The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-28

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said, not types, but prodigies; but some
people at the north, judging the whole negro
race by them, did not appreciate the dread
IN which the southern people stood of negro
rule. The people of the north did not know
that those col0red men were phenomena,
and that there was as much difference be-
tween them and the average plantation
negro that the southern people had to deal
with as there was between Napoleon and
the commonest soldier in the French army.
JACKsoN'S ELECTION.
Referring to the municipal election in Jack
son Spoken of last Thursday by Mr. In
gals Mr.. Walthall sketched the history of
that city for some years past, and referred
to Mr.. McGill, the republican candidate
for mayor, as man whose former admin
1stratiOn of that Office had been marked by
immoralitees and deeds of blood; while
his competitor, Mayor Beck, was
northern man aud had been
repu lican when McGill was serving in
the confederate army. Mr.. Beck, he said,
had been chosen mayor of the leading and
largest democratic city in the state, aud has
been supported by the white people without
regard to politics. There were other re-
publican mayors in democratic cities in
Mississippi. The town in which he lived
had been for years under republican
mayor.
Mr.. Walthall alluded incidentally to the
practice of frauds and bribery at elections
III some of the northern states, and asked
whether these were not more dangerous to
the perpetuation of free institutions than
anything that had been charged against
some of the southern states. If, he said,
there was show of force on the part of the
white people to save themselves from negro
rule, that was at least evidence of more
honest conviction than the buying of votes.
MR.. GEORGE CALLS A HALT.
Mr.. George spoke of the resolution as un-
paralleled in the history of legislation in
this country. 1t was simple, bold propo-
sition to place on the records of the Senate
the report of United States marshal act
ing as a detective While there might be
some excuse for that official intermeddling
in an affair with which he
had no legal authority to inter
meddle, there was no excuse for the
Senate composed of able, discreet, and, he
hoped, fajr-mlnded mem for calling such
document from pigeon-hole in the depart
ment of justice, and digniiying it as an
official document. He asked the senators
to pause, to stop, to think what they were
doing. By the courtesy of the Attorney
General, he (Mr. George had been fur
nished with a copy OF the marshaPs re-
port; and he had no objection TO have
~ ICelu lIOll blO ClGi Il u6SAs I1b duulibOol
that the facts had been correctly stated by
the senator from Kansas the other day, per-
haps with little coloring, and he had no
hesitation in declaring that the transaction
was such as demanded of the legislature of
the state of Mississippi an examination and
reparatiOn to the man who had thus been
maltreated.
CHANDELIERS EXCUSE.
Mr. Chandler advocated the resolution
and declared that he has not read or seen
the report and did not know what it con-
tanned. But he had heard that there was
such report and had offered the resolution.
He had done 50 believing that the report
was one which it was the province OF the
Senate to call for. He understood that the
Attorney General, hearing of that outrage,
has directed the marshal 90 make a report,
and that the marshal had done so, in pur-
suance of that instruction. If
the Attorney General and United States
marshal had been doing a wrong to th 9
state of Mississippi the Senate ought to find
it out; and it would find it out by the
adoption of the resolution. If the Senate
was not only to be taunted, when wrongs
of this kind were committed, by being
asked: "What are you going to do about
its You cannot help yourselves; the con-
stitution does not allow you to punish
wrongs of that kind" but was also to
be told by tthe senator from Mississippi:
"You have not the right to inquire, and
you dare not inquire into outrages of this
sort on a citizen" then indeed, had the SEN
ate fallen on woeful and lamentable times
INGALLS, SARCASTIC.
Mr. Ingalls, said he had no comment to
make on the eulogy pronounced on the peo-
pie of Aberdeen except to say that it was in
evidence that no less than 800 or 400 of them
stood Inv whom tho oac cfiua tiOr i,,H
on Fanz without word of protest
or any attempt TO interfere The vic
tim of this wrong was not a
citizen of the state of Mississippi
If he had been. do not know that should
not be willing to have allowed the powers in
that state to deal with the transaction
as they pleased. He was not a citizen of the
state OF Mississippi. He was citizen of the
United States, and the state of Indiana,
temporarily in the state of Mississippi, peace
fully pursuing his legal vocation.
DENIAL OF RIGHT OF INTERFERENCE.
"And we are to be told here that it is be-
yond the competency and power of the
Senate of the United States and of the
government of the United States to i quire
into the wrong inflicted by the people of
Mississippi, not on a citizen of that state, but
on citizen of the United States, himself
citizen of another state. [ want to say to
that senator that whenever it is made to
appear that the laws of the United States
are not strong enough to protect citizen
of Indiana against wrong on the banks of
the Mississippi, or that a citizen of New
York is not safe in his home on the banks
of the Hudson, or that farmer of the west
is not safe in his dug-out on the plains Of
Dakota-(Mr ingalls, left the sentence IN
furnished and went ON.
VERY BLUSTERY.
''It may be that you will succeed in pro-
curing declaration from this body that
the senate of the United States, that the
government of the United States has no
power either to inquire into wrong against
citizens or to protect them against such in
vaSion of their rights; but l say to that
senator that if FAM had been a citizen of
the state of Kansas, and it
should appear that the authorities of
Mississippi would not avenge that wrong,
and if it should appear that the govern
ment and authorities of the United States
were powerless to prevent such wrong, l
will guarantee to him that the citizens of
the state of Kansas would take it into their
hands to resent it, and to exact reparation."
[Murmurs of disapproval on the democratic
side Of the chamber. and some manifesto
tions Of applause in the galleries.