The bee., 1883-07-28

tleman, were very harsh, indeed, to say
the least harsher by many degrees
than he has seen tit TO PIT upon schite
men for similar causes.
There is no excuse for us to be ST.
lent in this matter. When we find
that injustice is being meted out to any
class of people, we intend to speak of
1t aloud. with all the yigor we can pro-
duce. Last season we spoke for the
overworked car-driyers. We have now
a word for our own race and color.
We observe %here are two modes of
dlspusing of cases in the police court
of this city. \ very convenient mode
seems always accessible for the whites,
but IN entirely different one is adopted
for the other race. Crimes and of
fences for which white men are repri-
manded and let off on nominal fines,
colored men are sent down OF up, as the
case may be. and the full extent of the
law is applied to them In each and
efeft case
We are glad to reside in Il commu-
nifty where the law is feared and re-
spected, but we dread to live where a
Judge is known 10y the color he gjces
his decisions. There is no Jail in this
community that will prevent this pa
per from saying that justice is not
meted out alike to both colors in the
city court of Washington. Mr. Moss
spoke bat the living truth when he
said what he did to the court in this
regard.
Our colored citizens, especially the
majority of those who are often brou ght
to this court, have enough to contend
with on the outside, that is in nine
cases out of ten against them. They
should at least have Il fair trial, end
even if they are colored, they
should not be unjustly sentenced
or treated because God has made them
of different complexion froih him
who is hy grace a Judge.
We have just come up from out the
South land, where justice sits on the
bench with the scales in her hand, and
one eye open. With that she can al
ways sec Il colored man, and every
time she discovers one she winks. and
down goes the scales; also the unfor-
tunate colorcd man. Now up here,
where Il northern Christian man sits
ON the bench, he forgets that we are
people, but only remembering the fact
that we are colored; forgetting our un-
selfish devotion to Il country that only
knew us as serfS, that never owned us
rs citizens until we gave thirty-seven
thousand thousand lives on the field of
battle for its perpctuity; never think
ing of, and, if SO, not remembering
with any sense of gratitude our ser
vices to the flag that was once "our
stars and stripes, nor deigning to re-
member that it was the faithful black
man that was never false to union
soldier; a'r"u nevor f":1ol J.. bvr.i,..,l
The starving prisoners, and point them
the way to the North star. but only
remembering that it is crime to be
of dark skin. With the American
Pro-slavery prejudice, their Judge finds
1T right to put into full force and
effect the intention. the meaning and
power of the law in all cases where
the Issue brings a cOlured person into
Il case, and for similar cases involving
white persons, he finds loop holes and
"nominalities."
What the colored citizens ask is a
fair and square trial and the penalties
that ought to be given, and not those.
as Ho1C given, based entirely upon
bare-born American pro-slaverv, begot |
out OF slavery, custom and association, |
and especially well set in those who. |
10y association, become It's best and
most Servile advocates.