| Show the antagonism of races I 1 SALT LAKE CITY april 24 1888 editor deseret news A peculiar state of affairs is exemplified in southern society when in every day afif life e two races widely differing an and antagonistic id grade and general character mingle together without the warrant of any legal discrimination A recent court decision has been been rendered ia An Tennessee emphasizing th the e illegality of discrimination against the colored people and enunciating that if a person cannot carry on a successful trade without showing race distine eions they have no right to conduct it in the suit in question dh damages to the amount of were claimed by and awarded to a mulatto girl tor for having been refused admittance to a public theatre the negroes in the south are equal in number to the whites in georgia alabama mississippi and louisiana each num numbering berin 9 a million in several counties of acab alabama ai a law land and equity are administered by the dusky functionary but bat generally throughout the south the more enterprising caucasian wield the sceptre of political power justly or unjustly and indeed whatever abstract justice might claim to the contrary in special cases it is hard white man to harmonize with his his feelings the bare idea of an inferior race domineering over the superior As it is in general in the south the white mans foot socially speaking yet rests n the neck of the african while the latter exhibits no ne little rest les under the restraints and insults to which he is constantly s subjected ab the writer 0 once ace when taking a drink aft public fountain in memphis had bad only taken the cup la ia his bis hand band when a stranger a white man most earnestly protested hold on do you know the negros cup 1 it wad waa then that I 1 first observed that at the public resorts there are two cups one for the higher class citizen the other for the inferior race as also there are two grades of accommodation at the hotels in the public conveyances vey ances in the churches and even in the system as scattered as are the country population tien the negro placed upon aw av plane of equality by the law is uneasy uneas in the place which be now occupies irom from the compulsion of the social forces while on oa the other hand band it is hard to imagine the feelings of hate from rivalry and repugnance from tile the remembrance of slavery times nay even contempt and loathing with which the highborn high born southerner looks down upon the poor black maa this feeling is increasing being aggravated by the enforcement ol 01 of the equal rights enactment what the future may develop regarding this antagonism ta f the races is too speculative tibt for present consideration JAY |
