The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

buc question OF "uegradatlun to US In an
other shape? If it is ''degradation to
the negro to be excluded from street cars
occupied by white people, it is equally a
degradation to him to be denied the right
of suffrage, and to be excluded from the
table or the bedroom of the white man.
Those who are pleading his cause in the
railway matter, have no intention Of stop
ping there. Let them achieve this tri-
umph over the instincts of the white race,
aud they will press forward to new victo-
ries under the sacred banner of the negro,
nor rest till they place him footing of
perfect equality with the whites. At
present they do not openly avow their in
tention to go thus far; but with all their
efforts to be cautious, their ultimate inten-
tons were plainly indicated in their
speeches at the Philadelphia meeting.
Mr.. Adam Barker, who was one of the
bankers at this meeting, wound up his dis
course by predicting that "we will grant
to the black mau all the privileges that
God intended he ought to have, and that
FROM those privileges we will not, dare not
detract." We all know what an Adolf
ZIONIST is driving at when he talks of "the
privileges that God intended the negro
ought to have.
The Rev Dr. Furness took very ex-
allied view of the negro character us devel-
oped in Philadelphia. He makes them
out very superior order of teings-per.
feet models of law-abidng and order-lov.
ing people. "Had they" said he, one
tenth of the apimosity of their Irish neigh.
burs or their more Yankee friends, every
conductor would be simply name for a
broken head"
This elevation of the negroes uine de-
grecs above the Irish and the Yankees in
a scale Of ten, encouraged the next speak
er, Mr.. Robert Purvis, (colored) to say
that the spirit with which white men in
general regard the negro in this country,
'arises from the arrogant, and false, and
smp'ous assumption of the natural superi.
GRITTY and emiuence of the white man
over the black
Yielding the point that it is "arrogant,
false and impious" to assume that the
white man is naturally superior to the
black, on what ground can you refuse the
negro admittance your parlor or resent an
offer Of marriage from him The white
people who participated in this meeting
and applauded the spe"ch of Purvis, did
yield this point; and deny it as they may,
in yielding it they assented to the doctrine
OF Negro Equality.
The Rev. DIR. Bellows blowed off next.
He said it was not people of respectable
ty, like those composing this meeting, who
objected to riding with negroes. This
was, he said, "the mean, unwashed, un-
educated class" moved by "dirty and
contemplate prejudice" This prejudice,
he continued, was confined to "the lower
orders of American society,"" and never
showed itself in "the upper better classes"
This was designed to be very severe on
the CLOVER ORDERS" but they ought to
thank Bellows for blowing them clear of
the odor of the negro.
We refer at this length to the proceed
ings Of the Concert Hall meeting, because
we think the attention of the people should
be directed to the attempt now being made
to break down the barriers that have
heretofore separated the whites and the
blacks in this country. We feel confident
that the abolitionsts who have got control
of the Republican party organizations will
never rest satisfied till the question of Ne.
gro Equality shall have been passed upon
by the people, and we want the people to
be prepared for it.