The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1865-11-15
How Races Of Men Take Care Of Each
Other.

Utler
The student OF history IS impressed. not
only with the fact that where orc nation or
.--~- r-- c.iia" i,fo tho absolute pow
er fanOther, oppression, gross wrongs. ai,u
often great crueiur5 un's .,'..---- ----
been inflicted by the stronger party upon
the weaker, but that these wrongs have
been held on to as long as possible. and all
attempts 10 remove them most per-eyer-
ingly resisted. # is surprising how tena-
ciously unjust Power and Privilege have
clung 10 the smallest shadow of what they
call their rights: and now ready they have
always been to resist interference even 10
the point of destruction 20 the weaker
party.
The heavy armed leeions of Rome came
in contact with every variety Of nations on
the three continents; AMI i'm the time Of
Augustus, out of q population OF 100 coo,
600, one half were slaves The modern
historian sympathlses with the deporablc
condition of large part Of these wretchcl
beings, on whom the naughty master anna
mistress were educated 10 look down With
the same cold indifference with which .hev
regarded their cattle On the farms great
numbers could be seen ut work, chained
together in companies: ard as the Romans
their labors were often OF the scverest Kind
In preparing the new lands.
Such was ancient civilization Has the
modern been any better What was the
treatment OF our Saxon ancestors by their
Norman cOnquerors? Under the oppres-
sion Of the Spanish settlers in the West In
dies, the feeble and harmless natives dwin-
died IN two OF three generations from a
million TO Co. 000 having been starved
wasted aud used up in tine mines and ex-
cesslve lab0rs Need we recall the treat
ment OF the Peruyians by the high spirited
and Christian Spanish gentlemen. under
PlzarrO; and those others that followed
Cortez 10 Mexico. Yc, SO deep was the
Christian spirit OF the age, that there was
special law OF Spain, that no vessel should
be allowed 20 sail IN the New World with
out priest who might Instruct the natives.
Need We dwell on the horrors OF the Slave
Trade, or Of our own Republican slavery.
In all the rebellous States, there Is not
one In which murders and robbers are not
daily peFpetrated upon the Blacks by the
Whites. Why not? There is no local gov
ernment. no laws no courts, through which
10 bring an offender to justice: why should /
not the passions, ayarice, revenge or lust Of
the White man have ful gratidcatiou when
be can? And under Mr.. Johnsoa's policy. 7
these disorders viii continue 20 increase
until Congress interposes a strong hand 20 .
prevent them.
But take a case where White law and or
der reign supreme. and ye- where there is
an inferior class subject 10 this white rule
The \. Y. Tribune SAYS:
What says our home experience The
Blacks have always enjoyed The right 70 sue
and testify in our Courts. They have never
complained Of their treatment therein. Yet
to-day black man IS not allowed a license
TO drive his own horse and cart and work
for such as choose 10 employ him. RIGHT here
IN New York. He has had "a hard struggle
for the right 10 ride in our CITY HOrse-Cars.
paying his fare Ike other people. and has
barely secured it. il Il 5s secured after
years Of insult and outrage II Black
builder We're this DAY 90 JaAe n contract 10
erect house or store for some one who T
chose 10 employ him. and should employ ,
Black carpenters and maSOnS on tie iOh ,
We believe they would be stoned oil Of il
before the weeks end IL Is not long Since s
a hundred Black women and children barely :
escaped with their lives from the tohacr0 Z
warehouse, wherein they were earning q
living by their honest labor. until Irish De- :
mOcracy saw liz 10 hunt or burn them ont. s
TX Is little more than two years sace Black C
men, women, girls and boys. were hunted {
through our city's streets as though thew 5
mad been mad dogs, though they were not 9
even suspected OF any wrong but their col y
or-seVeral OF them subjected 20 . death Of
lOIturei many more 70 the most horrible
oulraSes anu lndignltles-whie an Orphan "
ASl 4um lIled With Black children wsS Hnrr- q
ed 10 the ground, while IRISH women So :
and carried Of the orphans garments IN Il
elothe their own children. Yej no one no. 81
ever seriously proposed the forclble exps- 5
lriatlon Of our Blacks, while wholesale " q
gro Punishment i popular &c the South O
IT,
But II may be said that hereditary PC I,
Juice exists against these biack people q
which IS the one principal cause OF tfeir .
mal'reatment. Very likely: but that : not :
the only reason. Man Expresses nan even q.
when he is an entire stranger. :
There IS an instance of another race com
neutrality-suspicious., industrious. peaeaalIa =
who are robbed and killed daily unss- ,bo c
jurisdiction OF the United States for Tho
s0le reason that they DO not resist the !
"aonss OF the White man. and he therefore \
, ,sn 70 perpe'rate them. We quote from a
s fIsS T4.lorna correspondent of the Spring b
neio hepttblican: u
paln aSoor , cheap labor being the one crest
more indeed than N cs s5s PIaSic states-far