The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-12-25

at all hazards
A DEBATE OFTHE NEGRO CUES
TION IN THE SENATE.
The Race Problem Will Set the Srntesmc C n
SpeukIng-Scnntor Buffers Yiews---A
Republican senator Fnrors Wholesale
Colonization of Negroes.
Washington Letter to The Baltimore Sun.
The speeches Of Mr.. Cleveland and
Mr.. Grady at Boston, but more par
ticularly the speech of Mr.. Grady, have
excited wide and interesting comment
here. The was large demand for the
Sun, which printed :. more complete
report of MIR. Grad US speech than any
of the New York papers. Since the
assembling of Congress there have
been evidence of awakening conserva-
tism IN the midst Of Northern Con-
sressmen and remarks Of Southern
men couched in such terms as those of
Mr. Grady will inevitably strengthen
such tendency.
Of all the Southern men Who spoke
on the subject there was not one who
did not heartily echo his assertion of
the impossibility of devisisg- any
scheme which can throw the Common
wealths of the South back into the con-
troll of vice, villany and ignor snce
The Sena ;,. Representatives of
the North are fast finding that their
people appreciate the situstion at the
South better than they do, and are not
to be cajoled into any endorsement of
schemes which have no other than poll
tical purpose. The propositions of this
character already submitted will be
followed by various others of equal
or perhaps greater enormity, but it
will be longday before any of them
are passed.
Democrats in the Senate and Demo-
era in the House are in the minority.
but it is a minority powerful IN num-
bers, and, on this question certainly,
strong in conviction, solid as rock,
earnest in aggression and lnVinclble
in defence. Any and every force will
bo resisted inch by inch. The House
Republicans have put in the Chair
their best debater and their best fight
er. They have really no men on the
floor capable af coping in debate with
any one of a dozen who might be
named on the other side. The Demo
Gratis have no fear of locking horns
with the majority on election bills, Tor
they are not only conscious OF their
own power for resistance, but are as
sured they will have public. sentiment
behind them, not only in the South
but in the North.
II is noticed that petitions have al
ready been presented from Louisiana
and other Southern States 10 favor OF
new national election law. OF course
every one can see that this is the old
dodge renewed. These petitions can
be easily manufactured by the bushel,
lust as those of like cnaracl er have
been in the past. Mr.. ingalls, has pre-
sented some of them in the Senate.
He is now preparing a speech on the
Southern question which may be
looked for with interest. Privately the
Kansas Senator freely admits the dltil-
culties which surround the South IN
dealing with the negro race, but
whether he will express the same
views publicly may be a matter OF
doubt.
A memorable debate on this whole
subject, lasting for weeks in the Sen.
ate, is now plainly foreshadowed, and
continuously crowded galleries, such
as have not been seen for years,
NAV be anticipated. In the light OF
facts and by the force of reason it is
not an impossibility that division in
the Republican ranks may be devei-
oped before the debate is ended. The
large majority of the Southern Sena-
tors will inevitably be drawn into it,
and their views on tia material aspects
of the problem must be ct value as
coming from those whose information
and deductions are based on assocla-
ton and experience.
Senators Butler, of South Carolina,
and Gibson, of Louisiana, are s;snch
advocates of at least partial depOrta-
ton. 1t is settled beyond any dispute
that white labor will not go where
there is preponderance of black, and
the blacks are increasing so rapidly IN
MANY sections of the South as to cause
absolutely glu5 in the labor mark ct.
Senator Butler said that it would be
an absolute relief to South Carolina II
25O. 900 of it's negro population could
be withdrawn; that with this dimlnu
ton there would be the greatest abun
dance of labor left. He said IN the
! black districts of South Carolina
, where the negroes have not the beneh,
! of contact with the superior civiliza'
} ton Of the whites, their condition /:
t pitiable in its destitution and its de
t moralization. He asked Mr.. ingalls, i
r his State would not like to have some
, of The black surplus of Soutq Carolina
| and Mr.. ingalls, quickly replied the,
had enough in Kansas nov and dl'
!. not want any more. Another Western
: Republican Senator said he would b.
< willing to vote for any appropriation
Y however large, to transport and colo
Q nize the entire negro race IN tn
e United States.