Yankee Prejudice against "Niggers."

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 228, 24 March 1874, Page 7

Yankee Prejudice against "Niggers."

J The Southern people have been accustomed |to have negroes about them from their in- | fancy; most of them were nursed' by negro j women ; and they seem, ■'therefore, to have less" reptignafcce ti> personal contact with the black people than is felt by great masses of people in the north, especially the Irish element. One of Lee's generals, now a professor in a Southern University, told me that every time his old black nurse came to see. his family, she put her.arms round 'his neck also, and kissed him as she used to do when he was a child. r "Hit is our way here," lie added, " but you will go far enough to find if; Yankee wlio ; covdd endure that." It would seem, J however, -an the authority of a New York paper, that " Yankee'prejiidice"'on this point is not absolutely insurmountable. A coloured man from'abroad, visiting New York, was received by a merchant who had been in business connection with him for years, nad realised a handsome fortune in consequence, and felt that, hv spite of his colour, he must treat him courteously. On Sunday heinvited him to ■church, a very fashionable one, and took him to his own pew. A prominent member of the church, seated In a, pew be-. hinti, 'discovered with amazement and horror, seated at the merchant's pide, (in un mistake* able w nigger." The minister' made the same discovery almost as soon as he began his sermon, and was.so'put out that he lost his place and nearly broke down. , After service the prominent member , plucked the merchant asido, and said indignantly—"Brother Sniith, what does this mean i"—-," \Vhat does what mean Bringing a nigger to this church,!.", ~" The pew Is rav own."—" Your own ! is that any ! reason why you should insult.the■ whole congregation is intelligent and well-educated."—" Who cares for-that? He is anigger."—"Blithe is af riend of mine?" — iX Whatvtf that? Must you therefore'-' insult the whole eongregation*!"—"But he is a, Christian, and belongs .to the same'denomination.'"—'" What do I care for 1 that ?,, Let him' go and worship with, his fellow-niggers."---,] '"But he 13 worth- five, million dollars," said tlje -merchant.-*" Worth what I"- 1 -" Five mik .lipn dollars'."—"Jerusalem ! Worth, five million ! Brother Smith, introduce me!;-'—« <( Ah : David Macrae.- m*