The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-16

epiut or Charles Sumner, whose dyln8 Rishts biil.'' that the colored children were not equal to the white children of tne nation The proposition contaiped Tn the resolution that the people did not say to sd ss ssnoSs ~f' of t HstSn aS the colored people of Alabama spurned the rights offered to them. His remarks were loudly applauded and cheered. Smith, the carpet-bagger. and Weich of Selma They are perhaps the most cuIu- yated of their race in the Southern states. In the course of his elaborate but sophomoric speech, Welch said: Any negro who votes the Democratic ticket tramples on the dearest rights of his race. If you would have a De tSa, go with you oer k h he sa aaF. or the Democratic coat and put on the Republican blouse. If we had offices enough. to divide out we should have no sy stsy n Gl oes untl tssy get reS if do. they will retrograde. Feed the new converts @ well; if you don't they win go back. We can starve the Dem years of slavery did not destroy us, ten years of persecution cannot.
 The negroes here then favored the Civil Rights bill. They adopted an address in- With these facts in view. it Is readily seen why the Republican State Conven- tion, met to nominate candidates, would not accept Judge Rices platform de- nouncing the Civil Rights bill; and we have no difficulty in understanding. also, why that convention renominated White and Sheets, who are on the record as In favor of the bill.
 If 1t be asked why the Republican plat form did not endorse the Civil Rights bill. the answer is furnished by the ques- ton MT. White, in that convention, put to Philip Joseph: Will the gentleman tell hn dofa tad in North Carolina and Tennessee?" In these two States the Republicans had been overwhelmed, because they defend- ed the Civil Rights bill. So. when Philip was pressing in the convention for Civll Rights. MT White easily put him down, and he and the other negroes in the con- vention agreed to give Mir. White "a op heH ws. ss 10I sss h go vseo Europe. colored delegate from Mobile. expressed the sentiments of his race in that convention when he said. the Re- publican Party ought to be prudent until Question-Will the white men of the State help 1t into power?
 That the Republican platform equiyo- esess eees s se paf that convention seeks to give the Civil Rights bill. viz: that 1t does not establish mixed schools, Is, in the face of the au- thorities we present, too palpable a sub
 
 to say, that no other Republican State convention in all the Union has resorted to any such dodge. Wherever elsewhere than in Alabama the Republicans have alluded to it. they take 1t without quail fication and as construed by Boutwell,. Senator Sherman of Ohio in a speech at Columbus on the occasion of the rati- fication of the action of the Republican State Convention-which endorsed the Civil Rights bill-spoke as follows. as re- ported in the Cincinnati Commercial. Republican,:
 Sherman's Speech.
 ''1n populous communities where the number of colored children is sufficient for separate school, its is often prefer able to form separate schools by local authority. but where there are few such children they should go to the same school with white children and take part In the same class. l am assured by some of the best teachers in the State that practically no difficulty occurs when white and black are in the same class and school and that very often the col good humor. favorites with the children. The difference is not in the school or with the scholars, but with the parents in the blind, unreasoning spirit of caste the. debris of slavery, and is stronges with the most ignorant and vicious"
 In what way shall the people of Ala. bama contribute to the defeat of thi: bill of abominations-this bill which Senator Brownlow of Tennessee dcnomi mates "a bill for the encouragement oi riot and chaos in the Southern States and for the humiliation of the widows and the oppression Of the orphans Of th' South!"
 Governor Brown of Georgia. himsel also q republican, but like Senator Brownlow opposed to the bill. tells u tions, is the veto of the President, whicl he hopes for if the bill should be passe, the other is. he says. the overwhelm the elections this fail" And he adds And my sincere hope is that every Stat county. city, town, village and hamle throughout the Union where an election party an overwhelming majority. T. this end I shall cheerfuly contribut my mite. This would check the passaR of this most iniquitous measure and re lieve the country of the horrors conss Quent upon its passage.
 Miscegenation.
 The influence the negro yields owe those who are elected by his suffrage rendered by Judges Peters and Saffold who are now candidates for reelection The Supreme Court of Alabama at thu June Term, 1872 had before it the ques tion as to whether 1t was lawful for no groes and whites to intermarry. Th' question was not new. It had arisel There, Judges Walker, Byrd and Judge the latter now candidate for reelection on our State Ticket, decided that ther, was no conflict between the Civil Right bill of 1866 and the Code of Alabama, anC that, consequently. this section of ou Code forbidding intermarriage of white: and blacks was still the law.
 So 1t has since been decided in India ma, by Republican Supreme Court. W, quote from 10th vol American Report! page 42
 State vs. Gibson.
 Head-Notes.
 By a law of Indiana. intermarriag, between white persons and negroes il made felony. Upon a prosecution fol a violation of this law,-Held, that tn, regulation of the marriage contract i! under the control of the State govern ment, and that the statute in question was not abrogated by the act of Con gress known as the Civil Rights Bill. ol by the fourteenth amendment of th' Federal Constitution"
 A similar question, though in relation to intermixture or railroads, came be fore the Supreme Court of Pennsylvan ia, likewise presided over by Republi cans They hold this language:
 "The tendency of intimate social in termixture is to amalgamation, contrar. to the law of races. The separation O the white and black races upon the sur face of the globe Is a fact equally ap parent. Why this is so, 1t Is not nee A n AA MRTE