Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-10-26

TREATMENT OF THE NEGRO NORTH AND SoUTH.-
A New York correspondent of the Savannah re-
publican alluding to the fact that coored children
had been denied admission to the public schools IN
Brooklyn, makes the following remark: !" l think
the two races meet 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 may he regarded
as at least very cautious remark. There can he
no doubt that it is far within the truth 1t is noto-
rious, 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 be-
tween the races the coorcd people treated even
by shareholders and advocates of slavery with more
consideration and with greater familiarity and kind
ness than they experience from those who arcoud
in proclai;nng their rights, but who make merchan-
disc as it were. of their alleged oppression.
1t is unnecessary to go beyond Washington,
where there some ten or twelve thousand color
e people, bond and free, to witness this difference
in the treatment and actual social position of the
blacks. The extensive sympathy for the colored
race which exists professedy at the North does not
to have produced the slightest effect in anne
liorating their social position. 1t is a sympathy
VIII oh seems to he wholly theoretical. 1t enters in
to no practical association with the inferior in
any of the walks of life 1t is reserved for the spe
cial benefit of the sympathzers themselves. Whcth-
such he its design or not 1t rebounds from the Oh
jects of its profes>ed regard and reacts upon those
who nourish and cherish it as available and success
FIJI capital, moral political, as the cause may be.
The result is that the last state of the colored pee
pie is than the first. Liberty, equality, and
fraternity for them exist only in the figures ospeech
which adorn the essays and harangucs of those who
suhsist physically well politically, upon their
miSfortnnes. They arc n prescribed race, sort Of
tabooed people, and familiarity of intercourse, and
associations with them of whatever sort avoided
with an aversion which seems to increase with the
oscnSible 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 priv
cgc; and were it likely in reality, to bring them
any nearer to social and political equality occasion
would soon be found 10 abridge it where it is now
reluctantly bestowed.
We repeat it. it is for buncombc, and not from
motives of benevolcnce or humanity, patriotism,
or justice, that We hear so much of negroes rights
such a constant ringing of the changes upon that
misconccivcd and abused sentiment of the Consttu-
ton. that all men born free and equal As a
race the colored people at the North and in all non
Slavchoding States. excluded from all assoca-
ton with the whitcS--from public assemblages,
gatherings, conveyanccS, places of amusement,
churches and meetings of all sorts. for religious,
moral social, political, civil or military purposes
Wherever capital can be made from their pres
cncc, they are persiS:ently excluded and whenever
advantage can he derived from contact with them,
they uniformly shunncd.-Boston Courier.