New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-05

applied and ignores the facts We sd,iuced 70
prove that what he terms prejudice Is realy
an afFectation, "born of the GROCERY and the
stable" and thus immeasurably stronger-to
say the least-wth the low and base than with
the intelligent, refined and generous He does
not meet our facts. Let US give him few
more:
When President Benson Of Liberia was in
London, Yankee soourning there thought he
would sink dignity for once, and ask colored
man to dine with him. SO said, so done; but
Benson politely declined, on the sufficient
excuse that he was already engaged to dine
that evening with the Queen.
Mr.. John Y. Mason was as exclusive Vir-
ginian aristocrat and STAKEHOLDER as need be;
yet, when Minister TO France, he cOnformed to
the etiquette of his position and treated the
Minister from Hayti-black as the ace of spades
with perfect courtesy. Why was this etl-
duette, if Whites have such an instructive
aversion to Blacks RecOllect that good man.
ners are compounded of good feeling and good
sense.
Our correspondent thinks, unless rtry hun.
CRY, he would decline an invitation to dinner
at the Trois Freres, if apprised that AleIan-
der Dumas (whose grandmother was negro
slave) was to be fellow guest. We respect
fully decline to believe him. But he will not
deny that he has often dned, aud will continue
to dine, where black walters servo the table,
handing every dish over the shoulders OF the
guests. 1t is not, then, the presence Of negroes
that offends hint is thar presence AS EQUALS
rather than meniais. Our Northern and South
ern aristocracy slike throng the watering
place hotels where the servants are black,
though Others as good which employ only white
servants are just over the way. Were the ne
groes guests instead of servants, our handles
would shun their vicinase as contamination.
As servants, their odor is perfectly endurable.
Conductor" said q mean Yankee on a
Western Railroad train recently (it takes q
base Yankee or low freshman TO be mean
enough for this), "wbat right have you to put
niagers in the same car with white folks ?"
"Stranger!" observed burly Kentuckian,
rising to a hight Of six feet two with Bowie
knife under his arm, and dangerous look in
his eye, "thats my nigger-I choose to have
him with me-what have you to say about it y
The Yankee sank down into his boots-the
passengers laughed-the negro remained.
Our correspondent " lets out" that his wife
1 f-to Ia in ha -
c., aud that his prejudice against having ne
groes about him does not apply to one holding
to him the relation of boot-black.
He says that his child of two and a half
years eyinced great repugnance to negro.
That only proves that the faculties Of obserya
ton and flattery may be developed quite early
in life. We match his fact by another which
a great many can bear witness to- On almost
every plantation ,ehere At is not expressly guard
ed against, white and black children are seen
playing together Familiarity from infancy up
ward. The same thing may be often observed
in our City Hall Park and other children's re.
sorts in our city, though, now that we have
called attention TO il, We presume the white
keepers Of the adjacent grogser!es viii forbid
their children playing 80 any longer. Base
politics or baser traffic are responsible for
most Of the repugnance eyinced by whites to
allowing negroes the common rights of human
beings; we live in hope that TIE Southern
blacks will one day own aud sell the products
Of their own labor, and then we trust New
York will be Chrsiianized as respects the
treatment Of negroes 1t may be too much TO
expect 1t before Ed.