Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-11-02

KNOW IL III De LIE All, AN -
THOUGH 1T HAS BEEN PUBLICLY
CHARGED ON THEM FOR A
MONTH, THEY HAVE NOT DENIED
IT AND THEY WILL NOT.
A QUESTION THAT MUST BE
ANSWERED.
We said last week that the question OF
giving the black man an equivalent for
the Civil Rights bill just swept away by
the Supreme Court of the United States
was burning one, and should be answered
by the Coalition candidates for the House
in Augusta county, Messrs. Fulcher and
Hamilton, as well as every other Coalition
candidate in the State. There is NO logi-
cal reason that those candidates should
not vote for bill giving the black man
Civil Rights. They advocate and endorse
putting the Negro on the school board
with the white man, because it is one OF
his s'rights" They would give him this
.sright'' which is far more dangerous to
the peace and prosperity of the school sys-
tenn of Virginia than giving him the
ssright'' to ride in railroad car, sit at the
theatre or be lodged in the hotel with
the white man. The latter may be per-
sonally disagreeable to the white men OF
the Nation but 1t does not imperil the
great system of public education in the
States which have been cursed with two
drawbacks-the enervating presence OF
the Negro as as slave and his disturbing
presence as disconnected freedman. A
freedman that rejects all proffers of peace
and will be satisfied with nothing less than
general equality, whether fit or uu6t t.
enjoy it. What logical difference is there
between sitting at school board with
Negro and sitting in railroad car OR
theatre with himp The Richmond Whaq
answering charge that Malone legisla-
ture if elected would pass Civil Rights
bill, says:
The Readjusters will pass no UGH law. All are
content to remain under the present equal and I'M
discriminating laws of the State.
II that is the Wings opinion it knows
nothing of the present state of mind of
the Negro in Virginia or elsewhere. They
are not content and will enforce their
''rights," as they call them. from the Co
alition party or withhold their votes
Their support to the Coalition party noao
is based on their hopes in that direction.
Last week at meeting of Negro Repub-
licans held in Henrico county the follow
oil odn pd i.
Resolved, That we will support no candidate for
the General Assembly OF the State who does moi
pledge himself TO advocate. urge. and support the
civil lights of the colOred people in commIn with
Others
Ieesolued That we hereby endorse the candidacy
OF Giles B. Jackson choice to represent US in
the next General OF the STATE as peogea
cure the passage Of the civil rights OF the coiored
people in common with others before the legsla-
ture
Are the men that adopted these resolu-
tions ''content to remain under the pres
ent equal and undiscrimlnating laws of
the State ?'' In the capital of the Nation
last week large meeting of the content
ed negroes took place. Fred. Douglas,
who before the decision of the court was
given had announced at Louisville the
programme of the black race to be to
make US equal with the whites" and
who in an interview as long ago as last
March said to the interviewer, that: 1.-The
negroes would become masters of the soil
that their tears have watered and Their
blood has enriched,' was the most promi-
nent speaker. He said at this meeting
that he looked upon the sweeping away of
the Civil Rights bill as zone of the most
striking and shocking developments of the
conflict between the spirit Of liberty and
the spirit of slavery" and he predicted
that "the action of the Supreme Court
would be overhauled at a future day.
when the true state of the morals at pres
ent existing in the United States would
be more fully learned" The meeting
adopted resolutions that all States lie called
upon to maintain the civil rights act, and
inviting the cooperation of all, lrrespec-
tive of race or party. to aid them In secar
inq legislation for the preservation and en-
.forcement of the act. Are these the men
of the race who. according to the Wing,
are content to remain under the present
equal laws of the State.' at Chicago
meeting Of colored men was held to pro-
test against the decision of the Supreme
& Court, at which that decision was charac-
terized by Rev. W. Polk, colored. as an
s'insult to our race" and it was offered
to form an alliance with any party that
would legislate to give the Negro the
rights withheld. Bishop II. M. Turner,
D. D., colored, said before the Conference
of the American M. E. Church. at Den
yer. that the civil rights decision of the
United States Supreme Court was simply
abominable. It was worse than the decis-
ion of Judge fancy. He advised all col
ored soldiers to lay down their arms and
all colored ofice-ho!ders, who bad to
swear allegiance to the Constitution, to re.
sign. and said There was no hope for the
negro in this country under such diabol-
ical decision. I"
Every white man in Virginia who has
observed the black race since emancipation
I,so,cs that they are not content under our
present laws, nor will they be content I'M
der any general laws. General laws can
not counteract the silent effect of instinct.
There is but one law which will carry out
with exactness just what the black man
wants and that is State law like the dead
Civil Rights bill, to punish the white man
who does not accord to him every right
that every white man has. That sort OF a
law pleases their ignorance, their ambi-
tion and their desire to locate the top rail
at the bottom. They want something to
hold IN terrorem over the white man
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