New-York tribune., 1867-04-24
CANlAN LOOKING w.

when they are the result of great moral adj
vancement. The descent to Ayenus is pro
verbally easy-it is the ascent, the correction
of prolonged mistakes, the speedy Abandonment
of long cherished errors, when they have be-
come part and parcel of the social system,
which is difficult. Nor is it common for down
trodden class to be suddenly made the object
of concliation and even Of hattery on the
part of their qnOndam Oppressors. Only yester-
day, in Richmond, a Black was, so far as his
rights, and feelings and interests were con-
cerned literally nobody. He had no status
except upon tho auction block. His was
merely a commercial value. He was made
to be bought; he was fashioned to be
sold; his manhood was denied both
by the trainers of laws, and by the trainers of
philosophers; his race was literally under tile
special curse Of the Almighty so long as wood
grew he was to be its newer; as Long rs water
run he was TO he its drawer-he and all his bas-
tard progeny to the end of time. There was
not a politician in Richmond, there was not a
Doctor of Divinity in that city, who did not
hold to the doctrine OF an inferior race, and Of
race necessarily to be enslaved because of
its nferiority. We are simply stating the pat
ent facts of the past; and now look at the
equally patent facts of the present! The col
Orcd man is rapidly becoming has, in fact, al
ready become somebody. The bOwing, the
cringing, the knee-creokng, the old patrician OBJ
sequousncss has commenced, and the white
men who can be politically nobody without
black votes, have cordially assumed the heavy
fathers part; they are patrarehs still, but pa
triarchs without the lash, and the paddle
and The bloodhound pack they have taken
the new coored citizens under their personal
protection, and cannot too earnestly warn them
against the Vaccinations and the Establishments
of the Northern Radicals and fanatics. lt Is
the very comedy of politics The freedmen OF
Richmond hold great meeting, and, OF course,
the 0bliging and generous white man takes
pains TO be present to advise in the most ami
able way, and to say "Sir' to a cOl0red presid-
ing officer. "Side by side" says Richmond
newspaper, in reporting such meeting in the
theatcr on the 10Th instant, side by side with
zone of our most talented Senators, we noticed
ga negro of the deepest dye. Social equality
"rulcd the hour.r Tremendous fact! ExtTaor-
dinary circumstance! Why, for years upon
years, we have been told that precisely this
"social equality was impossible. And now
it actually "Tlles the hour" Among
"the audience continues the newspaper,
eve recognized many of our most
respectable colored men, and many of our
"leading citizens Indeed. one paper complains
that there was such a crowd of Whites that
the Blacks, whose particular meeting it was,
found it difficult TO get in! On the stage were
light-colord Coionels and Caucasian Doctors of
Divinity check by jowl with Solon johnson,
Caesar Ellis, Primus Johnson" and other per-
sons of African descent with classical Christian
names. The white orators did their best at the
game of Cancellation, but we mourn to say that
the saponaceOus quality of their eloquence was
too often detected with instructive sagacity by.
the dark section of the audience. Here are
few specimens:
their army 90 do camp duty frst after while they
put guns in your hands and pushed you Into the deadly
s''I%i a YorcE-They didn't drive us"
Mr.. DASIEI-Why do your ministers preach pohtles 10
BLasrIiEmoUs WRETCH IN TuE GMLERr-POlltlcs is
MR. DANEL-n you do not behave yourselves you viii
all be- sent away
A NoICE-Whore will you send usi
Mr.. DANIEL cannot tel
The gentleman who 'couldn't tclr' having
finished, Col Johnson tried his luck with the
iuepre%ible audience thus:
CoLoNEL-Now win You live with us IN peacel Cries
OF " Yes, yesl") Then why Is tt ask why Is it
yoIcE-Causc we want equality, .,.,...,..
CoLoNEI-I impore you 10 discontinue this opposition
YoICE-Opposltion What are you doing
The Colonel at this stage concluded TO
abandon particulars, and went off into general
tiles about "the resurrection morn, when the
"last trump shall sound, and all shall take
"thoir places around the great white throne,
where race, and color, and distinction are I'M
KNOWN In this sort of rchash of the Book ct
Revelations he was eminently successful, and
nobody interrupted him, the company being
specially Interested in the abolition of class
distinctions at an 0aGlicr day than the day of
Judgment
- And now came one Stur,iivant, other
wise called Nat. Sturdiyant, who threw a
great deal of chronological light upon GER
tain well known words. In regard to the
"texm negro" said Mr. Sturdyant, about
(which so mack dcicacy has been exhibited.
al hold it to- be proper term, and l
Ease it in q generic SseaSe, the same rs
~ would call an lrshman an 1rishnan or %
"Duichmsn Dntchman. Irespect in the high
lest degree an old Vreinian negro. But de-
" sire to put him on his guard against the selfish
"whte man who would mislead him. The
Colonel wound up by making public deelara-
tion that he did not believe in whipping any
'>ons, White or Blaek.n To crown all, Doc
tor (of Divinity Burroughs, with immense and
almost unspeakablo tenderness, said: 81 don't
"want to see all the colored men combine on
"Ono side. / desire 10 sec them mired ap ane
interiwineA wih be White people" Tii'
strikes us as rather than else startling nd
| misaoa. coming, as Il does, from RichmOnt