The Daily telegraph., 1883-11-11
Onicial Journal of the City of Monroe
THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF NEGROES.

1HE WILL NAUnlS .Or NEUNUcS.
The hOwls of pestileDt negroes Ovor
the Civil Rights Decision had not died
out before the whines of sentimental
white men have begun. Georgia news
paper assure the blacks that they have
lost nothing because the magnanimOus
whites will now voluntarily coDcede
them every thing they have heretofore
impudently demanded, and from the
other end of the line come that state
ments that the Governor of Texas has
required of the railroads first class ac
cOmmOdations for travelling negroes.
We don't believe a word of it. Gov.
Ireland knows too well that such
interference, is quite beyond the limits
Of any Governors power. Had he ad-
dressed either advisory or minatory
directions of that tenor 20 the railroads
of Texas, their managers would simply
have told him to mind his own
business.
There is now, as there has been all
along, a sect Of anticipates in the South
who have magnitied the importance Of
the negroes and have ever been on the
alert to lug them into public assem-
blieS. These are the men who ten years
ago were constantly pestering Parish
Conventions TO send a negro among
the delegates "t0r its eject" These
are the noodles who Wen, about among
the members Of State Conventions,
button. boiling them dUa urging the
the nomination Of a negro TO exhibit
our freedom from prejudice. One OF
the pestiferOus gang got on the dele
cation Of two hundred that went 10
Washington when Grant was in power,
and took along negro, not as his valet,
but as cO-delegate, and when the gentle
man in whose section the black was to
sleep swore that he black was to sleep
swore that he would not submit to the
indigpity, his patron had him put aloft
above himself. 1t is the same set that
are now patting SamhO on the head,
and bidding him be of good cheer for
he shall have all that q white man has,
and perhaps little more.
That their presumption and cheek
has not diminished is shown by the
pOrtant mulattoes amOrg them, that
the Republicans (Which in this State is
Synonymous with negroes) shall hold
convention at the same time and place
as the Democratic Convention, in order
that they "may meet The representa-
tives of the white people of Louisiana
before they make their nominations,
and may demand from them justice,
schools and Representations"
The privileges that insolent negroes
demanded and which timd railroad
managers accorded of travelling side by
side with whites, and Of equal admls-
sion to public places, will never be en-
joyed by them again, much less more
prepOsterous claims. They have for
feited all claim to consideration by the
turbulent aggreSsiveneSS with which
they thrust themselves in the cOmpa-
ny of whites. They have exhibited a
fierce determination to take all that
the most pronounced negrophOiist
would grant them, and they must now
be relegated TO their proper places.
Whatever rights a negro has under
and by the law, protection TO life, per-
son, freedom and property-these let
him have. What he calls his "civil
rights" which really are nothing more
than opportunities for annoying and
incommoding white people, are con-
signed to the limbo of the past.
There let them stay !-Lonisidpd