The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-03-01
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PnSsage Of The civil Rights RIM

Passage OF the Civil Rights BilI.
What il known as the modified Civil
Rights bill passed the United States Sen
ate on Saturday last, having previously
passed the House, and now awaits the
signature Of the President to become u
law. The bill omits the mixed school
feature Of its predecessor (the bill that
passed the Senate at the last session, but
failed to pass the House,, but in other
respects Is the same bill. AS will be
seen, It provides for equal privileges for
all citizens Of the United States in public
convoyanccs, hotels, places Of amusement,
&c., and also prohibits discriminating
againstahy class as Jurors,
Among those who voted for tho bill We
notice the name Of Senator Foreman, Of
this State. At The time Of the passage OF
the former bill through the Senate he
voted nay. Wopresume that the lapse Of
time and the changes made in the present,
bill induced the Senator TO vote In the
affirmative this lime. The great bug.a-
boo OF tho former bill was lts mixed
school feature. Now that that feature
has been left out Of the present bill, we
presume that q vast amount Of prcju-
dice will be allayod, and nm oppOr-
tunity given to test the praGtiGa
workings Of the experiment, We do
not apprehend that any very violent or
radical change in tho status Of the col
ored people will be wrought by the bill,
After all public opinion Ia the great reg
ulatOr Of tho intercourse, social, or com.
mercial, Of one class witlranother. Time
is the main element in educating public
sentiment In any direction. That which
rcyolts society to-day becomes tOlerabIe
next year, and in tho year following ex-
cites little or no feeling, These sort Of
changes In regard to the colored race
have been very notable and within the
last few years, ltbwithtn tho memory
Of nearly all our readers how excited the
country became over the various PROPOSE
tions affecting the negro that were intro
duced into Congress during tho war. A
great many people inveighed fcTeely
against the idea of enlisting cOlored
troops to help put down the rebellion and
the same class was even more intensely OK
ercised at tho thought Of the Presidents
emancipation proclamation, And SO after
the war, there was the same excitement
In regard to coniering the elective
franchise on the colored race. There.
fore 1t Ia not strange that there
should have been great deal Of
feeling aroused by the Civil Rights
bill, especially tho bill that passed the
Senate at the last session and that con.
tained the mixed school feature. That
feature having been omitted in the prCS-
ent bill there will be far lcss hostility
manifested to II than there was towards
its nraleressnr. nnI Vetjft, ,willlnot ba a
nonnlar measure in any part of the
conntry Much dapehls on the colorrd
peoplo themselves rs to the success Of the
experiment They have II in their power
to conciliate public opinion blythe nah.
nor IN which thcv shall assert their rivhI,
under thc law, 3 l1P
Ono Immediate result Of the passago oil
tbis.idiI viii be,tJ cot,pcl all the hotcll
Of the country to grant suitable accomo
dations to colorcd travellers. Another re
suit will lie 10 compel tllCfsleSphgcai
companies to nut on cars or provid,
apartments for the Use Of ibis class o
travellers. These two particulars Of tn!
bill afe really the poihtd whsre.the slOt
will pinch. We apprehond, however
that In both cases those whom II concern
will learn how to provide for a
classes OF = respectable travellers with
out materially preiudicing their in
terests. In the nature Of thing
the time had to come when people 81
numerous Ii this country Us the coloret
race would expect the same accommoda
tions for their money as any other class
The problem has been how to grnnt thea
accommodations and still not clash Will
tile deep rooted public prejudice that eS
ists against anything like social communl
ty between whites and blacks. No one Tpl yil
deny as an abstract prOpp.sltiOn tha
cOlored people are entitled to as mucl
for their money when they travel us whit
people. It does not follow, however, thu
the Two races must mess together a
hotels or sleep. in the same rooms OF
boats. All that car fairly be demanded
Of common carriers OF Of hotel keepers
that they extend the same kind Of nc
commodaliOn TO all classes Of trHyelerS,
As to the other leading feature Of th'
bill, viz. forbidding prohibition as juror
against edldfel ditlIcnS on the part %
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