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6 ----- -- t , - """ ?. " ". : " , ' ' y ' - - "? " ". " " - ' v - ; ;..-.,. ' .v t- . !....- ?' - ' - 4& ' - " . . ' 1 '4T '4 7 , i r 1-4- TEE ' WILMINGTON POST. . W. CANADAY, Proprietor. WILMINGTON. NIC, , , SUNDAY MoBNIXG, MAY 5 29, 168 1. Somebody baa denied that Farragut j was lashed o the mast-head at MoDiie. Quartermaster itonwles of Annapolis offers- to make oath that he UeiUhe Ad miral with his own hands. AT LOaQBRJSADS. The Eer. William S. Bynum, Rector, or whatever his ecclesiastical rank is, 0f the ' Protestant Episcopal Church of Winston," the-Vestry .of which Church recently sent seven white men and one negro to the Episcopal Diocesan Con vention at Raleigh, has written a letter,! which appears in the News and Observer calculated to cause not a little discus sion in ecclesiastical circle?. The letter : originally appeared j in tKThe Church. Mesicnykr" published at Winston. That the Rer Mr. Bynum stoutly defends this proceeding is evident from the fol lowing extracts from is observations, printed In the Messcnyr: i I The selection of seven white men and one negro was the result. The action was unanimous. It contravenes neither letter nor spirit of any law in this dio cese; It is in the strictest consonance with Church teaching! and the very 'genius ot chrtianity. This really ought to satisfy churchmen. , ;': 'l He says the colored man himself ''sought no recognition," - and that the ' compositionjof the Vestry, is: j -3. Two Democratic editors, a leading lawyer, a trusted railroad officer, a com petent druggist and a gentleman at one time widely known to North CaroKia merchants. These constitute the offend ing Vestry. ; Are they not as competent to represent real North Carolina senti ment as yourself ? 1 ilr. Bynum closes his reply to j the " Church MeMcnrjcr's" article as follows: G. A few words further. It is af fact that negro ministers and negro dele gates have sat in our; conventions for years; it is a fact that at our general conventions Negro Clergy and a Negro Bishop are placed without question on an equal footing with all others; it is a fact that but a few weeks ago ministers of "all sorts and conditions" here sent down a negro preacher as our repre-sentative-in the prohibition convention at Raleigh. That act seemed to do in accord with public opinion. Now, to criticise "the Protestant Episcopal Church at Winston" for doing the likej bile minding its own business, is ! pe culiarly unfortunate. On the one hand it looks like an attempt to? dwarf the - Church (Which" is Christ's gospel visibly organized) into a sort of aristocracy of the vicinage; and, on; the other hand, it clearly conveys, the impression that ' a man held good enough to sit among .... the congregation at Winston lor years is not fit to take his place in a bigger - building and a more distinguished com pany of the faithful elsewhere. Under the circumstances i the delegate will " ' probably shrink lrom attendance; but " Lis minister and friend .will certainly invoke the judgment of the convention ' ; W-M. S. Bykcji. Tho, Nai$ and? (Jbsctvif copies Mr. Bynum's letter and presents, in its com ments' on it, what might be considered a "knock-down argument" against the assumptions of the Reverend gentle s', man, as follows; '!".' ' . j. We view, the matter from the stand point of a good citizen of the common wealth, and can foresee only harm to come from pursuing the course which Mr. Bynum commends. That, Mr. Bynum disagrees with our views is to , be regretted. The residents of the - southern states have the gravest problem ever ' committed to a people to j work . out,and in our judgment that problem r will find its best solution by preserving an impassable barrier between the s races. All legal barriers are now thrown ' down and tho, only protection left against breeding a mongrel race - of mulattoes is raco prejudice..- Obliterate that prejudice and establish a perfect equality between the races and there will remain no sentiment debarring in termarriage. Whatever tends, then, to destroy; caste and race prejudice only serves to hasten the stocking of this country with mulattoes. We bitterly antagonize every movement and every 'step tendiug to such 'a' calamitous re sult;:. r, ' l ' ! .- The Creator established and ordered these differences between his creatures, lie who professes obedience to the will of the Creator, and yet refuses to recog nize these differences is glaringly in consistent, to say the very least of it. In effect he passes' judgment on the work of the Creator and pronounces it wrong. ' Now it must not be under stood that we oppose the adoption of an y measure of church or state calculated to promote the welfare or happiness of the negroes.. We oppose only such matters aa tend to obliterate race dis tinctions. ;v-' .;! : j jU against the i forrptrwt mode of reasoning of the lion. Samuel A. Ashe, the i manager of the 06rrrer, and th ethical and canonical platitudes of the liev. W. S. Bynum, it is our opinion that the average North Carolinian would take sides wilb the latter, : The precedents are la favor of Mr. By nam's theories, as proved by the late Prohi bition Convention, where, so far as the maid sex was concerned Mr. By cam's principles were carried to the suoet ua Imltcd cxient. It U not to any extent our fig&t, nor do we participate in thcae portentous prcsuosUcaUoos of Mr. AsH as to the "calamiteus rtsult,"of "stock las UiU cooventioa with mulattoes acd obUteraUcg ,r dwUoctioa, so thai tbcro wtll remain no tentieest debarring intemarrlxgv, bkwtca tie net. Ut. Jatils Md tttcrU gtnle men of tie tUte ! more eminent tbia Mr. Asbe, arrtf J to join hand acd glwe vUh MeulxUa' acd obliterate rat d&Ifictio&V at the votlnj ajaiast tbt free lusa crowd, i i - . THE COLOB LINE. K. ! Few evils are lela, accessible to the force of reason, oc more tenacious of life and power, than a long-standing prejudice. It is a moral disorder, which creates the conditions necessary to its own existence, and fortifies ' itself by refusing all contradiction. t paints a hateful picture according to its own diseased imagination, and distorts the features of the fancied original to ' suit the portrait. As Ihoe who believe in the .visibility of ghosts can easily see them, bo It-is always easy toUte repul sive qualities in tho8d we despjse and hate.i ' 1 '. ! i - Prejudice of race has at some time in theirihistory afflicted all nations. "I am more' holy than thou" is! the boast of races, as well as that of the Pharisee, Long after the Norman invasion and the decline of Norman power, long after the sturdy Saxon 'had shaken off xi J . - e t: : i .2 :'. 1 kiiO UUBL vX HIS, DUIDIDSllOU 1UU , WHS grandly asserting his great qualities in all directions, the descendants of the invaders; continued to regard their Saxon brothers as made of coarser clay than themselves, and were: not well pleased when one of the former subject race came between the sun I and their nobilitvJ Having seen the Saxon menial, a hostler, and a common drudge, , 1 oppressed and dejected for centuries, it was easy to invest him witb all sorts of odious peculiarities, and to deny him all! manly predicates. .Thongh i eight hundred years have passed away since Norman power entered England, and the Saxon has for centuries been giving his learning, his-: literature, his lan guage, and his laws to the, world more successfully than any other people on the . globe, men in that country still boast their Norman oriin and Norman perfections. This su perstition of former greatness serves to fill out the shriveled Bides of a meaningless race-pride which holds over after its power has vanished. With a very different lesson from the one this paper is designed to impress, the great Daniel Webster once told the people of Massachusetts, (whose preju dices in the particular instance referred to were right) that they "had conquered the sea. and had conauered the land." but that "it remained for them to con quer, their prejudices;" , At one "time we are told that the people in some of the towns of larkshire cherished prejudice so strong and violent against strangers and foreigners that one who ventured to pass through their streets would be pelted with stones. Of all the races and varieties of men which have suffered from this feeling. the colored people of this country have endured most. 'They can resort to no disguiiies which will . enable them ; to escape its deadly aim. They carry in front the evidence which marks them for persecution. ' They stand at the ex treme point of diflerence from the Cau c?sian race, and their African can be instantly recognized, though they may be several removes from, the typical African race. - "They ; may re monstrate like Shylock "Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew handsor gans, dimensions,- senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the sanre weapons, subject to the same 1 diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same 4 summer and winter, as a Ubristian is! ' but such eloquence is una vailing. They are negroes and that is enough, in the eye of this unreasoning prejudice, to justify indignity and violence. In nearly .every department of American life they are confronted by this insidi- .muvo. una liic aa. - a iuscu them at the workshop and factory, when they apply for work. It meets them at the church, at the hotel, at the ballot box, and worst of all, it meets them in the jury-box. ; Without crime er offense against law or gospel, the colored man is the Jean Valjean of American society. He ha escaped from the galleys, and hence all presumptions are against him. The workshop denies him work, and the inn denies him shelter; the ballot- box a fair vote, and the iurv-box a fair trial J He has ceased to be the slave of an individual, bat has in some sense become the slave of society. He may not now be bought and sold like a beast in the market, but he is the trammeled victim of a prejudice, well calculated to repress his manly ambition, paralyze his energies, and make him a detected and spiritless man, "if not a sullen ene my to society, tit to prey upon life and property and to make trouble generally. When this evil spirit is judge, jury, and prosecutor, nothing less than over whelming evidence is sufficient to over come the force of unfavorable presump tions. '. : .;. i: ;.; Everything against the berson with the hated color is promptly! taken for eranted; while everything in his favdr is received with suspicion and doubt. A boy of this color is found in his bed tied, mutilated, and bleeding, when forthwith all ordinary experience is set aside, and he is presumed to have been guilty of the outrage upon himself; weeks and months he is keot on trial for the offense, and every effort is made to entangle the poor fellow in the con futed meshes of expert testimony (the least trustworthy of all evidence). This same spirit, wmcn promptly assumes everything against ua, just as readily denies or explains away everything in our favor. We are not, as a race, even permitted to appropriate the I virtues and achievements of our individual representatives. Manliness, capacity, learning, laudable ambition, heroic ser vice, by any of our namber, are easily placed, td the credit of the superior race. One drop of Teutonic blood is enough to account for all good and great qualities occasionally coapkd with a colored skin; and oa the other hand, one drop of negro Moodj though inlhe veins of a man of Ti u tonic big ness, is enough of whkU to predicate jail offensive and icsobie qualities. la presence of this spirit, if a crime is com mitted, and the criminal m not posi tively known, a auspidoiu-tokiqr col ored man i tare to hare been seen in the neighborhood. If an vaarmed col ored aaaa U shot dowa aaJ is hi J1! influence of uu spirit, ooes not hesitate to lad the murdered man the real criminal, and Uie mjudertt inaoceau u j Now Ut ca examine Uua aubject a little more doseir. Jtk ciaiaa4 tVat this wond er-wor Liag prrjadk--iius moral mxgic that can change virtse la to. vice, and ianocence to crime; which mxkrs the dead aaaa the saarderrr, ad heids the Unas hosaiciie hsnalets it a wUsral isauacti re, &a4 Utiacih! attribate U the white race, and one that cannot W eradkated; tlat even ero!sti itself caaaM earrr w keroad er above iu Alas far thia poor asTw ut veeia (aw sasr-ftrue ex are colored), if this claim be true f In tbatr case men 'are forever doomri. to injustice, of pression, hate, and strife; and the religious sentiment of i the world, with its grand idea of h' nari brotherhood,: its "peace on earth and good-will to men and its golden-rulej must be voted a. dream, a delusion, and llqp i a snare. ' i . Jtics nol liut is this color prejudice tbn natu ral and inevitable thine It. claims. to be ? If it is so. then it is utterly f idle to write, against it, preach, pray or legislate . against it, or pass constitu tional amendments against it. Mature will have her course, and one might as well preach and pray to a horse against running, to a fish against swimming. or to a bird against i flringi . Fortu nately,' however, there k good grquad for calling in question this high pre tension of a vulgar and wicked prepos session.: ; "vi- v- If I could talk with all my white fellow-countrymen on this subject, I would say to them, in the language of Scripture; "Come "and let us reason together-." Now, without being too elementary and formal, it may be stated here that there are at least seven points Which candid men will be likely to ad mit, but which, if admitted, will prove fatal to the popular thought and prac- uto ui me limes. . ; ... First. If what we call; prejudice agaiDst color be natural, . c, a part of human nature itself, it follows that it must be co-extensive with human na-1 ture. and will and must manifest itself I whenever and wherever the two races are brought into contact. It would not vary with either latitude, longitude, or altitude; but like fire and gunpowder, whene ver brought together, there would be an explosion of contempt, aversion, and hatred. . .. :i Secondly. If it can be shown that there is an y where on the globe any considerable country where the contact ot the African and the Caucasian is not distinguished by this explosion of raceV wrath, there is reason to doubt that the prejudice is an ineradicable part of human nature. .. Tliirdly. If this so-called, natural, instinctive prejudice cab be satislac torily accounted for by facts and con siderations wholly apart from the color features of the respective races, thus placing it among the things subject to human volition and control, we1 may venture to deny the claim: Bet upfor it in the name of human nature. 'Fourthly. If any considerable num ber of white people have overcome this prejudice in themselves, have cast it out as an unworthy sentimeutand have survived the operation, the.facV shows that this prejudice is nol at any rale a Tital part of human nature, and may be-eliminated fromHhq race without harm. . " ;. ' ; .- - -- t t a . r " i i - ia r. lujcniy. XI tuis prfjuaice suan, auer all, prove to be, in its essence and in its natural manifestation, simply a preju dice against condition, and not against race or Color, and that.it disappears when this or that condition is absent, then the argument drawn from the na ture of the Caucasian race falls to; the ground." ; - - ;' 1 ; Sixthly prejudice of race and color is only natural in the sense that ignorance, (superstition,, bigotry, and. vice, are natural, then it has no better defense than they, and should, be de spised and put away from human rela tions as an enemy to the peace, good order, and happiness of human society. Seventhly. If, still further, this avert son to the nefero arises out of-th,pt tnat he is as we see niiu poor, spirit less, ignorant, and degraded, then what ever is humane, noble, and superior, in At - I .1 ' 5 . me luiuu vi ue superior , ana more fortunate race, will desire that all arbi trary bairriers against his manhood, in telligence, and elevation shall be re moved, and a fair chance in tho race ot life b given him, . v The first of these propositions does not rcqtaire .discussion. It commends itself td the understanding at once.! Natural qualities are common and uni versal, knd do not change essentially! on the Mountain or in the valley, I. come therefore to the second point the existence of countries where this malignant prejudice, as we know it in America, does not prevail; where char-j acter, riot color, is the passport to con4 sideralibo; where the right of the black man to: be a man, and a man among men, isj;not questioned;., where he may withouf offinsc, even presume to be a gentleman. That there are such coun tries iolthe' world there is ample evil dence. Intelligent and observing travj elers, having tio theory to support, men whose I testimony would be receive withoui question in respect to any otjer matterj and should not bequestioned in thi tell us that tbey find no color prejudice in Europe, except among Americans who reside there. In Enrv land and on the Continent, the colored,' maa is nu more an oi'jecv oi nate man any other persons lie mingles with the multitude ; unquestioned, without offense given or received. During the two years which the writer spent abroad, though he was much in society, and was sometimes in tbe company of lords and ladies, he docs not remember one word, 4ook, or gesture that indicated the slightest avcrsionfto him do account of color. His experience was not to this respect exceptional or singular. Messrs. llemond, Ward, Garnet, lirown, lVnniegton, Crummell, acd Bruce, ail or them colored, and some of them blackj bear the same ' teslimooy. If what Uiese gentlemen say (and it can be corroborated by a thousand wit nesses) is true there is no prejudice against color in England, save as it carried there by Americans carried there fs a mora) disease from an in fectedl country, t U American, not rirttpcao: local, not crsiral; limited. net uaiversal,aod:mou be ascribed to .if .r -. . . . r aniiiai cvouiiwo?, aaa not u tj fixed jend universal Uv of natorrll j The third poictU: Can this irrfa- dice Against color, as it is called, be ac- countea for by urcsmsUaces outside and jiadepadeat of race coliM? It ; it can be tbaa explaised, aa iacohut soar be reaaoTtd . trosn the brrasu of butb tbe white and tbe black pcepla of this coantry, as well as from that larre la termediate popnUtioa which has spraag Bp between these irrrcosciUbV ex tresBea. It will bet us u e thai It ts tx utct ssary that tbe lhiopUa shall rhanje bis akin, nor atrdhil tbat tbe jiU mxa aball cbarg the eesea Ual cleaeaU Ite cat are, la r(tt tbal mutxil respect aaJ coacrji;a saiy ih; bet vera tie twa rxcrt. ; yi- ' 2tm it i ey U tx'ila tbe coadl. tkesuUeefncecircwfroaswakb teay fftis: freUti alia U tboto kkb CAU pfrjttlict. A BAa WUbOCt tl abUiij or dsspoaiOosi U pay ajasi 4tt does sot feel r esfen the presence of 3eet him oa ihe st or i a me mar ting" makes him ould -athsrfiad in r f the debt. ket lace ' Sh unt arforUbi&P He fau ? with? tbjjlilij i by auu me creator ui self vJl soon de- in thelyesi the debtor quali- not altosraher tThis taste. Some one bis weMsaid. we may easi ly forgive ih4 irhinjure na, but it is aara to lorgtfaf tnce? wnom vre injure. IJieteates iniujvlhia-id oi death, which one htimaQing can inflict on another (Js 'ml ensile Mm, to blot out his personality, decade his manhood, and to sink jjkim tthe condition of a bean burden; adjust this has been d ue here' nireUjn two centuries. No oiherpeoeu,spBreaven, of what ever tvoe oendo3aents. could have been so enaved Without falling into contempt wki, torn on the part of those enslatln g Wsm. Their slavery would itself "WamrS then with edions features, ang giviheir oppressors ar gument bropprOsion. Besides the long years If I wrofi and injury inflict ed upon the? icoloolrace in, this coun try, and theS effect f these wrongs up on that irape', mcaily, intellectually, and physicly, cQrupting- their taor ala,darkeniig tbpr minds, and. twist iaz their fedies nnd limbs out ot all approach tiymnTijtry.therelhaa been a mountain goW-uncounted millions of dollararestiM upon them with crushing wight-Dunng all the years of their bciaage&he slave master had a'dfrect inrest iS discrediting the per- onalitT okthosets . held as nroDertv, jvery maa wno aa a inousana aouan so invested had thousand reasons for painting tie i bl(t man as fit only.for slavery. . i fEavinMmade him the com panion ofhorsesand mules, he natu rally sought to iistify himself - by as suming thkt tbenegro was not much better jtl&n a ule. The holders of twenty hteidredsmillion dollars' worth of properdin hitojan chattels procured the meal of pfluencing the press, pulpit ai poSticiaua, and through these intumeitalities they belittled our virtues! an magnified our vices, T . .2?. .-'Mf-it'- and havlsmadl us odious in the eyes of the wgtfd., jfja'very had the power at one tiAfe to ke and unmake Pres idents, ueon?tOe the law, dictate the policy, eiu the shion in the national manners! and Customs, interpret the Bible' ol the church; and. natural! , the old masters set themsel much too nigh as they set low. ; Q hood of the negro too s depths of slavery has come top! prejudice and this color line. It is brofd eotjigh and black enough to e'xpla'n alhe malign influences which jfssaille newly emancipated millions? to dS; la reply to this ar argument, it wyl perhaps be said that the neVp hano slavery to contend with, anil thatjaving been free during the last 's xteeMyears, he1 ought by this time to kave contradicted the degrading qualitie wh?1 slavery formerly as cribed ii himS Alt very trife as to the letter, tt utQSly false as to the spirit. SlaveryHa ined gone, but its shadow Btill lingers ojyr the country and pois ons mote or the moral atmosphere of all Ifectiop of the Republic. The moneyQoti for assailing the negro which JslaveJv represented is indeed absent.'.but- nve of power and aomin- ion, atigth irrespfaiiblei ower still remains. Halfagnci shown how slavery cre ated ana bus ed this prejudice aeainst race aiidL coaS- ihe powerful mo tive its creation, the - other four poihtsJbaadeaiBst it need not be dis cussed in detail and at length, but may only M referred to in a general way. If wat is pilled instinctive aversion of thfwhitegace for the colored, when analysed, is en to be tbe same as that whichi 'menfeel . or have felt toward other'objectlwhoHy apart from color; if it should fk the same as that some times; jut hib&d by the haughty and rich to ihe,mble and poor, the ame as th:Jjrahrn feels toward the lower astef the safe as the Norman felt to wardttbe Saon, the same as that cher ished ' by UQ Turk against the ChrU tiap. ile saM as C&ristiaos bare felt towarjf : Je the same as that which mun&i a Christian in Wallachia, calls him4Vdo2 in CoDsntinople, op press drsecutes Jew. in .Berlin, hunt4Mt;wa socialist jn St. Peters burgf3te Hebrew fr.m a hotel in vxlhat scorns che Irishman S-m. ...... r.h.i;n,. rigestants, the name' as that ttjj, abuses, and cms tre aeon the i'acmc slope then ww affirm that this prejudice hing whatever to do with race M $p$ and that it has its mo tive idlsMaiaspring ia ' some other souri co!criqoVe have nothing to dn. ome very wen informed and Itsryr readnfihaS it mcutiag s pcupie via bare new said, and what just and jreasonable, and i lhafrthe color of the raething'to do with ' the ined toward him: that an naturally shudders at oujt of conuct with .one who at me impulse ts one which er resin nor control. - Let conclusion is a sonad one. its ossouad wbea it Droves -ifeir 10a mueh, qr when U If calor is an offense, reiy apart irom uae aaan- elopes. t There asast be color of haelf to kindle nme bate, and reader tbe nerally uacossforuble. If tbe an were really so conatita r were, in itself; a torment, ted. I? grana eu enrtn - or oars place Uc Bias. Colored obiefe t aiai aere ax s i pouta or . I t r . . ttefem , asimtaMTtftEaM abo4ger time be seea aaytbUg ban lile Ursa w darfb thins i lla waBtdtmBiM a mU.. less lX'to live ia -a world erbcra I9 d (aods abomU all be wbeee tiveea. Jakea. andMabenia all be mkbr. and coaOaMta shooJi ha Wbi vre ail tbe men, and wastes. all He f ef tbt aca.aa. tbe tirda cf tbe catus epos s tboes. anJ-iiUaboald be wkitr; wbctw tbe banTire aa4 tbe rrta baneatb abotl t : abUe. and w here dar aaJ lx4SSU Wl be iiiUtd by Urbt w Wtiyia, san taa vena asostu ee rm wf lijbv Is ascb a Ji.1 ivy by tbe iabal wJi y eUTwvalUsj wbiis. td cS2tr fenou Iheuiai of C m win mitmmi negrpiaio feeteg egrta the Mly the f ts om& sAfie mo ?oa elSoM wesJij, i'aairaame utal tbt OfrrVW aJM UmtzZLs la the abstract, there is no prejudice against color. No man shrinks from another because he is clothed in a suit of black, nor offended with, bis boots because i they are blact. We are tola those who have resided ti ere that . . . m , . .1 !L a wmie eoan in Africa comes w fcuiu. that ebony is about the proper color for man. Good old Thomas V nitson a noble old Quaker-andmanof ra- ther odd appearance used 'to say that j even ne ; would oe nandsome u ne i could change public opinion.; Aside from tht curious contrast to himself, the white child feels , nothing on the first sight of a colored man. Curiosity is the only feeling. The of fice of color in the color line i3 a very plain and subordinate one. It s'.mply advertises the object of oppression, in sult, and ; persecution. . It is not the maddening liquor, but the black letters on the sign telling the world . where it it may be had. It ia not -the hated Quaker, but the broad brim and the E lain coat. It is not the hateful Cain, ut the mark by which he is known, The color is innocent1 enough but things with which it is couplet make it hated. Slavery, ignorance, stupdity, servility, poverty, dependence, are un desirable conditions. When these shall cease to be coupled with color, there will be no color line drawn. It may hel p in this direction to observe a few of the inconsistencies of the color line ot mconsist feeling,, for it is neither uniform in its operations no consistent in: its princi ples. Its contradictions in the latter respect would be amusing if the feeling itself were not so daserviog ot unqual ified abhorrence. Our California broth ers, of Hibernian descent, hate tbe Chinaman, and kill him, and , when asked why they do so, their - answer is that a Chinaman is so industrious he will do . all the work, and can live by wages upon, which' other people would starve. : When the same ; people and others are asked , why they bate the col ored people, the ! answer is that they are indolent and wasteful; and cannot take care of themselves. Statesmen of the south will tell you that the negro is too ignorant and stupid properly to exercise the elective franchise, and yet his greatest offense is that hd acts with the only party intelligent ' enough in the eyes of the nation to legislate for tbe country, ; In one breath they tell os that the negro is so weak in Intel lect, knd so destitute of manhbod, that he is but top men, and yet in another. -they will vir- tually tell jou that the negro is so clear in his moral percepliona, so firm in purpose, so steadfast in his convictions that he cannot be persuaded by argu ments or ; intimidaied ' by threats, and that nothing but the shot gun can re strain him from voting for the men and measures 'he approves. ; Tbey shrink back in horror from contact with the negro as a man and a gentle man, but like him very well as a bar ber, waiter, coaxnman or cook, as a slave.he could 'ride anywhere, side by with his white '.master, but as a free man he must be thrust into the smo king car. As a slave he could go into the first cabin; as a freeman he was not allowed abaft the wheel. Formerly it was said he was incapable of learning, and at the same time it was a crime against, the state for any man to teach him to read. To day he is said to be originally and permanently inferior to the white race, and yet wild apprehen sions are expressed lest six millions of this inferior race will somehow or oth er managobto rule over thirty-five mil lions of the siipcrior rac?. If incon sistency can prove the hollowness of anything, certainly the emptiness of JLhis pretense that color has any terrors is'eaaily shown. The trouble is that most men, and especially mean men, want to have j something' under them. The rich man would have the poor man, the white Would have the black, the Irish would have the negro, and the negro must have a dog, if he can get nothing . higher in the scale of in telligenca to dominate.. This feeling is one of the vanities which enlighten ment will dispel. A good but biudIc- minded Abolitionist said to me that he waa not aihamed to walk down Broad- Wsj arm-in-arm, n open daylight, and evidently thought he was saying some? thing that must be very pleasing to my self-importance, but it occurred to me, at . the moment, j this man '.does not dream of any reason why 1 1 might Be ashamed to walk arm-in-arm, with him through Broadway in open daylight. Biding in a stage-coach from Concord, New Hampshire, tolYergennes, Ver mont, mjtny years ago, I found myself on very pleasant terms with all the pas sengers through the night, but tbe morning light came to me as it comes to tbe surs; I was as Dr. Beecher says he was at the first fire be,witoeaed, when a bucket of cold - water was poured down bis back "the fire was not put oat. but be was." The fact is, 'the higher a colored man rises in tbe scalp of society, the less prejudice docs be meet. . .. The writer has met and mingled freely with the leadiog great men ; of bis lime at home and abroad, in pub lic halls and private brutes, oa tbe platformAod at e fireside and can remember po instance when among such mea.bas be been made to feel hisaself an object of aversion, at en wbo are really great are too great to be small. This was gloriously true of the late Abraham i.iocoln, William U. tfe ward, blaioQ J'. Chase. Ueary Wilsoo. John 1. JJale, Lewia Tappaa, EJmaad fialocy, Joaheall. Uidiiegv iemt bmitb and Charles Sumoer, and many others among the dead. Uaod taste will not permit aae now to speak of tbe living, except to iay that tbe number of these wbo rise aoperior to prejudice is great and iacrraiog. Let ujon wbo wiab to see; what Is to be tbe fata re of America, is reiaul to race a4 race rvtaiwos alUoJ, aU hart aUeaded, daring tbe adssiMftraiioa of IVeaident ifaj tbe ft eat diplomauc recrpiions at the circauve manto, aoi see tbert a I bare sees, In iu spWadii east room tbs wealtb, calare, rsflaameat and beaatyof Ue aatsoa eaabt4.as4 wttb it tb e4aat rrpmestaUve at otfcey satios--4be swarthy Tark eilb bis -x,-u CsgtiuiaMs sbUiag milk foid, tbe Otraua, tbe Frscbstsn, tbt tpAaiard, tbe Jajsaaaat, the Cbisa- t.esdwkb lUicr, a4 Ue ara 4 taovisr ftbot irwly, eacb re ptrtisg tbe nrbual dijalty of tbe or, ss4 e&Kf recesvuig r g?eif -TWa tH aa aay UA avasa u aaar Ai ai Taaa laay ttaus aara'iaat. ad vwia. ausa a t aatts. r umm p( l a ukasj - - a. aaaa.ta aY4 sr, aMdtmKsaaafcri. Fit? rates DuctAs. new advert:3e:iz:jts. Carolina :- Central Kail i , - road Company.; orrTCi5 gkn-i. SUPERINTENDENT l wujusotoh. N. C My. 24, lssu f ; j J irN and after M1Y SHh the followlc after MAY SUh tht followlof J Hchedule wlU Im opried oa this Ball- road; PASSENGER AND EXPRESS TRAIN. Dally except Sundays. r V Leave Wllmlnston- A M ( j Arrlre at Charlotte aU .C 15. Pit No.1 K r ' jArrtve at Wllmlntton at .45 P U Trr Ina No. 1 and 2. atop at renlar stations onlyand points designate In tin Oompav- KT'iTlmanhla. Theae trains make lo connection at Charlotte with train No. S and for Cleyo- laad Bprlag and all polnta on Bbelby Dl- vlsloa. T.'- ' PASSENUEft, MAIL AND FREIGHT. ' V Leav i Wllmlntton auZ-JWO P. No. 5. Arrtve at Hamlet iLm L38 A. I J H: Charlotte at ;10 A. ) Leave Charlotte it- JTiM P.M No. . Arrlre at Hamlet at 1: A. M 3 . vv umingtott tu wuv am No. 6 Train Is Dally exeept Sunday, bat no eonnactlon to Kaleirh on Baturdar. - . i No. S Train ia Dally axeant aalnrdav . : SHELBY DIVISION. PASSENOKB, MAIL. No. a. Leave Charlotte. 7:00 P. M j Arrive at saelby. ltttMP.if. No. X . CV. . V. 5:90 A. M Arrive at Charlotte ; Tral n Noa. 5 and S make close connection at Hamlet to and from Raleigh, except as above. -- V 'i . :- --; Through Bleeping Cars between Raleigh and Charlotte. i. - . i , Tralna No. 1 and make connection it Charlotta with A.T.SU 1C K.. arrlTing 4 BtatesTllte same CTalng, and connecting then with VV. N. C R. R. for Ashe vide and all potntaon W.N.C R. R. i t ; V.i-JOHNSON.; may 29 U -' General baperlatendentJ Wi!nlna:tiili Welion R. B. Company. -v, " .. M "' , , . "t-" OrXICK UXKXKAI.SlTPK'ai HTXKDRlfT I Wilmington, N. C.Nov. 27, !.. ; CHANQK OF 8CBXDULX. N and atter November 28tb. 1. at 15 J p. ni Ia8senger Trains on the W. , W. Kauroaa w:u ran aa rouows : DAY MAIL AND EXTREdS TRAIN Daily Nos. 47 .Northland 48 outh. Leave Wilmlanoa. Front Street- i Depot, at ... i ....... 6.40 A. II Arrive at Weldon at ......... ....1-I0 P. M Leave Weldon at .'. .. . . . ,.8:Q p. M Arrive at Wltminrton. Front Ht Depot at.........i.j ..9.1A P. M FAST TXIUOUGU MAIL AND PASJN- QER TRAINS, Dally No. U North and 41 Bouth. l- Loa ve WU mhir ton. Front MUecl I Depot at.... eeaaaaaps. Arrive stWeldm-.,.i....;.......-. l:liA M Leave Weldon-.'.... ....;. hi Arrive at wumtogtuii.Krunt Street ' 1 r Depot.. ,.i..lO:lf rM Train No. 40 North will stop only at llorky i-oin uurgaw, Mourn WataUinKioa, lU.IMt. Olive. Uol.Uboro. WlUon, i-uiat, cnneiu sua uiuui. 4:- ITraln No. 40 pwith wlU stop only at Rocky Moaot, Wilson, lioldkhorpj Magnolia.' -.) ;1 and NIGHT r AVENGER, MAIL AND EXrilESS Tral js, Daily Noa 43i i North and 4J South. Leave WUmlngtoa, Front Direct I Depot, ' : i i n 4. IS P. M. Arrive at Weldoa at..... 4. IS AM Leave W.ldoa dally, at.......... 1 A3 A M Arrive at Wilmington, Front Blreet . Depot, at , I ......Jt.y) A. M Train a Tarboro Branch Road laava Rooky Mi obt for Trboro- at.ee p. M. Dally .and Tttewdav, Thursday and ' Katur dar at VUO A. M. Ketnralag leave Tarboro at 0 A.M. dally. and Monday, Wedaaa day and F Friday at BUM P.M. ' Train No. 47 makea clq eocnaetlon kt Weldoa for all point Nortn Daily. Alt rail via Richmond. end daily except Han day via Bay Line. j, ., Train No. ii raos via Richmond and Waabtngton. and raakra etoaa coaaectloa dally to lUchmond.aod dally eicvpt tmU uroay aignu ror au potau aonn ar uica . mood. -. I . I Train No. 41 mas dally and tnskrs rtow connection far all potnla. north via Uica mood and Washington. I AUtralea ran aolld Wtsreea rilmJng- loa aad, waablDgtroo, ad.aa-e TUl I aiaceoiccpcrs alierc-i. ' . i JOJS r. DtVINK, ' r- i; .(aeralttap't. A. lOPF-, Uc V PaCB(tr Agent, ... DOV 3 U . -i : t - q an. a t r ial f zndznti qf ici VTIlnlnglon. foUatli & KcsU H. Q. Cocpxay. 11 lti ' ilrT j Wi l t oT0jr. n. c, NovJ. im ' j COAHQI Of UIXDCLX . .. - 1 i . i i . f. I mi A P faa WlW l'suS(r V IVASSKNOEIL MAIL AND FJU'IJE Tralna, Daily-Koa. 42 Wert aod 41 EaLr Leave WUtrua....... 40 AIM Arrtva at fkfian . ...... i.(A r. at Leave Fafaa...'i ....... a. ai P. M Arrive at WUsaltrWe....... tU P M NIGlif EXrntKJ TtUI iDaflyl I Noa, 4t Went asd KatC Uava wri!aauxtaw.......... a P Leaf ttern,.. XS1AM Amta si C C a a. J itVaB...t tm A. M Arrive at C:katia.....M...: 0 A. M Lca CrsMa...........'. ....tftts) p. M Laate C. C A. Jsacsiaa.. m TM Leave rwea at........... m A. II Antra at Wiiml&4m,,..J. 4U3Att TV tvlara aalr at NtrtX W.ai.rVairVaa,! Civ l.itrns Ftavaa. TaaM va. arv. run. iWarCataaaMk. ua 'H u.a!.a.a.L .uaA. XL. ML. mumm AiA Jaawtaaa. aai jCTrnMaw. aM AiJ aafiirt ""' aaa aaf ba lUpraaa. a4 tar Aaraasa aa tmac C a4 v Aaiaiaara as4 atwaaas CWatatae fctaaSjKfttaa. rn sii - - uaw aajrt. A- ftTK. Oral Paaara AgvaA; ' DIRECTORY OF LODGES. St. Jobn'a Lodte na.Lriu . Wllaali Ilfitrkn Ijwlaa wlfk aw a . - meet M MondT .h Y:.n. u.u "".a8 KNIQUTS OF UOXOR " Carolina Lodra ISI. nut 1.1 .... daya la each mentn. at uaa r tliai. i,.,?1 f . : ; , i. o. bw r. f , .: : .j i" Cape Fear Lodza Ka r mm.. 2- J . dayevenioK. ?-.... Orion Lour K r 7. u t. .... aayeveatac: - -.ZZZZ?;- . l1i tneampment No, L mceU Ui and M Frtday eveatngor each touj , Rebecca Lodge meeu Utaad U ThurU arntng of mm month. , ."',r ith Thursday eveaelnxoC each moata. C' , o. k.k b. . ' ' v":: Manbauan Lodce NolSL mmI. u Ith Sunday in each month, at o dots pm O 'Af, . . KOXAL ARCANUM. - Cornelina Harnatt OonnHi km Sd and 4th Monday evvnlng o muJi tnneik aM ;awvwv a.vuia sucva ajBv W ft Wijarm Hail on Third between Prluorsa at4 (w. nat streets.. c ; KNIUIIT3 OP rtTHlAa. Stoo e wal 1 LrfMltra Nn. l. Vmu vwJ i' i day at CaaUa Halu oa Tnlrd . i 1 11 JllMIII II . V A H k M . .A.M.. tneachmonth.atOMUeaaii, ; ' lcWm. r ! , Wyomieg Tribe Ko. tvy tatai day evening, at thotr .llaii oo Irinct b. MASONiOOoioaan.) ML NcboLodre meat lit aadad Un... la each tuooth. oa Kixtb bctvnn and Red Croaa fctreeta. .Ulbtem Ijodga. maet 3d and lib Moadaf la aaca month, corner a,lgblh and IMnma trcew. . - .. ,: o, u.u.o, r. i Free Ixv Lodxe. meet 1st aad SJ Turkt." la each months corner Dock aod Waior tit uot en ustm iook, meei ut aai 3d aloa. day In eaoh month, eorncr MsrSet aa water streets. . . . . NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, RicliMt ant Petcrsto Eailroil ; t ; r ! i c OMMENCIM1 Kuudav; XIAV l trains on this road a III run loilw. i LF.WVi RlCUMOf i fcoCTU. 101 M FaUMall dally, makes Urtb l , rcnnrrUoua awsUvaaaab. Mom i I f only at PeierstMiry. i U.'iOA. Mi, TiiKoruK Mass, dally roBMij v :lBK rorCUartoaloo, Auitaa4 i f Aiaeii,Havaanah.t(aiciKb,Jsra' i . . aoavUle. Htopa at Hhfra,t'bs. ' I Irr, Canlraltal 'Dreary s ami. : I nUstinal. 1'nllmaa Kiarpmsa ! I lwo tivw York and thai lrie - fJ P, 1 j on ima irain. s i Mi. tspaclal Norfolk :xirat, a raugtHlrspdally In rttcaira ! ftraaait b:a Kirhmaaa a4 t Norfolk, dally (acri aaasii. t " Pasctr taalaa ibu Lra;a win make cloa eonnecuti al IXi burg , lor Norfoi. btxtm at ut I aiauona on Mr nat. ! a. IZ A. M.. Frelbt Daily svtvariiaji. J. LFAVF. '"PL'TKItSSU'iUi, NOUTtt. " 4.UA.M., FaaitUlldailv. T at! Ihcwicr. Pullman bl-rfr W. ; Ita CkallMlua i. M l1 .X A. M hpvctal Morfitlk sprvaa. ei9; fr c.i (mi Diiar, eiv si ait im Unas on els ual. V ti p. Tbrotiih aiall fdally ronMcUt . wiia tuoonsaaa. rraurtcaMi)r. !' , and Posotuaa Italiivad a4 ' - putalaeaat audweai. Aluu lugeonnaritoa with tlta ' and Unto Uallrttad kr lb Vi. ttala HarlMga ard all aotaa ttorih and anai. TbUUaia mmf' at Maarbratar t"bWr and l Irslta. Pul roan Mrrpvt ! . h tral a blwa llisrlwita 4 i. Nw Yotk. - P. M.. FTrltHS. dally (fl KaadatJ All train taavlna 1Vithi a 411 auwi from the APponliotlkT0i owoav t.A,viotf TaAina leave vj- mond at A. M.. and x, P u. Ua t-eterabarg at J A . M - and J p. M. rw r BOBdsy, . . i air aanV A. POPF.U. P. AT. Agca NOTICE. S'LLrwraoa (MU ava If i oa tscaraioaa, woi4 livary M1sm sar aiaiaaara swavM af Uaaar. Ua U always aa .ba44 t L i . Jee 3IA i .. i v : j-.- I.rj: YMPuUTA&l TO AWtXTK-ltatl M fly ata fvs fd, MAi'ia ll I diloe 4 . Y. Malt. H laa a!rJ.r InUoa e art.ftnt-n?! tarn Mtaa a4 t wuS. I v I Jt wtjarr. uuk mAt t. t iMfi t-mm a ! takaa imaif M jTe Aaaatalaaatad. l4l sta tfffr.T S Cu, ill at 14 U Uaaa at, taV KM at IgcrjsQilioi: VtWrf S vta tt.Wam&-.',tml : VaaWf tw gi tiH 4 1 11 m-f tm tv- a return vt.ra la vm ttia-i tea. aaaar ASArasa . fT1 1- ffs mm a taaa aaa. J-a- - avn saw an- fitii a a ! t t.lrC - ThAt II ialv - a-2rtr ".m-Mt p. ui- S . Si'ai'ij Lli ''SsS&wlUia- - - iaatn-r -s --''-I ' .... - II I i( .- .. 1 V ii- . mm ' -a - i jjgr a . 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