The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1889-03-27
THE NEGRO AT THE NORTH.
NOW QUIZ coL18e3 FRIENDS FAsE IN
NEW Y0.7K.

III has only been 4 few days
since the principal OF the pub ic
schools at jamaica, l.. l., excluded
a child because its mother was sup
posed to have taiut of negro blood
in her veins.
Not only does this see prejudice
exist socially, but it extends to
business matters. No negro can
be apprenticed to learn trade.
He cannot be clerk or a salesman
in store. He cannot be a tele-
graph operator or engineer and he
can follow 10 profession except
among his own race. He cannot
even fill the place of street-car
driver or conductor. In short all
business is closed to him except
that of washing, scrubbing, or 9th.
or mental work.
In religion there is little or no.
attention paid to the colored man.
lie has his own churches, which
are attended only by his own race,
and there are no white churches
whose doors are open to him.
Politically the negro in the north
cut no figure at all. He is allowed
to go to the polls and deposit his
vote for some white candidate, but
there his political equality begins
and ends. No colored man is fool
ish enough to ask or expect any
political recognition, except, per-
haps, to be sent to Liberia or Hays
ii, on some unimportant mission.
On one occasion during the
summer saw well dressed white
woman, escorted by a stalwaft col>
"rcd man, enter the grand stand ut
the Wild West show. In a moA
ment all eyes we're directed towards
them and when they at last found
seats every woman in the vicinity
gathered up her skirts and hastily
sought other seats. Every one
seemed to think that they were 60
ing to be contaminated, a1d in a
little while the i'll sorted couple
were occupying their seats with no
one within ten feet of them. An
effort was made to have them eject
cd from the stand, and when it
was found that this could not be
legally done, they were subjected
to all kinds of ridicule and INSULT
ing remarks. This they stood for
a little while, but finally they re.
/ tired.
On Long Island there are thous-
ards Of negroes who live in little
huts, scattered through the " 1ods,
or gathered in little settlements
apart to themselves, These people
cannot attend the white schools or
churches and being too poor to
support oneVf their own, they
have passed through more than
half century without mental or
moral training. The result has
been deplorable in the extreme and
the average Long Island negro of
to>day is in point OF civilization
midway betv eel the negro of the
south aid the wild inhabitant of the
Congo country.
1t was in one Of these negro set
Elements, not two miles distant
from the celebrated Creedmore
range, that the horrible murder of
the co!0red girl, Maria Jones, was
Committed last April. The super-
stition Of the negroes in the settle
ment caused them to keep among
them an old white bag whom they
regarded us witch, and who was
feared on account OF her supposed
supernatural powers. This misera-
Die old creature went from shanty
to shanty in her rounds, and Que
mig hit finding Maria jones alone in
her cabin, she cruelty murdered
her with an AK, aud afterwards re.
mained in the room to drink bot.
tie of whisky over the corpse.
Nothing but the worse sort of 81.
perstltion ever KEEP his old white
woman in the settlement and even
after her terrible crime many IF
the negroes were afraid to testify
against her.
; Op one occasion last summer I
went to see a negro picnic down on