Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-01-31
The Wendell Phillips of The
Senate.

Senator Morgan's tediously elaborate
and verbose arguments in favor OF sending
out of the Southeast its most loyal and
productive citizens wearied the Senate
and did no COED to the bad cause for which
it was delivered.
But Senator Morgan's speech and Sena-
tor Buffers bill providing for the deporta-
ton of colored people had the effect to caii
out from Senator ingalls, speech on the
broad question of the relations between
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with epigrammatic characterizations Of the
injustice, tyranny and violence OF the
white man of the Southeast to the Negro
and that will travel further and faster and
make deeper impressions than any speech
that it is in the power of either Butler or
Morgan to make. The Senate Chamber
was pack ed because of the justihable pre-
vailing confidence that Mr.. ingalls, would
riddle the sophistries and expose the lido
cies of a wholesale scheme for removing
from the Southeast the loyal and law abid-
ing colored people, whose labor SO long
supported them and their masters and
whose labor is still essential to the devel
opment of that region.
Wendell Phillips never in single
speech fired at the SlaveOcracy before the
war more or more deadly epigrams than
pierced the fallacies and false pretences of
slavery, than Mr.. ingalls, yesterday dis
charged at the monstrous doctrine of
"white supremacy" in whose name and
behalf fraud, murder, violence and intimi-
dation are used whenever needed to "keep
the Negro under"
practically" says Mr.. ingalls,,
(I say it with shame and remorse), the
Negroes have been abandoned to their
fate. There are undoubtedly some thought
full men in the South who apprehend COM
ing events, and would willingly relinquish
the right to representation if the States
could be permitted to impose the race con
dition upon suffrage. But this is impossi-
BILE. 1t would shock the sense OF man
kind. The gods cannot recall their gifts.
Educational qualifications and other quail
ifications would only postpone the Crisis.
1t may be postponed for generation, or
it may be precipitated in the Eext Presl-
Dental election; but | warn those who
are perpetrating these wrongs upon the
suffrage that the North and West and
Northwest will not consent to have their
institutions, their industries, their wealth
and their civilization changed, modified or
destroyed by a government resting upon
deliberate and habitual suppression OF the
colored vote, or any other vote by force or
fraud. Sooner or later there would be
collision between the races. The South Is
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sitting upon the safety valve. They are
breeding innumerabie John Browns and
Nat Turner's.
"Despotisn," says Mr.. Ingalls,, ''makes
Nihilists. Injustice is the great manufac-
tory of dynamite. A man who is a thief
robs himself An adulterer pollutes him
self A murderer inAicts deeper wound
on himself than that which Stays his vic
tim. The South, in imposing chains on
the African race, lays heavier manacles on
itself than those with which 1t burdens the
helpless slave. And those who are deny
ing to American citizens the privileges OF
freedom should remember that there is
nothing SO Improbable as injustice, and
that God is an unrelenting creditor ST.
lent it may be, tardy and slow it may be;
but inaxorable and relentless. Behind the
wrong-doer stalks the menacing spector of
vengeance and rctribution."
The Kansas Senator holds that there can
be but one solution of the race problem, viz:
that of justice, and that has not yet been
tried. Nothing short of equal. exact justice,
protecting black and white alike, can ena-
BILE the two races to live and work togeth-
er, under our free institutions, and to
maintain "the government Of the people,
for the people and by the people. Mail
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