The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-24
STATUS OF THE NEGRO.
INGALLS, SAYS JUSTICE Is THE so.
LUTON OF THE PROBLEM.

LUTON OF THE PROBLEM,
The Senate Chamber Crowded to Hear
the Reply to Senator Buffers Emf
grafton Scheme -Amalzamation oi
the Races Admitted TO be Out of the
Question.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.--When the Senate
met this morning the galleries were crowded
with spectators in anticipation of treat in
the promised speech Of Mr.. Ingalls, in oppo-
sition to the bill to encourage emigration OF
colored people from the United States.
Mr.. Vest presented the credentials Of
William A. Clark and Martin Maginniss as
senator's elect from the state of Montana.
They were read and referred ION MIR. Vests
notion to the committee on privileges and
elections. On his motion also the four gen.
tlemen claiming to be the senators-elect
were admitted pending a contest to the
privileges of the floor.
On motion of Mr.. Dolph the Senate bill
for an immediate appropriation of $500, 900
for a continuance of the improvements at
the mouth of the Columbia river was taken
up and passed. Mr. German said that
while he would not antagonizs the bill be
would oppose any further special appro-
priations until all public works were con-
sidered in the river and harbor bill.
A number Of bills on the calendar were
passed, among them one establishing q
light station at Hilsboro inlet, Florida.
INGALLS, RISES TO SPEAK.
At 2 o'clock Mr.. Ingalls, rose to speak
upon Mr.. Buffers negro emigration bill.
At the time there was scarcely a vacant
coati in Aho Af,
matte gallery, in which there we're only half
a dozen seats occupied. There had also been
numerous admissions to the floor of the
Senate, and there was, consequently, great
buzz and hum of conversation all over the
chamber. When Mr. Ingalls, arose and
asked for a reading of the bill in full the
noise and confusion instantly ceased, and
perfect stiffness succeeded. He opened his
speech in a clear, rim ging voice, saying:
Mr.. PREsIDENT-The race to which we belong
is the most arrogant and rapacous, the most ex-
elusive and indomitable in history 1t is the con
quering and unconQuerable race through which
alone man has taken possession of the physical
and moral world; to our race humanity is in
debted for religion, for literature and for civil
ization.
GENIUS FOR CONQUEST.
1t has genius for conquest, for politics. for
Jurisprudence and for administration. Home
and family are its contributions to society. In
ALdboAulJys uUcTOls duQ 6QudilLE
have been its contributions to the
state. All other races have been its enc
mics and its victims. This is not a
time nor is it an occasion to consider the pro-
foundly interesting question of the unity of the
races. 1t is sufficient to say that either by in
stinct or design the Caucasian race, at every
step of its progress from barbarism to enlight-
eminent, has refused to mingle its blood or to
assmilate with the two other great human
families (the Mongolian and African), and has
persistently rejected adulteration.
TRIUMPHs OF THE PILGRIMS.
Mr.. Ingalls, went on to speak of the
triumphs accomplished by the exiles of
Plymouth and jamestown, who had ven
tured on this continent on the hitherto un-
tried experiment, the paradox of a govern
ment in which those who rule are those to be
governed. Under the shield of the Amer
lean government, he said, every faith had
found its shelter, every creed sanctuary,
and every wrong redress. 1t had resisted
the rancour of party spirit, the violence of
faction, the perils Of foreign immigration,
the collisions of civil war aud the Jealous
menace of foreign and hostile nations.
JOHN BRIGHT'S WAR TINE SPEECH.
He quoted from John Bright's speech
during the civil war, in which Mr.. Bright
said: 81 see another and brighter vision
before my gaze. 1t may be vision, but I
CnCAAbn ~ nCo Oll0 NdoO COu10Q6TdbkOu
stretching from the frozen north to the
glowing south, and from the wild pillows of
the Atlantic to the calmer waters OF the
Pacific main; and see one people. one Ian
guage, one law and one faith, and fall over
that wide continent the home of freedom
and the refuge of the oppressed of every
race and every cline"
THE RACE PROBLEM.
NJ
On the threshold of our second century we are
confronted with the most formidable and perti-
nacious problem ever submitted to a free people
for solution. Complex, unprecedented, involv-
party supremacy, and, in the estimation of
many though not in my own, the existence of
our system of government. Its solution will
demand all the res orts and craftsmanship of
the present and Of the future to prevent crisis
that may become catastrophe. 1t should be
approached with candor, with solemnitY, with
patriotic purpose, with fearless scrutiny,
without subterfuge and without reserve.
GRADY's BOSTON SPEECH.
Let me state it in the language of one of the
most brilliant, most impassioned and powerful
of the orators Of the south, now unfortunately
no more, When Henry W. Grady died lumin-
GUS meteor disappeared from the southern
armament.
Mr.. Ingalls, thereupon sent TO the clerks
desk and had read an extract from Mr..
Grady's Grafton before the Boston Chamber
Of Commerce. and then went on to say:
Let me state the arithmetic Of this problem
IN 1850 there were in the United States 4,000,-
700 negroes, slaves and free. In 1870 there were
4,4S0,000, and in 1880 6,590000, an increase
which Il say in passing) can only be accounted
tor on the principle of premeditated aud inten-
uonal fraud on the census. At the close of this
century probably there will not be less than
100000 of the black and colored race on
this continent.
GREGARIoUsNEss OF THE RACE.
Tbs problem is still further complicated by
the fact that they are gregarious; they instinct
Nely separate themselves into their own COM
Inunltles, with their own habits, their own Gus
TOMS, and their own methods of life. They
Worship separately; they are taught separately.
me line OF cleavage between whites and blacks
Is becoming constantly more distinct and per-
cepuole. There is neither amalgamation, nor
absorption. nor assimilation. Politically, they
tney are affiliated with the victors in the late
SlVll war. Socially and by locality and resi-
IWe,nce they are associated with the vanquished.
Nlll tha experiment that has failei elsewhere
succeed here? Can the black race exist as clti-
lens lens Of the United States on terms Of political
U9uanty with the Caucasian race? and if not,
why not?
FRED DOUGLASS BELIEF.
FRED Douglass the most illustrious living
t{LpreSentative of the negro race tgreater,
SSt9iuS' oy his Caucasian reinforcement than by
JSIsought, as prejudice and social antagonism
asa asa gpeared, the races would blend, coalesce
hin "eg0me homogeneous. do otsagree with
ra mere is no natural affinity between the
iSos' siSos II Inis solution of the problem is impos
Of sIo 1he relations between the sexes in times