Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-02-15

to eat these things when che gets home" Ana
then the Rspubiican goes on 70 demand reform
as follows: "Either raise the price Of car.rid
ing to such an amount as shaH BE- aboves the-
willing reach of those people who are NOT snf-.
ficiently civilized to respect tho rights OF
Others" or shave an extra traiA on market
mornings to carry dirty Irish women with.
baskets, crimson Dutch women with baskets,
big little girls with baskets, and drunken
soldiers without baskets"
That's the sort OF talk addressed to the hun
dreas of respectable women from all parts OF
the city-First Ward. Northern Liberties, Navy
Yard and Island,- are enabled to do theft
marketing so conveniently by the street cars!
They are toid in plain zterms&that being onty
white,-,and many Of them g Irish" andss DUTCH
at that,-they have no business in the street
cars, and must clear the track to make room
tor " A. T. Augusta, M. D., colored ~ Is not
this shoddy philanthropy with a vengeance!
Sham sentiment in behalf Of the black is here
Carried to the extent of heaping every epithet
Of ridicule and contumely upon q whole COM
munitr Of white wOmens going to the extreme
even Of designating them by race, In the most
offensive terms. 50 ~" ,sfts - LGtE8
a more n1ischieTous doctrine, could no. be
urged at tais time, when the aid OF every good
Union mani whether he believes in the doc
trire. of negro equality preached by Mr. sun
ner or ne gro superiority preached. by the Rspub-
skeaa, or not) is needed in behalf Of the Union
cause. The best friends of the colored ma
and Of the Union depfecate these attempts to
divide Union men by these unnecessary issues
Even the New York Tribuse, alarmed by the
mischief being worked by Mr.. Sumner in his
one.iden course, warns him that he "grje vously.
errs in thus pecking at the twigs and leayes7of
the Upas tree which he is at the same time
trying TO surroot. He incurs the danger of
7epting and alternating good men by bringing for
ward so many separate measures relating to-
slavery. .sdgagsgs4 al aaG sx9g4af8
"The Irish witness, who undertook to give
fourteen reasons for his fathers disobed ience
to the summons OF the Court, having begun
IL. Because he is dead. and can't come, s8:s,
was very properly stopped by the Judge with
an intimation that the remaining thirteen were
super huous. and might be withheld. Aud, by
the same rule, Mr. Sumner, having submitted
to Congress enc proposition fatal to American
sia very. (and better in seven lines than in sc ven
elaborate iesolyes,) should not only abstain,
bnt urge others to abstain, from introducing, a
multiplicity of propositions touching the same
general subieci, but either superfuous or or of
quite subordinate and immater. al conse q nen ee
There is danger IN orertiostag: and. so that the
main point is secured, Others can we'll adord TO
wait 4 little" $500 ."ft'
This Is sensible advice. The colored maa-l
certainly III this Districts doing very well.
he Is free, has the means OF getting an educa-
tion, is qualified TO testify in our courts, and
has her privileges such as he has nowhere
eiFe in the oountry--not even in Boston. II Isl
no real friendship for him that demands for.
him in 1864 perfect qualify with the white In
the street car, at the polls, In, the opera box,
ard st the hotel table. And the intelligent
seH-resree ting coIored man does not seek to
make these ISSUES, knowing Well that their
only effect ill be 10 revive prejudice and do
him positive disseraice- ~ .