Litchfield enquirer., 1869-08-19

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 zgt 9T las3ss THE uRRINTER DOUGLASS. q
 In I recent 1t speech pee heu On, Eaaaalnaeippatior Eaala p Day. at Medina,I Mir. Il Frederick Dodkles
 alluded to the case of son, and said af3t In the days $ of slavery, when wasrs.
 slave, 6 negro having master might worl
 at any trade or calling, in the southern states,B and sat Washington,5 without anj foppositiond While his wages vent into the pockets of another, uMhile tAeo bread
 that he earned by taer sweat of This face was to be eaten by another, while he; was
 to toll that anOther mig ht live at ease.; he Icoula do so without pQsition !; but when he has hiSyoMn mouth to- feed, This own
 back ao 0iothes hisa oMno hpdymtoe shelter, his own ehidfen to snpport and educate, the case is ditferenfm LWhiteI Vbrickiayers, white carpenfers, and white lprinters com. bine to prevent any black man from work ing at these respective tfsdes. Tand at.
 tempts to bend the goveramene sU thas mar.
 row and selfish purpose. IF 1.Ht think you will
 agree with me that Che case ais af hard one
 for the negro: have heard of putting
 men in a;3tight place, and have 1somstimes
 been severely pinched myself, but I know
 of no tighter place than ithatinto which it is attsmptehtocplaoe the negro to-day elf
 he steals we send him to prison. if ohe
 begs we spurn him from our doors as a
 good for nothing; if he attempts to work,
 we combine to prevent, him, and even
 threaten his life. I have inGmated that the question has risen in the right placs, DaHd Pmay' say Since it must come,aI am, upon the wholes not sorry st that I have a personal interest ein it's decision, For the moment, Lewis H. Douglass represents our whole people, fisaing from degfadation to responsibility, and from pfoscfiptIon to eqaal righta.g The principle involved is one for which every. man ought to contest
 It involves the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of phappiness,o and it isishe bu
 sinessj of every Americans ocitizehgsvhite and black, to stand for this principle, each for all, as the sheet anchor of common safety. H. U 'o1 '75'ajo 'f5 Q oo S# F 541
 I believe there never was crime com- mitted for which apologies of some sort could not be made, and the attempt to de- grade and starve colored printer .in Wash ington. is no exception to the general rule. It is alleged that he is tani iimpropeIp
 to be allowed to work; that he has at some time of his life worked at 8 lower rate of wages than that fixed upon as the propsr one by tke ;prinssfah union cthato 'he has in town1or city where rsueh m; ion ions, existed, and did did not become . mem Der, that he has served no regular apprehg ticeship; that the cafd permitting2him to work in thegoverHmsnt printiug.ofice was improperly issued, and, much else of the same sort. My friends, have neither time hors atiefnace1 to gxpose ana fefute in detail Pthsse paltry allegations From be- ginning to end, they gre miserable shams;l designed to giyeya color of decency to one of the meapest acts of cruelty ana inius. tice; evef pefpetratedf against a dfelf0w- manGe eoi3oa1q Iufsaeaoga. ygbsssaf s.5y a There isno disgpisi the fact 7T]his crime, was his color. , It was his color in Denver, it was his color in 1Rockestef,o ,oaTFit is his Washington ctosdayseqIn conneca tionIwith this aubieets + have BOW q word tp say, of the goodly city in which I have lived for the last twenty years, and where [ sthl residie die~-a city than which ot one iii the country is mored ciYiiaedo sefned and cultivated. It abounds in educational and institutions3 1and itsI people are generally Ias hbaral and friendly te ths col pred race as any in this state, and faf norei so than most cities outside of the lssate.r Hefe the cornmon schools Have been open to aif classes alike la a2ozenrofl yeSfs,, and dscolered and white children have sat on, the same benches and played in the same school yards, and at the same sports and games, and they have done so in peace. I can say naapv good things of Rochester. The Fugitive Slave bill never took . slave out of its limits, though several Attempts Weremade toldo cso.le Whep colored speo- paey were mOhhed and hunted like wild beasts in other cities, and public fury was famed against them by niaIighant pro- slavery press, the hs'colored man was always safe and well protected Tn Rochester, and yet, have somewhat against it. One of the sadalst bspectacles sthak eyer assailed my eyes Or pained my heart was presented in that city, and you will pardon me for making mention of it, though it was clear : ly personal The same young man who is now at work at inc, government printing office at Washington, and agaihstI whose employment SO much feeling has been shown, was the subject. li1He had just re- turned from tho war; had stood on the walls of Fort Wagner with Colonel Shaw: had borne himself likes man on the peri ions edge of .bsttle.b and now that the war vas nearly oyer, he had returned to Ro- chester, somewhat Bfoken ii" health but Still sbIe and willing to work at his trade.
 But, aiasst he begged in zaincofhis feIIow1 'wormsfto give him leave to toil. Day after day, week. after week, aud month after
 month, he sought work, found noneeand came homeisadl and tdsjsctsd. T had felt tha iron. of negro hate before, but the case of this young man gave 1t, deeper en! trance into nay s6uf than E ever bsfofe.ua bel For sixteen yeats1 hadf fpfinted aipublie journal in uRochestsf; < had employed white men and white apprentices during all this time; had paid out in various ways to whiteneh fn that city little less tasn a hnndred thousand doilarss eand yet here ,Was my son. yho had 9leerned his trade in my office, of good character, and yet una
 hle to find work at his trade because of his race and color.oa Watking among my fef-' low citixeps ind the street, have lnever failed to, receive due courtesy and okiad- ness. Some mon there fikve sver, shown 6nintefssteia saving my souft botiof what avail are Tsgchi manifestations when one sees himself ostracised, degraded. and de- nied the means of ObtaininHo hias daily