The colored American., 1866-01-06

IS the bank book and the money chest,
aud before poor man Of the same race
can cross that boundary line, he must
produce the like qualifications of which
it is composed, or forever remain ort>
side. No wonder then, that the cry Is
loud and long when there is prospect,
through the agency of new born freedom
of a man with dark sktn leading to the
altar woman with uhite skin But
is the cry reasonable? We think not
Who ever was heard to lift their voice
in lust condemnation and denounciatio1,
when man with white skin, made, to
all intents and purposes, aoJJ OF
woman with black skin. In the eyes
of the public he did not do it; but in the
unwearied eye of the Almighty he dad do
it. Children was the result of that
union, and in thousands of faces to day
we can trace the union of these respective
colors borne by their parents. Yet no
voice of condemnation was ever raised
against it, or if there was, it was soon
hushed into silence by the jingling of the
dollars produced by that highly remune>
rative union. The patent practice be-
came the grave public sentiment and
remonstrance on the subject, until the
whole system ofseciaity became thorough
ly impregnated with its potent virus. Is
not this Social EQnaI,ty2 We think
it is, with vengeancel Where can there
be closer, or irmer bond of equality
| than the marriage relation, especially
when that relation is made doubly secure
Dy living pledges. It is not the utter
ances of a few cabalistic words by par
son or magistrate in the presence of
witnesses that makes the marriage vow
binding; that may be necessary in the
eyes of man to make the vow valid and
binding between the parties bat it is
viewed by the Almighty, who seeth as
no man seeth,' in somewhat of different
light When a man arati6es his lustful
passions outside his own appointed laws,
he is held by the Judge of all the earth
as responsible for his action-especialIy
when that lust was productive of his like
as though all the ceremonies ever in
vented were performed over him. Let
any man turn his eyes and view the faces
of three fourths Of the colored race and
what does he see reflected there? The
Shadoao Of some Whate f;ather. Is not
this SOCIAL Equality? We honestly
think it is, and it is something outside ol
the boundary lines of bank books and
money chests also; something antagon
istic to the well established rules oil
society. But who is to blame for this
boundary line being broken? Is it the
colored man? Certainly not; for many &
time it was more than his life was worth
to attempt to resist the dtStonor of bis
own flesh and bl 1od. Was the cooreC
woman to blame? BY no means, for sht
could not help herself. The law said she
was a chatteI, and as a chattel she hdC
no U0ice Gn the matter. It is evident
then, that the white man is to blame fo
forcing Social Equality upon the unao'I
ling colored man. And since he is tt
blame for having doue this why does h
make such howl about what he frs
started himself? We think it not onl
unreasonable, but highly unjust. By hi
loud outcry against the dreadful thing
he seems to lie afraid that some of hi
daughters may do what good many Q
his sons and himself has done time an
again, and therefore he wants laws mad
to prevent them doing so. Bat il thei
own good sense will not bind them in thi
matter, lar is utterly unable to do 81
Giving birth to laws on any subjcc
gives also birth to ways and means t
evade the penalties of those laws. W
have laws on the statute books of tn
e State to day to prevent concubinae