle
same as whites, and TO run his cars over the
Southern roads. But it can not be accom-
plished without trouble, and without loss
10 him of more dollars and cents than the
custom OF the negroes will return. But a
greas principle Is involved, you
Know. These great principles are
troublesome when our colored friends
are invo.ved, and they are in
volved in about everything that has been
discussed in this country for the last half
century, and promises to fill up the re-
mainder. The Mercury, from which i
quoted above, has few more observations
to offer OIL the suojscr. IL says: Pullman
is an ass, and a vicious one. He is a mean
radical, who has issued an unnecessary
order 10 sleep negroes in his palace sleeping
cars without necessity for it, Rratuitously to
| insult and provoke the Southern whites TO
violent resentment OF negro insolence. He
| Is dangerous man, who, seeing an oppor-
tunity, Is evidently playing for 'outrages'