The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-08
VOL. 81.
"Colored Prejudice. +"

AeAhuSi JuSh HHA f"A ~ eANS ~ ss%AN
ing just and common sense opin-
ions of the race question. One of
these papers is the New Yo k
Post, an independent and able Re.
publican journal. Apropos OF coll
ored prejudice il says:
the recent appointments OF black
men as postmasters in some South.
ern towns where nearly all the mail
matter is sent and received by
white people have aroused much
local criticism, which In turn has
provoked no little comment In the
Northern press. In one case, at
CoyingtoD, louisiana, negro was
appointed who had never been q
resident, who was unknown TO the
people of the town, and against
whose character charges were made.
When such COMPLAINTS by the 10.
cal papers reached the North, a
number of the Republican organs
were moved TO expressions of the
most violent indignation. San in
sane ! rejudice," it was called by
a Massachusetts paper, while the
loudmouih.d Boulelle { Republican
memeer Ct Congress) declared in
his Bangor Maine) paper, that
"this Is simply monstrous. Why
should good colored man be of
fensive as a postmaster? asked
Boutelle, with the air OF a man who
knew that no body living could
answer his question.
A New Orleans paper had OBJ
jected to the appointment OF negro
post mastersin the sea-coast resorts
vi the South on the ground that
these places "are frequented by the
highest, most refined, and best ed
ucsted classes OF Northern and
Southern people, that such PEG.
pie wanted white men or women in
in the post office, and that "this
desired qualification is not an out
come of sectional prejudice; North
erners and Southerners alike de.
mand IL rnis is the exact truth
The most refined and best educa.
ted people in the North do object
to negro postmasters at SUNNI n re-
sorts-or anywhere else, for that
matter. Take the loud-mouth ed
Boutelle's own State; Blaine's State
Of Nj zine. The people interested in
the pr osperity OF Bar Harbor would
be as indignant ut the suggestion
of app 'inting il ablack postmaster
there as they would be at a propo
sition To enforce the Maine liquor
law in that famous summer resort
and simply because they know tha
the visitors would b. displeaseC
with a postmaster of that color
1t would be OF no use to argue
with visitors that this was "sim
ply monstrous," and that II the;
were willing to have black barberl
and walters, they ought to be will
ing to have = black postmaster
They would reply that il was to,
hot tn have long discussions In
summer; all they had to say wa
that they didn't want negro post
master at Bar Harbor.
There is nothing extraorlinar,
about this particular manifestation
OF color prejudice. A newspape
published by colo. ell men has re-
Gently been calling attention to th,
fact that the dry goods merchant
OF Boston will not employ BLACK
men AMI wo en- as lert s, "a esmer
and saleswomen, no matter how de
serving the applicants, simply be
cause they are black. A .orres
ponden, OF this journal who visit
ed Knoxville, Tenn, not long ago
and observed The many large build
ings in course of erection, wal
struck ty the entire absence OF ne
gro mechanics. Knowing tha
many of the best houses in the cit,
had been built by negro mechan ic 8
and that less than twenty year,
ago but few white mechanics wer,
employed, he asked citizen th,
reason. "Ile told me that whit.
mechanics had been imported from
the North, and they refused to work
with negroes. rhe result was thai
the negro mechanic could not b,
employed" Thi Ia not an excep
tional case. IL would be hard &c
find a white man in the North who
would consent to serve under q
negro foreman, but such a sight il
by no means uncommon in South
ern cities.
The purpose OF these quotations
Is To show that there 10 lust as
much prejudice in the North
against tho colored race, and moi q
toe in some Republican quarters
than there is in the South There
is a certain Republican precinct In
Ohio where oored barber can.
not 10 business, because white
men will not pstronize him. Still
the Republicans of that pre-,
roll their eyes to heaven and or,
holy horror when the people of the
South ask for a white postmaster.
IL affords us great satisfaction TO
tear.the mask off the old Republic
can hypocr,tes and demagogues.
Their professions of concern for
the negro isn't skin deep, and the
Southern Republican is as trans
parent hypocrite and humbug as
his Northern brother. The Repub.
lican journalists ut the North are
crashing their teeth and rending
their garments because negro cat
only go to she theater in Atlanta on
condition of sitting in the gallery.
But the same thing is true 10
Brooklin, N. Y, aud other North.
ern cities. The Young Mems
Christian Association OF New York
City closes its doors to black men
because they are black, and black
members OF the Grand Army OF
the Republic O "hiladelphi Ca Re-
publican city have to take seats
in the gallery of 'he thesters for
the reason they are black AMI not
wanted in the seats in the body
of the building.
Yet Republican journals are
hovling mad about coloted preju-
dice in the South!
Csst on.