The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-04-18

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represent American feeling, preserving
the distinction with reference to color,
while the position of this latter agent
amounts to veto, and renders nugatory
the proceedings of his metropolitan CO.
adjutor. Mr.. Douglass, after nineteen
months intercourse with all ranks and
classes in Great Britain, and just is
sued from a select assembly, compris-
ing some of our best and wisest citi-
zens, met in London to bid farewell to
the interesting stranger, ON board the
vessel which he hoped was to carry
him in peace and honor to his native
land is reduced to the painful alterna-
tive of remaining behind, with the loss
of his passage money, or surrendering
his berth, taking his meals alone,
and being excluded from the saloon
company" in word, being treated as
a being of an inferior order, as felon,
an outcast, a yagabond.
We should like to know the Ameri-
can gentlemen who composed this sa-
loon company, that the British people
might Judge of their mental and moral
superiority to Frederick Douglass; for
the probabilities are as thousand to
one that he was incomparably superior
to the first among them. A severer
humiliation could scarcely have been de-
vised for them than the descent of
power which should have compelled
them in succession to discuss and de-
fend their prejudice with Douglass be-
fore a Liverpool assembly. One thing
is certain, that the first functionaries of
her Britannia Majesty would have
asked, would have endured no such ex-
clusion nor would have deemed them
selves in the least degraded by such
society; and we greatly mistake if, be-
fore the voyage terminated, the mod
esty, intelligence. purity, and dignity
of Frederick Douglass would not, in
their estimation, have commanded for
him preference amounting to personal
esteem. 1t has been our privilege to
know portion of the citizens of the
United States, and among them some
first-class men, but never did we meet
with one personally more agreeable,
and certainly with none so specially en-
riched and adorned by the attributes of
moral and intellectual greatness; and
while giant in power, he was in spirit
a child. and apparently quite uncon-
scious of his endowments. On these
grounds, therefore, if the American por-
ton of the saloon company" could not
associate with him, so be it-but let
the less give place to the greater; let
them retire from the saloon, give up
their berths, and take their meals
alone"
We remember case strikingly anal
agous told in our hearing by our friend
of beloved and imperishable memory,
William Knibb. Mr.. Knibb stated
that once when ON board an English
ship having gentleman Of color in the
company they were joined at the is
land of st. Thomas by an American of
the true color-hating race, who at
once clothed himself with airs of re-
publican Importance, clustering and
staggering to and fro ON the quarter
deck and protesting that never should
he degrade himself by sitting at table
with 'such fellow" Mr.. Kni5b, on
ascertaining the facts, apprised the
captain, who, with spirit of an Eng.
| lishman, said never mind. Well
settle that You have him seated be-
tween you and me and we shall see. -
The dinner hour arrived, and there
was the man of color between the cap
tain and the missionary. The Ameri
can appeared and fiercely protested
against his presence, declaring that he
should leave the table or he would
have his meals on deck. The captain
calmly answered, "As you please about
remaining; but if you will not come tc
your meals your meals shall not 90 tc
you" The result was hunger, which
tames the lion, brought the Yankee to
his senses; after holding out little he
quietly submitted, and, so far as we
know, without any calamity or dete.
rioration to his physical nature.
One word as to the origin of this
fell hate. Among the multitude Of
profundities which distinguish the
pages of Tacitus there is not one more
sagacious or pertinent to the present
case than his declaration, that "Mer
hate those whom they have injured. )
This is the utmost stretch of philoso
ply upon the point-it reaches the bot
tom at once.
The quenchless hatred of the Ameri
can whites to the man of color is
founded solely in their boundless in
Juries toward him. The fires of theil
pandemonian enmity are constantly
fed by the remembered cruelties they
have perpetrated and do still perpetratt
ON 3,OO0,0 900 of men. Walking in Sc
fierce an atmosphere of crime the heart
OF evlldoers are reduced to an alterna
tive-they must either burn agains,
themselves or their victims To al
low that the slaves are men is to con
fess themselves criminals of the deep
est dye. So long, therefore as wrons
lasts hate will last; to destroy the en-
nifty slavery must be abolished.
This is the proper place to record an
other instance of infamous trucklins
to this Ubiquitous spirit. The volum,
of lectures delivered by the late Johl
Foster at Broadmead Chapel, Bristol
and recently published among our
selves, has been republished in Amer