Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-04-29

PREACHING vs.. PRAeTIcB-@W Worcester has
generally been regarded as the place where the
Ethiopian is considered as infinitely superior to
his white brother. All that preach, however, do
not practice, it seems for in this morning Spy
we find an advertisement from Prof A. Moll-
neaux. proprietor of the Worcester Gymnasium,
who writes with honorable intentions, but ques-
tionable grammar -" Having made several ap.
plcations for tenement, and being refused on
the account of color, take this method of in
quiring through the pEess,-if there is any gentle
man in the city Of Worcester, that has tene
ment short distance from Foster Block, that he
would not be afraid to rent to a gentleman of
color. Boston Egesi,g Gazette,
We trust that the charge oil Prof. bolineaux is
not true. He is a gentleman, and most accom-
plished teacher of gymnastics, and deserves to
receive a liberal patronage The Gazette is how
ever very much in error in surprising that the
people Of Worcester estimate a black man as su-
perior to his white brother, They believe that
the color Of the skin furnishes no criterion by
which 10 judge of a mans character, ability, and
worth; that 6 white man is as good as negro,
if he behaves himself" Worcester has been very
much belied, and has suffered unlustly from the
behavior Of few noisy fanatics who dwell in that
beautiful and thriving sity.-Boston Bee
The Worcester Bay State, Boston Post and
other newspapers Of the border rufian school of
politics, have made quite hulabaloo over the
advertisement of Prof. Molineaux, alluded to
above, and as it is calculated to give wrong i'm
preston abroad as to the state of public senti
ment here, in reference to colored residents we
deem it our duty to state, that, at the time Prot
Molineaux offered his advertisement, complaining
thstihe could not obtain tenement, because of
the color of his skin, the junior editor of this pa
per offered him good tenement, in a respectable
neighborhood, and but five minutes walk from
the Professors place of business, at lower rent
than it was ever offered to a white man. He was
at the same time cognizant of the fact that other
tenements had been offered him in other loea-
tons. Since the advertisement was inserted, we
have been informed that the Professors present
landlord has not been able to collect his rent of
him, and that, after giving him quarters rent
outright, and then, not being able to obtain what
accrued afterwards, he felt obliged to notify him
to quit the premises. 1t is with pain and regret
that We make this statement-but we not
willing that whole community should be SLAM
dered, without some statement of the facts in the
case, which will enable the public to Judge where
the blame, If any there be, really belongs. The
Worcester Gymnasium is truly a good institu.
ton, and, although we find no occasion to pat
ronize Prof Molineaux, having plenty of exer-
cise in dunning delinquent subscribers, we should
be sorry to have him leave the city either for want
of tenement, or for any other cause. We renew
to him our former offer of the use of our tene-
ment, provided he can give us satisfactory assur-
anee that he viii pay the rent, which we should
require of a white man just much as colored
one; and in case that that arrangement should not
be satisfactory, we are authorized, by gentleman
of property and standing, to tender the Professor
tenement RENT FREE, provided he is unable to
pay.