Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-01-21
PREJUDICE AGAINST COLOR REBUKED.

The New York Musical World and Tines in an
article upon the Intolerance of coored persons in
New York." thus alludes to the vulgar practice of
excluding them from cars, omnibusses, and other
public conveyances. The rcbuke is well merited
and well given and we trust that, from such source,
it will not be without effect
Even mulattoes, who are so white, and every
way so decent as hardly to be distinguished from
white persons not admitted il they are observed.
COloured boys at most may ride on the top. On
the other hand, the most filthy and unclean Irish
labourer, covered with mud and mortar, and rcek-
ing with spirtuous ond bodily exhaatons can take
his seat on velvet cushion by tho side of silk and
satin.
"a short time since relative Of ours living in
the country, sent TO us most decent, and tidy, and
respectable mulatto woman, with one Of the small
children Of the family this faithful and avourite
domestic being commissioned to make purchases In
the city to a large amount for the coming winter,
and also to attend at the sittngs Of the little child
in the studio of painter, who taking the pretty
dears portrait. We live quite uptown; three
miles from the City Hall and Musical World Office
| Every day H a somewhat stout person., during
the week that she remained with us, WIS Obliged to
rdM the distance with the small child down to the
region of shops and Of Stewart" (besides all the
trudging to be done down town., and then walk
back again, because, forsooth she was (yery
handsome wtha) mulatto, and not admitted to car
and omnibus Occasionally in the evening, when
completely exhausted, doubling her veil she would
succeed, nelp OF the nttle Wnlte cneruD
at the side of her, to gain admttance to q car or
omnibus uncballeugod. At other times, when she
stood at the corner Of street and beckoned, the
driver would pass her unheeded by, the conduct
or would seem not to notice her.
"NOw, shame ON such intolerant and outrageous
prejudice and persecution Of the coloured race at
the North! Even the STAKEHOLDER would cry shame
upon us, for he has more humanity about him in
this respect than we. Ii is great question, wheth-
cr our Northern intolerance and practical disgracng
of fair skin or the Shareholders subecion of the
colored man (but personal, kindly treatment of the
same) is the greater injustice and wrong Of the two
Were We in bondage, at all events, kind MASTER
who regarded us as one Of the human family were
preferable to civil freedom among people who re-
gard as quadrupcds, and our proximity a dis.
: grace to them-howcyer tidy and cleanly we are
and respectable in appearance and circumstance
who continually force upon us the painful consc
5 BUSINESS Of our inieriority-whO wound our pride
and humate us, by treating MS as inferior animals
r rather than as human beings.
"This exclusion of coloured persona from oul
public vehicles is a thing that now almost nearly
concerns the comfort and convenience Of white
! people as Of coloured. Aud the more the tide o.
= home residence flows upward, and away from tho
business and errdnd part Of the city, the more i'm
pOrtant will il become. Public opinion ought for
cby to put down this disgraceful excusiyeness il
public vehicles and compel omnibus and car com.
pancs to have it understood that every decent,
dressed person, irrespective of colour shall have
admitance to their vehicles. At the very worst
many of our omnibusses cannot he nearer first cou
sins TO the pig-stye than they are, from tobacc,
juice. rotten hay and indiscriminate filth gener
; ally"