St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-17

proposition was the most astonishing
thas had ever been heard in the legis-
latiye history of the senate or III the
legislative history of any free, civilized
and prosperous people. The United
States was at this moment growing in
wealth. strength and prosperity; and
still the demand for labor kept more
than abreast with the general growth
of the country. And yet in the senate
of the United States proposition was
made that by the force of the nation.
aided by its treasury, eight millions of
lab0rers, born on American soil, en-
Titled TO every right, were to be
deported. MIR. Hoar paid high
Mississippi, and to the eight Or ten col
Ored men who had sat in the house of
representatives and declared that there
could have been no better examples of
the legislative character, for purity of
conduct, for SOundneSS of judgment.
and for ability In debate, than the repre-
SentatlVeS of that race. 1t was not,
therefore, that the colOred race could
not be made fit for freedom that the
speech was made, but simply on the
ground that the nature of things or the
nature of man was such that men of
different races (and especially different
compiexions) could not live together in
harmony and peace and freedom and
honor under tho laws of this republic.
Ii that were true, then the Declaration
OF Independence was lie and the con-
stitution of the United States
RESTED ON ROTTENNEss.
1t seemed to him that not a proposition
came from the South in reference to the
colored race in which there was any ray
OF hope. He could not see that repre-
sentatiYes of the South had any policy
but policy of despair. lie could not
believe that any considerable number of
c0lured people could be induced to de-
port themselves, or that American peo-
pie could ever be got to apply to them
any restraint. What, he asked. was the
barrier to the negro living in peace in
this country.tO his dividing between the
two political parties. as the German did
and as the Swede did, x ept that the
white race would not permit that thing
TO be done. He would like to know
what other barrier there was. Mr.. Blair
spoke against the bill. which he de-
clared to be either manifest impOSsi-
Dility or an abSurdity. Unless the
0,OOO,! 20 OF cOl0red people went. it was
an absurdity; and if they did 20, then
burden wonld be imposed on the ma
ton which might we'll be called an i'm
possibility. The difficulties of the race
problem, Mr.. Blair declared. existed in
the excited imaginations and iiIeradica-
BILE projects of a few white men. not be-
tween the races themselves. As to the
idea of the senator from Alabama (Mr.
MOrgan), that the choice was betWt en-
numbering the negro or marrying
them, between killing them or assimi-
lating them. he thought course of
lectures on the sixth and seventh COM
mandnents would settle the whole
thing; and that no more would be heard
of doctrine that was an absurdity and
an insult to our common humanity. He
finally went on TO argue that the true
solution of the difficulty lay in the en-
aetment of his bill to promote pdura-
tion. The bill then went over without
action. The senate then proceeded to
the consideration of executive business,
and at 4:l5 adjourned until Monday.