New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-12

a NEGRO AFTER HIS RIGHTs Nor APPRECIATED
| BY THE GoLoRED BRETHREN.-A negro by the name
| OF Bradley, from Massachusetts, and admitted ia
the bar in Boston, has recently taken up his abode
in Baltimore where he supposed he could com.
mand large practice from his cOlored brethren
and be sort Of leader to take them to the land Of
canaan. He hled in the clerk 5 Office of the United
| States District Court at Baltimore, on Thursday
last, petition, in search of his rights under the
civil rights bill, in the words and figures follow.
ing We copy ii verbatim to show that he is not
likely to set the bay on fire, or overshadow the
| $ white trash Of the Baltimore bar bY bis trans
eendent genius. His petition reads:
Aaron A. Bradley, citizen of Massachusetts,
vs.. The City Passenger Railway Company-ss.
" And the said Bradley comes and prays this
honorable court to give notice to said passenger
railway company Tor its president Henry Tyson J
| to come in and show cause why a writ of iDiunc-
| ton should not issue to stop said company from
running said city passenger railway cars past the
door OF Douglas Institute and office and school
room of said plainti) on Lexington street. for re.
| fusing him to let him ride in said city passenger
car, contrary to art 4th sec. 2 Con of the United
States that give the plaintiff all the privileges and
immunltes OF any white citizen in the State of
Maryland.
And the said plaintiff further SAYS that said
City Passenger Railway Company have forfeited
their right OF incorporation by using private
property without compensation, and maintaining q
common nuisance to q large class OF citizens of
the United States through many of the highways
in the city Of Baltimore, in violation of the granted
privileges from the State and city and the United
States over the highways for the free public
use of all its citizens, without regard to color or
race.
And the said Bradley further prays this honor
able court to grant writ of injunction if the said
City Passenger Railway Company will not agree
to discontinue all orders, regulations or custom,
by which said nuisance as now existing is main
tanned, contrary to the peace and dignity of the
state of Maryland and the laws of the United
States, in such cases made and provided
A nd the said DaiDtiH further 1ba40 +I,o
18th day Of May, 1866, and on divers days since
that day, the said city passenger railway company
by its president, Henry Tyson, agent, conductors
and servants, did and do continue TO deprive deny
and prevent the said Aaron A, Bradley's riding in
and enjoying the privileges and immunites Of
white citizens in the city of Baltimore contrary to
the laws OF the United States, in such cases made
ana provided. AARON 4. BRADLEY.
Baltimore city SIS: Aaron A. Bradley on oath
says all the facts stated in this complaint are true
70 his own personal knowledge, except those of
information and belief. AARON A. BRADLEY.
Subscribed and sworn to this oath day of May,
lS66, bef0re me, w, H. HAYWARD, j. ?,
The colored people of Baltimore do not seem to
appreciate the efforts of Bradley in their behalf
for on the day he filed his petition thew held a
meeting, and adopted the following preamble and
resolution:
WHEREAS, There is in the city Of Baltimore
person calling himself Bradley, said to be law
yer of some note in Massachusetts, and whose only
OBJECT Is to excite and agitate the public mind on
questions that belong exclusively 10 the colored
citizens of Baltimore; therefore, be it
ReSolued, That we denounce the action of
the aforesaid Bradley, and demand that he let
the colored citizens of Baltimore attend TO Their
own business in their own time and in their own
way.
ISAAC MYERS Chairman
It is not in the Puritan character to allow others
to attend to their own business in their own time
and in their own way" so we do not think the
celored citizensn of Baltimore will very easily
rid themselves of their Yankee colored brother.
FIrzHUGH LEE-Prentice, of the Louisville Jour.
nal, in late number of his paper says:
We have just seen an article strongly praisinp
Major Gen: Fitzhugh Lee, nephew of Gen, Robert