The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-03-18
From the Columbus Journal.1
Hang a Calls Skin on the Recreant
Limbs.

The New York Independent, (the or
gan of Evangelical Dry Goods, with an
eye to the main chance in railway i'm
provements,) has executed flop on the
subject of Civil Rights. 1t follows what
it claims as the able Republican" leader
ship of Carpenter, Ferry of Connecticut.
Hamilton of Texas, Schurz, Sprague, and
Upton, and denounces the Civil Rights
bill as "in every one of its particulars
utterly unconstitutional" Each of these
is sore head The brilliant Carpenter
and the commonplace Ferry are the only
ones that would esteem it compliment
to be classed as Republican" But of
that we need not speak. The Independ-
ent need only be condemned by the In
dependent. The Independent. when it
had brains, was powerful advocate of
Civil Rights; the Independent, with its
skull covered with ulcers, opposes Civil
Rights.
The Independent says "The bill cannot
be caraied into effect without the action
of the United States Courts" This is
the strongest argument in its favor If
the State Courts would secure equal rights
before the law to colored men, there
would be no need for Civil Rights Bill
1t is because colored men cannot secure
equal rights under State laws and State
necessary. The National government is
bound to secure the equal rights of all
citizens wherever the flag floats. 1t is as
much bound to do this in Mississippi as
in Mexico, in Alabama as Algeria, in
Louisiana as Liberia, in Arkansas as
Africa The Civil Rights Bill does not
prevent the States from maintaining their
local jurisdiction-it simply provides
against the laches of State Governments
in not securing the rights of American
citizens
The Independent shows its new an
tipathy in more ways than one. We
need only quote, from the same Oast)
number its cheap ridicule of "a Colored
Carpetbagger," which appears as editorial
though written in the first person, and
which sounds as if it might have been
taken from an ultra Damnigger paper
North or South. We quote from the In
dependent of March 4, 1875:
"a CoLoRED CARPETBAGGER-Aaron AL
peori Bradley That was his name He
made his appearance in South Carolina
shortly after the war, and crossed over
the line into Georgia in time to get him
self elected to the Constitutional Conven-
| ton
Bradley was mulatto carpetbagger.
! This was evident from the first; but some
little time elapsed before his antecedents
were known. The revelation came by
piecemeal. Aaron Alpeori had voluble
tongue, and it was impossible for him to
keep his own counsel. He wanted people
toknow that he was no provincial darkey.
| He was born in South Carolina and edu-
Gated in Massachusetts,. He had read law
under the brilliant Rufus Choa;e and had
been admitted to the Supreme Court of
| the United States.
Aaron was won't to repeat these state
ments so often that they were pretty
generally believed. He was decidedly
the most airish darkey ever seen in Geor-
| gia. When the Constitutional Convention
was IN session l visited the gallery time
and again for the express purpose OF
hearing this magniloquent mulatto.
Mistah President, the times is in
creasin' the Goddess of Liberty is now
rankin in the corners of this hall, and
she calls upon US to educate system of
education. Will any Democrat have the
Insurance to deny this presumption
"Our carpetbag orator was always in
dulged in such flights as the above, much
to the merriment of his brother members
and the spectators. But he was Eot to
a fluent speaker and his manner was
really admirable. He aped the airs oil
the fine gentleman and dressed like q
Beau Brummel"
Now, whatever may have been the mer
its or dement's of "Aaron Alpeoria Brad
ley personally, there is feeble air o.
sneering depreciation of his race in the
above, which is sufficiently indicative o.
the present feeling of the Independent
to need no further illustration. 1t is mo-
in accord with heather" notions o
charity and magnanimity, perhaps; bu
it shows how easily religious paper
which sells its influence for railroad
stocks may apostatize on a great question
of equal civil rights, when there is fan
cied opportunity to gain little cheal
notoriety.