Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-05-20
ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
AMERICAN PREJUDICE AGAINST COLOR.

Such is the appropriate heading under which
we find the following article in the London morn
ing Advertiser of April 18th.
If British writer's who utter such facts Of Amcri-
can republicans could only be proved false wit.
nesscs against our counuymen we could stand It
TO see such things in print. But the edge Of the
blade in this as in other things is in its truth;
In the Southern States Of America, where the
blacks are held as slaves, and each person looking
upon his victim rs an inferior being created for the
sole purpose Of serving him, it could scarcely be
expected otherwise than that prejudice would cx-
ist on tho part of the whites against the blacks
But in the Northern States, where there is no sla-
very, aud whore the people profess TO be free and
enlightened, this wicked and unfeeing prejudice
against fellow creature simply on account Of his
color (which, after ALL is only skin deep), appears
to inexpicable Yet it is true that in nearly all
the free states colored people are shut out from
religious, social, and political gatherings. In
every free state west Of New York the blacks arc
deprived of the elective franchise, no matter how
intelligent they are, or what may bo the amount
Of property they possess. Yet these people are
taxed for the support Of public schools from which
their own children arc excluded.
In the State Of New York whore the people claim
TO be more enlightened than their Western neigh
bors, the negroes are allowed tho franchise proyd-
el thcy own 50!. Of real estate. Yei in New York
the children of colored people are not allowed to
attend schools with whites. Nearly all public con-
voyances either exclude blacks, or allow them to
travel as interiors. If ihcy go on steamers they
must remain on deck it in coaches or omnibuses,
on the outside if upon the rail- in the Jim Grow"
carriage.
A few years since the Rev. Theodore S. Wright
one of the most respectable and eloquent clergy
mon Of New York, after taking a passage for hin-
self, wife and child, on board Of an East river
steamer bound from Providence 20 New York,
and after paying their fares first cabin passen-
gers, were turned out Of the cabin after the boat
had left the warf and compelled to remain on deck
during passage OF twelve hours on q cold night
IN December. Tho result of this treatment is well
known amongst the colored people of the free
States. Mrs Wright took severe cold, which
caused her death in few weeks. From nearly all
the religious churchess Of that land the colored
people excluded, or if admitted at ALL are sent
10 places set apart for them. These isolated spots
are known as the negro pews. This unnatural
and unchristian prejuice against an unof'ending
and innocent people is, we conceive, one Of the
most pcrnicous and hateful result Of the slave
system. Everybody must regard the education
and elevation Of the free colorod people of the
northern states and Canada as great and powerful
lever to overthrow slavery in the southern states ;
and no one can view but with regret the barrier
which this caste places in The way of the social
religious, and political elevation of these people.
We havo been led to make these remarks from the
contrast which the treatment that colOred Ameri-
cans receive IN tnls country compared with OF their
own. Ii is not yet three years since two c0lorcd
girls landed in this country from the United States
to join their father, fugitive. who was cxiled by
the Infamous slave law of 1850. On their arrival
in this country these girls were admitted upon
terms of equality into one Of the best schools in
France; they subsequently returned to London,
and went through n course of Is months training
at tho Home and Colonial School noted rs one of the
most superb training institutions in the country.
At tho examination in December last these young
women were found to possess qualities and cduea-
ton which warranted their being made teachers Of
the young. and they were both placed mistresses
over schools and in which capacities they have
given the highest satisfaction. The youngest of
those girls, only Is years of age, has school of
100 pupils, some of them l6 years of age. Facts
like these cannot fail to tell against the system Of
chatel slavery in the Southern States, where they
talk so much Of the inferority of the negro race,
while they must at the same time, be encouraging
to the noble band of aboltonsts in the north, who
nrc laboring assiduously for the final emancipa-
tion Of their colored bretheren. These young girls
to whom we have alluded are the daughters Of Mr..
Wells Brown