Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-04-24
Democratic opinion of Irish

men.
Now that impartial suffrage is on the
eve of becoming a fixed fact, the Demo-
cratic politicians, and Democratic news
papers, are preparing, in hot haste, to take,
advantage of the situation. The New
York World, which furnishes the brains
and the ideas for the rest Of its party, re-
Gently devoted more than an entire page
to a laudatory notice of the negroes OF
New York, and negroes generally, follo"-
ing up its elaborate discussion by poIltl-
cal editorial commencing and fully en-
dorsing its descriptive article. The World
particularly compares the negro with the
Irish. and declares that in all essentials
they are better citizens. That all may
see that we do not nlisrepresent, we quote
the exact language of the World. In the
following extract, the World asserts the
"affinity" between negro men and Irish
women:
~Itis a somewhat remarkable fact that although be-
tween Irshman and black man an antpathy is
presumed to exist yet between the Irish women and
the negro there exists a decided affinity In MAJOR
ty of cases of miscegenaton, the parties are black
on one side and Irish the other. As general
rule. also, miscegenators embrace the lowest speci-
mems Of each race. though IN many cases precisely
the reverse statement holds true"
Next, the World asserts that the negroes
are cleaner than their white neighbors of
thesame wards and localities, which wards
and localities are the great Irish centres
in New York:
But there is one fact concerning the personnel of
the black man and woman which is not generally
known believed, but which is, neverthe oss, truth
that practical experience will teach any dsnterested
observer Of the matter-the fact that the blacks,
class III their personal habits more tidy and clean
than the lower CORES spondng class of whites. OF
course, negroes in the Five Points are dlrty-yery
dirty-but the whites in the same locality, and
greater degree. In certain portions of the Fifth
and Eighth wards, in Thomson street and Laurens
street, and in other sections of the city great fifth
companies great poverty, among the blacks among
all other human beings; but taken a. whole, our
statement keeps good. In Amlty Lane for instance.
in the rear houses where the negroes live, though
everything is clean; while many houses in Sullivan
would do dlscredit to the neaest housewife
Even the vilest localities, Is found that the great
est filth abounds where the low blacks miscegenate
and live with the yet lower whites as in certain por
tons of Laurens street, and numerous other neigh
il Is fact nevertheess-and this statement may pos
slby serve to disspate common though vulgar pre-
the negro il may be positively stated that he. in this
respect is like the white--a free negro being free
from It, and foul one cursed by it,
Then, in the following extract, the
World claims that the negroes are less
addicted to crime than the white people
OF the localities in which they live:
AS race. the negroes of New York, considered
from a police point of view better class of citl
zens than the lower grades OF whites. As just re-
marked, negro negress Is brought before the
courts occasionally for theft; occasionally black
man is arraigned for outTag" and very rarely for
drunkenness or murder. But As class the negroes
give the police comparatively little trouble. This ~
the almost universal testimony Of patrolmen. ser
geauts, captains ami Superntendents; and publish
it Us At least approximation TO the truth. The
of this may DE that the negro Is naturally
"A he a 4
as yet, had opened to them paraveiy few
of crime; the may be- as the admirers of the
negro claim, that he is 10y nature pure and un-
worldly than the white (Which latter idea is "doubtfuI
"exceedngly.) few "colored" criminals have,
however, rendered themselves notorious 10 the po
lice"
Irishmen who have been voting the
democratic ticket must feel highly flat
tered by such comments from the leading
organ of democracy.