New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-07
IL 1T PEEJUDICEs

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clusion from public conyeyances, we beg leave
to remind him that We rest entirely on facts,
and on facts supplied by the daily walk of our
antagonists. Our position is not that zee feel
no such aversion to the presence Of negroes o.
they assert, but that they feel none, aud to
sustain this position we cite them as our chief
Witnesses. Consider the followins'
]. In the horse.cars Of our city, colorcd per-
sons have usually been permitted to ride as
passengers though there have been cases Of
their total or partial exclusion Now, Who
ever heard Of white person who chose to
walk two miles rather than ride In the same
car with o negro or negroes We, certainly,
know no instance of the kind, Why is not
this q fair test, and conclusive
Q. On one of our City Railroads, II not
more, cars have been run alternately labeled,
" Colored persons allowed to ride in this car, "
and Colored persons no, allowed to ride in
this carr" SO that each fastidious white could
crafty his "preiudice" by simply waiting two
or three minutes for car Of the "nO'"
variety. Now, it is possible that twenty per.
sons have, OF one time or another, allowed
car to pass that would hare taken them on
their way, because blacks were allowed to
ride in it, aud quietly waited for Q successor
that admitted no passengers other thnn those
of Caucasian hue aDd features. But that this
has not been usual with white persons-that
nine hundred and ninety.nine Of every thou
sand whites who patropize the lines making
this discrir ination have habitually taken the
fret car that came along, in utter Indifference
10 the staring announcement that colored per-
sons were or were not permitted to ride
therein-we do know, and call oil our fellow.
passengers in those cars to winners Is not
this testimony in point'
8. There are, and for of least thirty years
have been, frst.class hotels Ia our city that
employ colored walters. With perhaps On equal
number that prefer white ones. Every iDtelli-
gent traveller knows this-knows that, by pa
tronizing one Of the former class, he necessarily
exposes himself to hourly proximity 70 negroes.
which in the other case he wholly avoids.
Now, how many. Of the last million persons
who have put Or OF one OF another Of these
hotels, have avoided one Of these classes Of
taverns and preferred the other on purpose to
escape The viclnage or the odor Of negroes
VIII you say one in fity1 or Q hundred or
five hundred1 We are confident tia. not one
in ten thousand has preferred one hotel 10
another simply because it had white servants
instead of black. Yet why not. II the innate
prejudice" theory is well founded
4. In fact, our incorporating correspond.
ent settled the whole question against himself
in his unconscious narration Of biz wife's
flashing and flaming dt the suggestion Of "a
negro Member Of C0agss'' prefanipg her cor.
pets by his tread. A negro boot.biaci. Gre.
maker, carriage. driver, cook. chumbermaid,
&C., &C., might step thereon any day without
shocking her sensibilities: 1t is only his appear.
ance in q character eyinciDg eminence aud
social consideration that she could not abide.
Yet why should o negro Congressman more
revolt the Anglo-Saxou eye or nose than o
negro stable.boy1
The solemn truth 10 that this prescription
and soul-harrowiog abuso Of an unfortunate
race ha, JUS, two impulses-l. Slavery, with
the psrasitcal desire on the part Of our North.
ern funkes, especially Of the commercial go.
nus. to pander to the pride and crafty the
humor Of the slaveholdins caste; 2. Aristoc.
racy, OF that domineering spirit which impels
every base creature to seek to plant his foot
on somebody's neck. The STAKEHOLDER would
feel rebuked and shamed il ko sew such
woman as no y accustomed to strip and Hog
to drive to the cOttOn-Gela 90 soon a. her babe
is three weeks DID, aud to treat every way Q.
a brute, treated here as our fellow-being. 1t
deadens the sting Of bis conscience to SEQ ne.
groes hunted by mobs and rudely thrust out Of
public conyeyances in NORTHERN cjtiesj and he
says to himself, "Tsue, make them work for
me for nothing; but l don't treat them with
wanton, aimless brutality, like Chat. Niggcrs
fare worse at the North than at the South.
So he stiles the sharp twinges Of his inward
monitor, pays soRs base priest twenty dollars
for sermon On Ham, Canaan, Ia Oncsmus,
and goes on tho bad, old way.
As to the nprejudlcs." 50 called, it Is mani
fest that it grows stronger aS you descend the
social ladder. Sir Philip Sidney, Humboldt,
Charming, would scarcely fee aud never be.
tray it; while a dirty. drunken ruffian, who
has nothing oh earth to bQast Of but skin BY
courtesy termed white, fairly boils over with
loathins of "nisgers," With big front fairly
rsekius with tObacco.Alth apd bis breath utter
ly rotten with cppPbene whisky, be viii tell
you that tho odQr Of nlggers ID uhbearable. nnd
be must quit tho car if one y allowed to enter
lit. Which makes you wish that one ~ould.