Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-30

fHekr4tssatssS ~ entered the chamber
.G:/F.&Eff:: KY from the Republi can
Senator Ingalls,. cloak rooms. SILK
handkerchief bound around his throat gave
evidence of the attack of Influenza from
which he is still suffering. On Mr Ingalls,
desk were piled four bound volumes of
the Congressional Record. He placed on
them the portfolio containing his notes ana
sat down. In IL few minutes he changed his
seat and took the one directly behind, where
he exchanged few words with SECRETARY
Rusk and General y. L. Banks. Then he re-
turned to his own seat and opened a news
paper. Before the time announced for the
delivery of his speech he removed from his
neck the silk kerchief and adjusted his era
! vat, while he engaged Senator Hale and Sem
| ator Henderson in conversation.
| 4 few minutes before two O'Clock Mrs.
! Morton entered the executive gallery. Mrs.
| Harrison, the wife of the Attorney Gen
eral and two daughters, and F. w. Halford,
/ the Presidents private secretary We're also in
the private gallery.
/ At two O'Clock exactly, Senator ingalls,
! arose and moved that the Senate proceed to
the consideration of the bill to Assist the
+ Emigration of People of Color from the
Southern States. He asked that it be read at
/ length. \ cry of 'thush' went around the
gallery the Senator from Kansas arose
/ and the Vice president raped sharply for
/ order
Chief Clerk johnson read the bill slowly
and distinctly. As the reading proceeded the
! crowd on the floor increased so rapidly that
all the available chairs in the cloak room s
/ were brought out.
/ mir. President the race to which we be-
long is the most arrogant and preteutous,
/ the most exclusive and indomitable in his
tory were Mr.. Ingalls, opening words. In
/ dividualism, liberty, fraternity and equality,
he said, had been that races contributions
to the State. Every other race had been its
( enemy its victim. At every step of its
progress from barbarism to enlightenment
! the Caucasian race had refused to assmilate
with the Mongolan and African. The aDlest
/ soothsayer could not have foretold the Won
| derful development of the first century of
American independence. The frontier had
/ been abolished, the climate conquered and
! the desert subdued. From the latent
resources of the American Con-
stitution had been evoked great and
unexpected powers. In it every creed had
/ found sanctuary, every wrong Il redress.
! Upon the threshold of our second century
( the people of the United States were con-
fronted by the most portentous problem
| ever placed before free people for solu-
! ton. 1t involved in the belief of many (but
not in hiss the permanency of our form of
/ government. 1t must be considered frankly
and freely, without subterfuge and without
/ reserve.
Mr.. ingalls, paid a glowing tribute to the
/ late Henry W. Grady, from whose Grafton
! delivered in Boston in December last, he
! quoted. He sent to the clerks desk "A liberal
7 extract from MI rEauS speech ~ De leau
/ At the conclusion of the reading he continued
/ his remarks.
| He would discuss the arithmetic of the
/ question, he said: In 1860 there were in the
| United States 4,4i0,000; in 1870, 4,4S0,010; in
| 1880, $3.50. 900 negroes. He wished to say, in
| passing. that it his belief that the in
! crease shown from 1870 to 1880, was deliber-
| ate, premedtated fraud upon the CEN
sus, committed for the purpose of
| obtaining an increased representation
I III,
| gregarious. The line of cleavage between,
the white man and the black was distinct
and clear. There was neither amalgama-
ton, absorption or assimilation between the
races. Fred Douglass, the most illustrious
living representative of his race (greater. he
thought by his Caucasian reinforcement
than by his African Dlood), had
said to him that when prejudice
disappeared the races would become
homogeneous. He did not believe it.
such a solution of the difficulty, he thought,
would be impossible; if possible, most de-
ploraDle. History showed that where the
white and black had come together during
the period of slavery it had been by cOmpul
sion. The children born had claimed white
fathers and black mothers; never black
fathers and white mothers. There
was no poisoning SO fatal as the
adulteraton of race. The leaders of
sion that the present state of affairs could
not exist. They asked that the matter be
discussed amicably. The senator from South
Carolina (Butler) deprecated animad
version. They would not hear it from him.
The most bitter criticism of the situation in
the South was the truth. lie did not claim
superiority of virtue for the North. His
ancestors had owned slaves. He remem-
bered with what interest Il boy he had
read that school book poem beginning:
Chained in the market place he stood,
man of giant frame"
The conscience of New England had not
been aroused to a sense of the enormity of the
slave system until it had become unprofita-
BILE. (Laughterl Besides, large part of
the people of the United States had not CON
templatcd the freeing of the negro in the
war for the Union. When the negro
freed he had been given the franchise, not
for the purpose of perpetuating the Repub-
lican party. That calumny had grown old
enough to be superannuated and placed on
the retired list If the negro was not here,
Mr. ingalls, said, he thought the people of
the United States to-day would hesitate to
invite him here. With the experience of two
centuries of slavery and twenty five years
of ostcnsble freedom, he believed that they
would prefer to have remained in aSSocia-
ton with their brethren on the Dark CONT
nent But the negroes were here. They
were of ancient lineage-in fact genuine +.
f. vs.. [Laughter.l By their sobriety and
stendiness they had justified the Judgment
of those who had believed them better than
the brute race. But to what did their free
dom amount? Their citizenship was a name.
The black vote of the South was practically
suppressed. Senators, editors, and the lead
ers of the South had announced their inten-
ton of breaking the control of the negro.
Henry W. Grady had said: when will the
negro cast Il free ballot?' On that point Mr..
ingalls, said he had other testimony to offer,
and he would call only Southern men and
Democrats as witnesses. Mr.. ingalls, read an
extract from the Memphis Avalanche,
commenting on what called the cleo
ton in Mississippi last fall" laughter The
Avalanche had stated that "Chalulers could
not ge: the Office of Governor however large
his majority might have bcen.'' The Sena-
tor said he would not go into archaeological
research for illustration. He would exhume
no cadavers. This extract printed in
October last On the 18th CT that month the
Avalanche had said deliberately that the
South did not propose to he governed by the
negro under any conditions. On account of
this condition of affairs General Chalmers
had Withdrawn -Om the race for Governor.
Mr. ingalls, quoted at length from General
Chalmers address to the Republican voters
of Mississippi. He considered that address,
he said, one of the most tragic utteranceS
that had ever occurred in political history.
Seventeen days ago there mad been an
other election in Mississippi with which the
country was somewhat familiar. He sent to
the clerks desk to be read an extract from
the jackson Clarion of January 2. In this
extract was the constant reiteration of the
announcement that the REGULARS" the
"bulldozers," etc, would be on hand to see
that there was a flair election" At the end
of the enunciation, Mr.. Ingalls, remarked
President" fLaughterJ
Mr.. Ingalls, read an extract from CORE
spondence about the election, telling that it
had been controlled by winchesters, and
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