New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-06

afhnites, bis caPrices-if you please. his prs;u
dices-and DO one else can rigAtfuly ask WY
{" Do you so"
Bue let Mr.. A.tor or Mr.. Williams step On.
upon til. street, and he Is taere subject to
very differant law from that which regulate.
the choosing of company Tor bis own fresids.
Mr. Astor is a very rich mar, snd is master 10
his own hotss; but on the street he is but the
equal of Mr.. williams or Dir. Sny boay-hi.
nights Just equal to theirs, and no more. II DO
sees fit to ride in an omaibus or ear, he pays
the same as the owner Of lonesome sixpeace,
snd is entitled TO exactly like trestme at with
that individual. If Ae prefers to ride ia pub
lie hack, he likewise pays and fares like the
next man. His vote is as good as any olher
legal voters at the proper Poll-no less. no
more. And If he we're ,ot too well.bred gA1-
tlemsn TO wlsh sny decent, inoffeasive person
turned cut of q car into which be had entered
the conductor should know enough to tell him,
" Mr.. Astor, there are places where you count
twenty Ave millions of dollars sad are re-
spected accordingly; here you count just
FIVE pence, and any other person who behaves
himself coants exactly that sum If yos
don't like tlis, you are at liberty to pay aud
get out; but nobody behaving himself) will
be turned ont TO make the place more agree
able to you
We presume this is all that need be said Ia
reply to what seems a very muddy as well as mean
and mischievous Editorial entitled The War OF
"Colors" in yesterdays Times. Its purpose ap-
pears TO be sort of justification of the indignties
and wrongs to which colored persons have been
subjected in the cars of the Sixth avenue Railroad
The drift of the logic seems to be that, because
Blacks are net regarded as social equals and init
mates by Whites, therefore this car-proscripton
is excusabe, or at least inevitable Thus The
Times:
"Prejudices cannot be conquered. To contend with
them is 20 render them inyeterate. They may wear
out by patient and consistent contradiction TO them
the contradiction Of manners, habits, and daily be-
hayior-ihey may be gradually weakened and at Last
eliminated-but BY the assertion of clamorous and
arrogant claim-a claim unsupported by that quiet
dgLiiy Of carriage that refinement of culture, and
Enlargement OF information 20 which all social barriers
give way, concession is al all likely to be obtained.
TO get the better of deep rooted antpathy, some
thing more than an adverse but abstract right must
be set up
The answer to this imports that the cause Of
tle ulHtoutN III tue CdsC 10 wv NAahm,
"arrogant" or otherwise on the past Of tho
Blacks, but tumble of ideas on the part of GER
tain very ignorant and vulgar Whites. Nothing
like social equality or intercourse of any sort is
implied in the fact of two persons riding up or
down town in the same public car. There Is
common necessity and common Convenience
nothing more. The persons so riding are jast
as far apart, socislly-just as little acquainted
after such ride as before it, unless they mutaslly
choose to be otherwise. Nothing more of social
intimacy is implied in riding down in the same
car than in walking down the same street. aud
our negropbobists ought, to be consistent, to
Insist that special streets as well a. cars shall
be set apart for Blacks, and none of them per-
United to exhibit their ivory in Broadway aud
other fashionable thorOugbfares. Half dozen
well bred Shareholders ought to stop here and
look about long enough to teach our wOuld.bo
imtators of Southern aristocracy that they are
overacting the part and making Judies Of then,-
seIves