New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-11
They go FOr'' Pullman.

Our friends especially our newspaper
friends OF the hog and hominy States, are
| waxing terribly wroth because "Mr Pull
man. as they call the Pullman company,
| permits the dam niggers' to snore in his
| sleeping cars on the sole condition of their
paying for their berths and conducting
| themselves properly. It is an Internal out
rage on the part of Mr.. Pullman, to be sure
MIR. Pullman is "a mean radical" and "a
vicious ass. who, according the Meridian
Mercury, offers to ''sleep negroes in his
palace sleeping cars gratuitously to insult
and provoke the Southern whites to violent
resentment OF negro insolence." Moreover,
according to the same authority, the Balti-
more lady who sat up all night rather than
mingle her shores with those of a Senegam-
blam on sleeping car, should instruct her
friend, if she has one, to 'go for Pullman,
as he is the responsible man, and should be-
held to accountability" And then, again,
in the opinion of the Mobile Register, Mr.
Pullman is pestilent fellow, engaged in
"a fanaticai effort to transport foul odors,
vermin and disease" and to expose white
citizens to 'the contact of the vulgar and
filthy creatures who compose nineteen
twentieths of the negro race" beware of
travelling pesthouses" shouts another irate
journalist
Now, it may be very bad policy, as
matter of dollars and cents, for Mr. Pull.
man to "sleep negroes" in his cars, espe-
cially on Southern roads. But that is his
business. or OF the company for which his
name is made to stand. If ne adopts line
of policy that is calculated to empty his
pockets, and bring upon himself the Odium
of the Southern whites, that is an affair of
his own. The cars are his. He pays the
railroad companies for hauling them They
are at his disposal, and he has a perfect
right to invite such patronage as he pleases.
Nobody is obliged to ride in them. If any.
one chooses to abandon bottom shelf be-
cause negro occupies a top shelf, there is
nothing to prevent him. If a lady pre-.
ferred to sit up all night rather than sleep
in the same car with negro, it was all
very well, but her friend, if she has one,
has no business to ''go for Pullman or to
wreak his revenge in any other way than
by sitting up all night as the lady did, and
letting MIR. Pullman 60 without pay for his
berth.
Of one thing the angry Southrons NAV be
pretty well assured. Mr.. Pullman's policy
is not going to convert his cars into travel.
ing pest houses. 'The vulgar and filthy
creatures who compose nineteen twenteths
OF the negro race" are not going to leave
the fields and the kitchens, and take to
riding about the country on Pullman cars
simply because they have permission. They
can't afford it. They haven't either the
time or the money. The few who may avail
themselves of such accommodations prob
ably carry no more vermn in their clothes
than most members Of the Ku-klux KAN,
or the Illinois Legislature; certainly not
more than the ebony conductors of sleeping
coaches, against whose communicating pres.
sure the Southern whites have entered no
protest.
The Mobile Register was a little too fast
in assaiing Mr.. Pullman for permitting
Plnchback to ride from Louisville to Mobile
The editor was probably not aware that the |
car was chartered for the exclusive use of |
Pinchback and his colOred friends. That
tact makes the matter look a little better. |
and possibly the wrath of the Register will |
DE assuaged it Mr.. Pullman will either burn |
mat car with its pestilence and vermn, or |
restrict its use for the future to Northern |
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