The daily gazette., 1875-02-22
Shat Massachusetts Rule The
Nation?
Boutwell, Dictates the Civil Policy.

AASD OIt vi bnt uO5U
torial and bullying efforts of the session.
Mr.. Boutwell, evidently thinks he stands
in Summers shoes; hut all that goes to
prove the hatred and malice of the
speaker toward the South, this speech
exceeds even Summers prepared ora
tions in time of war. Now, the Repubh-
can party is made up of many of the
very best men in the country. They are
foremost in all efforts for good, and con-
duct successfully most of tho. great
works of industry. And it is one of the
regrets of the age that such men have al
lowed themselves to be led by such mali
cious minds as have, through the want
of craftsmanship and patriotism, con-
| trolled the country for the last decade.
We have not room for Mr.. Boutwolps
speech. We would not publish it if we
had. 1t is II disgrace to the hall in
which it was made, and might be sup
posed, 10y n total stranger to our federal
, system, to have been directed at some
| foreign foe of Massachusetts, by one of
her sons who was seeking TO have his
States worst enemies utterly discomft-
ted If Mr.. Boutwell, were to announce
in plain language that he favored the
use Of the sword in the enforcement Of
his peculiar ideas upon the people Of the
| South, Just as Mahomet enforced his
religious and social ideas upon his oppo-
nents, he would have saved a multipli-
| city of words and been more easily un-
| derstood. For that is what Mr. Bout
well means; and what he would have
done if he can influence Grant to do it !;
and ho wants the Republican party. to
come tol his aid in this dictatorial work.
AS the leaders of the Republican party in
Delaware have openly on the stump de-
clared that their party was opposed to
the Civil Rights Bill and especially mixed
schools we copy for their benefit n
closing paragraph or two from Mr.. Bout
wells speech. 1t will be seen that he
would force the child of the best Repub-
lican in the State to occupy the same
seat in school with the child of the low
est negro, and have the same equality
carried out in the hotels and all other
places. We copy from the Congressional
Record. He says;
when the children of the white peo-
pie and the black people are compelled
to go into the same schools, sit upon the
same forms, accept the same teachers,
study the same books, become rivals in
education and in the pursuits of life, you
will have community that will believe
practically in human equality, There
fore it is that that provision which has
been stricken out of the civil-rghts bill
in the other House is of more conse-
quence than all the other provisions OF
that bill and than all the provisions
which the ingenuity of all the lawyers in
both Houses could frame with reference
to the future peace and prosperity Of the
South.
In that provision of compulsory com
mon school education, supported by uni
versal taxation, L see the dawn OF a day
that Will surely come when there will be
peace IN the South upon the accepted
ideas OF human equality-just human
equality. Hotels, circuses, theaters rail
way cars, open their doors and gates II
all comers who can pay for what they
desire. Money will be the passport thai
will carry black as well as white into al
these institutions and to the enjoymen,
OF all these privileges but the common
school, if shut by law or custom lagainst
one class OF people, necessarily makes
distinctions in society. These distinc
d tons grow and increase, and all the ill.
!. OF which We now complain will be aug
y mented by the increase of population ii
1 the South. Sir, the policy / propose il
4 due not to the negro race merely; it i:
|. due to the white race it is due to tn,
country.
Thus, Mr.. President, have treated tn,
, subject upon the idea that those aues
tions which apparently now concern us
which affect the judgment of tho Senate
= which disturb the peace of the country
are only symptoms of disorder, evi
dences of an evil. That disorder or evi
4 can be controlled for the time being b,
i the power OF the Government. | hav
e sought in the Constitution Ito find tn
lsource from which the power can ema
7. nate but the relief, the permanent re
l. lief is in a system of public INSTRUCTION
for the South which shall know no dis
tinction of race or color.
AS a fit rejoinder to the TRADE Of cen
sure and abuse by Mr.. Boutwell,, we cop
?. the following:
al Mr.. Stevenson, Dem., Ky) said h
iau hSIeiieu Will great interest 10 In
j. remarks of the Senator from Massachu
,e sets (Mr. Boutwell,, and he (Mr. Steven
SOM was sincere when he said .larg
portion of the people of tho South an
Southwest desired peace under the Con
!. stitution as much as the Senator fror
. Massachusetts. That Senator had re
ferred to Daniel Webster Did he re
ii member that Daniel Webster was hisse
a in Faneuil Hall at Boston for standin
y by the Constitution? There were intem
% perate spirits in the North which mus
,e be put down. There was spirit in Mas
z. sachusetts which tended to encourag
he sectional hate. At meeting OF minis
Is ters IN Boston a week ago one B. 1. I've
Z said: I'VE are not undertaking to Goa
y the devils out of the miserable whelp
le down South, when nothing but strych
g, nine and cannon ought to be used" Th
ID speaker Qves) agreed with Phil Sherida
who said, if he owned hell and Texas h
~ would lease out Texas and live in Tn
n other place; and, finally, this ministe
ID capped climax by. stating, "the more Ii
hated the rebels Of the South the NOR
ha 1ouad God - Wae kbo4 A. fo.I:-