Year: 1867

are byn no means always pleasant. He
is absolutely forced, as an exponent of
public opinion and conservator of pub
lie morals, to come in contact with
loathsome questions. He cannot, in
justice to the cause he may espouse, al
ways always walk around rather than
fight the skunks in his road, as did the
lion in the fable. At no time since the
incention of our editorial duties have
we felt more forcibly the truth Of what
we have just uttered. 1t has been our
favorite intention to ever maintain the
Home Journal above any resort to Ill
Aeness in its conduct as political or
gan, and we intend to hold fast to this
aaass we have checked out. But how
many newspapers there are which, in
defending bad cause, resort to little,
scurrVe lodges in order to make
capital for their party, and thus force
upon their opponents disagreeable du
ty. Here is an instance: The Press
and Times at Nashville, not long since,
clamored that no distinction should be
made between white and colorcd pas
sengcrs in the cars-that all should
ride together-taking 1t for granted,
we. suppose, that the negro had no
pride, and desired to mix with white
people, whether the whites desired
their company or not.


Now, if the coaches are all alike, so
far as comforts and luxuries are con-
cerned, where is the. exclusive privi-
lege, if one be called the colored peo-
pies car, and the other the white peo-
pies carr Why, does not every one
know that better cars are arranged for
ladies', and those who have ladies in
charge, than are arranged for the men !?
We have often been refused admission
to the ladies' car, and thought nothing
of it. Is the difference between q White
man and white wonsan less than be
tween white man and black man !?
Just see TO what petty, abominablc re-
suits party will carry. Trace Radi-
calsm to its consequences, and there
will be things repulsive alike to white
and black. The negro, with his limi'
ted ideas, must see that social equality
can never exist between his race and
the white, and all such Stug' from the
Radicals is only for the mean purpose
of sustaining themselves in power. Not
one of them is as good friend to the ne
gro as the man who is willing to accord
all political rights he possesses himself,
while, at the same time, he holds him.
self above the hypocrisy Of advocating
social comminglings against the plain
" written will of Heaven, which causes
"birds of a feather to flock together"


But it is true that Radicalism, carried
out, will invade everything. 1t will
dictate in matters exclusively personal,
enter the parlor, sit at the table, and
pollute the sanctity of household gods.
If the Radicals were in earnest-but
they are not. They do not mean what
they profess, but would create that i'm
preston for the sake of party success.
Our railroad companies are, however,
in many instances, meeting the issue
fairly, and, we hope, satisfactorily to
both black and white. The manage
ment of the Georgia State road, the
Western and Atlantic, in view Of the
civil rights bill and its requirements,
have some time since abolished the half
fare that long prevailed for colored
travellers over the road. They are now
fitting up all their passenger coaches
alike, SO that there may be no CON-
plant that there is a discrimination in
accommodations to passengers.