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

IL is something, amid the trials and sorr0ws
of our day, to find in a Washington daily such
frank expressions of the logic of justice and
common sense as the following-which we
COPY from The Chronicle:
TIE whine about negro equality Is worse than Illogical 1t Ia
covsdy Tho men who are afraid Of being degraded by
the fac, th.t FREQ competitor In labor 10 morality aud in pro-
gr., which belongs Of right every man. accorded to
race that has hitherto been unusy held Id sabecton are not
su. of thsr position We reminded OF the a'ocrats Of
doob,fI antecsdents who afraid to hold eyon tho
mos, disant connection with their piehean negbors Tor
fear Of losing caste Their claims to quality are go ran tnas
they must fenced about and protected by every poSos
guard bile the nobemau fears not that bis reputation
will be compromised by association no may cnoo'o "
form so with many Of those men who lear negro
petition Conscious Of their ineriorty to the mass OF
mankind and recognizing the fact that they exist and thrive
or by tho aid of adventurous advantages hey LOOK WIN
jealousy on any new rivals and competitors and use every
mean, fair and unfair to keep them out of the market
The s.me sort Of opposition hss been made to the intro
ducton Of female labor any the various branches oil
manufacture Consequently. women have always been as
crimnated against They have been restricted to 'm
range Of employment their wages have been kept down
and m,ny who would DO perfectly competent TO perform the
duties of accountants or to earn good wsgesn some
branch OF manufacture have been driven By their necessities
either suicide prostitution several years TUG Po
pstors Of large crockery mandatory In England bsins
short Of hands themselves Of employing women to
paint the figures on some Of tho rich and moro delicate
articles Before long, they had become more skiai than
mon They did better work and accomplished faster As
soon ~ this became evident all the men tbout the essosh
uent struck and refused work any terms until the
women wore driven from the workshops and denied employ
ent The pressure forced the propretos to YIELD and
women who had been earning handsome wages and vote
looking forward to the snjoymsnt Of pseuce In their
old age were turned pennies, on the world. The s-me
was at Que time evincsd BY certain dry.
,ood csrks in Eew.York when suggested TO employ
girls in their places.
The fear tina. the people Of the North with all their
peoy sce their advantages OF education aud 1he eh
pe,pos are In danger OF being oyeuu by three or four
million, Of freed slaves 10 absurd and unn,ny The negroes
will do we'll IT, when they 10 enter into free competition
with the whites they preserve their existence "ouid
no, be surprising in the Of century they should
disappear from ths face OF tho earth either wholly partly
lust the Indians have To be they superior to the
Indiana and have had uncomfortable education In the arts
Of pescs but hey labor under disadvantage when brought
into composition with the whites which might well daunt
the .oues heart beating under white skin in'tssd
Of whimpering abou. negro equality and throwing up
90 the progress Of the freedmen should lend
them, helping hand and try to discover II possible just
What capacity for civilization there is in them that their
labor talents be preserved to the County o
and In them which ies at door ~ they eau
Themselves they will live. II they must oe de-
ssvsd The unstsf.be law Of ns'Gre rnd aseee 0, ~
thai the weaker snima must perish In the s.sence Oh to
stronger 10 gonx suspended for the s'neht oil the
freed negroes Of America