Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-03-10
1rrom Nnn York WorId.l
NEGROES SOT ADMITTED, 70 THE INAUGURATION BALL
We call,ior ihe sarcasY Of Wendell Phillips, The


NraRoEs H0r ADMITTED 70 THE EVACUATION BALL
We call;ior ihe sarcasm Of Wendell Phillips, tls
FLINDERS OF AnLa Dickinson, the tender complain
ings OF Horace Greeley, the Independent antractu-
oSity of Titon, and tue Sunday evening curses %
Beecher. AL all are needed. oh for one hour . o
LLOYD Garrison oh for twenty minutes OF frederlcb
Douglass Is Parker Pillsbury asleep, ana WAY Is
Henry j Raymond dumb! Awake, awake, kcl'ub'
can slecpers; arise, AbolitiOnist sluesard, OF De
forever talicn =,
The negro, without whom, as Greeley says, the
re,,ubic cannot be saved; the negro through whom
ami f,r whom As Phillips SAYS the country Is to be
saved if saved: the negro, whom Tllton classes III
poliiica trinity along with the white mal anu the
Almighty, (Chet Justice Chase listening aou APP
lauding;j Negro, for whom, rs uarriSon sd! >,
this war - waged, hundreds 81 thousands Vi whiie
men slaughtered an thousands Of millions OF debt
hraped mn the negro, the ''colored Unionist," Is
Ia be excluded from the White House and Mr.. Lin
coins Inauguration ball. The edict has gone iOrth.
II appeared in Forney's court Journal yesterday,
and 10 the Earth delaySto swallow up The TRAITORS
to liberty, freedom, the tights OF man, humanity,
and the progress Ot the age,
From the Washington Chronleiel
THE INAU0uRATIoN BALL.
We are authorized bs the committee Of manage
mebt "a, say that there is no. truth IN the story
which has been circulated, thai tickets L. he IMAM
guration ball have been sold to coiored pefsous.--
The ball Is a private affair, IN which the parties
concerned have perfect right to invite whom they
uleaSe and to excuse whom they please, irrespcc-
live an color No modest and right thinking cod
,red man on woman would desire TO oblrude him
or herself upon 4 onlpany, nineiy-nine IN IA hun
,red of which would repel the association; aud
none others entitled to considerations The sto-
ry therefore, II not fabricated with view To in
lure Abe success of the bai may al any rare be
dismissed as idle and frivolous.
And has it come to thisl Has the blood ofthous-
ands of frremen split on Southern soil brought no
better truitage than this contempt for 'onr cblorcd
brethren from the author OF the Emancipation pro-
clamationg Must Africa iii mp her hands IN vain
when they are no longer manacied, but contain IN
stead A ten dollar grcenback Are the black hands
which wc trust with the bayonct unit 10 be clothed
with white kid Arc yhp black women for whom
the whole North tolls and trayails unfit to carry a
boonci Shall they with whom we are soon to
share The ballot not he our partners in the may
dance lnthe very capitalofa regenerated people
shall this insult Ice put upon the beings who we
have discnthracdY
Alongside the edict copied above, the court jour
nal publishes dissertation on Social Equality
With Theodore TiIton's speech rs it's text. Says
Fnrney
- What could be more cruel and unjust thane TO
require virtuouS and refined ladies' aud gentlemen
Ia associate with man on rtqW peopief Or what
more refined cruelty can Ice imagined than that OF
compelling people 10 associate with those for whom
thy have no siinity, no liking perhaps positive
dleISi0H' The mere s,atSEieGt Of these PROPOSE
tions furnishes their demonstration, for they are
selfeydent.p
In behalf Of Tiltog himself that upholder ofthe
great doctrine of amaigam3tiOn, who sincerely be
licyes that a black man is aS good as white man :;
in behalf Of Thaddeus Stevens. that pioneer OF mis-
GegenatiOn who believes in all sincerity that a
black woman is as good az white woman, II not
b tier: in behalfOf every outraged abotiGnist,
We protest against this shameful attempt 10y Mr..
| L., A. L..
ton ball, ana OF Mr. forney 10 deceitfully defend
their social exclusion behind such faithful aboli-
Zionist and miscegenator as Tilt0n. "Retned cruz
city, "ouo.hai Il is .''refned crueliy,"is il, TO
compel people to ''aSSOciate" with those for whom
they have, perhaps, positive aNefSi0nf Ben
amin 7 Butler has been called "cruel" by many
ioul-mouthed people but il was reserved for For.
ney II call him s'reGned.-him whom the Tribune
and an the saints OF the administration Landed be-
cause he " compelled" the white people of Nortoik.
to send their children to associate at school with
'uegroes'' for whom theS had, ne tperhaps' in
the case very s'positiye aversion"
Rebels, torsooth may be compelled as pun
ishnen 10 associate with the negro, but il is ere
fined cruelty" TO ask OF Republicans that they suffer
the Ulnysl american of African descent TO come
between the band and thor nobility ut an Inaugural
ton ball
What ShyIocks are these "iricnds OF the slave"
Twill buy with You" cries the Jew Of Venice,
''selEfbh sou, talk with YOU, walk with yeu and
so toN6wing; but will not eat with YOU, drink With
you or pray with yQu;" One would say this very
passage was ia the writer's mind when the iolloY-
ing lines were pennel for fOrney's AaiiJ Chronicle
white people may associate for the purpose OF
religious worship, for ANY purpose OF amusement
'CF nsiruation to the entire exclusion OF black, vel
low, or rcd people aud the law will protect them
in it, .or it is a natural right"
But Shvlock was open and consistent in his hate
and Scorn and these people at Washington add The
shame Of Hypocrisy to their bitter intolerance
These are they who have rel0iced over the a,imis
sion of q negro to the Supreme Court bar, whom
now they will not suffer TO darken the doors OF the
Whit House.
These are they 10 hare forced the association OF
commissioned negroes upon the brave white officers
OF the Union, periling life in its BEHALF but now re-
pei their fay"riteS into the company OF hack-drNerS
and boot blacks. TO seek any sense OF shame in
them we're like pelting rhinoCerOS with roses. II
5 enough to leave them impaled upon their own
words and deeds in the sight OF ali the thousands
who have taken their pliul cant for gospel iervOr,
aud their Snrdid alSehuOis for the aurOra procla-
nations of Il political millennium.