The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-03-29
The Appointment Of Mr.. Douglass

Between thirty and forty years ago a
young mulatto in New Bedford. Mass.
was working on the piers, rolling oil
casks, and quite ready to engage in any
other honorable employment. This mam
was a slave, fugitive from Maryland,
and by all the law of the land he might
mt any time have been seized and carried
back to the involuntary servltude from
which he had escaped. He then hardly
knew how to read or to write. BY acci-
dent he exhibited remarkable ability ms
q public speaker; by hard and honest
work he supplied the deficiencies OF his
education; and he is now about as well
known to the country as any public man
in Washington. Yesterday the Presi-
dent. in accordance with an intention
previously announced nominated hi.c to
a lucrative position OF Importance and OF
great respectability-that of Marshal OF
the District OF Columbia. Other colored
men. in due time, the President said the
other day to colored delegation, he
should nominate for other positions as
y opportunity offered, but Mr.. Frederick
Douglass would take precedence, on ac-
count OF his greater age and of his hav-
ing formerly been a slave.
Not much in advance OF this intelli-
qence come rumors that in the policy
which will be pursued by the President
the colored men will be studiously ignor-
ed, and that every effort will be made to
hold up q white mans supremacy in the
Southern States. The Democratic news.
papers, those eminent friends of the me-
gro. greatly shocked by these rumors,
are getting ready to play the part of ten
der-hearted negrophilists and to adopt
the humanitarian PRINCIPLES which they
a -. I~ III L.. a.
enough to charge the President with
treachery to the freedmen when he has
been guilty of single act of injustice or
has in any way disregarded the laws and
the Constitution by the least discrimina
ton in favor of the white man. There ID
3 something extremely childish in this
presumption that a man of sense will, in
matter OF the utmost Importance, be
X have like a fool. That the President
may have his own views concerning the
policy OF using the blacks merely to pre-
serve partisan ascendency is probable
and every friend OF the race. whether he
may belong to it or not, will rejoice in
any chamge which shall rescue the color
ed voters from the second slavery into
+ which interested men may have betrayed
them. No course will please those who
are beforehand determined not to be
pleased. .H
But matters do move, after all Gradu
ally the traces of slavery are disappear
ing, and il is becoming plain that we are
to have no permanent caste distinctions
The adventurers who for some years
have controlled large sections OF the
South have done more than ybody
else to perpetuate such distinctions by
their plan OF driving the blacks in masses
to the polls. there to vote for their driv
ers. That kind OF fraternization with
the blacks we do not expect from the
present Administration but neither do
we, expect il to take from the colored
voter a single political or social right
We do not anticipate the gushing show
of sympathy with which certain mem
bers OF Congress have made US familiar
but il at the end Of the coming foul
years the freedmen are not found hap
pier, more industrious, and politically
wiser, we shall be much disappointed -
IN. Y. Tribune.