Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-24

n. Census Supervisors Appointed - A Clerk Drinks CarboIic Acid for Whiskey.
 Montana Senators Present Their Cre- dcntials.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. Senator
 Ingalls, speech on the race question is the one topic here and it was the great event of the season.
 The orator started out most vigorous ly, and he maintained his standard to
 the end. During the entire speech not Senator left the chamber not a visi- tor departed from the floor, and not a person gave up his place in the gallery. No one ever knows where the Kansas orator will strike, and so it was when he flung forth the unexpected state- ment that the sentiment for freedom had not been adopted in New England until slavery had become unprotitab Senator Dawes of Massachusetts. who was sitting within six feet of Ingalls, glanced iicrccly at the speaker, and fairly shook with astonishment. Ingalls, spares neither friends nor foes in mak- ing his attacks, and ho surprised Dem ocrats and Republicans. white men and black ones in turn.
 The race to which we belong is the most arrogant and pretentlous, the most exclusive and ,i1domita ble in his tory. were Mir. IngSlls' opening words. "lndividualism, liberty, fraternity and equality, he said, had been tn at race s contributions to the State. Every other race had been it's cneuly or it's victim. At every step of it's progress from barbarism to enlightenment tho Caucasian race had refused to assimi. late with the Mongolian and African.
 Mr. Ingalls, traced briefly the won derful history of the country in it's first century, and said it Was confronted in tho beginning of it's second century with a racc question which, unless frankly met, presented a great danger, He referred to the late Henry w. Grady in the highest terms. and he read a quotation from his Boston address, in reference to the colored race in it's bearing on the south. He called at tention to the rapid increase in the colored race in the country, and the re- fusal of the two races to amalgamate or asSlmilate, and asked what could bc done to solve the problem.
 ''There is no affinity of races" he ex- claimed, Tho amalgamation during the times of slavery was enforced by the dominant power and disappeared when the freedom of the blacks came. History shows no record of two races existing together under one govern ment in harmony. The weaker has lH'NllaDly gone uOWn.
 But the evidence is conclusive" he said, that tho whites of the South have determined to eliminate the col ored race from politics. Practically tho people or the North have aban- doned the negro to his fate. This can not last. Tho North and the West will not consent to have the country en- dangered by a system which selects It's lawmakers by the unjust method which SuDDrCSSpS part of tho and ol lows the others to take possession of the advantages thus gained. Sooner or later this will be rebuked. whether by peaceful methods or bloodshed mono can tell. Ultimately the colored race themseleves will have the strength to demand this.
 The South is standing upon vol cano. Already the mutterings of dis content arc heard and the use of the torch and dagger is advised. Yet no other race ever submitted to such wrongs as have been inflicted upon the blacks since they wore made citizens without hloodShcd. That the black man is not a coward is shown by his record in war People denying the blacks their rights should remember that injustice is always followed by ret ribution, and God is an unrelenting creditor. The South is not forgiven, ments to the Constitution in good faith
 He closed by saying there were five solutions of the race problem: Amalga- nation, extermination, suppression, isfranchisement and justice.
 All these except the last have" he said, ''been tried. Try this and if it fails. then will be ready to cons ult as to what should follow"