The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-02-06
WHITES AND BLACKS IN BRAZIL


Southerners and their northern sym
pathlzers, who think that the whites
and blacks cannot live together uDles
he former have their shotguns, bown
knives and ropes handy, ought 10 reao
this from the New York Tribune cor.
respondent in Brazil. Even Mr Ingall
a his recent speech in the senate Wa,
Inclined to take the southern view al
TINS phase of the race QUESTION. Tn,
universal prevalence of mulattues every
where In the South ought to have Sc
i'm right on it:
"AntIpathes of race do not seem {,
-xiut in Braz /. Full-blooded negroes a
well as muaJtOes are to be found il
government Offices conducting the de-
,aIls Of administration; they mold clerk
ships in the mercantile houses and are
ts well dressed as the Portuguese mer-
chants; they are officers in the army
md they wear the robes of the priest.
and they are often physicians with whiie
patients. These are the educated negroes
and half-castes Removed from them by
ne same barriers of social exclusion
which separate the blacks from the low
st blacks are the laboring negroes.
many of them SCARED and tattooed like
native Africans. The educated blacks
'nd mulattoes, when they are able t.
iress IN European style like the white,
are accepted In Brazil by the governing
ace on terms of social equality.
"a striking proof of tins fact was af-
Ordrd at wedding celebrated in Prot
estant chapel the other evening. The
bride was full-booded negro dressed
wLite, with a large pair OF kid gloves
N her swarthy hands, and ruquet Oi
d Iwers carried with no lack of grace.
the bridegroom was attired in black
With white gloves and carried another
bouquet. Three friends, less elaboraleIy
'ressed, accompanied them as Witnesses
"a man and woman standing with tht
ride and another rIan reinforcing the
bridegroom. The minister performed
the ceremony with solemnity in tht
presence of congregation of seventy
ive people of every shade OF color. in.
GLIDING many whites. When the paiI
ad clasped hands and promised to stand
Ugether until lIfe's eud, the company
Jressed forward to uffer congratulations
The bride was kissed by every body
lack, brown, maroon, drab pale gray
nd lily white. There were Portuguese,
dies of irreproachabIe social position
'ut they kissed the bride twice on the
mouth and congratulated the Uride-
groom with unaffected hedrtiness.
Here the negroes are IN the main ig
Iorant, lazy, superstitiou,, and many oI
them not very far removed from tht
4vage state, but when they have beer
nabed to better their position, to &C
quire the rudIments of education, and t
iress like the whites, they are recelvrC
m terms of equality. There IS no race
,ntipathy that shuts them out from
social ad dvancement.
"At the restaurants black and whit,
re found dining together on terms o
,ncIal intimacy. They worship togethe
u the same churches. They are founC
hopping together in the same DIR,
O0ds stores or speculatlng together il
he exchanges. They dress alIke-tb,
'ducated and well to-dC-and they Inv,
0gether, not as lien, but as congenla
aces. There is no affinity among mel
# Portuguese blood like that poten
poDd which draws together the white
four own country and repels social IN
ercourse with the blacks, This fac
nay prove to have considerable value il
determining the future of BIazll Rae
,nIipathes caused by the presence o
evpral millions of emancipat, black
re not likely to spring up here"