Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-11-09
Negro Equality.

Doubtless our readers have heard the
expression before There is not a Demo
cratic paper in the country but what
daily or weekly-and generally veakly
gives its subscribers a homily on the
dangers of Negro Equality. 1t is pow
der that has been shot a great many
times in the political campaigns in the
free States. 1t is bug-bear that has
frightened many timid voters into going
the " whole dimmycratic ticket. Ii is
still occasionally used, but seems to have
lust It's pUwer.- Even frugs-s0vrr rzsrur
tanned that the King sent them by Jupi-
ter with great splash, was but..a log of
wood. So the cry of niger equality"
once rare political trick-has lost its
magical influence But while, to use a
homely phrase, niger equality is "about
played out in the free States, it seems
to be coming in vogue in our sister
State of Kentucky. We call the atten-
ton of the Journal and Democrat to
this alarming fact. In their anxiety to
checkmate the undertakings of the radi-
Gals, they are losing sight of the equali-
ty operations of the Shareholders. They
should beware of these flank movements.
The best Generals are frequently ruined
by such oversights.
Bnt who would have thought that the
aristocratic city of Henderson, would
ever witness an attempt to equalize the
master and servile raeesl That an ar
istocratic slave mistress, would attempt
to place her servant girl upon an equali-
ty with the poor white girlsl Yet, if the
Henderson Reporter is to be credited,
such is the fact We give its account
of such an attempt as we find it:
CoDFIsHY-A lady called at the door
of a popular dress maker of this city,
two or three days since, and summoned
the lady whose services are ever in re-
quest by the followers OF tickle fashion,
who speedily made her appearance
Lady No. l then informed the dress
maker that she had a mulatto girl-an
excellent seamstress-whom she desired
to hire to the dress-maker as sewing
girl The dress-maker informed the
lady that such an arrangement could not
be considered for a moment-that if the
negress were hired, every young lady in
her employ would leave her in twenty
minutes The lady turned on her heel,
with the expression, " "Humph! she's as
,ohite as any Of goa" and left,
The idea of putting a saddle-colored
negro wench on an equality with the
est living with their needles, is an origi-
nal idea in this latitude Many young
ladies in this city, whose characters are
Qike the wife of Cesar) "above suspi-
cion," work for livelihood. We have
yet TO learn that poverty is an evidence
of degradation. We have yet to learn
that the degraded negro has been put
upon an equality with the poor of the
high-souled Caucasian race in this sec
ton. IF there are any, laboring under
such delusion, we would inform them,
for the sake of their own reputation, that
Henderson has not yet descended to the
level of an Oberlin, and is not yet guilty
of the crime of legal amalgation-a crime
against humanity and Deity himself.
Verify, doth Goldfish stink.
We want the conservative chaps" il
this "neck of woods to stick pir
here. When have the seamstresses o
our city been so grossly insulted as to b.
solicited to accept a mulatto girl as {
working companion2 We always kne'
that white people who worked for liy
ing held about the same position a
slaves, in the opinion of the proprietor
of African humanity, but generally tn
chivalry haze been shrewd enough
keep those opinions within their ow
immediate circle. The necessity of th
lady in Henderson, however, may be he
apology for this violation of discretion
Her male supporters may be in the reb'
army, and her mulatto girl-"as whit
as any of you may be her sole NEAR
of support Necessity knows no LAY
Even the dignity of the white race Civ
/, way to the pinchings of hunger.
Without philosophizing over this late
5 attempt to introduce negro equality in
. the social organism of our sister city
10 Kentucky, we will simply add that Il
true place to find negro equality fl
blown is always in the largest slavehol
ing districts. We suggest, also, to t
free working men and women of India
that, when the conservative chaps
come to you prating about the horrors
% negro equality, you point them to t
case of the mulatto seamstress, of He
derson, Ky..