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If, as our recent correspondent, Mr. Webb, would have us assume, the Washington club blackballed Messrs. Greener and Terrell for other reasons than their color, the situation of the club at present is peculiarly unfortunate. Those reasons are evidently of such a nature that the club is unwilling to make them public, preferring rather to suffer under an unjust charge of race prejudice. This state of affairs must, of course, be a severe strain upon the patience of the club, and is apt to end in the indignation of some one of the members getting the better of him, and a revelation following of the personal objections which caused the black-balling of Messrs. Greener and Terrell. In the mean time the friends of Mr. Terrll are not acting as if they dreaded any such revelation. Mr. C. W. Stone of Boston has written a letter to the Advertiser upholding Mr. Terrell's character in the strongest and instancing in proof his position in the class of '84 in college. "The suggestion that he would have been blackballed if he had been white," says Mr. Stone, "is just silly. If that club in Washington does not choose to sit down with colored men, let them say so like men and take the consequences; don't let them try to beg off by making insinuations against an honorable man."

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