Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-01-20

HE NATIONAL TYRANNY.-We have all
read OF the tyranny of the Egyptian king, who COM
PEELED the Hebrews to make brick without straw.
But that and the doings of Northumberland and
Herod are all dlstanced in point of unreasonableness
and meanness, by the tyranny for which our Federal
Government responsible in the District of Colum-
bla We have case TO the point, as reported by
the Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Evening
Post. 1t Is this: respectable. free black man
we'@trom Baltimore to Washington and obtained
employment as waiter in hotel. He was COM
planned OF for an lnfraction of a municipal regua-
ton designed to exclude free blacks from that Dis
tret sacred TO white freedom and black slavery and
being called up before the authorities was ordered
to give bonds in one thousand dollars for his good
behavior or leave the District in twenty-four hours
The bonds he could not give, and he had therefore
nothing to do but lose his place and return to Bal
tlmore On going TO the station to take the cars he
was informed that before he could enter them. he
must give bonds in the of one thousand dollars
with two sufficient sureties, that he was not slave
The writer who reports the case does not know
what was the issue of his difficulties, but supposes it
was imprisonment which, all know, might, ao-
cordmg 10 the refined laws of the District result in
a sale for Jail fees, and perpetual bondage
liere Is an actual case where an honest man has
been robbed of his living in direct violation of the
Constitution and of all the distinctive principles of
II any iuedIlS he mas Deen saved
from life of bondage, no thanks to the laws which
are sanctioned by our Northern representatives.
We put 1t TO the politicians who talk SO coolly about
the duty OF sacphcng our peculiar feelings to the
preservation of the Union, if they really think that
the peace and prosperity of great country can be
promoted by sanctioning such petty, contemplate,
mean and cruel scoundrelism as these municipal
regulations of the city of Washington in regard TO
people of color. We think the man whose indigna-
ton does not rise against such injustice is not worth
saving. We don't deny that there may be in him
the raw material, out of which God in his omnipo
tence can create man, but there is no more MAJ
there now, than there is honor in the hyena or truth
In the serpent, or mercy in the Bengaltiger If our
country Is to be governed by such men, God speed
the flight of our republicansn and the advent of the
autocrat of all the Americans.
What are our representatives in Washington
about! These people who perperute tins mean
outrage upon human rights and constitutional guar
anees, are pensioners upon Congress for almost
every public improvement in the magnificent city
which they inhabit. Congress builds, and plants
and waters for them Let Congress then insist that
they shall CONFIRM their municipal regulations to
decent standard of civilization and christianity
We don't believe insisting upon any thing so reason
able would split this beloved Union If it did. it
would only show that the timber was miserabIy moor
and unseaworthy.- Commonwealth.