The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-28
TREATMENT OF THE NEGRO NORTH AND
SnITTH


A New York correspondent of the Savannah Re
publican alluding to the fact that colored children
had been denied admission to the public schools in
Brooklyn makes the following remark: 'I think
the two races met with less jealousy and more good
nature and apparent familiarity in parts of the
South have visited than in New York"
Under the circumstances, this NAV be regarded
as at least very cautious remark. There can be
doubt that it is far within the truth 1t notorious
indeed, that throughout the South there is much
less aversion to blacks than at the North and that
notwithstanding the institution of slavery which is
supposed to create an impossible gulf between the
races, the colored people treated, by slave
holders and advocates of slavery, with more consd-
Grafton and with greater familiarity and kindness
than they ever experience from those who are loud
prOclaiming their rights, but who make merchan-
disc as it were, oftheir alleged oppression.
1t Is unnecessary to go beyond Washington,
where there are some ten or twelve thousand color
ed people, bond and Free to witness this difference
in the treatment and actual social position of the
blacks. The extensive sympathy for the colored
which exists profpssedy at the North does not
seem to have produced the slightest effect in anne
liorating their social position. It's a sympathy
which seems to be wholly Theoretical. 1t enters in
TO practical association with the inferior race in
any OF the walks of life. Itis reserved for the spe
cal benefit OF the sympathizers themselves. Wheth-
such be its design or not, it rebounds from the
objects of its proessed regard and reacts upon those
who n0ursh and cherish it available and success
tui capital, moral or POLITICAL as the may be-
pie is worse than the first. Liberty, equality and
fraternity for them exist only in the figures OF speech
which adorn the essays and harangues Of those
who subsist, physically as well as politically, upon
their misfortuncs. They are prescribed race, a
sort of tabooed people, aud familiarity of inter
course, and associations with them of whatever sort
are avoided with an aversion which seems to in
crease with the ostensible claims which are urged
in their behalf. The elective franchise is awarded
to them in of the States, to be sure, but is
merely nominal privilege; and were it likely in re-
ality, to bring them any to social and poiti
cal equality, occasion would be found to
abridge it where it is now reluctantly bestowed.
We repeat tit is for buncombe, and not from mo-
tives ofbenevolence, or humanity, or patriotism, or
justice, that we hear so much of negroes rights
such a constant ringing of the changes upon that
misconceived and abused sentiment of the Constitu-
ton, that all men are born fire.. and equal. As a
race, the colored people at the North, and in all
non-s!aveholding States, excluded from all as
sociation with the whites-from public assemb ages
gatherings, conveyances, places of amusement,
churches, end meetings Of all Sorts for religious
moral, social, political, civil or military purposes
Wherever no capital can be made from their pre-
sence, they persstently excluded; and whenever
no advantage can be derived from contact with
them, they are uniformly shunned.-Boston Cou-
rier,