The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-02-01
THE RACE QUESTION.
Senator Ingalls's Promised Speech Against
the Butler Bill.
SOUTHERN OUTRAGEs DENOUNCED.
Various Remedies Suggest ed for the EVIL,
But Justice the Only solution.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23d, 1890

But Justice the Only Solution.
WASHINGTON, an. 23d, 1890
AT 2 O'Clock the Senate took up the
bill introduced by Mr.. Butler, to pro-
vide for the emigration of persons of
color from the Southern States, and
MIR. ingalls, rose to make his speech.
AT this time there was scarcely vacant
seat IN the galleries-except as to the
diplomatic gallery, in which there were
only half 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, rose and asked for
the reading OF the bill in full the noise
and confusion instantly ceased and
perfect stiffness succeeded. He opened
his speech in a clear, ringing voice,
saying:
Mr.. President: The race to which
we belong is the most arrogant and
rapacious, the most exclusive and in
domitable in history. 1t is the con-
quering and the unconquerable race,
through which alone man has taken
possession Of the physical and the moral
world. To our race humanity is in
debted for religion, for literature, for
civilization. 1t has genus for con-
quest, for politics, for jurisprudence and
for administration.
The home and the family are its
contributions to society. Indlvidualism,
fraternity, liberty and equality have
been its contributions to,the State. All
other races have been its enemies and
its victims. This is not the time, nor
Is it the occasion, to consider the pro-
foundly interesting question of the uni.
ty of races. 1t is sufficient to say that,
either by instinct or design, the CO,
cassian race, at every step of its pro-
gress from barbarism to enlightenment,
has refused to mingle Its blood, or to
assimilate, with the two other great
human families (the Mongolian and the
Atrican,) and has perslstently rejected
adulteration.
Mr.. ingalls, went on to Speak of the
trlumphs accomplished by the exiles of
Plymouth and Jamestown o who had
vertured on this continent on hilh-
erto untried experimental paradox
Government-in which those who rule
are those to be governed. Under the
shield of the American Government, he
said, every faith had found its shelter,
every creed a sanctuary, and every
wrong redress. 1t had resisted the
rancor of party spirit, the violences of
faction, the perlls of foreign immigra-
ton, the collisions of civil war, and the
jealous menace of foreign and hostile
nations. He quoted from Mr.. John
Bright's speech during the civil war, in
which Mr.. Bright said
"l see another and brighter vision
before my gaze. 1t may be a vision,
but l cherish 1t.
81 see one vast Confederation
stretching from the frozen North to the
glowing South, and from the wild bill
lows of the Atlantic to the calmer
waters of the Pacific man and l see
one people, one language, one law and
one faith ; and all over that wide conti-
nent the home of freedom and refuge
for the oppressed of every race and
every clime."
Mr.. ingalls, proceeded:
On the threshold of our second cen
tury, we are confronted with the most
formidable and portentous problem
ever submitted to free people for So
lution-complex, unprecedented, in
volving social, moral and political con-
siderations, party supremacy, and, in
the estimation of many (though not my
own), the existence OF our system of
Government. Its solution will demand
all the resources and craftsmanship of
the present and of the future, to pre-
vent crisis that may become cstas-
trophe. 1t should be approached with
candor, with solemnity, with patriotic
purpose, with fearless scrutiny, without
subterfuge and without reserve,
Let me state it in the language of
one of the most brilliant, the most i'm
passioned and powerful of all the ora
tors of the South-now unfortunately
no more. When Henry w. Grady died
luminous meteor disappeared from
the Southern armament.
Mr.. ingalls, thereupon sent to the
Clerks desk and had read all 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 1860
there were in the United States 4,43o,-
600 negroes, slaves and free. In 1870
there were 4,4So. 900 ; In 1880, $780,
ooo-an increase which Il Say in pass
ing) can only be accounted for on the
principle of premeditated and inten
tional fraud In 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.
The problem IS still further compli-
Gated BY the fact that they are gregari-
Gus. They instinctively separate them
selves into their own communities, with
their own habits, their own customs,
their own methods Of life. They wor-
ship separately. They are taught sep
arately. The line of cleavage between
whites and blacks is b. coming con
stantly more distinct and perceptible.
There is neither amalgation. nor ab-