Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-04
BETWEEN OURSELVES.

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the primary offense that offends squeamish-
ness rather than the sin. That's an every day
affair, subject to fines and restrictions, but
white with black ia infamy is really mar
vellous combination-and we hold our noses
as we turn away. We know that Othello in
the mimic scene can doff the ignoble and Of
Tending hue-and be himself again--which
may be black enough for all we know-but
the blank verse and the rich barbaric costum-
ing have tilched aversion for the obnoxious
putting together of white and black or
bronze.
Such relations whether having legal sane
ton or being wholly contraband, generally
require sacrifice to the offended proprieties
of fastidious and natural selection. Fastidious
isn't the word to use of course-because with
individuals, capable of such social
ties of average decency are wholly unknown
In such cases where the moralities are so
blunt and the color blindness so Extensively
impartial, wouldn't you imagine the nose
would decide the matter? Or is that too
dulled for retrieyal?
In Paris there is marquis who loves game
SO very ripe that he has to eat it with spoon.
In his favorite restaurant when the season ar
rives for his "hlgh" dinners, the garcoms
draw lots TO wait on him, for it is an ordeal
none Of them are willing to undergo without
some such chance to escape from serving.
The doomed waiter holds his napkin to his
nose and makes furtlve dashes for the outer
air while the nobleman is partaking of his
delicacy-and making havoc with the senses
about him. 1t is fair illustration of the
contraband relations-which, starting with
this primal violation of the senses-nature's
suficing protest-runs its course IN public
disapprobatiOn and scandal, and ends in violent
death too often not to be a warning that
the tragedy of white women affecting blacka-
moor loves repeats itself SO disagreeably fire.
quent, that we needn't seek the theatre to be
| narrowed by such rank contrasts.
IT'S the color which strikes us disagreeably
at first in these cases of black Or of-color in
| fatuation. The sin is super added after
awhile, with perhaps foreboding that it will
almost inevitably 60 down in violence, and
society be avenged for the fragrant breach of
its preiudices. It is to be wondered if the
complexion of sin makes it array any blacker in
the final account, and whether social condem-
nation in the matter of caste will at all affect
the gravamen of broken law.
| One fact will be disagreeably apparent to
the most Indifferent minds, and it is this: That
no matter how revolving the fornication with
black and white, no matter how loathsome
the adultery-some clergyman" SO called,
when summoned to Oficiate at the death will
Immediately proceed to cite Mary Magdalen
even at such funeral as that of last week,
where the soul went out forcibly in drunken
or semi-drunken orgie.
Mary Magdalen!
Just think of the startling inappositeness, -
while vision arises of her remorse, devotion
to her Divine Master and boundless atonement
| for her sins, which looked commentator
and commemoration never accorded to any
transgressor. This sanity psnitent, and the
abandoned murdered leman of mulatto!
Well, now, wouldn't you as lief listen to
Bob Ingersoll for change? He at least pro-
fesses no reverence for sacred things, and han
dies these matters roughly. But to have a
duly accredited doughface get off snch bias
phemous twaddle in the name of the gospel,
and desecrate the memory of one sanctifed by
supreme repentance, By any mention of it on
such an occasion, is queer Interpretation of
the record.
There was an opportunity for a sterner adj
monitor, and a more fitting discourse, if any
utterance were necessary beyond the funeral
formula.
| Perhaps good form required silence, be-
cause if you talk much over unrepentant de-
pravity what have you left for the just-and
such talk-when you draw differences and
find analogies not alone totally inapplicable
but irrelevant unto blasphemy.
For if you read the Word Alright you do NOT
find its meaning so elastic that it can be twist
ed to endorse the good and bad alike.
Death isn't general amnesty either with
out regard to the manner Of life as many
Topping preachers would have us believe, but
dread account which the most scrupulous
have in salutary awe.
What effete nonsense are you at now? says
Mrs. Harris.
Actually drawing the color line at this late
| uOuI Vi Iue udy-JuSI DIS IL We udun cudugtu
all that.
Haven't you heard of the emancipation Of
| the blacks by A. Lincoln-and the appoint
ment of black policeman, by Ed. Rice?
Can't they vote like white folk?
Aren't they an amendment?
Don't they get into West Point?
Hasn't Flipper "Blaine secretary's" dea,
protege been caught in the act Of stealing gov
eminent funds just like the accomplished
white man Howgate, his contemporary? Qi
they could only steal the Presidency
by black electoral count-their equality
would be complete in such matters.) They
are doing well enough for their opportunities.
! Now with all this political and moral revo.
luton going on about you, you are absurd
and obsolete enough to be drawing that old
color line-as if, with all their other privileges
in full blast, darkeys must be debarred from
having white partners and sweethearts like
their fair brethren-aye, and killing them, too,
when they take a notion and rifle.
! For the rest, tits mostly question for the
nose to settle-and it does. There be curious
and abnormal exceptions, who prefer sable
elf-producers in perfumery. They pay a
heavy tax in social opprobrium, more for the
violation of the olfactory protest, and the
color line, than for any sin in the relation.
The trouble with that Clergyman" at the
Hinton funeral is that he nuts so rnuob am.