The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-09

and even wheel breaking, seem TO be femininely
mild methods of taking Off IT '.persons OF color"
in this country, In life or in deatn, cannot De
permitted the vulgar privlleges OF humanity, our
voice s for general and speedy massacre OF the
whole tribe Halfway measures never adjusted
any botheration since the creatlon OF the world:
Even King Pharaoh made a ludicrous mess OF
II in trying to be rid of the Hebrews when he
said 10 The mid idwives:-"Everys son that is born
We shall cast into the river, and every daughter
We shall save alive.n He should have killed the
whole obnoxious crowd-men, women, and
children; Il he had done so, he might not have
come to moist grief, with his hne chartots and
fast horses. in the Bed Sea. The, children of
Israel when upon short commons in the desert,
asked Moses it there 'were no graves in
Egypt" that he had led them to perish in the
desert. There are mo graves" 1t seems, in
Flushing, but even the tastidious cemetery con-
trolers might not object to finding sort OF
pits, with quick lime, for the remains OF all the
''coloredn population, If it could be got rid of at
once. They would do as much as that for the
four-footed victims of pleuro-pneumouia. They
see that we are quite willing to be tenderly &C
commodating to their preiudices.
We hope no softheaIted reader thinks that
we are cruel. We love murder no better than
the next man. To the best of our recollection
We have never killed anybody, i. e., physically,
though we are conscious OF having morally
slaughtered vast number of solemn fools.
What we insist on is the commonest kind oil
DeneYolenCe If we we're "a person OF COLOR"
living in this United States and found the
schools which we helped TO support closed
against our children, the sanctuary gates shut
in our faces, the public vehicles denied us, the
places of amusement refusing us entrance, we
are not sure whether we should commit suicide,
run away, or fight it out to the bitter end in the
home OF our fathers. 1t would be cowardly to
abscond, but iC would be a daily torture to stay.
On the whole, we think that we should ask to be
excused by act OF Assembly, with permission to
select our own method to exit.
But in the second place, we will suppose our
own method to be squeamishly rejected. Well,
fhpn ua will iOsiat that If TINS shrink
from dieagreeable duty, and, as it were, force
hie upon the 'coloredn classes, we have no
right to make that life intolerable. Either let
them go 10 the promised land, or take off their
burdens, if not for their sake, at least for our
own; because the presence of pauperiZed, op-
pressed, and permanently degraded class in this
country is standing retutation of our most
cherished political theories, and will always be
a suggestion to enterprising usurpers to get
their feet upon the whitest of necks. de-
graded class Is always an assertion that demo-
cracy is impossible. 1t is the black who suffers
to.day-it will be the white who will suffer to-
morrow.
The men, if we may say SO, who hate the negroes
hardest-so hard that we believe they would not
even drink rum with them-these are the men,
white as they would be il they would take
yearly bath, who will first be enslayed. Riches
will get the better OF them. Learning will get
the better OF them. Unprincipled sagacity will
get the better of them. They will be kept poor,
laboriBg for others, living for others, drawing
water and bewing wood for others. When every
white man claims a right divine to oppresS
every black man, then white man No. will be
claiming a right divine to oppress white man
No. 2. Wall street will then get a grip upon the
throat of Five Points, and wo be to the Five
Pointers.
1t isn't our fault if we are forced so often to
repeat here these alphabetical truths. Would
to God that we had no occasion Coarse-minded
and generally bemuddled men charge us with
writing in the negro interest. We deny it, We
assert, and the whole course of the Tribune sus-
tails us in asserting, that we have no more to
say Tor oppressed blacks than for oppressed
whites We are simply for carrying out to the
letter the chief doctrine of the Declaration of In
dependence, or for iinging that respectable
document overheard altogether. Our radical
ism is that OF Thomas Jefferson, and they will
hiccough to you in the grog-shops that Thomas
Jefferson was very good man. We are for a
democracy that means something, and until we
get it, we shall be forced TO indulge, tresome as
they may be, in good many repetitions OF our
demand.