Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-01-17
LANCASTER, PA. January IL, 1890
senator Buffers Proposition.

Senator Butler proposes that the
United States shall aid the negro TO
emigrate. He does not propose that the
& negro shall be deported without his con-
cent, but that he shall be encouraged
and helped to get out. And If the
Southern states desire the depletion OF
their negro population, it will clearly be
4 wise for them to aid negro emigration |;
( though this seems rather to be matter
+ OF their own concern and care than that
Of the United States. The federal gov
ernment has no right to object to any
effort made by state to secure the emf
grafton of an undesirable surplus Of
population. 1t Is for the state to say
. whether 1t has too many negroes In 1t /;
and to help them out II they are willing
!. to 60.
4 Senator Buffers argument was fair
and sound and Senator Hoar was
pleased with Its tone, while deeming its
position to be the most extraordinary he
had ever heard. Senator Hoar thought
the Declaration of Independence to be a
lie and the con stitutions rotten If Sena-
tor Buffers position was sound that the
white race and the black race could not
live together in peace and prosperity for
both, where the negro greatly outnum-
bered the white. Senator Butler de-
clared his observation to be that such a
condition was bad for both black
{ and white that the negro im-
proved in condition and intelli-
gence when he lived in COM
munity where the white race was In
undisputed supremacy by reason both
Of its number and its natural force ;
whereas the black race failed to advance
where it stood in superior numbers
amid the superior force Of the white race.
This observation of Senator Butler is
that Of every intelligent witness of the
: relations of the two races In the different
portions Of the country. The negro
race IL in superior condition among
the white communities Of the North to
+ that which 1t maintains where 1t Is in
numerical superiority in the South.
There 1t has the sense Of the power of
4 numbers and Of brute force but this
power does not suffice to maintain 1t In
superiority, and the sense of 1t only
4 serves to keep it In hot water with the
governing and superior race.
1t is impossible that the negro race
can ever be superior to the white race
In any part of the country, whatever its
numbers. Senator Butler notes the
rigidness OF the exclusion of the negro
from political and especially representa-.
tive position in both North and South,
the sentiment in each section being
rr0nou n rod aeaipat onu capnklopco ~,
negro government He notes, toe, the
manifest subsidence Of tho influences
which, after the rebellion was over
served to put the negro into Office ant
even into Congress. The colorcd man ha
now dropped entirely out of these places
and the sentiment which keeps him ou
may be expected to SO act always.
Against 1t Senator Hoar in vain sum
mons the Declaration Of independence,
and the constitution. Declarations can
not overcome nature and when Sena
pendence to be that all men are created
equal, he needs to conclude, from
the obvious fact that all men ar,
not equal In condition, that thi
was not declaration that the
superior white man and the inferior
black race would ever abide together in
political equality, however the laws may
bs made to level them. When Senator
Hoar sees none but white representative,
In Congress, the idea should force itsel
even upon his understanding that Il
takes more than law, declaring equality
to make 1t. And be need not fret n
the fact. 1t would be wise to re
cognize it and to see whether Senator
Buffers plan of putting the white race
In numerical, as it is in real, superiorit,
may not be wise one to the end
4 nothing more, of relieving the Declara
tion Of Independence and the constitu
tions from confronting the fact tha
superiority in numbers is not superiority
In fact in a republic where the white
aud black races mingle.