New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-30

than large majority of those who pay those hand
some sums for the rent Of their dwellings. In his
walk and conversation he is quite equal to the lar
GER proportion of that class, and in his manners
much their superior. He is an ordained clergyman,
whose business it IL to cave souls, more or less Of
fectually 70 which duty he is undoubtedly faithful;
and his life, we are quite sure, without taking it for
granted that profession and practice in that calling
are always in accordance, illustrates the work to
which he is devoted. lie differs from them also in
this that the coloriDg matter beneath his spiderms
is of sound, pure black without any admixture OF
a dirtyish white But. though black he is comely;
though black, he is learned; though black he is
gifted with eloquence; though black he is we-bred;
Though black, he is moral; though black, be 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 gram
ules, and covered with new cutice OF another hue
would long ere this have lived in house three par
lors deep, at rent not penny under ST. 200 year.
have had the bronchitis, and been sent to Europe,
with an addition of $4,000 to his salary to pay his
expenses. As it is, bis bronchial tubes are in per-
feet conditions no pisus old ladies of either sex are
concerned lest the dolorous wheeze of his drowsy
piston, which may come OF fat, is caused by nilaIn-
nation: his salary for the cure of souls is probably
less than he could earn, as white man, by the cure
of bacon; his talents are nsught; his eloquence is
naught; his piety naught; his morals, his manners,
his manliness, his culture, his faithfuness 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 parents may
have so arranged our social and political institutions
that "the black man has no rights which the white
"man is bound to respect" but we nevertheless can
not help feeling that this particular black man-the
Rev. Mr. Gsrnet-has some reason for feeling that
the rule in his case, calls for the exercise OF more
patience and forbearance than can be reasonably
looked for even in one of that sefdenying and hum
Bile profession to which he belongs.
We spell negro with two gs, and justify ourselves
thereby in incting upon the "nigger" every posi-
bic contempt and social wrong We exclude him,
as we do dogs from all places Of public resort, tol-
Grating him only ON the platform of car, on the
top of an omnibus, in the baggage car of train, on
the forward deck of a steamboat, in the third row
of theatre in the "nigger. pew " of the church.
We shut him out from the school, except of lower
grade forbid him to enter any College of estab-
lshed reputation exclude him from any fit educa-
tion for the professions at home and deny him re-
cognition in them if he gets it abroad debar him
positively from engaging in commerce. and prevent
him from learning any trade above that of white
washer,-for which he has paradoxcal proclvi-
ty-and holding any higher service than that of april
yate coachman. If we tax him we deny him rep
resentatOn; if he commits crime he has not even
trial by bis 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 bis ellOw-mortal and we believe that
when at the last day the sheep and the goats are Sc
parated by the acknowledgement still further division
will send the black man to a negroquarter, either
in hell or heaven. In one place only il his equal
humanity recognized-if bis neck is to be broken it
is permitted to be done on the same gaows as if it
were white. In short as far as we can control
them neither Christianity, in its highest expression,
nor civilization, nor art nor science, nor know
ledge, nor manners, nor morals, are permitted to
exercise upon him their ameliorating influences.
As far as in us lies we make him asavage and then
reproach him with his barbarism; we reduce him
TO the condition Of beast and complain of his beast
Illness.
We are by no means DESTROYS to deny the difficult
ties which environ this Negro question. But one
thing in regard to it we are perfectly sure ofthat
we shall never begin to solve it till we bring to bear
upon it first little common humanity, and then q
little common sense. A step will be gained when
respectable and educated black man like Mr.. Gar
nett can be tolerated in decent house in decent
neigbborhood and not be compelled to bring up his
family in those sinks of material filth and moralcor
upton to which, in this virtuOus city, we Danish all
who ere despcable either because they are poor, or
becau;e they are wicked or because they are black
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