New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-05-23
WHITE AND BLACK.

while cFOItS are WJhINs ~ p'h'' "'' 4' g" W. "
equality with the Whites Now, it being well
known and settled by all manner OF scientific de-
monstrations. and weighty Biblical authority, and
chronological investigation, and careful measure
men, of facial angles, and no end of syaodical con-
f,buaton, that tie Black can no moro be placed
on an equaliiy with the White" thnn quart
beerpot can be placed in pint beer pot all This
we say, being Is well settled as the first chapter OF
Genesis We take it most ubhindly, that Mr. Rich
srdson Of Illinois should be SO hard up for some
thing TO SOY, that nothing would serve him (ln-
stead VI keeping his mouth shut but these iSner-
Gus utterances. What III the name OF al things
analogous. has the relation OF The Negro to the
Chhnpanzee to do with Cheap Postage But
this il always The way with the Richardson's. No
subject OF debate can be considered long, before
these aGtators have in the Negro Tariffs, money
bills. railway bs, bills Of al kindsnone OF these
can pass through their Congressional aud ooslcl-
rcal crises unless the Negro is by 10 assist Some
! honorable Members, under 10 circumstances, ever
/ talk Of anything else. II is a sort OF mania with
/ them. They live in IL dreary apprehension that
compulsory amals amaiion viii receive the sane
! ton OF law and that they, among the first We
tnr will be forced 70 the marriage altar, each
with his dusky bride They behold their estates
enjoyed by yellow progeny. They feariuily anti
cipatc tho time when their great names Will be up
held only by tiasous succession while ell over tie
country the white faces divine of the first families
suffer cuticllar Change i0to something perma-
nently sable. These Richardson's know their own
weakness, aud may De justly oPPrehensi'e but
Why do they not. instead OF making speeches, go
ut once aud have themselves put under legal
guardianship Don't they see, these unt6ink!ng
Richardson's, that they give the Negro Importance
| by continually talking about him Don't they
see that il i their ane fears which have made
I him bugaboo Of such porienous dimensions
that even bold Ben Wood is Il little scared Don't
they see that IL il useless u harp never So slrdnt-
u and ns,dlously upon the sacred aud ne'er-sui-
feently e-przed doctrine of Bi1ck incquohty,
when al protests however passionate, ind demon
strations however conclr,igr, only serve to pish
the black man into s.ill higher and more NINA
tory position Ii is Mr.. Richardson OF IIlinois
who j. frightened now. white man IA be is popu-
arly surro.nd 20 h.. r. sui Snmbo RON who Is
doeli-irudden and oppressed and coWefing--ii Is
Mr.. Richardson Of Illinois vino II IN danger of en-
sIrs m. nt Of he acDasru'u, ot thc Richafdso'
uian blood. Of the cri.png Of tho Eichardsohian
hair. a7d o. he depr, ION OF tie lSclprdsOniln
nose. Poor man Dee had ltiIe start Of Sambo'
70 T. true. IN the racr Of '--but his legs are civ
inq o1t-h. beautiful white skin is III danger Of .
G.al dscolo.ator--aad who Knows what young
Master Richardson NAV DO ard the young and
accomplished Misses BicbsrdsoD Scores OF
black women may piue for the boy Groups Of
black nen NAY cOr.pge for The girls No Won
der Mr. Richardson had something Ia .ay-uPOn
he Postage Bill No wonder, while taking o.
red stamps, az blue stamps, nnd OF green stamps-
that he iupcrccplibly gidcd into protest against
that yellow stamp which threatens The faces Of
his descendant. But let him take courage! As
The Blacks advance IN civilization and taste, II is
barely possible that they will decline TO have any
thing 10 do with the Richnrdsonian stamp at all.
The greats great great grandchildren of tie Honor
able Member may he rs while us he is. How
white that is We do not know. We never painted
h- portrait.
Tor our own part, az We have the misfortune TO
belong 20 this white race, which if not already
doomed 10 drcoioTa,ion, is yet ia such decided
danger, we cannot help thinking that il bchooyes /
~ At least to hold q Convention in defense Of orr
complexons And hair. And iacial angles And ,
uncxaggcrated Sims. When n man like Richard !
son who is public character, and IN orator aud
Il statesman, and 4 Representative, aud OIL that
sort of thing consider, himself as a white man to
be- in Danger il vel becomes fry who are smaller /
than be i, and perhaps not so white, TO be look .
ing ont for thcir right to good Constitutional
color IN It, family. II Richardson will only resist
What 5er impulses he may feel in the Ertbcan d.
rection. we also pyo.u.sc 10 do or best. W..
lnps. al! hang together while this rcriIou- cri., P
continues. We beg Mr. Richardson 10 ia,oiyc
himself IN bis virtue, and To stand hrn.
Meanwhile, this word Equality, about which
80 much is said, reminds rs oi thosc Old Span 10
pis'arecus hich one. used TO pnss for sey,atccu,
twenty, or twenty-five cents, according 70 The
Kill Of he operator. "Equal:y' is uncommon.
luciUltiug. W. eau 1t q moments notice pro- /
duo. f. dozen 0f tie whiost OF men whose clsiin TO
equality with himself Richardson wOlld, il 40
election were pending ierucousy rcp.'l-men hc
would no cat Hiih. would nj drink Will, vuud M
rlecp with, wouldn't play poker with, wouldn't
ever fight withaGd all 81 them toIernbly white
after r,4c.,nt unebir, W. r ti,.. t,.,. ND =. Il.