The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-15
THE IRREPRESsIBLE NEGRO.

bor-The Alban Resolutions-The
Negro Postmaster at Macon, Georgia.
The persistence and seeming success with
which the negroes in Washington are thrusting
themselves forward socially as welas politically,
is beginning to excite disgust on all sides al
North, and the evil is rapidly assuming a mag
nitude that must bring with it ere long its
own remedy. AWashington letter to the Bal
timore Gazette says:
The mechanics and workngmen here, as
we'll as throughout the country, are becoming
Justly alarmed at the evident purposes OF fhe
administration. They see IN the perslstent
policy OF introducing into the workshops OF the
government utterly incompe ent negroes, de-
sirn rather to rsduce the white operatives 10 q
level with the lowest class Of humanity than to
elevate the negro TO higher office. They also
see in the proclamation OF the Executive, max
ing eight hours days work, only bid TO ln-
duce the white man in government employ
ment to submit to the degradation OF negro
companionsh,p and social equality wherever
the power of the government can be exercised.
They even see further, and have concluded
that this ibid" can only affect laborers IN pub
lie employment, outside of which, if operative
at all, it must serve merely to create dlthcultles
between the employers and employed IN private
life.
The Navy Department is observed to be very
prominent in this business. Under spread
eagle caption it is officially announced this
morning that the admission Of colored men
to all branches OF work under the government
in th district now appears to be established
as rule. In the navy yard colored men have
already been employed il the brlcklayers' and
ioiners' gangs, and yesterday James Cooper,
OF Baltimore, was given employment as ma
chinst-the first colored man employed ID
work of that character"
Per contra. The New York Herald (whose
editor whatever may be otherwise thought or
SAID Of HIM. is admitted on all hands to have
a prodlglously long nose, thus dlsconrses OF a
decision OF Printers Conven ion:
"rhe Printers National Convention at Al
bany, by a vote Of fifty Blk 10 twenty .eignt,
laid on the table resolution Tor abolshlng all
distinctions OF race and color IN the cratt.
This means thai the distinction of color is to
be enforced as an objection to the black man;
and as it is with the printers go it will be With
all the other Trades Unions. They Will all
be arrayed against negro equality IN their
workshops. and the administrator before long
will hear from them at the POLLS"
It is difficult, il not impossible, just now, IN
writing from this quarter. TO steer clear OF the
nauseating subject Of the everlasting. pegr'.
Nothing else is legislatel upon. Nothing else
seems 10 engage the attention and care Of this
statesmanllke administration. You must.
therefore, bear with mo. negro named
Turner WAS recently appointed postmaster al
Macon, Ca, whose character was as BLACK as
his skin. 10 this hour the influence that ope.
rated upon the President to make the appoint
ment is unknown. and excites the llveest Gu
riosity. A few days ago ''deegatoa," rep
resenting what was termed ''all the rcspecta Dill
ty" there ls 10 the Radical party in the State OF
Georgia. waited upon his Excellcncy. and rep
resented" the mans true character, demon
strating that if he were white mtn, Instead
Of eloryine in the fashionable color. he would
long since have been consigned to some secure
penlteutiary rather than to the management OF
the Uulted States mails. On the authority OF
one Of this respectable delegation can state
that General Ora soemly promised turner's
immediate ..suspensiop." But wo are now in
formed officially that he has since vacilated.
s'The report" says the organ. sthat the PresI.
dent had gi zen orders for the suspension OF
Turner, recently appointed at Macon, Ca, is
untrue, or least premature, as no action IN the
matter had taken place Dy the Executive up to
8 O'Clock T. NJ, yesterday" The President lett
the city at 8.
A Negro Mayor for Washington-Aris-
tocIacy among tho Darkies.
The following dispatches from the Washing
ton correspondent of tho New York Herald,
gives some further indications of the DRIFT of
the black current at the National capital:
The next move of the colored Republicans
Of this city is to be an effort to elect one OF
their race, John F. Cook, as Mayor OF Wash
lngion. Cook has just been elected registrar,
one OF the most important offices III the city,
| and is quite an advanced darkey, possessing
education. tact and fare share OF foru une.
His colored brethren say they must have him
as their next mayor, at every hazard. They
contend that they do all the heavy voting and
| elect all the Republican candidates, and there
fore are entitled to control something better
than the mere regstrarship and few al
dermen and councilmen. Cook, though pop
ular with most OF the old co.ored settlers,
looks down upon the poor blacks, and partcu-
larry lie Virginia contrabands whom he thinks
unfit for decent colnred society. 1t is said that
during incoln's time Cook advised Old Abe
not to allow the contrabands to come to Wash
ipgton, on The ground that it would ruin busl-
ness. How this will 80 down with his colored
citizens remains to be seen. Major Richards,
the superintendent OF Police. was d pretty
prominent candidate for the Mayoralty until
the riot on Monday last. 1t is believed that
his prompt action to suppress that little dis
order has destroyed his last chance Of success,
and that Cook will certainly get the nomina.
ton and be elected. 1t Is remarked here that
while the blacks are clamorlDg for adm ssion
to the theatres OF the white level, they do
not practice the Same equality in their deal
ings with each other. Thus the most fash
ionable BARRIERS here are colored men, who
| will on no account descend to shave
darkey. Their reason is perhaps, not that
they object on their own account but because
it would rum their white custom. Stewart,
who was eec. ed Alderman OF the First Ward
on Monday, is a colored m IN and barber. and
was objected to by some Of his race because he
would not let negroes be shaved and cut IN his
artistic establishment. "Do you think I'm CO.
ing to vote for colored man because he is a
Republican, when he thinks Us not respectable
enough to be shaved in his store2" was the
sharp answer of some OF the colored voters
whose ballots was asked for Stewart. 1t IS the
same thing in the restaurants. Many OF them
! are kept by colored men and have the most
respectable white patronage. OF course they
dec inc to allow Sambo to equat at the sams
tables with their white customers. Thus, 1t
will be seen, that the theatre question is not
the only one that will create trouble, and that
that trouble is likely to recoil on the black him.
! se:g
The Washington Negroes Determined to
| Claim seats in the Theatres on Equal
| ity with the Whites.
| 1t Was telegraphed by certain correspond
| ents day before Yesterday that no danger Would
grow out OF the law recently passed by tne
Muulcipal Council Of this city, compelling the
admission Of colored people to oil places OF
amusement on an equality with whites. The
reason assigned was that the coiored people
had determined not to thrust themselves oflcn-