New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-24
HUMANITY IN THE AoGrH And SotrH.

NEGROES n NEW NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. THE FRAN
CHsE-gEA-oNs FOR Doing 1.-THE NORTH
HUMANE ONLY BEFORE TIE LAW.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: In an editorial of your paper dated
Dec -. 1876, headed Justice and Not Hate" you say
The North has loved justice and humanity. and was
right Il mas hated the men tu whom clUca N ud GUS
TOM humanity bounded by equality OF rights
Nas profanity and treason. and therein D. wrong.
before the Republic No device OF government wilt
ever make southern race equally ready with North
Jaw w have differed ever since the settlements III
jamestown anu ~ Plymouth %C.
Now it has happened that I have taken THE TRIBUNE
ever since % was first issued from the press ana you
are its Editor now, setting yourself and the Northern
people mp to think you arc SO much better than the
people OF the south, will show you what Pharsee
goa are by copying editorial from TIE TRIBUNE Of
My 1871, and copied into colonization paper He
SAYS in regard black race the article being headed
Equality Of Races: :"
There are no laws in MASSACHUSETTS, Vermont. or
tics Oh African such, and yet their political
and social condition in those states - very inferior and
.i.,.r.4hr ono No cosr.d man J., admitted into gen
cril society elevated to any honorable Once ~ either
tloS.. ~tars ana none. Is ErF To pc NedFl every
-tt which has revised It's Constitution WITHIN TIE last
30 wears has made 10 more Democratic ~ regard q"
y,iIa and less 50 IN regard to blacks wY.rk Penn
~, ivanfa Michigan. WISCONSIN, Illinois, &c., alarns
H. states which slug their fundamental law nave
rights 10 ne-roes OF substituted therefor Others
s,-l more oppressive and Indiana has, Just
within her borders In or own ota," most earnest
-.~l.-Ie made To secure equal tlgl G-aIalys' oi
color ln orr urw Constitution, but that effort was dh-
l,Itrd los q vast majority OF the people. A.,
W have fuHgI AGAINST this denying tle negroes tue
ri -lt To- vote Wuc they ara anonE We shall insist
on fgrir being treated as wcu whites. Bu equality
before the law is one tnrS ana unfairly IL d"the,
and n doe, not FOLLOW that coI-itcr The mterWiugling
,f whites and blacks in ne same community a. natural
ar desirable Vs., certainly do not. On -uc contrary, we
appreh, nd tuat moral evils would have resulted rom
a p.I b
The intellectual superiority Of tie whites "uu!u hd' e.
Elected drhase,u,4t of tie blacks below thei natural
,-.I even m a >tl,c at freedom Their only ,Ge re-
source against dcu-rment Is separation We tilsi the
mn. tE X GI'l Of rI Snrcw- fiom Egypt viii be under
,tuod and .ppecard hy The blacks; mat they VII conc
10 rrlI.z. tHat colonization - thc medP' "Leit? OF
pressed races and communities rene" their youth ana
strength.
IN Tur TuBrxE OF MAY /, 1858, Nr Greeley says,
We make no pretensc and never did make any to
spec friendship the blacks Now you have the testl-
mony Of the founder ot rHa TRIBrNE that up to the
d, n, the war -GI the Northern people had 10 more
claim 10 Justice and humanity tnan the southern; that
they were NO ready recognize the eudhS Oh the
whit, and black races than The south ana VIII give
vp Mr. Greeley as proof that the Republican party con-
trred the ri.nt suffrage the negroes Tor no o'h'r
purlo,e than to pcrpetuite their own power:
when the war was over, the 'pu1l!ta-s SAID LEI US
Feed The Nero bat not elevate nin' - -'d me I','
dent 40 sad he party. But the parry paused aIo 'u
I+rion te uryf Administration would not bc RepGbli-
can The moment the Republicans avn a tIis, mere
w. nlu.n and the truth 10 tfi'm that nothl.S
couId ave tie Republican party but the negro IN ~
davis impartial suffrage the AuiIdh 19, anu me
,ult accomplished 10y thc seiu''i's vi "' in 40
themselves in danger unle the negro came 10 th' iu
And can you continue your prosecutions O the SOUTH
erp people for the sake OF pOwer-placing the whte
peope below the negro, whom your own people Ieis'u
- recognize "A their political social equal until they
needed Ills vote to retain their powcri
YOUR CONSTANT READER.
u,,yross Penn Ian. %, 1877.