Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-11-11

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tons 70 THE WRONG WAY to some con-
relating to the RIGHT WHY.
l. If we would benefit the African at
the South, we must begin at home. This
is to some men the most disagreeable part
of the doctrine of emancipation. 1t is
very easy to labor for the emancipation
of beings a thousand miles off; but when
it comes TO the practical application of
justice and humanity to those about US,
it is not so easy. The truths of God
respecting the rights and dignities of men,
are just as important to free colored men
as to enslaved colored men. 1t may
seem strange for me to say that the lever
with which to lift the load of Georgia is
in New York; but tits. do not believe
the whole free North can tolerate grind
ing injustice toward the poor, and inhu-
manity toward the laboring classes, with
out exerting an influence unfavorable to-
justice and humanity in the South.
No one can fail to see the inconsistent
cy between our treatment of those
amongst us who are in the lower walks
of life, and our professions of sympathy
for the Southern slaves. How are the
free colored people treated at the North?
They are almost without education, with
but little sympathy for ignorance. They
are refused the common rights Of citiz-
enship which the whites enjoy. They
cannot even ride in the cars of our city
railroads. They are snuffed at in the
house of God, or tolerated with ill-dis-
guised disgust. Can the black man be a
mason in New York? Let him be en-
p!oyed as a journeyman, and every Irish
lover of liberty that carries the bod or
trowel would leave at once, or compel
him to leave Can the black man be a
carpenter? There is scarcely a car
penter's shop in New York in which a
journeyman would continue to work, if a
black man was employed in it, Can the
black man engage in the common indus
tries of life? There is scarcely one in
which he can engage. He is crowded
down, down, down, through the most me-
NAL callinc>, to the bottom of society.
We tax Them, and then refuse to allow
their children to 90 to our public schools.
We tax them, and then refuse to sit by
them in Gods house, We heap upon
them moral obloquy more atrocious than
that which the master heaps upon the
slave. And notwithstanding all this, we
lift ourselves up to talk to the Southern
people about the rights and liberties Of
the human soul, especially the African
soul 1t is true that slavery is cruel.
But it is not at all certain that there is
not more love to the race in the South
than in the North They love their pro-
perry. We do not own them, so we dc
not love them at all. The prejudice oil
the whites against color is so strong that
they cannot endure to ride or sit with 8
black man, so long as they do not o10H
him. As neighbor, they are not to bt
tolerated, but as property they are mos
tolerable in the house, the church, the
carriage, the couch! The African, Olcn
ed, may dwell in America but aoaoa0n
ed, he must be expatriated; emancipa
ton must be jackal to colonization. Th
choice given to the African is plantation
or colonization. Our Christian publ
sentiment is pendulum swinging be
tween oaoning or exporting the poor i
our midst
Whenever we are prepared to sho'
toward the lowest, the poorest, and tn
most despised, an unaffected kindnes.
= such as led Christ, though the Lord {
F; glory, to lay aside his dignities, and tax
on himself the form of a servant, and I
= an ignominous death, that he might rescu
? men from bondage-whenever. we al
t prepared to do such things as these, "
= NAV be sure that the example of Ii
North will not be unfelt at the South
Is Every effort that is made in Brooklyn
1t establish schools and churches for Il
: free colored people, and to encouras
= them to educate themselves and becon
= independent, is a step toward emancip
4 ton in the South. The degradation
Is the free colored men in the North, W
X tortify slavery in the South
$ >. We must quicken all the sprin
e. of feeling in the free States in behalf
b. human liberty, and create a public sen
n. ment, based upon truth and true ma
ID hood. For if we act to any good purpo
ty on the minds of the South, we have 9
re TO do it through a salutary and pure pu
le lie sentiment in the North. When
IT, have corrected our own practice, and