Show i f IT WAS a eevere blow to the aristocratic aristo-cratic pride of West Point Military i Academy when a colored raJet TWJB admitted into the iDBtHu ion wfiere Ube future captains and generate of > oui army aro bring trained West Pointtoas become proud and haaglity 0 ning tie psi 01 tae cauou aou mu p rideot tie ladies who love to lock c upon braes buttons and budding military mili-tary manhood Under the fostering care of a liberal government those 1 young warriors have become puffed J upwith their own importance until thy feel themselves somewhat laller J and heavier than the ordinary herd from which they sprang Hence it i was epsciRly humiliating to them when an African a nigger was 7 catlt among them and so far as it was possible under the law I I made their eqiisT In everything The cadets did Jnot propose to be humbled intoa social equality with L the negro The African descendant 4 I was ostracised from the moment he 7 l entered the aristocratic precincts of I < the academy WhU8 he was net 3 beaten nor abused pbysicwHy i he wai made to feel that he was in the l wrong pew His life there has been I a constant succession petty slights The crowning indignity heaped upon young WhiUaker va his mutilation 1 the other night This last outrage may not have been perpetrated by 1 ths other cadaU and indaed seems ci i notto have been done by them It 4 matters not seriously however whether his ears were cut by himself 4 him-self by the white student or by ta some jealous youths of his own color I 1 Tne on3 important fact is apparent y that laws nor preeidential procUma lions CAn mske the white and black raoes live together in unity on equal terms socially The Rev Beecber wants enojgh black cadets sent to 1 West Point to compel by force the others to respect them This would j not do if If tbee were two negroes and one white bay atbe academy the white would refuse to 1 I elevate ta an equality with htmael the blacks and if physical force wore i employed against him he woalc t promptly taka his depsiture from West Point leaving the eoieccs of 1 war to be studied alone by he Africans f Afri-cans The cadets are not alouo in their slights ot Wbitakr tho professors pro-fessors And teachers alto turning fo him the cold shoulder whemwr it i was poreibh to do so without piecing t themselves in a position to t beotliciallj ceorored Even in the investigation now goinfcon i the colored cadot has bees transformed from plaintiff into t defendant This ostracism is not due to any lack of hitolligecno or pr 1 sooN repugnance on the prt of Whittaker but solely becuuee he bo > African blod in hid viens He is i BO whit of skin Ib it one of the txtmia inK profftwore asked to have him pointed out in the data before him he pMed a creditable credit-able ezAmioBtiun and while he has slown no extraordinary ahiliti he hag displayed no uncommon degree de-gree of stupidity He is i simply a nfcro aod educated refined whita men feel H ret ugra3ce towards aseo elating on term of rquahty with 1 members of his race There is H J want of affinity between the two races The ultra abolitionist and t thadaniagogue poHticituts msy bu the black maD So their boon but the a fleet io a Ic i not natural the intimacy inti-macy is repulsive and must ever be 0 When a white man profoasee a iJ real love for the negro acd a desire f to associate with him as with people of his own race it may be Bit down as a fact that the whits is placing a i nit t v for a purpose 1 or that bis itieae i bis likes and dislikes fire not normal > Aba Lincoln loved a negro only in the it humanitarian sense Gftukcn from his bve for tae black mans cause came to Jove the negro bat it was not j nutum Had there been no negro slavery tha great abolition apostle would have felt no sympathy for the t African iae It is i wrong that yourg t I Whittaker should be mutilated and abused at West Point The caiets are in training for brave officers and 4 r upright gentlemen and they should understand that it lao part of bravery 4 to trample upon an inferior But while the Africans treatment has been wrong it ia improper that ho ia i 3 thwe In social life in the army as officers hereafter tbe cadets will not associate with Vhiltaker nor can the law compel them to do EO Then why force them to endure d now him as r an equal 1 The effort of nearly twenty i 11 years has failed to bring the two races l anywhere the same social plane j i and we question if they will be any nearer together twenty years hence If it be necessary to have negro soldiers and negro officers to command com-mand them Jet the latter DC educated and trained for the business by themselves them-selves This talk about putting a i score of black cadets into West Point < 1 Academy is nonsense When that is 4t done our national military school l I will become an institution for educating t 4 educat-ing negro officers exclusively for the white boys will leave and enter those spheres of life trbere they can exercise at will their natural repugnance towards to-wards the black race or at least T where they will not be compelled to wwdations that mart bo a endow constant annoyance lo t tourco of j I them fDUUay b bnn 11111f mpoifeint cyents there being scarcely A day of thirtyone which is not the anniversary of gome notable occurrence currence Many famous battles wcio ought in this month among them hat of Port Gibson on the let 1863 Chancelorsviile 2d 1863 capture 01 JDconderpga 4th 1775 Wilderness 564 8th battie of West Point 1862 and of Palo Alto 1846 11th 1864 battle of Spottejlvania 12th E63 battle of Raymond 18tb 1863 of Yazoo City 16th 1863 of Champion Hills 17th 1863 of the Big Black 23d 1S62 of Lwiburgj 23th lE6 of Winchester 26h 1798 of Farmhand Farm-hand Ireland 30th lEGl of Fairfax and 1862 of Fair Oaks and Seven Pines The births oi many sotcd persons aim occurred in May some of them being as follows 3J 1469 Machiavelli who died on tho same day of the month in 1527 20 1741 Abart fore 24 1819 Queen Victoria 28 1807 Prcf Agassiz 28 1736 PttricK Henry But the notable births are net eo numerous nu-merous 1x1 the doatb Oa the 5th R91 tho firaf TCnnntonn fHpd at St Helena on the 7th 1873 Chief Justice Jus-tice Chaf 9tb 1863 Stonewall Jack eon 15tn 1817 Daniel OCountll 1882 Cuvier 17tb 183S Talieyrand I 1875 Breckenridge 19h 3264 Nathaniel Hawthorne 21st 15G6 Columbus 1542 DeSoto 27tQ 1564 John Calvin 28th 18i3 Noah Web ter 29tb J814 Jcsephinc Empress I of France Among the other im portent historical events having their anni verfarica in May are the folbwing 4h 832 the call of President Lincoln Lin-coln for 42000 men to suppress the rebellion 7ih 1861 the sece iou 01 Arkansas 10b 1869 the laying of the last rail connecting the Union and Central Pacific Railroad an event of lasting importance to the nation and particularly ao to ttho people of Utah and tbe great interior west on the 13th 1607 JaaiettDwn Vn was settled lltb 1796 vacciua lion was first tried 16tj 1703 the now mighty city of St Peter lmrg Russia was founded ISfa ISO Jioouparte assumed the title of Emperor of France and was eo proclaimed pro-claimed by the Senate on the 22d 1S56 Brooks made his notorious assault as-sault upon Sumner in the UnitEd States Senate 23 j 1S71 ocurred the nrrat fire at Paris These are only a few of the events that have transpired nired in the merry month of May which is specially replete with anniversaries an-niversaries of remarkable happening in America and tne Old World |