The Colored Patrician
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Title
The Colored Patrician
Source
From Gale. 19th Century U.S. Newspapers. ©2008 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. Reproduced by permission. www.cengage.com/permissions
Publisher
Daily Central Register
Date
1879-05-21
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THE COLORED PATRICIAN.
According to the News the colored man in America possesses all the rights and privileges of the Roman patrician of old. As we understand it, Roman history, the patrician monopolized all the offices of the government, and the plebeians were sunk to a condition worse than slavery. When the people retired to the Mons Sacra they did so in defense of those rights and liberties which the same aristocratic, haughty and proud patricians denied them. Just how far the negro of the nineteenth century in America resembles the haughty patrician of Rome, may be inferred from the following resolutions passed by a convention of colored men in Virginia. The convention met at Richmond, Virginia, the mother of Presidents, on Monday last, and passed the following resolutions:
WHEREAS, We see that we cannot get our rights here in the midst of this class of uncompromising oppressions of our race, and since by the decision of Judge R. W. Hughes of the United States court of this district, the Kinney-Hall intermarriage case of the State can oppress and abridge our privileges as citizens of the State, and that there is no law of the United States to protect us from said abridgement and oppression, therefore be it
Resolved, That we recommend to our race throughout the State to organize themselves into emigration societies for the purpose of leaving the State, provided our condition is not bettered by the authority of the State.
This certainly looks like history repeating itself, even at this late day. The colored people of Virginia are merely asking to-day just what the plebeians or people of Rome asked in their day.
THE COLORED PATRICIAN.
According to the News the colored man in America possesses all the rights and privileges of the Roman patrician of old. As we understand it, Roman history, the patrician monopolized all the offices of the government, and the plebeians were sunk to a condition worse than slavery. When the people retired to the Mons Sacra they did so in defense of those rights and liberties which the same aristocratic, haughty and proud patricians denied them. Just how far the negro of the nineteenth century in America resembles the haughty patrician of Rome, may be inferred from the following resolutions passed by a convention of colored men in Virginia. The convention met at Richmond, Virginia, the mother of Presidents, on Monday last, and passed the following resolutions:
WHEREAS, We see that we cannot get our rights here in the midst of this class of uncompromising oppressions of our race, and since by the decision of Judge R. W. Hughes of the United States court of this district, the Kinney-Hall intermarriage case of the State can oppress and abridge our privileges as citizens of the State, and that there is no law of the United States to protect us from said abridgement and oppression, therefore be it
Resolved, That we recommend to our race throughout the State to organize themselves into emigration societies for the purpose of leaving the State, provided our condition is not bettered by the authority of the State.
This certainly looks like history repeating itself, even at this late day. The colored people of Virginia are merely asking to-day just what the plebeians or people of Rome asked in their day.
Convention Minutes Item Type Metadata
Convention Type
Other
City
Richmond
State
VA
Country
USA
Start Date
1879-05-19
Provenance
Colorado Historical Society
Event ID
1879.VA-05.19.RICH
Citation
“The Colored Patrician,” Colored Conventions Project Digital Records, accessed October 22, 2026, https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/1906.