New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-17

SIR: gu mare 1ndue DluuueI O'tI tHh'
Greenwich affair. Mr.. Button is q Republican,
warmhearted friend Of the negro and an advocate OF
all his rights. Moreover. he did not seek TO drive
quiet people from their homes because rowdes see Ut
to assa them Mr. Button knew what he was taking
about you did not. In the presence OF neighbors he
spoke of Davenporrs not quiet house. Aside from
marrying White woman he said for the jury. " We
feel that your conduct Other r,peo Is such as to er
pose you TO injury We feel tina, you have been
doing great wrongs in the community. For some
Of your proceedings. you deserve severe censure.'
Why ignore or deny all thisf
Had not Mr.. b. right to say that II he was Black he
would go to n pleasantcr homci Indeed. was he iu-
famous in adding. My advice to you. az a friend
would be TO leave Greenwich" lie certainly did well
as friend Of law and negroes by promising to exert
himsefo his best ability in protecting the house. even
while it dsordery and Of bad repu,e while 1t re-
NAMED as and where IL was. k u.
Remarks.
With Mr.. Button as man, with his politics
or philanthropy, We have no present concern
Only in his capacity as juryman and lee
turer, does he challenge public attention. So
of Davenport we know only what was shown
at the Inquest or alleged in Buttons speech.
and here is the substance Of it. !. Davenport
is of mixed (partly African blood; 2. He has
a White wife; 3. Persons Of different cOlors
visit bis house. Such is the case made up by
Button, and X. b. has no right to interpose
another If there was anything wrong about
Davenports house, it was the duty Of the solid
men Of Grcenwch-not TO drive the nuisance TO
some other locality, but to indict and punish it
right there. But Buttons speech clearly i'm.
plies that Davenport had kept the law OH his
side throughout.
Well then
]. As to Davenports color, il is such as God
was pleased to give him. and, any fault to be
found with it does not attach to d., who would,
very probably. have chosen to be White if he
could But even Button does not directly ar
raign him on this head.
2. His real oilensc was marrying a prettier
girl than Button considered him entitled to or
Judged was good for him. And on this point,
we have to say:
Mr.. or Mrs. Button, but, on general principles.
we infer that she, in her maiden loneliness, was
comelier wittier, clevercr, more angelic, than
Button. Well, what of it Does all this affect
his right to win and marry her ifhe fairly could
Suppose some old fogy, in the days of his bliss
full honeymoon, had accosted him thus "But-
ton you have no moral right to 30 much beauty
and excellence would he not in substance
have replied" Stop that preposterous hee.
haw! Cease to protrude those ears of remorse.
less longitude attend to your own proper bust
ness, if you have any, and leave my wife and
me alone !''-and this, which Button would
naturally have said to the old fogy, we, in be.
half of Davenport and the rest of mankind, i'm
pressively say to Button.
Is this a light matterl Nay, it is very
grave one. In no other country on earth, is
reference in private, personal affairs, where
with the public has no proper business, as in
this. 1t must be rebukcd and stopped. We
insist on tho rights of every person to be gov
erned by the laws Of the land. and those only,
and to be protected and upheld in doing what
ever the laws do not forbid Change the laws,
if they need it; but deliver US from all mob-rule
from all censorious inquisition into conduct
which the laws plainly authorize.
The Whites have made all the laws of Con-
necticut. No colored person has ever had any
voice in shaping, enactng or modifying Them
They are quite stringent and meddlesome
enough; and the Connectcuters would be q
most exemplary people if they only enforced
and Obeyed them all. OF course, they can
change them at pleasure; and, should they ever
see fit to make it a crime to marry out OF your
own race or color, those who did Mt like the
restriction would DO at liberty to take ;hem'