Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-28
The Attack Upon Bishop Payne.


 The Washington correspondent of the New York Globe, the principal paper devoted to the interests of the black race says concern ing the recent ejection of Bishop Payne from q railroad car in Florida:
 It is tedious to commence with the stereo- typed word Congress" every week Sap pose the word watch be substituted, for the nearer it is run down the faster it runs. Like the time piece, Congress has its big wheels and its little wheels; it's handspring and its regulator, and lacks only the chronometer balance to make it 8 reliable register of mo- ments. And when our own Bisbee IS seated tomorrow it is expected of him that he shall be an equipoise in the workings of that ma chinery, and that he shall steadily point with the finger of shame, indignation and condem- nation to the outrage recently perpetrated upon law and common humanity, in the case of Bishop Payne, whose age, not to say his position, would have appealed to any other but nature innately cruel and desperately wicked. Language is inadequate to express the adherence and wrath felt against the Jacksonville and Fernandina railroad and its employees for ejecting the senior bishop of the A. M E. church from first class car af- ter compelling him to pay first class fare. White and colored, Democrats and Repubi- cans have but one opinion in the matter They unqualifedly denounce the company that makes such regulations, and speak of the authorities that permit them with the utmost contempt. The sentiment Is that Bishop Payne should push the case to the fullest ex- tent of the law, and see if there is any vir- tue in the declarations of that old Constitu- tion which often referred to, less read and least needed. But sentiment Is not the word-it Is the earnest wish of the gene ral public and for that purpose almost fabulous amount of money can be raised here. Just here and now it might be re marked that there must be an idea of busi- ness iu the matter. So many patriotic en- terprises are set on foot for the purpose of raising money to vlndlcate principle that the people are wary The money comes and the money goes, and so does the principle and the interest therein. The writer knows by experience something of the villainy practiced upon colored people travelling in the South, especially in the vicinity of Jack sonville, Florida. One man, for the descrlp- ton of whom you are respectfully referred to Milton's poetic picture of the lowest imp of his satanic majesty, has forever lmmor- talized himself as the bravest rufian' of them all His corrugated features and his nur- derous eye have been the terror of timid men and weak ex slave women for many years. But his delight Is in domineering over old 1 men and women of color. He is the con- l ductor that is known as the biggest coward on the road He has been seen to summon TOUT aDle -DOuleu neu we'll dEneu "LE IOuBA- lY removed an afflicted cOlored man to the ''nigger car," about assthey would carry wild boar It strikes me that he was the brave that compelled the venerable, reverend and distinguished Bishop D. A Payne to the alternative of. going into the car for ''coTored people" or of walking back to the I city-But think of it, MT. Editor-an old man, seventy one years of age, expresident of a University, ex-president of the most | celebrated religious body that ever met on | earth, the London Ecumenical Council, | trudging five miles through marsh and alli- | gators, with nearly thirty pounds of baggage on his back