Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-23
Vermont One of the Negroes Lost
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Our Northern friends do love the
colored brother-when he is thous-
and miles away: aud they do love 10
continually preach to the South the
beauty of blacks and whites dwell
ing together in unity and brother
hood From the time OF Uncle Tom
Cabin down to the Booker Washing
ton soiree they have besought the
nation to take the prosecuted blacks
to its broad bosom and TO punish the
wicked whites who put the poor me-
gro into Jim Crow" cars, and viii
not eat at the same table with him
and refuse TO allow him 10 run the
Government This is their favorite
subject OF philanthropy, denuneiation,
ACCOMPLISHMENT. advice and tears; and,
as they know so little shout it, and
Il touches them in no vital particu-
lar. they can indulge in unlimited hys-
terics.
But when they begin to come In
contact with the negro they quickly
change their tune. II grieyes the OBJ
server TO note that the most implac-
able negro -haters are the Northern
ers who have gone South to live and
who regard the faultless negro as ig-
norant, shiftless and generally unbear-
able. And it is somewhat the same
way when the cOlored man goes North
Before the Civil War Burlington,
Vt, was one of the strongholds of alb
clifton sentiment. and since that time
II has been one OF the centers of adj
vice to the South as to how to deal
with the negro problem. 1t was shock
ed when the dear colored troops were
prosecuted at Brownsville. Texas,
where the white people rudely OBJ
jected TO the negro soldiers shooting
their wives and children and burning
the homes OF the whites. il there
was any post outside of Boston. Mass,
where the negro was loved. you would
think IL would be Burlington. VI So
President Taft orders the negro regi-
ment. the Tenth Cavalry, to Fort
Ethan Allan. the army post near Bur
lington. You would have thought the
1900 black troopers. who were the
fellows OF the Brownsville martyrs.
would have been received with open
arms. You would have thought the
bands would have met them at the
station: the leading citizens have de-
livered addresses of welcome, and
every home would be thrown open to
the conquering heroes.
But. to our panied surprise. the Yer
monters have acted very much as
Gecrgi2ns or Texans would have acted
under the same conditions. White
residents have refused to eat in res
tauraEts where the negro troopers
are served White patrons OF the
trolley cars have demanded that the
negroes be put in separate cars very
like unto the Jim Crow" variety that
is so popular in the benighted South.
This is the first time the cclored
troops have been stationed in New
Englsnd. the sec,icn which is the pa
iron OF the negro. his self-constituted
gurdIan and next friend, How does
New England like IL?
The Burlington Free Press. a very
conservative newspaper, says:
IF the Government officials. after
their trouble with Brownsville and
other posts. thought the extreme
North would make no objection TO
the presence Of so large a body OF
negroes. they were In error A South
ern town could hardly be more up in
arms than this city and winOoski are
today
Can we believe that the pare and
altogether righteous people OF New
England have the same passions and
prejudices as the reDrehensibie and
sinful residents Ct the benightec
SOUTH Can they be losing their in
tense love for the martyr ncgrc7 Per-
haps. after all. President TAFT would
do well 10 take no more chances. but
send the three regiments Of colored
s0ldieTs direct 20 Boston. where they
would be certain 20 be greeted as
prosecuted brothers. and any one who
dared 20 interfere with such pleasant
little pastimes a. getting drunk and
shooting up the town would be arrest
Cd and properly punished Baltimore
sun.