The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-31
INGALLS, PYROTECHNICS.
VANCE SAYS HIS SPEECH WAS A
FLASH WITHOUT FACTS.

FLASH WITHOUT FACTS.
The Brilliant North Carolinian Op-
posed to Senator Buffers Negro
Emigration Bill-Senator Hampton
Denies the Allegation that He Advo-
Gates the determination OF the
Blacks.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30-Mr. Vance ad-
dressed the Senate to-day on Mr.. Buffers
bill to provide for the emigration of the
colored people from the United Ststes He
began by quoting the scriptural passage
that, 1.-THE sins of the father shall be vis!tsd
on the children" 1t was, he said but
another way OF saying that tue mistakes
and crimes of one generation remain to
plague another generation. He touched
the introduction of slavery into tn is coun-
try. its dest uction as result of the civil
war, and the establishment Of reconstructed
governments in tie south. "But,n said he,
80, the negro again bobs up serenely
Claughterl and for his sake to-day we are
threatened not only with political agitation
disastrous in itself, but with servile war,
whose weapons shall be the midnight torch
and the as assin's dagger, and whose victims
shall be sleeping women and Children
INGALLS, PYRoTECHNICs.
Mr. Vance went on to criticise Mr.. Ingalls,
speech, which ne characterized as a piece Of
oratorical pyrotechnics conceal x i pau
city of ideas. 1t reminded him forcibly Of an
astronomers description of the re nsrkable
tenuity of tail of a recent comet. Its length
was described as 10000J,000 miles, as
stretched athwart the skies, its breadth as
$4,000 miles, and yet the solid matter which
it contained could be transported in one
horse car He (Mr. vance, had listened.
ana listened with the greatest Entertainment,
to that speech. He had searched aud
searched, and he had wondered where the
remedy was for the evil that was depicted
in such colors. He wanted to see the solid
matter Of the illumination. Suddenly. be
said, before tho light expired and the Sen
ate was left in darkness, the solution was
announced as "justice." However se1teu-
tious that might be. it was about as definite
as the twinkling that remained under closed
eyelids after the withdrawal Of the lighu.
WHAT INGALLS, MEANT.
Justice, as the senator from Kansas had ex-
planned it, was that the south should quietly
and without effort submit to negro rule
wherever negroes were in the majority.
The senator had graciously promised that
il the remedy still proved a failure he
would-do what? He would counsel with
words. +
He regretted that he could not support
the bill of the senator from Seuth Carolina.
1t did not reach the case, was not p.acti-
cable, and would result in no substantial re-
lief. Under its provisions few negroes
would 60 from the country, and those few
would probably be the best. He could not
say that he had any desire to attempt in any
way such great unAistorical task as the
removal of a whole people. amounting to
probably 100000, from their native land.
ROOM FOR THEM IN THE NORTH.
There was ample room for them in the
northern aud northwestern states, and it
was entirely practicable to induce them to
settle in those states. If, said he, the negro
is a good thing, let us divide him out.
[Laughter.1 He admitted that sucl plan
would be the death of many politician,
but it would give peace to the country. and
he could bear the absence of the politicians.
[LaUghter]
In conclusion, he said addressing himself
to Mr.. Ingalls,: "If you caunot help either
black or white, common decency requires
that you should hold your peace"
HAMPTON NOT AN ExTERMINAToR.
Mr. Hampton addressed the Senate He
referred to a sentence in Mr.. Ingalls,
speech which cast a serious imputation
upon him-that he (Mr. Hampton) delib-
tion of the blacks. Mr.. Hampton read a
newspaper extract ON which Mr.. Ingalls,
based that statement, and declared that
there was not a word in that extract which
warranted the construction put upon it bv
the senator. He would willingly submit
that proposition to any impartial, fair
minded man who understood the
English language. He would even
leave the decision Of the matter to the
senator from Kansas himself, if his answer
was to be given, not in the Senate. but in q
court OF justice, where he would be bound
by his oath to tell the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth. The senator
had an undoub ed right to use a newspaper
paragraph when he thought to injure a
political opponent, but no such methods Of
dealing with great public questions were
becoming.
HAD NEVER HEARD OF IT BEFORE.
He (Mr. Hampton) had never made such
an utterance as was quoted. He had never
seen or heard Of it till he read it In the
Record report of the senator's speech. He
had never, for a moment, entertained
feeling, nor ha q wish, that his colored fell
low citizens should be exterminated. Such
sentiment was repugnant to all sense Of
humanity. 1t was abhorrent in irs concep-
tion. 1t was foreign to eve y thought he
ever entertained or expressed In regard to
his people, and he disclaimed,
emphatically, the advocacy of such
a savage and horrible policy. The
only two authorita i've expression Of his
views that had been made public were in
the Washington EUening Star and in the
Charleston NeIOS and Courier. In regard
to the first, he remembered that a very in
telligent young gentleman had asked his
optnlo on various matters of public i'm
portance as he vas passing through the
city; and, searching the hies of the STAR
ne foul that his young friend had pub
lshed in very terse and graceful language
that interview. Mr.. Hampton quoted
the publication, in which he said that an
extensive exodus of negroes from the south
would work al inconvenience but no in-
jury, and that he would gladly SOC the
colored people go elsewhere, and would be
willing to suffer the consequent reduction
Of representation. The paragraph ia the
Charleston NeWs and Courier was in the
shape of his reply to a circular submitted
to several members of congress asking their
opinion of Mr.. Buffers bill, and was to the
effect that, although he had not read the
bill, he was most earnestly In favor of any
measure looking to that end.
NOT A FEELING OF HOSTILITY.
1t was not, he said, hostility to the ne
groes that prompted this general feeling in
his state. The feeling existed among the
hi a IL.