Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-24
AT WASHINGTON.
The Race Problem Again
Under Consideration.
SENATOR INGALLS, REMARKS
He Thinks the Color Question Will
Adjust Itself if the Negro Is
Given His Rights.


ate TODAY Vest presented the credentials
of Clark and Maginnis as Senators-elect
from Montana. Read and referred. The
four claimants from Montana were ad
mitted to the privileges of the floor
pending the contest.
The bill increasing to $500, 900 the sp
preparation for the site for public build.
ing in San Francisco, was reported from
the committee and placed on the calen.
dar.
The Senate bill for the immediate ap.
preparation of 100000 for the continu-
ance of the improvements at the mouth
of the Columbia river, was passed; also
one to place General Stoneman on the re.
tired list as Colonel of Infantry.
The Senate took up Buffers Negro
Emigration bill, and ingalls, addressed
the Senate. Following are extracts from
Ingslls's address:
"On the threshold of our second cen.
tury we are confronted with the most
formidable and portentous problem ever
submitted to a free people for solution ;
complex, unprecedented, involving
social, moral and political considerations,
party supremacy, and in the estimation
of many (though not in my own) the ex-
istence of cur system of government.
It's solution will demand all the resources
and statesmanship of the present and
of the future to prevent crisis that may
become catastrophe. It should be ap-
preached with candor, with solemnity,
with q patriotic purpose. with fearless
scrutiny without subterfuge and with.
out reserve. The line of cleavage be-
tween whites and blacks is be-
coming constantly more distinct and
perceptible. Politically they are affili-
ated with the victors in the late civil
war. Socially and by locality and resi-
dence, they are associated with the van.
quished. Fred Douglass, the most illus.
trious living representative of the negro
race, once said to me that he thought as
prejudice and social end political an
tagonism disappeared the races would
blend, coalesce and become homogene.
GUS. 1 do not agree with him. Such q
solution, in my judgment, would per-
petuate the vices of both races and the
virtues of neither"
Alter praising the colored people for
their fidelity to the South during the
W6As uO bhlus IL b0olub luCT6ulUl0 tudb
gratitude should not have defended and
shielded them from the hideous and in
descrlbable wrongs and crimes of which
they have been for quarter of a century
the guiltless and unresisting Victims"
Ingalls, went on to speak of the deter
mination Of the South to eliminate the
social history, and quoted evidence on
hof nj nop IN Il
Democratic politicians. He particularly
instanced the recent jackson, Hissis-
sippi, election, and quoted a statement
that the election at Jackson was the
most outrageous ever seen, the town
having been taken possession of by
toughs with rifles. It was said Senator
Georges son was one of the rifemen.
Resuming, Ingalls, said: "The pre-
text for this condition of things all rests
upon the fear of negro supremacy. To
this notification of the constitution, the
people of the North have apparently con.
sented. The South is standing upon a
volcano. The South is sitting upon a
safety valve. Already mutterings of dis
content by hostile organizations are
heard. The use of the torch and dagger
is advised. deplore it; but as God is
my Judge, / say no other people OH the
face of the earth have ever submitted to
such wrongs and injustice as have for
twenty years been put upon the colored
men of the South, without revolution and
bloodshed."
Ingalls, went on to warn the South Of
the natural consequences of it's course
"Despotism makes Nihilists."
1c o1yo nf
mitted at Aberdeen, Mississippi, on the
day of Jefferson Davis's funeral, when
German timer, citizen of Indiana, &C
cidentally, in the course of his work, le
fall from house roof cable which
by citizens, bearing an effigy o
inscription: cred Proctor, Traitor" Fo
this accident, ingalls, said, the tinne
was brutally whipped by one Mcdonald
receiving at least 200 lashes, and bein
nearly blinded and terribly lacerated
Mcdonald was fined $50. The citizen
subscribed twice the amount, discharge
the fine, paid for the broken whip, bough
railroad ticket for the victim and ser
him out of town. If, continued Ingallt
an outrage like that had been inficte
on an American citizen in England
France, Spain, or anywhere on the fac
of the earth, and there had not been ir
stantaneous disavowal or reparation,
million men in this country would hav
sprung to arms to avenge the outrage an
wrong. But the outrage was inflicted
Mississippi, and the perpetrators 90 III
whipped Of justice.
Race antagonism applied only to co
ored men. We're they all Democrats th
race question would be over. For
solutions of the problem had been SUI
gested-emigration, determination, at
sorption and acknowledgements; but the
was still fifth solution which never ha
been tried, and that solution was justic
II appeal to the South" he 9.
claimed, "to try the experiment of justic
Stack your guns, open your bsllot-boxe
register your voters, and if after the e
pertinent has been fairly and honest
tried, it appears that the African race
incapable of civilization, if it appea
that the complexion burnt on hi
~ the sun is incompatible wi
freedom, will pledge myself
consult with you about some measure
solving the race problem. But UNI
then nothing can be done. The citize
ship OF the negro must be absolute
recognized; his right to vote must be a
mitted, and the ballots he casts must
honestly counted. These are the esse
tial preliminary conditions precedent
any consideration, and the ulterior al