The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-01-29

laws. And We would respectfully submit, touching
the present incumbent whether the fact that he
Was elected to Office by the vote Of ooored men in
Kings county cast for him in the belief Of libe-
rahty ofsentiment on his part touching the Fugitive
slave law, should not have left more lively, If not
more grateful impression upon his patriotic me-
m9Iy' -, i,
Exeellencys manifest grief at our being shut out
from social intercourse" for the reason that do
not feel that labor under anysuch exclusion In
humble way, we interchange the amenities pertain
ing TO civilized society, with the sincerity and frank
ness if without the expensive splendor which dis
tipguish them in other quarters. II may not be
within the experience of his Exceency, but we cln
assure him that it is possible and tangible expe
rience from which he need no longer be excluded,
that o,ial intercourse can exist apart from the
class of our fellow-citizens who monop oze the
higher Offices in the gift Of the people.
But, if by social intercourse, he means the social
intercourse Of colored and white persons, whilst it
must be admitted to be novel definition Of the
term, such thing does exist even in our own
State And in order TO relieve the Executive anx-
ety this point, beg to state that in parts Of
Essex, Franklin, Oneida and Madison counties the
courteses OF social life are not prescribed by
plexional distinctions And in the cities of New
Y ork and Williamsburg, interchanges between the
two great races" have become so frequent as TO
Interfere with the usual classification in census
taking. And 1t may be worthy of rel mark, that oar
general deprivation OF mixed so a intercourse, Is
u matter Of which we would have rem aimed In
ItBqui, perhaps piiselu gHSleLce, nAu u mol ostu
repeatedly thrust upon our attention by the Ame
rcan Colonization Society. its aders and abettors
His Excelency, also asserts, that 'condemned
to a life of seryity and irudgery," cur condition
is deplorahe IN the extreme, and that any improve
ment under circu tances go calculated TO crush
the spirit Of manhood, seems morally impossible. y
Throughout the State of Now York, colored men
are occupied, employed, as farmers, backsmiths,
engineers, carpenters, sboemakers, merchant tailors
professors, cergymen editors, teachers, physicians,
lumber dealers, in short, in every calling except
the highly saaried Offices OF governments how far the
last named employ nent may coademn man to
life Of seryility and drudgery, cannot say from
ezperien e, however distinct may be our opinion
derived from OK ;ervation. In regard to all the
other occupations, we say, because we know, that
they bind no chains upon our persons nor upon our
souls. The earth yields her increase gladly
to the toll of black farmers IF white; and in this,
as in other callings named, if we have won less
money, we have ut least maintained the
freedom of spirit, which has accrued to our fellow
citizens with fair skins
The cities of New York, Brooklyn and Will
liamsburg. contain more than q third of the entire
colored population of this State. hurried in
vestigation, in which many instances have been
overlooked, and all the estimates renderei low,
shows that coored persons have, invested in bust
ness carried on BIZ Themselves