The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-07-20
IFrom the Chicago Tribune.I
Southern Ghiva1ry Ayain.

The Savannah News is very much pleased
with recent high-toned affair on the line of
the Georgia Central Railroad. If we had
read the story anywhere except in a South
ern paper, We should have contemptuously
ignored it as sander on the white South
erner. But the News tells it in humorous
way, as an excellent example of "cool and
effective way to defeat the Civil Rights bill.''
Such an outrage would not be tolerated in
the North even by set of average roughs, but
here is reputable Southern paper chucklipg
over its perpetraton by set of persons whom
it styles gentlemen"
The victim was, of course, poor darky.
He was also. of course, alone, while his manly
train at Millen, Ga. The conductor, Mr.
NARROW, ''one of the best conductors in the
state told him to go forward into the car pro-
vided for cOlored persons. He said he had paid
drst-class fare and wanted the accommoda-
tons he had paid for. He entered the car
tlemen." The train started. The six chivalric
whites, seeing that they were quite safe from
interruption, took seats around the negro and
commenced chewing tobacco and splitting
upon him." He appealed to NARROW, but that
best of conductors declined to interfere. The
victim of this brutal hoggishness sat still Gun.
til his face, coat, vest and pants were dis
colored by the saliva which was squirted upon
him by the mouths of his tormenters" The
clothes thus ruined, by the way, were neat,
clean, and stylish, so that there was no pre-
tense that anything but the mans color was
offensive to the delicate sensbilities of the hu-
man swine, who, by some strange chance, were
travelling in passenger, instead of cattle car.
When this humorous and chvalric treatment
failed to deprive the negro of the privilege foe
which he had paid his hard earned money, one
Of the gentlemen" went to the water cooler,
FILLED his capaciOus mouth with half-gal-
lon Of the fluid" and squirted it out "with
the force of a fire-engine' on the face of the
victim. The latter thereupon yielded his
seat to the chivalry and went into the "nigger
car"
This is the brief story of the ''cool and effect
i've way to defeat the Civil Rights bill," over
which the Savannah News gloats 1t is not a
pretty story. One colored man, sitting help
less in the seat for which he has paid and used
as spittoon by six white gentlemen, may
be humorous sight to the eyes of Bourbon,
but is more apt to effectively defeat the Dem
ocratic party than the Civil Rights bill. We
are not informed whether Gen. John S. Pres
ton was one of the chivalry on this occasion.
We presume not, although the deed was simply
carrying out the spirit of his recent Grafton.
He said the turbulent fanatic" of the North
and the God-fearing Christian" of the South
could not unite We are afraid they could
not, if the God. fearing Christian means to act
in this way The turbulent fanatic might be-
come turbulent enough to give bim the kicking
he SO richly deserves.
Now that we have brought this Shiny story
to the notice of the Southern press, we shall
expect, OF course, to see the conduct of the
six Georgia brutes severely condemned. Do
Southern gentlemen" as a rule, approve of
this method of defeating a law of the United
States?