The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-24
The GREATPROBLEM.
Senator ingalls, Speaks Upon the
Negro Question.
SUFPERINGS OF THE BLACK NAN.
The Kansas Senator's Warming to the South
Sitting Upon Volcano-Shall it be
Reform or Revolution?

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-In the Senate to-
day Vest presented the credentials of Clark
and Maginnis as Senators-elect from Mon
tana. Read and referred. The four claim
ants from Montana were admitted to the
privileges of the floor pending the contest.
A bill increasing to $4,000 the appropri-
alton for site for public building in San
SFrancisco was reported from the commit
tee on public buildings and placed on the
calendar.
The Senate bill for an Immediate appro-
priation of $780, 900 for the continuance of
the improvement of the mouth of the Col
umbia river passed. Also one to place
General Stoneman on the retired list as a
colonel of infantry.
The Senate took up the bill, Buffers, on
negro emigration, and ingalls, addressed
Senate. The following are extracts from
Ingalls, address: ''On tie threshold of
our second century we are confronted with
the most formidable and portentious prob
lem ever submitted to a free PEG
pie for solution complex, unprece-
denied, involving social, moral and political
consideration, party supremacy and. in the
estimation of many, though not in my own,
the existence of our system of govern
|, enent Its solution will demand all the re-
ssources of the craftsmanship of the pres
en- and of the future to prevent crisis
that may become a catastrophe. 1t should
be approached with candor, with solemn
ity, with patriotic purpose, with fearless
scrutiny, without subterfuge and without
reserve. The line of cleavage between the
whites and blacks is becoming constantly
more distinct and perceptible. Politically,
they are affiliated with the victors in the
late civil war; socially and by locality and
residence, they are associated with the
vanquished Fred Douglass, the most illus
trious living representative Of the negro
race, once said to me he thought that
as prejudice and social and political an
tagonism disappeared, the races would
blend, coalesce and become homogeneous. l
do not agree with him. Such a solution,
in my judgment, would perpetuate the vices
of both races and the virtues of neither"
\ After praising the colored people for their
fidelity to the south during the war, he
said: at seems incredible that gratitude
should not have defended and shielded
them from the hideous and indescribable
wrongs and crimes Of which they have been
for a quarter of century the guiltless and
unresisting victims."!
ingalls, went to speak of the determine
ton of the south to eliminate the negro as
a factor from its political and social history,
and quoted evidence on that point from
Democratic newspapers and Democratic
politicians. He particularly instanced the
recent jackson, Miss, election, and quoted
the statement that the election at jackson
was the most outrageous ever seen; the
town had been taken possession of by
''toughs with rifes.n II was said that
Senator Georges son was one of the rife
men. ReSumlng, Ingalls, said: 'PreteXts
for this condition of things all rest upon
the fear of negro supremacy. To this
notification of the n0O Sf-tJfIon the Ipnl,ln
of the north have apparently consented.
The south is standing upon a volcano; the
south is sitting on a safety valve. ALI ady
the mutterings of discomfort by hostile
organizations are heard. The use of the
torch and the dagger is advised. deplore it,
but as God is my judge, | say no
other people on the face OF The earth have
ever submitted to the wrongs and injustice
which have been for twenty-five years put
upon the colored men of the south without
revolution and Blood
ingalls, went on to warn the south of the
natural consequences of its course toward
the colored people. Despotism makes
Nihilists. Ingalls, then spoke of an outrage
committed in Aberdeen, Miss, on the day
of jefferson Davis funeral, when German
timer, a citizen of Indiana, accidentally, in
the course of his work, let fall from the
house roof cable which had been stretched
across the street by the citizens, bearing
an eIngy OF the secretary Oh war with
the inscription, RED Proctor, - Traitor
and for this accident the timer was brut-
ally whipped by one Mcdonald, receiving
at least two hundred laShes and being
nearly blinded and terribly lacerated. Me
Donald was fined $50. The citizens sub
scribed twice the amount, discharged the
fine, paid for the broken whip, bought a
railroad ticket for the victim and sent MIN
out OF town. ''If," ne continued. "out-
RACES like that had been inflicted on an
American citizen in England. France.
4 SpBin or anywhere on the face OF the
earth, and there had not been instan-
taneous disavowal or reparation million
men in this country would spring to arms
to avenge the outrage and wrong. But this
outrage was inflicted in Mississippi and the
perpetrators go 'unwhipped of justice'
Race antaeonism applied only to colored
men. II they were all Democrats, the
race question would be over. Four soiu-
tions of the pro olem have been suggested:
Emigration, determination, absorption and
disfranchisement. But there was still a
fifth solution, which never had been tried
and that solution was justice. l appeal TO
the south" ne exclaimed, Ito their expert
ment of justice. Stack your arms, open
your ballot boxes, register your voters, and
voters black and white, and ii your expert
ment has been fairly and honestly tried, it
appears that the African race is incapable
OF CIVILIZATION; II IL appears that the COM
pleXion burnt upon him BY the sun is in
compatible with freedom, I will pledge my
self to consult with you about some
measure Of solving the race problem
But until then nothing can be done. The
citizenship of the negro must be absolutely
recognized. His right to vote must be
admitted and the ballots cast must be
honestly counted. These are the essential
preliminaries, the conditions precedent TO
any consideration and Interior and funda-
mental questions of race supremacy or
race equality in the United States, north
or south. Those who freed the slaves ask
nothing more; they will be content with
nothing less. The experiment must be
fairly tried
AT the conclusion of ingalls, address the
Senated adjourned till Monday.
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