Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-04-16
SILVER CITY, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO TERRITORY APRIL M 1862

were anxious TO return TO their masters and to |
ge. back again into slavery. Well, nave
questioned the aged, weighed down by years
and broken down with hard toll, have ques-
toned the poor in their abject and cherries
poverty, and the answer OF all was the same |
in substance. We're you anxious to become |
frees We, sirs The Lord knows how we |
painted and prayed for that day; but was II |
not long -a-comings Still, the Lord knew |
best. | suppose Weuld YOU not like To go |
back to slavery "No, sir; would die
first. They would have to kill me, sure. "
/ II is said that the colored people will die
/ out. Well, / suppose that we all will have
to die when the time comes, and am oil
/ opinion that the cOlOred people will not die
any sooner than other folks Judging from
appearances, would say that they are much
healthier than the whites, and calculating
from the number of children they have
could never guess the time of their dying
out In the State OF Georgia, for the year
1868, the marriages Of the blacks exceed
those of the whites by quite a respectable
number. Persons who make predictions
about the dying out of the colored people,
, have, suspect. very little confidence in their
J pet theory Of the superiority of the Anglo
I Saxon or Caucasian blood, for, Judging
/ from their complexion, the colored popula
' ton have great deal of Anglo-saXon blood
/ i'll their veins, and judging from their names,
o | would say that they had also good deal OF
! Celtic blood in them.
a The shriekers often ask, do You want to
i put the white mans neck under the heel Of
:, the negrog ] don't know whether to call
/ that question tragic OF comic. II Is certainly
ID not poetic, for truth is an essential element
/ OF poetry. Is the giving TO a man the rights
M Of freeman putting his neighbor under his
,e heels Is the making Of man the equal OF
his fellow before the law giving him right
m to tyranize over another? If il is then
10 want more Of that subsection and tyranny es
oe tablished through the world, and will no
~ be content till the whole human family ha
al ! the benefit Of il.
a. | hear it often asked do you want me Il
nj sit in the Legislature with negro, Ny an
Il | swer is, no, don't want you to sit anywher
=, that is inconvenient for you or does not su
n YOU But if the people elect a man 10 repr'
~ sent them in the Legislature, want you
~ submit to their votes and to respect the
II choice, otherwise you are not fit for Il 4
ba lican form of Government
III Is it not remarkable that the same questi'
ed used TO be Indignantly asked few years al
a,, in New York. in order to prevent the color
me people from riding in the city cars l
he persons who asked the question were oite
he at least IN their own estimation, huinai
he gentlemanly and Christian men. NOT aou
0i II. ] would like to see the man ihat dar
ot to question it, They were men OF tender a
Drt Kind feelings, and some of them, for AL
tie know, may have belonged TO Mr.. Bergl
ch Association for the Prevention OF Cruelty
IS, Animals. and yet, they saw no cruelty
| compelling poor colored people to walk ire
Nv Harlem to the Battery to their hard da!!
toll He must not ride in the cars. suct
ne nuisance could not be tolerated IL would
ist an outrage. Mems feelings must not
N shocked, nor their senses offended. A
ed now, by the progress of events and the loi
ry oi puonc opinion, he sits in every car, a
nd renned gentlemen are not shocked, nor {
be sensitive ladies' offended But the men "
pr taik ID this way are very often the ones W
ng entered INTO the most intimate relations
sh me with the colored people
ul IL the most intimate relation that one
"a man being can bear towards another is /
hg propagation OF the human family. then
re nave evidence enough that they were not
rs la'sllaious as they assume, nor was their av,
n. sion lot the colored people so great as tn
slr pre.ehd. But enough. The election of Ora
D. SHOWS even now, the dawn ofa BRIGHTER da
he anu oeiore his term Of Office expires pred
ne that all men In this republic will glory in {
n enjoyment OF equal rights and equal iusti
T. before man and law. With kind regart
In yours truly, Tnos F,pnsf,
1t Mr.. c. A. LANE.