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

hor-Tho Alb o ny Hesolutions-The
Negro Postmaster at Macon, Georgia.
The persistence and seeming success with
which the negroes in Washington are thrusting
themselves forward socially as we'll as politically,
is beginning to excite disgust on all sides at
North, and the evil is rapidly assuming mag
nitude that must bring with it ere long its
own remedy. AWashineton letter to the Bal
timore Gazstte says:
The mechanics and workingmen here, as
we'll as throughout the country, are becoming
justly alarmed at the evident purposes or the
administration. They see IN the persistent
policy Of introducing into the workshops ct the
government utterly incompetent negroes, q de-
sign rather to sduce the white operatives 10 @
level with the lowest class Of humanity than to
elevate the negro 10 higher Office They also
see in the proclamation Of the Executive, max
ing eight hours days work, only bid to in.
duce the white man in government employ
ment to submit to the degradation of negro
oonpanonshlp 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, il operative
at all, it must serve merely to create difficulties
between the employer and employed in private
life.
The Navy Department is observed to be very
prominent in this business. Under o spread
eagle. caption it is officially announced this
morning that the .eadmissiOn Of colored men
to all branches OF work under the government
in tn district now appears to be established
as rule. In tho navy yard colOred men have
already been employed in the brlcklayers' and
jolners' gangs, and yesterday James Cooper,
OF baltimore. was given employment as ma
chinst-the first colored man employed IN
work Of that character"
Per contra. The New York Herald (vhose
editor. whatever may be otherwise thought or
SAID Of h,n,) is admitted on all hands to have
q prod'glousiy long nose, thus dlscohrses of
decision OF q Printers COnVen ion.
'The Printers National Convention Mt Al
bany, by q. vote Of fifty SIX 10 twenty eight,
lad on the table resolution tor abolishing all
distinctions OF race and color in the craft.
This means tina. the distinction Of color is to
be enforced as an objection to the bla,k man;
and as it is with the printers so it will be with
be arrayed against negro equality in their
workshops, and the administration before long
will hear from them at the polls"
lt ls difficult, IL not impossible, Just now. in
nauseating subject of the everlasting negr,.
Nothing else ls legisIated upon. Nothing else
seems to cngage the attention and care Of this
statesmanllke administration. You must,
turner was recently appointed postmaster ct
Macon Ca, whose character was as black as
his skin 70 this hour the influence that ope.
rated upon the President to MAKE the appoint
ment Is unknown. and excites the liveliest Gu
rloslty. few days ago ''dele9ation," rep
resenting what was termed call the respectable
ty" there IS in the Radical party in the State of
Georgia, waited upon his Excelcncy, and '.rep-
resented" the mans true character, demon
stratng that it be were white m In, instead
Of eloryina in the fashiona BILE color, he would
long since have been consigned to some secure
penltentiary rather than to the management OF
the United States mails. On the authority of
onetof this respectable delegation I can ST ate
that General Gra soiemly promised Turner's
immediate ''suspensioD." But we are now in
Formed officially that he has since vacillated.
The report" says the organ. s'that the Presi-
dent had gi zen orders for the suspension OF
Turner, recently appointed at Macon. Ca, is
nntrae, OF least premature, as n9 action in the
O'clock F. H.. yestesday The Ffeasident Feaaafa TT le M
the city ate.
A Negro Mayor for washington--Aris-
tocsacy among the Darkies.
The following dispatches from the Washing
ton correspondent of the 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
race 9Shn IN. c1G% Mayor Of Wash
one OF the most important Offices IN the city,
and Is quito an advanced darkey, possessing
education. tact and fare share OF fortune.
His colored brethren say they must have him
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 registrarship and few al
dermen and councilmen. Cook though pop
ular with most OF the old colored settlers,
looks down upon the poor blacks, and particu-
larry ne Virginia contrabands, whom he thinks
during incoln's time Cook advised Old Abe
not to allow the contrabands to come to WASH
lnRton, on the ground that it would ruin bust i
ness. n how this will 80 down, with his colored
the superintendent OF Police. was pretty
prominent candidate for the Mayoralty until
the riot on Monday last It is believed that
bis 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. It is remarked here that
while the blacks are clamorlng for admlssion
to the theatres on the white level, they do
ings with each other. Thus the most fash
ionable BARRIERS here ore colored mon, who
Will on 20 account descend to shave
diarkeys Their reason is. perhaps, not that
1t would ruin their white custom. Stewart,
who was elec:ed Alderman OF the First Ward
on Monday, is a colOred man and s barber and
was objected to by some Of his race because he
artistic establishment. .:Do YOU think I'm 60. 60
Ing to vote for O. colored man because he is
Republican, when he thinks us not respectable
enough to be shaved in his store 2" was the
sharp answer Of some OF the colored voters
same thing In the restaurants. Many Of them
are kept by cOlored meh and have the most
respectable white patronage. or course they
decline to allow Sambo to equat at the same
tables with their White customers Thus, 1t
Wall 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.
self. =
The Washtngtom Negroes Determined TO
Claim seats I'm the Theatres ON Equal
ity with the Whites.
1t was telegrapbed by certain correspond
ents day before yesterday that no danger would
grow out OF the law recently passed by the
admission 0f colored people to ali places Of
amusement on an equality with whites. The
reason assigned was that the colored people
had determined not to thrust themselves often