The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-03-24
PRENTICIANA.

PRENTICIANA.
The Locofoco editor of the Maine Gazette,
who seems to be sort of farmer, complains of
"a short crop OF corn" Ii Justice were done
him. his ears of gristle would exhibit shorter
| crop than his ears of corn.
We do not mean to call our neighbor of the
| Democrat bad man, but, if you look straight
| in his face, you will see one the worst aspects
| OF human nature.
The man that isn't shocked by the Presi-
dents infamous and revolving thirty million
proposition, would hardly be shocked BY a thun-
derbolt.
Mr.. Hunter never takes ground that is not
broad, or touches it that is not fertile.-Pnts-
buyyh Press.
We suppose the editor means that the Vir-
GINA Senator manures every foot OF ground he
walks upon.
Senator Simmons the other day, speaking of
the Presidents Recommendation OF specific du-
ties, said the utterance Of that one honest sent-
ment had metamorphosed him that nobody
knew him, and, like Acteon, he was set upon
by his own hounds" The simile is anachron-
istic, for the old Buck went to the dogs long
| ago.
| Our next Sundays issue, and every Sunday
| paper from that time forward will contain an
| original story OF from one column ana half to
| two columns-DenlOcr0t.
Our neighbor seems opposed, after all, to nav
some respect to the Lords day. He generally
manages to tell at least score of stones every
day III the week, but hereafter he means to
eontne himself Oh Sunday to one.
Mr. j. G. Spott, small ofice-holder in Min
nesots, complains bitterly, in a card. that some
OF his own political friends are resolved to ret
hun out, but predicts that they will fail. No
doubt Mr.. Spott thinks they will succeed as
badly as Lady Macbeth. when in her despair
she exclaimed, "Out, damned spot
The editor of an Indiana paper saws, We
have connections i'll our midst" We suppose
the poor fellow has the collie.
young lady in Pittsburgh discarded her
lover for his small! size. In his resentment he
burned her fathers house. "Lo, what a big
fire lille spark kindleth!"
The editor Of Locofoco paper says he was
born Democrat. Without a second birth,
there can be no hope for that fellow.
COLORED POPULATION OF BOSTON.
not agree with US in our politics, but who re-
spects in that adherence to honest convic-
tons by which his own life is characterized
complained to us lately of the tone In which
the colored population of the country were
spoken Of in the Courier. Whatever inierences
may have been drawn, justly or unjustly, from
any particular expressions which may have
dropped from the pen in the hurry of compost
ton, we here take occasion to say, that any
body does Us injustice, who thinks or says that
we are Indifferent to the welfare Of the colored
people, or disposed, through wantonness, to
wound their feelings. Snch is not the case.
We feel none other than kindness and good will
to this portion of our population, and would
never knowingly forego any opportunity to
serve them, or 10 help them serve themselves.
The colored population of Boston, during the
last twenty FIVE years, has made very distinct
and decided progress and such progress 10
most honorable to them. They lead more moral
and reputable lives; they are possessed OF more
property, and live more comfortably; they are
more anxious to improve their own minds, and
to educate their children-indeed, their anxiety
to have their children well educated, and the
honest pains and sacrifices they are at to have
them neatly dressed, are most credtable to
them. These things show that they en-
tirely worthy of the boon which has been be-
slowed upon them now, in every town and city
in the State, of having their children educated
at the same schools with the whites.
We are glad Of this progress; and We are
also glad of the gradual melting awny of the
preludces once entertained by their white
brethren towards them Certainly, there never
was anything more unchristan than the specta-
Gle which we can remember in the parish
churches of New England, of few colored
worshippers stuck up in sort of swallows nest
pew under the caves, as if they were lepers or
parahS. The man whose devotions are dis
turbed by having family Of welbehaved and
decently-dressed colored persons in the pew
next to him, may know much of the doctrines
of Christianity, but is very little imbued with
its spirit. We think Massachusetts is honorably
distinguished by It's bearings towards its color
ed population, not merely by giving them equal
political privileges with the whites, but by the
increasing willingness of its people to recog-
Mise their social rights, and to deal with them
in a spirit of humanity and Christianity.
In this feeling we do most distinctly share.
We feel no prejudice against them. We do
prefer white face to black one but we have
no objections to meet a colored man in any of
the relations of life, provided that his manners,
appearance, conversation, dress, are such that,
we're they possessed by white man, it would
be comfortable to meet him in a similar rela-
ton. We don't like to come very near man
who is filthy or noisome, be he black or white.
But by the color merely We are not repealed;
and we think no man ought to be.
And yet we suppose there are many who will
say that this is all affectation and pretence, be-
cause we are not sboliionsts or tree-soilers, and
don't believe in Slavery agitation, political or
non-political. We cannot help this. Fanati-
cism never can look except through its own
loopholes, or rather gimletholes; it never sees
hut one side of anything, and what does not
come within its line of observation, it never can