Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-24

FAILS HE rs WILLING TO JOIN THEM IN Try
ING TO FIND BETTER ONE.
For more than an hour after TIE STAR report
closed yesterday Senator Ingalls, continued his
great speech on the race question. Especial
stress was laid by him upon the evident de-
termination Of the southern democracy to de-
prlve the negro Of his political rights. Demo-
cratic newspapers and democratic politicians
were quoted in support Of the argu-
ment The recent "so-called election" at
jackson, Miss, was elaborated upon, and
from letter from q correspondent Sena-
TOR ingalls, read the statement that two
OF Senator Georges sons were among the crowd,
armed with Winchester rifles, that paraded the
town election day and prevented negroes from
getting within 100 yards of the polls
Mr.. ingalls, read an extract from an inter-
view with Hon. Frank Burkett, democrat,
who said that there were two democratic fac
tons in Mississippi, equally honest'-''a valu-
able admission" said the Senator. Iaughter)
The safe OF Mississippi, said Mr.. Burkett stood
today
BETWEEN WINCHESTER RIFLES AND FEDERAL IN
PREFERENCE.
The south, said Mr.. Ingalls,, evidently in
tended to deprive the negroes of their vote and
of their independence, and practically the
north has acquiesced in this. Attempts had
been made to pass civil rights laws and federal
election laws, but they had failed The negro
had been abandoned by the north. But he
wished to warn the people of the south that
the north, the west, the east would not allow
their commerce, their manufactures and their
social condition TO be modified by executive
and congressional majorities obtained by
the suppression of the colored vote or any
other vote. No one could tell how long this
patient endurance of the north would continue.
but that the crisis would come, in peace or in
blood, was the memorable decree of fate. IL
this condition Of affairs continued nothing
could avert
SOUTH.
Ultimately the colored race would be strong
enough to resist violence and intelligent
enough to resent fraud The south was stand
ing on q volcano It was sitting on the safety
valve. 1t was breeding innumerable John
Browns and Nat Turner'S. Already the use of
the torch and the dagger was advised. He
deplored it, but as God was his judge no other
race in the history of the world had submitted
to the wrongs heaped upon the negro in the
last twenty-five years without revolution and
bloodshed.
This last expression was greeted with ap-
plause by the large number of colored men IN
the galleries.
The negro, the Senator said, was no coward.
ilS petu pfOuHut mere u prisoner OF war.
The Athenians had erected statue to Esop.
who was born slave. The American nation
should also place the slaves upon an eternal
pedestal" His conduct had been most admir-
able. Despotism made nihilism; tyrany, COM
munists; injustice was the greatest manufacturer
of dynamite. The murderer wounded himself
when he stabbed his victim. The south should
remember that there was nothing so I'M
profitable as injustice and that God was a re-
lentless creditor.
THE SOUTH WAS IN GREATER DANGER
than the enfranchised slave. 1t had loaded
itself with heavier manacles than those with
which it had burdened the negro. There was
no affection between the north and the south
The south had not forgiven the north for it's
supremacy and its superiority. If the south
could hold the purse and the sword it was
patriotic. The south had not accepted the
| amendments of the Constitution in good faith.
They had their own heroes and anniversaries
They exalted their leaders above the leaders
of the union cause. Until these conditions
were changed cooperation in solving the
| southern problem could not be expected from
| the north. The south must tread upon the
wine press alone.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
He could understand the reverence of the
southern people for Jefferson Davis. He hon.
ored them for their constancy to that heroic
| man was ever converted by being overpowered.
Davis had not crooked the pregnant hinges OF
| the knee that thrift might follow fawning" He
had remained to the end the immovable type,
| exponent and representative of those ideas for
which he had staked all and lost all.
THE ABERDEEN OUTRAGE
On the occasion of the death of jefferson
Davis the town of Aberdeen, in the state of
Mississippi, was shrouded in mourning. The
court house was draped and as one evidence of
their grief the people of that town had strung
| upon a cable an effigy which they had labeled
| Red Proctor, traitor" Naughter). To that
| town of Aberdeen came a timer, a citizen of
Indiana, small OF stature. inoffensiye of de-
| meanor and OF conclliatory address. While
| working on the roof of one of the houses to
which was attached the cable bearing the
effigy of Red Proctor, the traitor" the timer
had occasion to move the cable. 1t slipped
| and the effigy fell He protested that he had
| no desire to offend the grief-stricken citizens
! of Aberdeen, yet when he came down from
that roof he was intercepted by a man named
| Mcdonald, who delivered at least 200 blows
upon his person with large whalebone whip,
| cutting his face and Gripping him. That even
| ing the citizens had bought ticket and sent
| the timer out of town and he had never been
heard of since. Mcdonald had been punished.
He had been fined $50, and the people about
| him had raised $50 to pay his fine
and reimburse him for the broken whip.
II, he continued, an outrage like that had
been inflicted on American citizen IN
| England, in France. in Spain-any where on
| the face of the earth-and if there had not
been instantaneous disavowal and reparation,
| a million men in this country would have
| sprung to arms to avenge the outrage and
wrong. (Applause) 1.-The ornaments that
thunder strike the walls of rock-built cities,
bidding nations quake and monarchs tremble
| in their capitals" would have gone swiftly
| forming in the ranks of war;" He was a citI-
zen of Indiana. The outrage was inflicted in
Mississippi, and the perpetrators go "unwhipt
| of justice" Il said" continued Mr..
Ingalls, THAT was not in favor of the African
ization of this continent, or any part of it, but,
| if the methods of the Chalmers campaign and
| of the Jackson campaign, and of the proceed
| ings at Aberdeen are illustrations of the tenn
per and spirit and purpose of the people of
that state toward 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,"
DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTH AND OF THE NEGRO
Mr.. ingalls, quoted further from Mr.. Gradys
Boston speech. He spoke of the work done by
the negro in developing the south. The black
race, he said, was capable of civilization. 1t
had already made greater progress than could
well have been expected. There was nothing
III his origin history to justify the belief that
the African could compete with the Caucasian