The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-01

Col Thomas W. Higginson recalls nav
 ing seen colored persons put out oI the
 local stages between Boston and cam
 Charles Sumner relates that he walked inc deck of one of ''the Sound" boats to New York with his friend, frederlck Douglass, because Douglass was exciuded from the first cabin. There were Jim Crow cars on all the railroads leading out of Boston in those days, and as late as 1S5T-6S a negro could not rloe m the public stages. nor in the ordinary railway cars; nor, however wealthy, could ne sit in the boxes or in the pit of the theater. If ne desired to go to church he hau 10 worship with people of his own color. When Thackeray visited America he saw negroes turned out of the first-class ears, and Hepworth Dixon in 1867. in Ohio. found that negroes paying the same fare as he did were obliged to rae Tn separate pen of most filthy description. Nearly all the New England churches be- fore the civil war had negro" pew placed in the church gallery, and some times on the walls above the galleries. De Tocqueville, in 1850, wrote that the race prejudice was nowhere so intolerant as in those States where slavery had never been known.
 While the political status of the negro | has improved in New England, his so- | cial status has not improved, and color | prejudice is today more pronounced there | than in the South. Intelligent negroes | who were treated as personal friends by l Sumner and Wilson confess that the so- i cial ostracsm of the negro not only has | not declined at the North, but has in | creased. MT. Stetsons conclusion Is that l today in New England the negro Is not wanted as d neighbor, or club member, | or church member. or guest at the hotel | or in places of amusement, or as Tel ! low workman, or student, or as GOV 1 ernment official, by his white brother. l The Atlanta University (colored) reports
 that "a large percentage Of lV0 coloreo fa aroiIi i1 Ta nhrid doa hpPn | refused work because they were colored;
 a number also said that they were unable | to follow their trades for the same req
 son. Zion's Herald. the Methodist or | gam in Boston. In August, 1896. said that | ''Bdston las no room for the negro cx-
 cept in the places the white men do not | want; she loye3 to educate him-loves 10
 put diploma in hls hang; 1s put o,Nr w.'n nne It | is drawn silently and courteously, but | positively and vigorously. The senior | Bishop of the African Methodist Episco- | pal Church, when he visited Boston a 1 few years ago could find no vacant rooms at any of the leading hotels; the
 landlords dii not dare violate the law, but simply evaded it by a~falsehood.
 | In New York State today negroes are
 schools at every opportunity, and are | obliged to appeal to the law to obtain | entrance for their children to other than
 a colored school. The same trouble has
 confronted the negro in Ohio, Illinois and
 other States of the Middle West. In 1 Connecticut the negro was disfranchisad until 1876 There are other facts not
 cited by MT. Stetson. In Vermont in
 1S44, 6 State in which slavery never ex- | isted the Rev. Samuel J. May, Unita-
 rain minister. of fine abilities and cul-
 ture, was mobbed by both Wings and Democrats in three of the leading towns 1 in the State for attempting to deliver an
 anti-savery address, When Phillips 1 Brooks, the famous pulpit orator of the
 Episcopal Church, preached in Philadel-
 phia during the civil war he found ne 1 groes excluded from the horsecars. The police of New Orleans did not exhibit 1 any more insensate race hate during the negro riots than did the Tammany police l of New York City. These facts illustrate
 that race prejudice and discrimination
 against the negro exists still in New Eng 1 land and elsewhere at the North, where
 the negro is not much in evidence in the
 population or politics. If this is so, we 1 need not wonder that the racial problem
 is far more disturbing at the South,
 where the negroes are neither few nor
 far between. The question calls for jul
 dicial and sympathetic rather than sec l tional treatment on the part of the
 North, which is still greatly dominated
 by racial prejudice.