Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-01-31
REPLYING TO INGALLS, SPEECH.
Vance and Butler Contribute to the Race
Question Debate.

Vance and Butler Contribute to the Race
Question Debate.
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. Sl.-when Sena-
ter Vance took possession of his seat in the
senate yesterday morning he found his desk
decorated with a basket of roses--beautiful
and fragrant Attached to the basket was a
sard on which was the inscription: ITO the
Hon. y. b. Vance, the honorable, faithful
and impartial defender of the welfare OF the
sons of Ham"
Plagued with Old Mistakes.
Where the flowers come from did no. ap-
pear, but the occasion of the gift was the
North Carolina senator's day to take the
ioor with speech on the race question.
The galleries were crowded, as when Vance
speaks there is sure to be fun Vance said
the crimes and mistakes of one gener alton
plague the people OF succeeding ones, in exc
cution of the law that the sins Of the ia Tiers
are visited upon the children. He ref erred
to Ingalls, speech which he said threa sened
the south with the midnight torch AM the
assassin's knife, the victims to be sleeping
woman and children, but which gave no
sign OF remedy for the evils complain ID Of.
Ingalls, Idea OF Justice.
The talk about justice meant that the peo-
pie of the south should quietly submit 20 ne
gro rule wherever the negroes were IN the
majority. Since the war, wherever the
negro had ruled, his course had been m arked
by failure and ruin. few years of such
rule would constitute damnable blot on
the memory Of those who authorized IL, and
who had looked on with complacency So long
M 10 D.
TINS Democrats
Refers to Northern Prejudices
He referred To the suppression of tho pop
ular vote north of Mason and Dixon's line;
TO the exclusion OF negroes from theatr = and
other places there He said it was TO be
hoped that one black man would be chosen
to represent that section in congress some
day, and that an intelligent black man might
some day be sent to represent the United
States somewhere else than Hayti and Lii
beria. Laughter
The Hands on" Solution.
Vance said that he did not claim. tn 1t the
tegro was capable OF civilization: only that
be could not keep pace with the progress of
the white race. His solution for the race
problem was "hands off " If the north
would cease to interfere, there was No dan
ger that the negro would be driven to the
wall Every speech in the senate denun-
ciatory of the southern people only post poned
the coming of that day of harmony be-
tween the white and black races He did
not think the bill OF the senator from South
Carolina flor assisting in the removal Of the
negroes to Africal reached the case.
Few people would leave the United
States under its provisions, and those
probably would be the best There
was plenty of room for the negro in the
northern and western states "lf," ga d he,
'"the negro is a good thing, let US divide
him" tI.aughter.l
Hampton Quotes Ingalls,.
Hampton then took the floor, and -ather
got twist" ON ingalls, by quoting fron The
Atlanta Constitution the following e1 tract:
"Unless history is false teacher, ii is not
possible for two distinct races, not horiogen-
eous, to exist on terms of political &c uality
under the same government One or the
other must go to the wall" And tina I, said
Hampton, lis signed y. j. Ingalls," lamp
ton advocated the Butler bill for sending the
negroes to Africa, but said the work would
be slow, and that it should be entered upon
only with f,,11