The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-10-25
POLITICAL.

The colored people of Washington
show deep feeling on tho civil-rights decision
of the Supreme court. The news Of the de-
cision created great excitement in the colorcd
State convention, which was in session at
Springfield, Ill. The delegates seemed to
think they would now be deprived of the
full cnjoyments OF their rights and priVi-
leges.
Governor Hoadly, of Ohio, in
Inmates that he will give prompt recognition
10 the labors of 1000 colored men in his be-
half.
The leading representative negroes of
Louisiana have been interviewed on the sub
jcct of the late decision of the Supreme
court, declaring the Civil Rights bill uncon-
stitutional. Col. James ID. Lewis, United
States Surveyor General, thought the Civil
Rights bill worked TO the detriment of the
negroes. The decision did not affect Lousi-
ana and there was no desire on the part
of the whites to deny the colored man his
civil-rights in public conveyances or
public places. j. b. ;. Pinchback attached
very little Importance to the decision. Every
negro who behaved himself in Louisiana en-
joyed the same privileges as the whites.
Race prejudice was rapidly dying out in
Louisiana. Henry Demas, State Senator, re-
garded il as the best thing that could have
happened for the colored people of the South,
who would now understand that they
must rely upon their own manhood
for recognition, socially and otherwise.
A. j. Dumont, Chairman of the Re
publican State Central committee and United
State Naval Officer was of about the same be-
lief. Nearly all the other colored leaders ex-
pressed similar views. Gov. Charles Foster
of Ohio, was asked tonight what he thought
of the decision. He said: II shall rec
ommcnd in my message the adoption of
a State law which will give to the colored peo-
pie all the rights and immunities guaranteed
them under the Civil Rights law. | cannot
reconcile myself fully TO the decision. 1t
might be we'll TO submit n new amendment"
Tn Desc Mones Register prints official returns
from eighty counties in Iowa, and definite
Sherman 25,472 majority over Kline, and
about $3.50 over all. The exact official can
vass will not vary much from these figures.
Branch X. Bruce, the colored ex-
Senator from Mississippi, and ut present Reg
lister of the Treasury, is greatly discouraged
at the decision in the civil-rights cases. He
regards it as n revival or the Calhoun doc
trine of State rights, and says it will carry
the country back fifteen years.
The Governor of Texas has issued
proclamation calling n special session of the
Legislature. II sets forth that an extraordl-
nary occasion for the session has arisen, but
withholds mention of what the occasion is.
The subjects OF legislation will probably re-
ate 10 the fence war, public lands, and the
investment of the school funds under the
recently adopted constitution.
Pittsburgh opinions on the civil
rights decision: The negroes arc very i'm
dignant, and say they expected better things
of the Republican Judges of the Supreme
court. Some of them threaten to revenge
themselves by voting the Democratic
ticket District Attorney Stone is bit
ter in his dcnuncation of the decision.
The Hon. Thomas Marshall, an old Abolition
war-horsc, is outspoken in condemnation of
the decision. He says IL Is the greatest out