The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-04-07
From the New York Tribunn.
HUMANITY AND HOUSES WANTED

In morning paper of day or two ago,
we find the following advertisement:
WANTED TO RENT-By the Rev. Henry
w Highland Garnet, pastor of the Shiloh Pres
byterian Church, colored gentleman, small
genteel House, at a rate Of not more than $500.
This gentleman has called at fifteen houses having
bills on them, and has been invariably assured
"not for niggers colored people" The subseri-
Der desires to know If there 10 sufficient religion,
humanity, and courtesy in New York to answer
favorably at No. 81 Laurens street.
The Rev. Henry Highland Garnet diff
fers from most others of his fellow crea-
lures of this city who live in houses rent
ing for $500and upward in several particu-
lars He is by nature quite as intelligent,
and by education good deal more cult
waited, than large majority who pay those
handsome sums for the rent of their dwell
lings. In his walk and conversation he is
quite equal to the larger proportion of that
class, and in his manners much their supe-
rior. He is an ordained clergyman, whose
business is to save souls, more or less eff
fectually, to which duty he is undoubtedly
faithful; and his hfe, we are quite sure,
without taking it for granted that profess
sion and practice in that calling are always
in accordance, illustrates the work to
which he is devoted. He differs from them
also in this, that the coloring matter be-
meath his epidernis is of sound, pure
black, without any admixture of dirtyish
white. But, though black. he is comely;
though black, he is learned; though black,
he is gifted with eloquence; though black,
he is well-bred; though black, he is moral;
though black, he is pious, and though
black-black as the ace of spades-he is
altogether man who, had he in his early
infancy been thoroughly skinned down to
the primitive granules, and covered with
new cuticle of another hue, would long
ere this have lived in house three par
lorS deep, at rent not penny under
81 200 year, have had the bronchitis,
and been sent to Europe, with an addition
of 5000 to his salary to pay his expenses
AS it is, his bronchial tubes are in perfect
condition; no pious old ladies of either sex
are concerned lest the dolorous wbeeze of
his drowsy piston, which may come of fat,
is caused by inflammation; his salary for
the cure of souls is probably less than he
could earn, as a white man, by the cure of
bacon; his talents are naught; his eloquence
is naught; his piety naught; his morals,
his manners, his manliness, his culture, bis
faithfulness, are all naught, and, unlike
the fox spoken of in Scripture, he has no
hole into which to put his head. The i'm
maculate wisdom of our Constitutional pa
rents may have so arranged our political
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rights which the white man is bound to re-
spect,o but we nevertheless cannot help
feeling that this particular black mantle
Rev. Mr.. Garnet-has some reason for
feeling that the rule, in his case, calls for
the exercise Of more patience and forbear-
ance than can be reasonably looked for even
in one of that selfdenying and humble pro-
fession to which be belongs.
We spell negro with two gs, and Justify
ourselves thereby in inficting upon the
Niger every possible contempt and So
cial wrong. We exclude him, as we do
dogs, from all places of public resort, toler-
ating him only on the platform of a car, on
the top of an omnibus, in the baggage-car
of train, ON the forward deck of steam
boat, in the third row Of theatre, in the
''nigger-pew" of the church. We shut him
out from the school, except of a lower
grade; forbid him to enter any college of
neutrality-suspicious.; excludehim fromany
fit education for the professions at home,
and deny him recognition if he gets it
abroad; debar him positively from engag-
ing in commerce, and prevent him from
learning any trade above that of white
washer-for which he has paradoxical
proclivity-and holding any higher SER
vice than a. private coachman. If we tax
him we deny him representation; if he
commit crime he has not even trial by
his peers, but is compelled to submit his
cause to the Judgment of twelve men who
hate him; if he dies we bury his black
ashes apart from the white dust of his fell
low mortal; and we believe that when at
the last day the sheep and the goats are
separated by the Divine Judgment, still