The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-11
THE ARISTOCRACY OF SKIN.

Among the seventy-fve young men who
graduated recently 81 Amherst college were
George Washington Forbes, William Te-
cumseh Sherman Jackson and William
Henry Lewis, ali three with negro blood
in their veins. Lewis was leader in foot
ball ana college athletics, IS > drst-class
student. snd so exceptional speaker that
his class chose him 20 deliver the class
Grafton. He vas also chosen by compsti-
ton TO SPEAK in the Hardy prize debate,
which be won. and the Hardy prize o-s-
ton contest. both considered the principal
hono-s OF senior year. He came 50 near
winning the latter that one Of the judges
insisted that he should have the money,
and presented him with check 10. 500 10
! help psy his expenses IN the lsw school.
While the other two colored students have
no, been so conspicuous. both have
ranked vel IN scholarship. Jackson stand
ing in the first fifteen of class Of seventy
Use. while Forbes has done earnest, con-
.ciensious work.
TIE Springfield Republican reciIes these
facts ana further says:
TIE tsssos the csaSs manhood cane when the
inyits.io2s were issued for the senior prone
made, for The students fes-si the rssuis when
their far friends would meet these eoso-st gen
tleTnea and .1slr guests. There wss 8 Little
t.eeze, oU. /! died on. when the Courageous an {.
manly sense Of Tire Class wss asserted he
boys hs3 treated thslr classmates IS eQGsis Z
recitation room Sni On the campus, sai the
s1goeA- o. complications .. = really social
event vanished There Was theoretically No
ground to- sas sls-ra. bot il Is % the credit q
the class that !. suosidei And - e0lore3
wozea appeared q. the promenade festivities,
snd they were eGlsivsted snd re1asd women.
whose dance cards, Il Is ssld. were Kept wei
filed
Outside Of the United States color
/ phohia has no existence in the greSt civil
ixs;ions Of the world The leading phy-
stefan OF Cape Town thirty years ago Was
the son OF = Norfolk (Va) negro; the
! father had bought his freedom years ago
Of his Virginia master. and, going 70
/ Cape Town, had become wealthy in the
coastins trade. He sen. his boy 20 Eson
1 college sad afterwards - Gays hospital
/ The son came hack 10 Cape Town wlta his
medical diploma and VAS physician "a ths
/ first families, including Iha. Of the gover-
/ no- general and the bishop q the English
/ church. This colored Gocto7's coachnSn
I ana foogman were both white English
men. The Black Swan sang il the
! drawing room O. the Duchess OF
/ Sutherland and was invited 70 the houses
( u EnE.ishnen Of high rank, culture ana
( refinement The grandmother % the srea,
/ French novelist, Alexander nunss, was
vGre-hloN3 re-rsSs. his father 1as 4
/ half-bico3 negro OF gigantic stature snd
/ strength Who rose 20 the command % =
( brigade in the French army. sn3 for his
T heroic defense OF bridge against the
AassriAns VAS specially mentioned II
( Naroleon BoaspArse', dispatches to the
( Directory. Bonaparts styling him The
/ Horsvcs Coo IS Of the French Army"
Only IN America 90 We nnd this vile
! aristoc-2cy Of skin, which refuses 70
{ decent, courteous negro the same pablic
5 rights IN tie theate-. IN the hc'ei and on
/ railroads and steamboats, which the cc2-s-
( eSg and r,os; w gar white man IS accorded
/ without p-o:sss On the ps-s Of any one,
/ Nobody aGE fool pleads for sociAl equal
: Ivy; ihat everywhere requisites Itself, hGs
/ \ - mean civilization that denies equal
/ civil rights - decent. sober and c01r-
/ 'soas negro So the thsstsr, she p9o.ic
+ aoEsl table sad On the lines % paa.ie
( travel simply because Of his color.
The Soateeza bred zlsa Is excuss5le for
E hls Perpe,2stsoa % the co.o- line, oecanse
( 10 him the negro $ race recently released
/ 4-oSG sszY4S2ls, eGs FOR ire North, t22s