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From the Hartford Republican. ■».**«Colorphobia.A few years since N. P. Rogers,, the 01d Man of the Mountain,” did good service to the Anti-Slavery cause by using his terrible sarcasm against that violent disease, Colorphobia. On a certain occasion Mr. Buffom purchased cabin tickets on the steamer Massachuseets for some colored ladies, who slept in the ladies' cabin. The next morning the white passengers held an indignation meeting and fired off resolutions.— But we will quote from Rogers:“But they put to vote—this beautiful boat's crew, without a moment's debate or consid- ( eration, and they stood disgusted, 77 to 23 —-just about the true Congress majority.— And at what were they disgusted? Why, j that three defenceless women were sheltered by that boat's ribs, instead of shivering on deck, amid the tarred cordage, exposed ' to the mercies of the night sea winds, and : peradventure a tempest. They wfeie in comfort and at rest,—having, no doubt, 1 thanked God with tears of gratitude, for so unexpected a shelter. Their gentle-hearted ' sisters were 'disgusted' at this. O, the beautiful ladies!—the gentle and sympathetic fine ladies! 0, the gentlemanly gentle- ( men, that would thrust woman out of doors, at night upon the sea! O, the fair sex, that would nestle and snore away in their snug cabins, while their unhappy sisters had to face the scrowl of night, and the sea's rude breath on the nak$d deck! O! the magnanimous captain I to deny to woman the Shelter which humanity, in its barbarian state, would not deny a dog. Shelter for the night —a night at sea; when cut off from mankind and on the perilous deep, apirate might ; dream of kindness—with an ample cabin for all—with this mercenary pay in his pocket. Why did the unfeeling brute want those women to shiver on deck that night? Why! ; but to gratify those excellent ladies! They ; could not sleep if their colored sisters slept; they could not enjoy their cabin unless the unhappy ones were exposed on deck. They must colonize the colored woman, and send her by herself to the cold deck,—the boat's ' Africa—where she might repose free of the Christian prejudice below.”Wn ItntFA in of liaov/l nf o A f
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Indianapolis Gazette
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Thu, May 12, 1853
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