The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27
From the Lancaster Lntelligencer.
NEGRO EQUALITY AGAIN.

The strike made in favor of Negro
Equality by Mr. Lowry in the State s. nate
on Wednesday last, and to which we re-
ferred in our editorial columns on Satur.
day, has been followed up by demonstra-
ton in the same direction in Philadelphia.
A meeting was held at Concert Hall, in
that city, on Friday evening, at which ad.
dresses were delivered by white men and
black men, and series of resolutions
passed condemnatory of the "fastidious
taste" which excludes negroes from street
cars occupied by white people. The reso.
utions are as follows:
ResolUed, That, in the words of our
venerable and respected townsman whose
name leads the call for this meeting, we
are Opposed to the exclusion of respecta-
BILE persons from our passenger railroad
cars on the ground Of complexion"
Resolved, That we have heard with
shame and sorrow the statement that de-
cent women of color have been forced to
walk long distances or accept a standing
position on the front platform of these
cars, exposed to the inclemeucy of the
weather, while visiting at our military hos
pitfalls their relatives who have been
wounded in the defence of the country.
Resolved, That we recognize as the two
main causes Of our present troubles the
enslavement of the black man at the South
and contempt for him manifested at the
North, and we hold il to be fitting and just
that both these great evils should disap-
pear together; but, while we accord to
every member of society the fullest liber.
ty of choice and action in whatever relates
to private interests, subject only to the
control of law and conscience, we protest
against the assumption that an unchristian
prejudice or fastidious taste may longer
be allowed to take precedence of justice
and humanity in determining the rights
of any class of our citizens to the use of
our public convenience and institutions.
Resoived, That we respectfully request
the presidents and directors of our city
railroads to withdraw from their list Of
regulations this rule of exclusion which
deprives our people of color of their lights,
aud is in direct opposition to the recent
decisions of our courts of justice.
Resolved, That in view Of these recent
DECISIONS, the rights of our colored popua-
ton in respect to the cars are without re.
serve; and to confne them to the use of
special cars, bearing aloft the degrading
labels of caste and running at long inter
walls, is a simple substitution of one act of
injustice for another, aud is as much in
violation of their rights as is the rule of
total expulsion.
Resolved, That a committee of twen-
ty-oue be appointed by the chairman, with
power to add to their number, whose duty
it shall be- to present, in person copy of
these resolutions to each one of the presi-
deuts of our city railroads, requesting in
respectful terms his response to the same,
aud to report the result of their mission,
through tue public press or otherwise, on
or before Wednesday, the 25th inst.
1t will be seen that the persons who
partici pated in this meeting, which one of
fhe speakers modestly said represented
the best public opinion OF Philadelphia"
are not content with demanding that trav.
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groes by the city passenger railway COM
panies. 1t will not satisfy them to have
cars put on the track for the sole use of
the negroes. That would do very we'll if
the mere physical comfort of the negro was
to be consulted; and it is not at all unlikely
that the negroes, if left to be their own
counsellors, would be content with it,
But there is set Of wrong-headed white
people who, not satisfied with putting
themselves down to terms of equality with
the negro, are resolved to drag the whole
white population of the country down to
the same level. These malignant pbilan-
thropists insist that the negro must and
shall be permitted to ride in the same car
and on the same seat with the white man.
because to set apart cars for his exclusive
use would be to place "mark of degra-
dation upon rim" If we yield to this
view Of the matter now, how long will it
be before this same set of people will put