The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-02-05
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ern minorities with incendairy ut
terance:
'.In the conflict which shall inev-
itably ensue between the black and
white races of the South, a box of
matches in the hands of the former
will be more powerful than hun
Z dred Winchester rifles. The white
mans strength (property and fami-
ly) shall be his weakness
Coming from the author of IA
Fools Errand," this might be con-
sidered a fools utterance did not
the exalted position occupied by
Judge Turgee in contemporaneous
literature lend weight and impor-
lance to so unusual an utterance.
Since that time much has been
said in a kindred vein, but always
by illiterate or inconspicuous men,
and it has remained for the honora-
BILE Senator from Kansas, on the
floor of the Senate to add the weight
of Senatorial utterance and party
influence to such unwise, unpatriot-
ic and shortsighted agitation.
With cunning for which he
is conspicuous, his exordium
was fair, his promises plaus-
IDLE and his opening statements true.
In his deductions and conclusions,
however, the rankest partisanship
and most virulent incendiarism find
giaring place and brazen assertion.
These races, the African and
Caucasian: cannot mingle;they are a
distinct social. intellectual and NOR
al strata. Politically they are a
failure. All this Mr.. Ingalls, states
with oratorical force and logic.
Warming, however, under applause
from the galleries, the Senator de-
sends from the platform of the
statesman and spurts puerile nui-
sance from the politicians store in
direct contradiction to his own as
sertions.
lie says, the race antagoaism
exist in the South because the
negro race votes the Republican
ticket. If they were Democrats
there would be no friction, and yet
he tells us that they are a distinct
strata.
Hear this, men of the north and
west, and endorse it if you can in
spirit as in letter.
The South is standing upon
volcano. The South is sitting on
the safety valve. They are breed
ing innumerable John Browns and
Nat Turner's. The use of the torch
and the dagger is advised. de-
plOre it; but. as God is my Judge, l
say that no other people on the face
of the earth have ever submitted TO
the wrongs and injustice which have
been, for twenty five years put up
on the colored man of the South
without revolution and blood. Tap
plause from the negroes in the gal
lery.l
Injnstice is the great manufacto-
ry of dynamite. A man who is
thief robs himself. An adulterer
pollutes himself. A murderer in
fiicts a deeper wound on himself
than that which slavs his victim.
The South, in imposing chains on
the African race, lays heavier man
acles on itself than those with
which it burdens the helpless slave.
said that / was not in favor OF
the Authorization of this continent,
or of any part of it. But, if the
methods of the Chalmers campaign
and of the jackson campaign, and
of the proceedings ut Aberdeen, are
illustrations of the temper and spirit
and purpose of the people of that
State towards the government of
the United States and its citizens,
/ would thousand fold prefer that
every rood of that State should be
occupied by an African rather than
by those who at present inhabit it.
The trend of all this is apparent;
its effect is dangerous and its appli-
cation to existent conditions impos-
sible. Mr.. Ingalls, says there have
been suggested four solutions of the
problem, emigration, determination,
absorption and Acknowledgement.
He rejects them all and calls for
fifth-':justice.' By justice he
means allowing the African to vote
freely and in seeking it he would
introduce a second era of recon
construction in the South, wherein
Turgee's box of matches would play
no inconsiderable Part.
Here again he is illogical and in
consistent. In all the border States
Mt least the negro votes freely, and
is race prejudice dead then? Has
race antagonism disappeared within
their borders?
The GRAFTON of Mr.. Ingalls, was
able-far too able for such partisan
ship and political prostitution of an
exalted position.
"As long as society cringes before