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Eastern Rail Road Company

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
September
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The Iyhrany of UoitroitATicNS has perhaps a inore deadly inilucnce in destroying the libertics of our country thnn any thing else,.and should be watchcd witli vigilance by the wholc community. Tliey have no souls, no boches, no conscienccs, no personal rcsponsibility, bul selfishncss in abundance. They are sure to take all ihe power ihcy can ger, without regard to the welfare of the pcople or the rights of individuáis. The arbitrary distinctions of rank and color and caste, which one or two Raüroad companies are .attompting to muko, agaiqst our Bill of Rights, our constitution and laws, iigainst the libertics of the copie, and tiio cqual rights of citizons, caIJs Soudly lor animadversión and redressjund should excite general tilarm. If we must be enslaved, give us a tyrant in his private capacity, and opt in the shape of a servant to a Corporation, which haa no regard for the rights of individuals. We reor to tho negro car, inore abominable, Ilegal and inexcusable than slavery itaelf. ndeed, it appears evident frptn somo late novoment, to have been done for the acconmiodatioa of slavehoiders, and nol free men. The Ea9tern Rail-road take8 in black slavcs or servants ainong the white people without objection, hut drags out by brule forcé, intelligent, well educated freemen of color, or we have been wrongly infonn ed. How 3 thia, superintendant, friend Ghase? One of thy own Friends, of thy own society, neighborhood and name, ao nformed U8, and we havo no reason to doubt his word. The circunistances as reated to us aro thede.A colored pcrson was seen on board one' of tho cara, nrnong the white people. The observer, not supposing it posaible tlmt sucii un oceurrence liad escaped the vigilunt eyeoffriond superintendent, congratulated and complimented him, at the íirst landing, en his liberality in hnving abol-l iáhed the oíd, barbarous, tyrannical and shamclul cualoni, ofobliging colored peo)lo to wilhdrnw from the cars ofthe whittíS. ; "VVhat do you mean? said ths superin-j endant or conductor. Wo have made no' litera lion." "Well, I saw a colored person in the car have just left, and coucluc'ed without loubl, he was there by your pennission." "O- ah - hem - iruc; to be eure: thore s a black in tliat car bul - that is a scrvant (or slave) to a white person there.' Subere we have the whole story. It is not the color, but the freedom of tlie color lat ia bo much hated and persecuted by ur broad brini nobility. And what saysj ie slavehoJder? llearye;"Wetrcaour laves better titán you do your colored J reel icw" And this is stnctly truo. The i laveholdor don't object to riding ín the' amo car with their ,sltive3. Tiicy will nol ido without them. They lovo to have íeir 8lavcs aboul them, near them, to feed nd fan them, und take careof tiiern and íeir children. There is no "offensive oor" to a servant or slave, but the colorodj reeman emits un intolerable stench. Ah, 'Viend Chase, this is sheer pretence, too! jlaringly so lo be denied or doubted. Thou ! inowest it; and the sooner euch hypocridy ' s cast iiway, lbo sooner thou wilt ciear! )c skirts ofthy garmenta. Do it quickly r the whole land will cry out upon thee 'ov very sha in e.