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RELATIONS OF THE RACES
Mr.. GEORGE SPEAKS ON THE BILL
FOR FEDERAL INQUESTS.

|
Review Of the History of African
Slavery and the Causes of the Civil
Wharf.-The Effects of the Teachings
of the Carpet Baggers-Results of
| Negro Rule.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.-In the Senate
to-day the bill reported by Mr.. Hoar Feb 8,
to provide for inquests under national
authority" was taken up, and Mr.. George
proceeded to address the Senate on the sub
! ject.
Mr.. George said that he spoke under full
sense of the great responsibility resting on
him as an American senator charged with
| the high duty of promoting the general
welfare Of all sections and all citizens, and
charged also with the no less high trust Of
repeling unjust implications cast upon peo-
pie whose commission he held as a member
| of the Senate.
| ORIGIN OF THE WAR.
After review of the origin and history
OF African slavery, and Of the causes lead
ing up to the civil war, he said that he did
not wish to be understood as saying that
| the south had just cause for secession,
| or that the Interpretation which it had
placed on the constitution was correct, or as
admitting the contrary. What his opinions
| NSIo was well knOWu TO bnOs6 WIN WnOm
| he associated Nor would he say which of
the sections had fired the first gun and
| precipitated the war. War had been
| certain, as certain as the DEGREES of fate,
and war came. 1t had been no petty in
| surrection, no conflict even between organ
| lied military forces, but mighty struggle
| of peoples and states. With what valor,
heroism and devotion the soldiers of the
union had fought and with what heroic
resistance they had been met was attested
| by the monuments erected to them every
where throughout the land.
DYKES SOLDIERS.
The necessities of that war had brought
| out the southern soldier, whose endurance.
self-sacrifice and heroic fortitude had never
been surpassed In all the long ages since
men learned to kill each other in war But
the south could not succeed against fate 1t
went down before irresistible numbers and
was left to commence the world anew.
Referring to the quarrel between Presi-
dent johnson and congress he declared il to
be the greatest misfortune that could have
befallen the south. The southern states
had been again reconstructed, aud then had
followed those dark years of government,
pillage and official brIgandage, of belliger-
emit peace and a furtive, peculatlng war, in
which virtue, public or private, was treated
as crime and personal ignominy held to
be no bar, but even just claim TO high
public station.
In discussing the relations between the
two races at the south, Mr.. George, in
| justification of the position of the whites,
| quoted from speech delivered in the SEN
ate by Mr.. Edmunds, insisting on the neces-
sity of homogeneity of the people as essen
tial to the success of the republic, attrib-
uting the downfall Of the Greek republics
| to the absence of such honogeneity, and
asserting belief that the state OF Massa-
chusetts was not "hungering" for an incur
sion Of a million of the inhabitants of 1.-THE
dark continent
TEACHINGS OF THE CARPET-BAGGERs.
He described the result of the political
teachings to which the colored men had
been subjected by republican politicians at
the south. The fountains of the great deep
of human depravity had been, he said,
broken up; the waters of race hatred had
flooded the lane ahs society had been
saved from utter dissolution and anarchy
only by the conservative forces Of
the white race. The PEOPLE of
Mississippi had to encounter all these
dangers in most aggravated form. Instead
OF one harmonious people, they had two
races two distinct peoples, the most diver
gent in physical formation of all the hui
man family, locally intermingled. but as
wide asunder as the poles; one smarting
under defeat and irritated by enforced po-
litical association with an inferior race, the
other ignorant, with memories of recent
wrongs and with their passions infamed by
| their INSCRIPTIONS political leaders. The
result had been a contest for race su-
premacy.
EFFECTS OF NEGRO RULE.
In the flrst year of negro supremacy in
| Mississippi state taxes had been increased
| 500 per cent, 400 per cent. the next year,
| aud 1880 per cent. the fifth year; and
| county taxes had been increased in an equal
| and, in some instances, greater pro-
| portion. Negroes had been Commissioned
| as judges and justices of the peace Prisons
| had become las an itinerant lawyer of Mis-
sissippi declared) the abode of honest men
| and dishonesty sat enthroned in the tenn
| Piles Of justice. The blacks, backed by a
few whites, had been in absolute control of
the state, and complaints of crushing
taxation had been met by the
wheels OF purpose to load property with
such burdens as would make its surrender
by the owners necessary and certain. The
election of 1875 whatever might be said of
it, had saved the state from anarchy and
society from dissolution. Affairs, he was
glad TO say had been improved since the
whites came into power. Taxes had been
reduced, expenditures cut down, and school
facilities for both races provided. Most of
the pestilent adventures Of both colors had
left the state.
FACE TO FACE.
The two races were now face to face-the
colored race being in majority, and il the
colored men voted as race, as in former
years, they would control the government
Of the state as they had done. To him and
his people the existing conditions were
pregnant with foreboding of disaster and
ruin. He knew that whatever harm might
come TO the people OF both races, there
would be no constitutional change,
no relenting. So he had not al
lowed himself to relinquish all hope
OF having in some way and at some time d
permanently safe and orderly government
in the south, with both races equal in poll
tical and civil rights, and participating
equally in the government although he
confessed that the prospect for it was
gloomy indeed. But the people OF Missis-
| sippi dared not despair. Ia conclusion, be
declared that he had no other aspiration, no
| other wish than to contribute all in his
| power to the progress and welfare Of every
| section and every part Of the union and he
earnestly desired his own section and
| his own state to participate in that progress.
| He never would surrender the hope that
that participation would be accorded by the
people Of the north. At all events, the
white people of Mississippi meant to carry
on tho struggle for the preservation OF their
| civilization, for their own safety and well
fare, and for just equality in government.