Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-01-24
Mr.. ingalls, Speech.

LII luS oChpt0 NStN'
addressing that body on the subject of the
deportation of the negroes from the south.
ern States, said
"Nr. President: The race to which we
belong is the most arrogant and rspacious,
the most exclusive and indomitab!e in histo-
re-. II is the conquering and the uncon-
uuerable race, through which alone man has
taken possession of the physical and the
moral world. To our race humanity is in
debted for religion, for literature, for civili-
alton. 1t has o genius for conquest, for
politics, for jurisprudence and for admins
%tration.
The home and the family are Its contri.
buttons to its society. The in~dividualism,
frateroity, liberty ard equality have been
It's contributions to the State. All other
races have been its enemies and its victims.
This Is not the time nor is 1t the occasion to
consider the profoundly interesting ques-
ton of the unity of races. 1t is sufficient to
say that, either by instinct or design, the
Caucasian race, at every step OF its progress
from barbarism to enlightenment, has re-
fused to mingle its blood or to asslmilate
with the two other great human families,
(the Monaghan and the African.) and has
oersistently resisted adulteration."
Mr.. ingalls, went on to speak OF the tri
umphs accomplished by the exiles of Ply.
mouth and jamestown who had ventured
on his continent on a hitherto uutried ex-
periment-a paradox of governmental
which those who rule are those to be gov
erned. Under the shield of the American
povernment, he said, every faith had found
its shelter, every creed a sanctuary and
every wrong a redress. 1t had resisted the
raucor of party spirit, the violences OF
faction, the perils of foreign immigra-
| ton, the collisions of civil war and the
iealous menace of foreign and hostile ma
tons.
Mr.. Ingalls, proceeded "On the thresh
| old of our second century We are confronted
with the most formidable and portentous
oroblem ever submitted to a free people for
solution-complex, unprecedented, invol-
wing social, moral aud political considera
lions, party supremacy, and in the estima-
| ton of many, though not in my own, the
existence of our system of government. Let
me state it In the language of one OF the
most brilliant, the most imprisoned and
powerful of all the orators OF the South,
now. unfortunately, nc more. When Her
ry ". Grady died a luminous meteor disap.
peared from the southern armament"
Mr.. Ingalls, thereupon sent to the clerks
0esk and had read az extract from Mr.. Gra-
dv's Grafton before the Boston Chamber oil
Commerce, and then went on 10 say l.
me state the arithmetic of this problem. 10
1860 there were in the United States &, 44O,
600 neCroes, slaves and FREQ. Ia 1870 there
were 1 $50, 900 in 1880, & 5S0,000, an In.
crease which, l say in passing, can only De
accounted for on the principle OF premedl
latsd and intentional fraud on the census.
At the close Ct this century probably there
will not be less than 10, 100000 of the black
and colored race on this continent.
"The problem Is still further complicated
by the fact that they are gregarious. They
instiactively separate themselves Into their
own communities, with their own habits,
| their own customs, their W methods OF
life. They worship separately. They are
taught separately. The line of cleavage be-
tween whites aud blacks is becoming con-
stanSly more distinct and perceptiole. Ihere
is neither ~amalgamation nor absorption. nor
assimilation. Politically they ase affiliated
with tie victors in the late civil war. Socl
ally and by locality aud residence they are
associated with the vauquished. Will the
experiment that has failed elsewhere sue
coed here ? Can't the black race exist as
clllZSn5 vi lUE OUltcu StulOo Ou tOthAS "a Po
litical equality with the Caucasian race ?
And if not, why not
Fred Douglass, the most illustrious living
representative of the negro race, greater, L
think, BY his Caucasian reinforcement
than by his African blood, once said to me
that be thought as prejudice and social and
political autagonism disappeared the races
would blend, ~coalesce and become homoge-
neous. ! do not agree with him. There Is
no natural affinity between the races. This
solution OF the problem is impossible. The
relations between the SEXES in the time OF
slavery were compulsory. The hybrid was
| the product Of relations between white faith
ers and black mothers, and never between
! black fathers and white mothers. And the
Inference from that result is the illustration
of that question. Such solution, In my judg-
ment. would perpetuate the vices of both
races and the virtues OF neither. There IL
no blood poison so fatal IS sdniteration OF
race.
THE coloiet people sre here. They are
natives. They are c%itizans. Man for nan,
they are our political equals. They came
here involurtaiily. az prisoners If war, cap.
tured III fights. They are OF an ancient
lineage, genuine F. F. VS." Laughter
| After praising the co!orsd people for their
fidelity to the South during the war he said:
ST seems incredible that gratitude should
not have defended and shielded them from
the hideous and unde: cribable wrongs and
crimes of which they have been for a quar-
ter of a century the g~uiltless and uoreststing
victims. Tho same impulse which made
them loyal to theirmaslers throughout the
war has made them faithful to their deliver
ers since. Their allegiance to the party OF
Lincoln and Grant is persistent and un
swerviug. Their instincts were more infal-
lible than reason. They have voted with
their friends"
Mr.. Ingalls, went on to speak of the deter.
mination of the South to eliminate the negro
as a factor from its political and social his
tory, and quoted evidence on that point from
democratic newspapers and democratic poll
%ticians.
Rasumjno Mr. Inpalls said "Tha Dre-