The Eternal Negro
Summary
Response to an editorial in rival newspaper The Mail deploring blacks riding in the same railway cars and stage coaches as whites. The Herald and Torch Light points out that "aristocratic ladies of the South" always traveled in company with their Negro servants beside them. "Were these delicate aristocratic ladies degraded and demoralized by such juxtaposition?" The Mail says that voting with the Negroes would put the white men on a social equality with them. "We say no." The Herald and Torch Light feels that Negroes and whites working side by side does not make them equals. It says the Mail's "philosophy is false and your logic infinitely more wretched."
Article Source
Newspaper: The Herald and Torch Light
Publication Date: October 2nd, 1867
Page/Column: 2C
Town: Hagerstown, MD
County: Washington
Subjects
- Civil Liberties
- Aftermath of War / Reconstruction
