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Show The Chicago Inter-Ocean complains com-plains that tho civil rights bill was adopted without the aid of the church and its ministers. The religious nowjpapers, it also says, have also, w'th a few honorable exceptione, battled against the civil rights bill. The church, it says, not only faltered in the pursuit of its grand mission, but stained its record by a course of cowardly subserviency to the political idea of "expediency." This is certainly cer-tainly a creditable record for the church and tho organs ot religious opinion. It shons that the administration admin-istration party has few sympathizer;; iu ita extreme course of legislation, and that most respectable people are content to let the people of the south work out their own destiny without the intervention of meddlesome legislation. legis-lation. It will not be long, we predict, pre-dict, before a similar policy will be adopted in regard to Utah. |