Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-08
A PLACE FOB HIM.
Senator Morgan Talks in Favor Of Assisting
the Negro 10 Emigrate-He Thinks
Africa Offers the COlored
Man n Grent Field

| oil LABOR
WASHINGTON, January 7.-Mr. Morgan
addressed the Senate to-day on the subject
of the bill heretofore introduced by Mr..
Butler to provide for the emigration of per-
sons of color from the Southern States. He
said that when Mr.. Window was a member
of the Senate he advocated proposal for
voluntary emigration of the colored people.
He (Mr. Morgan) was then in favor of that
policy. and was still in favor of any plan
that could be devised to meet the evil. He
had reached the conclusion that there was
natural incongruity and an irrepressible
conflict between the races which nothing
could cure except their final separation.
The return Of the negro race 10 Africa was
the final and only solution of the problem.
1t was undeniable that the aversion between
the two races had greatly increased since
slavery was abolished; and il would increase so
long as large portion of the population was
of the African race. Experience would not
permit the statement that such feeling of aver
sion existed only in the South. 1t was not so
intense in the South as it was in the North. 1t
was not so strong between the negro and his
former master as it was between the negro and
those who never ownedslaves. Separation of the
races was the only thing that would extinguish
race aversions. In Africa (which was prepared
for the negro as certainly the Garden of
Eden was prepared for Adam and Eve) the
negro grew mp to the fun measure of his des-
tiny. In the Congo basin were found the best
types of the African race, and the American
negro would ind there field Tor his efforts
There were grand possibilities there for the
American negroes, if they were SO kind to their
brethren in Africa as the people of this coun-
try had been to them. Slavery, Mr.. Morgan
said, would then be abolished in central Africa.
1.-THE work was left TO the whites it would be a
slow process; but the American negro would
accomplishlt 1t if he dwelt among those people
In summing up his speech, Mr.. Morgan
pointed to the fact that negroes had no chance
TO rise in this country. There were no negro
bank presidents, no negro railroad presidents,
no negro presidents of manufacturing, COM
mercial, mining or navigation companies; no
negro directors, cashiers or tellers in banks; no
negro engineers or conductors on railways: no
negro State or Federal judges; no negro Gov
ernor of State or Territory; no negro in any
Northern Legislature; no negro representative
in either house OF Congress from any
Northern State. The negros entire field
ploits This field was occupied with
little benefit to himself and with great
injury to others. Political influence would
never lift the negro race in this country above
his present level. On the contrary the friction
and collision by the negroes use of the ballot
would create more and more envy against the
negro race.
Mr.. Morgan looked forward to the estab-
lishment of a free republican government in
the Congo region by the influence of America
or American negroes. VINO would thus be the
redeemers and regenerators of their father
land. He had plan which he would present to
the Committee on Foreign Relations; but he
should live in the hope that some plan better
than his would be found.