New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-07
A N4vy-York Incident.

tong uptown III u 0dt1oin OaIt JeoeeA-
day, we saw a young woman approach the
car to take passage, not thinking of any
impeachment, when she was decidedly, though
without extra insult, repelled by the Con
ductor, who informed her that she could not
be permitted to ride in the car. Stepping
to the door to learn the reason of this strange
proceeding, las there were but two or three
perpons in the carr we saw that the woman
was copper colored, (either half or quarter
African by descent) and were informed that
this was the reason of her repulSe.
"But isn't it very base reason ?"
"Can't help it, sir; the passengers make
fuss and say they canFE ride with mig
gers"
We fear that's true-yet what a shame
full, ]oathsome, debasing truth it is Here
in this metropolis of Christian America,
with at least regiment of priests and other
protested teachers of righteousness and hu-
miIity. in the midst of two hundred and odd
steeples and within sight of half dozen, q
clearly, respectable looking woman is re-
PEELED fronla public conveyance, in which
there is room enough to place her six feet
from any body else, because Of her dusky
complexion
Who drove that helpless woman back
upon the sidewalk, in an agony ofsschagrin
and notification
Not the conductor-he was but the pas
sive instrument of others-not the Company
they would have been willing enough to
pocket her six-pence, if the Public would
have permitted 1T. But base aud wicked
Popular Prejudice, the offspring of Slavery,
fostered and stimulated for selfish ends by
deluding and counterfeit party Demoora-
cy, counteuanced and upheld by our empty
and cowsrdy fashionable Christianity, with
negro pews in it's Churches and negro quar-
tiers at it's ables-these are the
real eulprits who subjected that unofending
woman to insult and ignominy in street
of this Christian Republican metropolis.
Must this class of outrages be perpetu'
ated?
We think not. Nay, we trust they are
already outgrown. True, the negro-pews
are still maintained in most of our Churches,
especially the most costly and stylish, and
the Negro-phobia is studiously fomented by
our swinding Democracy, SO that if dozen
black men should venture into Democratic
City Meeting to listen to the eloquence shere
poured forth in glori6cation Of Human
Freedom and Equality, they would be
kicked down stairs in short order-yet still,
we believe Public Sentiment is fast out
growing the Paganism of the Church and
the arstooraoy of Democracy. We believe
our Railroads and Stages might now resolve
to carry neat, decently dressed black and
copper colored persons the same as white
ones, without any material damage to their
interests--that they would hardly lose more
passengers than they would gain by so do
ing, and that after year or SO they would
lose none at all. Africans are carried now
the same as Whites throughout the greater
part of New,England, though twenty years
ago the mean prejudice of caste and color
was as rank and brutal there as it now is
here. And if the Railroads and Stages
should once get Christianzed in this respect,
there would be hope that the Churches
might in time be shamed into following the
example. AS to what vaunts itself De-
mocraoy,' that is more incorrigible, but it
too will knuckle to purified Public Senti-
ment Only let it be understood that more
votes can be obtained by Nsgrophilism than
by Ncgro-phobia, and Fred Douglass will be
called 60 address Ratifying Convention in
Tammany Hall, with two or three of Afric's
noblest sons for Vice Presidents.
But isn't it good idea, in view offscts
every day transpiring around us, to talk of
organizing the whole North into grand
Anti-Slavery party? They who don't see
that the spirit of Slavery is as rampant and
predominant III NewYork as in Virginia
know far too little to be trusted with the
deyising Of new parties. Let US purify our
own bolders before arraying ourselves in a
grand crusade against the sins Of our neigh
bors.