The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-02-06
BUT SPRINGER HELD THE FORT,
Bold Denunciation of Such Arbitrary Pro-
ceedings by Breckenridge, but the
Speaker Is Immovable.
GREAT SPEECH BY SENATOR VANCE.
He Knocks Ingalls, Into Smithereens and
Raises Roars of Laughter in
the Senate,


proceeded to address the senate on Senator
Buffers bill to provide for the emigration
of colored people from the United States.
He criticised Senator ingalls, speech, which
he characterized as piece of oratorical py-
rotechnics conCealing its ideas. 1t re-
minded him of an astronomers description
of the remarkable beauty of the tail of a re.
cent comet. Its length was described as
100, 0O0,0OO miles as it stretched athwart the
skies and its breadth as 5000 miles, and
yet the solid matter which it contained
could be transported in a horse
car. He (Vance) said he listened
and listened with the greatest entertain
ment to that speech. He had searched
and searched, and he had wondered where
picted in such colors. He wanted to see
the solid matter of the illumination sud
denly, he SAID. before the light expired
and the senate was left in darkness. The
solution was announced as Justice
Senator Vance acknowledged that the
milleneum had not yet dawned upon the
South, and that the land of reconstruction
was not yet land ofperfect righteousness.
Just north of the Mason and Dixon line
there was such a land. There was a
country where there was no suppression
of the popular vote by gerrymandering
or otherwise; where there was no purchase
of the floating votes i'll "bloCks of five"
Laughter; where there was no ejectment
of colored children from white schools or
colored men from theaters and barber shops,
and where it was to be hoped that in the
process Of time one black man would be
chosen to sit in congress, and that even
some railroad attorney or millionaire could
make room in the senate chamber for a
colored brother. Laughter. He hoped
that in the course of time one accomplished
black man might be sent abroad to
represent the country in some
other land besides Hayti and ST.
IBERIA. Laughter. He even hoped that
colored man might be found fit to serve his
South and that the great dumping ground
of political deadbeats, the District of Col
umbia, on whose helpless people had been
imposed in every office from judiciary
down, worn out partisans for whom the
people at home had no further use. Sena-
tor Vance quoted Senator ingalls, as to the
South standing on a volcano and sitting on
a safety valve and on its having to tread the
wine press alone. He believed the senator
had passed the blacklist and foulest judg-
II ent on his own people. He believed that
hundreds of thousands of stout hearts
would rush to the rescue of their
Southern brothers on wings of steam,
preceded by messengers of theirs aid, should
the South unhappily have need of such
help. But the South did not call for it.
1t could wage such war without as
Sstance from anybody, and could easily
manage and owe come an uprising of seven
million negroes. Then there would come q
solution of the problem which would stay.
What, he asked, was the problemP Nature
would solve it. She had given the high
spirited liberty loving, cultivated domi-
nant race occupying free states, full of
capacity for advancement ard progress
and precedence over that race
"A race OF manumitted slaves
of recently barbaric origin with no race
traditions, no pride no history of progress.
How, he asked, should they be made to
dwell together i'll peace, and that was the
question. Ii was fundamental principle
in American law that the majority of those
to whom the franchise was committed shall
rule with limits But ii was principle of
natural law, as old as man himself, that
the stronger must rule without limit. He
affirmed not that the negro was incapable
of civilization, but chat lie was incapable of
keeping up with the civilization Of
the white race. His solution of
the problem was simply Glands off.
He could not support Senator Buffers bill.
IL does not reach the case. There was am
pie room for the negroes in the Northern
and Northwestern states, and il is entirely
practicable to induce them to settle in those
states. If, said he, the negro is good
thing. let us divide him out. Laughter
He admitted that such Il plan would be the
death of many politicians, but it would
give peace TO the country and he could
bear the absence of the politicians. In
conclusion he said, addressing himself to
Senator Ingalls,: "lf you cannot help
either black or white, common decency re-
quires that you should hold your peace"
Mr.. Hampton followed Mr.. Vance. He
quoted from the Atlanta Constitution the
following extract: UNLESS history is a
false teacher il is not possible for two dis
tinct races not homogeneous to exist on
terms of political equality under the
same government; one or the other
must go TO the wall" and that
said Mr.. Hampton is signed J. J. |
Ingalls,. While he was in full accord with
the measure proposed he hardly thought
the remedy met the requirements of the
case. He wished for better state of
things and was sincerely DESTROYS of pro-
noting the best interests ofboth races and
securing the country the blessings of pros
perity and of peace under That most per-
feet union" under the free states of the
republic contemplated by the fathers.
After executive session the senate ad
journed.
The galleries of the house were crowded |