The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-05-28
NEGROES TO BE SANDWICHED Be
TWEEN WHITE MECHANIcS OF
ta THE NORTH H4

The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Gazette thus speaks of the di-
rect efforts Of the Radical administration
to force amalgamation upon the white
mechanics of the North:
The progress of cur civil revolution is
rapid. AT first the country was called up
on only to secure the negro "cqually be-
fore ttrmw," then it was required that
as he had shot off a bullet, ''argylc," lie
was entitled 10 ''thc ballot" All this has
been accomplished. Still, fools thought
that social equality and eventualamalga-
nation were not really contemplated
1t was reserved for this Administration
to take tho final leap and boldly avow its
determination to forcc las far asst couldl
ef6cial, indnstrial and social equality
without the absolute requirement of any
law at all. The experiment was hrsttried
upon the more INDECENT and helpless class
Of white laborers here. They required
especially to mix indiserinriHately ''witl
the negroes, ifsemploycd by the Govern
ment Incorporation. 1T the nature ofthI
work required fifty gangs in different To-
ealities, care was taken that each gang
should be composed of both blacks and
whites, and the stronger the contrast OF
color the better. Then the departments
were with singular ingenuity of diabo-
lisnI' saadwicAed, with all colors and sex
es. Still as Gn the estimation ofdthc
Radical party, )Iday labOFersewcrc of lit
tic account, and positihHs in the Dcpart-
ments regarded as merely political, the
object of the Government was not made
sufficiently plain--mechanics End artists
must be made to succomb to social and
industrial commingling with the inferior
race. A ncgrAla son of the notorious
Fred Doaglas) is therefore thrust into
the Public Printing Office, as an entering
wcdge to an admixture of 'scolors" and
traces" in the public workshops through
out the country. That this is the avow-
cd object ofGrant's administration, | an
mex a short extract from the Star of Sat
urdaY, which is well posted in govern
mont designs Speaking of the opposi-
lion of the printers here to the employ
mcnt Of the negro composition it pro-
cccds: ~ tae @"i 4na
at IS said, however, that Mr.. Clapp
is firm in his dccisiontllat' Douglas shall
retain Wis position in tho Office, and in
this respect WilI carry ont the policyof The
Government in recognizing the e!himS of
colorcd men," ~
Here general "policy" is declared!
The government "calculation" is that
there is but a step from the dirt bank tire
work bench, the printers
ease, or the clerks desk to the social fire.
side, and'betlhalf a step from that to the
altar-or sonnet hing worse.
Mr.. Clapp, it is understood here, was
upon his Willingness to aid the
in degrading his profession
before he secured the removal of Mr..
Dcfrces, who, am informed, utterly
refused to bc ,tseJ IN this way. You will
receive an account of'the action of the
printers here last iglrt in the paper en-
close. Let every trades assotistion in.
the land take immediate action in this,
to them, matter of the most memcntous
consequcnccs.in every respect in which
It can be viewed The tlesiga of the gov
eminent, if it shall beiaecomplislred land
it will be, unless immediate action is ia
|, $3.50 tL.vart Il \ will work n tlorourh
overthrow ofthc existing principles of
labor, ard degrade it beyond remedy
In very few days ordsrs will be issued
to submit the mechanics employed in ma
Wy yards to the degradation Of being
classcd as upon par with race' whieh
nature has branded as inferior, and with
which the common judgment ofhFe civ
ilizcd world has assigned personal and
family disgrace as the pcnalty of associ-
alton upon terms ofsocial equality. y.