New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-31
ABOUT NEGRO EQUALITY, ANAL
GAMATION, &C., &c.

CIR: w III you De canulu enough 10 uN5WtI
subscriber few plan questions. to wit:
l. Are you 10 favor of eevsiing the negroes amoDI
us TO II social equality with the Whites
@ Are you in favor Of their filling the Offices within
the gift If the people from the lowest to the highest
whether Legislative. Executive or JudiciaIf
g. And to cap the climax. are you in favor OF Anal
gamntion'
I have been a close reader Of your paper since Feb
ruary last but thus far have nothing from yoo tha
enables TO determine your views upon the interroS
atories propounded will not annoy you with IN ar
gumeut, and may add tlat although have no desire
to appear in print. make 1t point to write nothing
am unwilling to sign. may US well tell you. In cios
ing. am NO Denoci at and never wss; and ~ TO 10Y
ally, will not suffer hy comparison WIN the EdNoi
of TIE Tribune or any e.sei and further. MS CIT
izen and subscriber (unaccustomed 10 asking iaVois
claim that being II prominent journalist. u II your
duty TO fIce the music-to show your hand. Kespee'
fully, D. BAiLN'Lh'
Remarks.
Our correspondents assurance that he is " no
Democrat and never was, is entirely super
auOus A Democrat ESQ the dictionaries assure
l;s) is one who believes tina. Government should
eruanate from and be directed by the mhole peo'
ps Webster's great American Dictionary
corfessedly the highest standard for definition
says:
DEMOCRAT y. One who adheres TO goyernment by
the People. farors tbs erfenson Of me inShf S-
Jrags 10 all classes o. neS.
Such Government, Mr.. Ballinger'S ques-
tons clearly imply, he has no faith in. or
course, he is not Democrat, and can never be
mistaken for one by any person who knows
what the word means.
And now to his questions:
/. We do not know whether negroes would
be " elevated" or not by social equality with
Whites: some discerning men think they would
rather be degraded by it. But there is no such
thing as "social equality" on earth. and never
can be while some are good, Others bad; some
intelligent, Others ignorant; some coarse aud
repulsiye, Others refined and agreeable. Sonora
is not very large place; yet We will venture
~ assert tho, there are Whites in it who do not
invite Mr.. Ballingsr to dinner, and Others
whom he does not invite. We insist that he
and every ore else shall continue to enjoy per
feet freedom in the premises, and regard whom
sosyer each &c them seyeraly will as superiors,
EQUALS or info -iors. SO with oil Others, White
Or Black. We advocate tho largest liberty in
all matters of social intercourse, so that, If
White and Black choose TO live on terms of
social intimacy, they may; if not, not. Our
will give our opinions whatever
name shall please him. Social equality does
not and never did exist; social relations are On.
tirely matters of choice; aud with any sher
persons intimacies We do not iptermeddle.
But if Mr.. Ballngerrefers to legal equality
where he talks Of social, We must tell him that
we do favor iega! equality between the highest
and the lowest in the social scale. We claim
all legal rights, and what We claim we will ugly
concede to others. In Great Britain, for ex.
ample, Dukes are not apt to invite chimney
sweeps to dinner, and are not likely to change
their practice in this respect; but any chimney
sweep may invite any Duke into Court, ard the
invitation will have to be accepted. Being in
Court, the sweep may call other sweeps to
testify as to his claim or grievance, and the
Duke must rebuff their testimony or meet what
ever verdict it shall show to be just. Ind We
do favor such equality, and hope to zee it estab'
lished wherever it has not already been.
g. We are in favor Of filling Offices with just
such persons as majority Of the legal voters
shall prefer. We never voted, nor wished to
vote, for negro, but, if we ever should be re-
quirod to vote, and should happen tc know
negro whom We deemed eminently fit for the
place to be filled, we should deem it G,wrong if
a law or constitutional restriction constrained
us to vote for some one else or not vote ut all.
s. If by "analgamation is meant the inter-
mingling Of the White and Black races, and, If
the question be, Do you consider this advisable
or desirable1 our answer is, No, we do not.
There seems to us natural repulsiOn between
Whites and Blacks which may, indeed, be over
borne or defied, but which must have been I'M
planted for some good end, and which We
therefore respect and desire to see respected.
There will generally arise quite enough provo
cations to difference in the married state with
out superaddng this Git seems to us) natural,
instructive repugnance of race. Hence, as
rule, We do not think the intermarrioge Of
Christians with Jews advisable, nor that of
Roman Catholics with Protestants, nor even
that Of the sternly Orthodox with ratioDalzing
Ouakers, Unitarians and Unversalists. We do
not say that these differences Of creed are insu-
perable bars to marriage, but that, OTHER things
being equal, it were better to seek partners for
life among those with whom you have 10 essen.
tial difference or disagreement.