New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-30
DIR, PENNINGTON.

Dr. Penningt0ns case has excited much SYM
pathy throughout the City, and we have received
letter after letter exclaiming against the outrage
perpetrated upon him in the Sixth avenue cars.
In Justice TO the reverend gentleman and to the
cause he represents, we should have preferred
TO add nothing 10 the brief remarks we have al
ready made on the subject, FOR we have no doubt
that this insulted clergyman will find that the
law has sufficient power to yindicaie bis rights
without other assistance. But in justice to the
many appeals made to ms and especially 10 very
spirited communication we have received adyo-
eating The duty of at once compelling railway
companies to do away with the separate cars for
colored people which they now maintain, we
cannot remain silent.
Some respectable gentlemen we are inform
ed by lately published letter from the Secretary
of the Sixth avenue Company, object to sitting
IN the same cars with colored persons. If this
rule holds good separate ferry boats had better
at once be established We fancy we have seen
many coored persons sitting inofensively in
their saloons, without injury or annoyance to
either respectable gentlemen or ladies. We
find at our leading hotels objection is never made
TO the constant propinqUity Of colored walters.
Does the lady OF the South ever object to the
contact of the oolored servant who is constant
ly around her person and perpetually minister
ing to her toilettel Does the respectable "
Southern planter object to the colored nurse
who cares Tor and sleeps with his child, or to the
little negroes who sport with bis boys We
see every day carriages of respectable gentle
''men" pass along the street, on which colored
coachman is seated in close proximity to the
wife and daughters Of his employer. l. a color
ed person more offensive than many of those
soiled aud unfragrant white persons, whom we
have seen entering our ears and omnlbusses with
baskets of vegetables ard even fish from market
Is he more Objectionable than many of those
respectable gentlemen" who enter our cars
reeking with the fumes Of drink, or breathing
out the sickcnng nauseOusness Of stale tobacco.
For our part we would rather travel a whole
day with colored person than one hour with
chewing splitting, tobacco-reeking white per-
son. Coored persons are not confined TO this
country. IL Europe they travel like other men
In public conyeyances. And the man who would
dare to dispute their right to do so, would be
placed on tie pillory of public disgrace. 1t
may possibly have some effect With those sensi-
tive and fastidious respectable gentlemen" Of
whom the Secretary speaks, when We assure
them that We have travelled in stage-cosch in
Europe with British nobleman and two colored
persons for more than hundred miles, with
pleasure instead Of ofense; aud that if that
British nobleman had ventured TO turn up his
nose, as some respectable gentlemen" are
represented TO have done, he would have been
booted through the public streets. Is it not
nons;Tous then, that in Christian land re-
spectacle clergyman ike DR.. Pennington
should be doomed TO 4 degrading insult because
the sun, which God sent alike to all, has tinged
his skin with somewhat of a darker hue
We trust that such al absurdity will not longer
Re permitted. Let colored men take their seats
heneeforth in the cars, and if they are elected
let the Company take the consequences. 1t is
for the eOlOred man 10 assert his right, and do
battle for lis dignity as man like man. Ii
the right is denied and the dignity outraged
let him appeal TO the law, which we dare say
Will assert the one and viniicate the other.
If the "highly respectable gentleman" does
not choose ride in the same car with colored
man, the respectable individual will pardon US
for suggesting that he is bound BY every rule Of