Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-11-08

us, with all it's errors of omission and
commission. 1t is to the future we must
now turn. We must look the situation
squarely in the face, and resolve to do
whatever men may do to build up the par
ty on a stronger and a purer basis, and,
like Henry Smith, of the Wynd, in Scott's
novel of the Fair Maid of Perth, eight
for our own hand" We must stand firm
ly by our party, and the men of our party
who are the Developments of it's principles,
and if we are true to ourselves, true to our
State, and faithful to the past traditions
of the best days Of the Rep public, we shall
merit victory even in defeat, and we shall
be worthy of victory when it is ultimately
won.-Ba2timore Gazette.
Color i'm Court.
The Washington Patriot makes the fol-
lowing statement:
A case of considerable interest is now
pending before the Police Court, which in
wolves the rights and property of an i'm
portant class in the community. In order
to pander to the negro vote the District
Legislature passed an act, by which dis
tinction on account of color is forbidden
in hotels, restaurants and other public
places. This scheme was concocted by
designing demagogues, for the double pur-
pose ofmaking mischief and levying black
mail. The respectable portion of the col
ored population have shown no disposition
to obtrude themselves into public resorts,
not frequented by their own race, or to
raise social issues merely for the sake of
notoriety. They have gone their way de-
corously, obeying the laws, asserting no
undue pretensions, and winning good
opinion.
Another class, however, have taken adj
vantage of this local law to make trouble
and injure business whose success de-
ponds entirely upon special patronage
There are well known restaurants, ice cream
saloons and other places of refreshment,
frequented by families, who have adopted
them on account of their excellent reputa-
ton. They are convenience to the pub
lie and source of profit to their proprie-
tors. Two interests, therefore, are con-
cerned in maintaining these resorts upon
a proper footing If filthy, boisterous, or
incorporate whites or blacks were allowed
to intrude themselves into such places,
their peculiar features would be at once
destroyed and their trade ruined. To
guard against offensive intrusion, the own
ers have adopted scale of prices and i'm
posed protecting conditions, which have
in the main answered the purpose well.
Several negroes entered one of these pop
ular resorts a few days ago, and upon fail
ing to comply with the terms, were refused
entertainment. They have brought suit
against the proprietor for violation of
the District law. Their abstract rights are
not disputed, but a serious question arises,
whether in asserting them rudely they have
also the right to break up the licensed bu-
siness of responsible traders, by a collusive
plan to make up case for effect. Every
body knows that the colored BARRIERS will
not receive their own race as customers,
because their presence would drive away
the whites. 1t may then well be asked
whether the blacks are to enjoy two excep-
tional privileges. first, of excluding their
own color when it suits their interest, and
second, of insisting that the whites shall
concede what they themselves have refus-
ed9 This is color with a vengeance, and
the time has come to know whether such
outrageous discrimination is law.