It is to be seen from this that a black man is thought to be inferior to
a white man, and should for this reason be treated as such. The widow’s
conception of a “nigger’s place” is a mouthpiece for the entire South.
You might ask, Why is it that Mr. A. is on board of train No. 3, en route
for New Orleans, occupying a car with all the modern accommodations;
and Mr. B. on the same train, en route for the same place, having paid
the same fare, and occupying a car with split bottomed seats? Tobacco
juice and smoke have given it a new coat of painting and deathly odor.
Mr. A. puts his valise in Mr. B.’s car; smoke, whistle, dance, drink
intoxicants, and then return to his pleasant, modernly furnished car. The
answer would be, Mr. A. is white and Mr. B. is black, for this reason the
employees have assigned Mr. B. to an inferior car, in order that Mr. B.
may remain in a “nigger’s place.”
Thirty-three years have passed since the gloomy clouds of slavery
banished, and made way for the negro to see his place—In the school room;
in the Legislature, Senate, Congress, Ministers to Republics, Registry
of Deeds, Registry of the Treasury, Law, Doctors, Ministers of the
Gospel, Bishopric, U. S. Chaplaincy, Editors, Authors, Merchants, and
Industry. Now let us see why is it that a dungeon is dug for a “nigger’s
place.” Certainly the negro has harmed no one. Not any more so than the
horse stolen from his master. The reason why the white man is at enmity
against the black man is, that the white man once owned the black man.
Millions of dollars were expended on the purchase of slaves when the war
of 1860-’65 began. The purchasers, it is claimed, had not then received
one-half expended on slavery. For this very cause the negro is regarded
as worthless property. The white boy has the example of thievishness and
slothfulness established by his parents. He is taught that swindling
his colored brother is the way his parents came in possession of their
wealth, and to work is taking the “nigger’s place.”
CHAPTER II.
DISCRIMINATION.
The Jim Crow Car, as the negro’s first grievance relative to the Southern
railroad system, is obviously seen in the foregoing observation. There we
see that the matter of being separated from the white passenger “cuts no
figure,” but the very fact that colored passenger is robbed out of the
worth of his well earned money, is the direct reason why the victimized
colored passenger appeals to the conscience of those who have power and
influence to abolish his present outraged condition.
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