Arizona silver belt., 1883-10-27
safurday. ssctober. as, 1883.
Recent civn Rights sill r,ec,.,on.


 The Supreme Court of the United States, by its decision in the "civi rights cases" fully recognizes the soy. ereighty of the States, which ha, steadfastly been denied by the Repub. liean party, and as stoutly maintained by the Democrats. These cases grew out of fanatical federal Legislation which denied the sovereignty of the states, as set forth in the compact of the several states, and which created the federal head The government of the United States is of limited char, acter, and 1t is confined to the exercise of powers expressly granted by the constitution, and such, and such only, us may be necessary and proper for carrying the g<nted powers into full execution, and that all powers not thus granted, or necessarily implied, are expressly reserved to the states respectively, andSb the people. The federal and state governments are parts of one sysem, alike necessary for the common p,c-2erity- peace, and ,-.Ass s=;.s;SssAa-A-,--Dc 70; Dc fsgzTdel alike with cordial, habitual and inn movable attachment. Respect for the authority of each, and acquiescence in the constitutional measures of each are duties required by the plainest consideration of national, state and individual welfare. The negroes who are affected by the decision, are dis posed to find fault with the court for the reason that it relegated them from their supposed superiority to the whites. The negroes should not find fault with the action of their political brethren. The court is composed of nine judges, and all but one, Judge Field, are Republicans. This decision is not the first relating to the same subject by the same court. In the -eaaa- of the United States vs. Harris, decided at the October term, 1882, the Supreme Court passed upon substan- tially the same questions, and denied the power of Congress to enact section 5519, U. s. Revised Statutes, relating to conspiracies to deprive citizens of equal rights, immunlties, &c., in the several states. 'The opinion was de- livered by Mir. Justice Woods, and concurred in by all the Justices with the exception of Harlan, who expressed no opinion. This case is reported in 1o6 U. s. Reports, page 629, The ne- groes, without further legislation, en- joy the same privileges that are accorded to whites. Self reliance and not legislative advantages, is what they need. NoA state in tht gnion -dlsxrim jpSiesal fips nsgrak s:.,:.x.; its bounds, or bsrs them from any ad- vantage. What the negroes want is law coercing whites to recognise them as equals. No such law will ever be passed, and if it were, 1t would prove intellectual. The law @ just killed by the decision of the Supreme Court, was the emenation of Charles Sumner, who was crazy upon the subject of equality of races, and Republican Congress sanctioned it, and threw it out as bait, with the proposition of giving each negro "forty acres and mule" to catch negro votes. By the enactment of that law the Republicans created false hopes, only to be blasted by the decisions of Republican federal judges. When negroes shall become thoroughly disabused of the false ideas implanted in their minds by dema- gogues and fanatics, and feel their true position, they will have struck solid footing, and reached favorable condition to start on career of use- fulness. The constitution guarantees all protection to both whites and blacks, but the trouble is that the blacks want to occupy higher posi- tion than that accorded to the whites. They are already contemplating re. submission of an amendment to the constitution, with view of effecting their purpose, in elevating the ebon race above the whites.