The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-01-22
Some Telling Truths About Negro
Emigration.


From the New York Mail and Expross.
Thurs lays debaiein the Senate on senator
Butlers bin to provide for the emigration OF
negroes to Africa was one Of the liveliest and
most earnest that have occurred thus far
this winter Mr. Buffers bill, in brief. pro
vides for the appropriation Of several mil
lions ofdollars TO pay for the passage and
temporary support Of negroes who wish 70
leave this country for Africa. He argued in
favor of il that two alien races cannot live
peaceably together in the same country
when both have the same political and civil
rights and he urged. with an appearance
Of belief that ifihe government would do
its duty 10y the negro be would illnmiDe
the Dark Con iinent Of his fathers with the
light Of Christianity and law" How be
could do this IT, as Mr. Butler asserted he
always retrogrades in civilization il LEFT to
himself. and is actually retrograding now
in the Southern State. the Senator from
South Carolina did not explain.
The distinguished author Of the Hamburg
massacre, who now poses as the friend of
the negro and the would be apostle of Afri-
ca, was answered by Senators Hoar and
Blair SO completely and conclusively that we
doubt whether even mis- inclination viii be
equal 70 the task of urging his bill any fur
tber As for the assertion that the two "a
ces. given equal c;vif and political rights,
cannot live peaceably together said
Senator Hoar. il cannot be proved, for the
trial has never been made The whites have
never, since equal rights were conferred upon
the negro, tried TO live peaceably with him.
If the assertion were true, he added, then the
Declaration OF Independence was a lie then
the Constitution Of the United States and the
constitution Of every American State rested
on rottenness then was the Christian reii-
gion, which Taught humanity, equality, and
that " God made OF one blood all nations Of
the earth, but a solemn mockery. solemn
falsehood.
Senator Blair carried the war, If not into
Africa, at any rate into The enemy's country
by asserting that if instead of exporting
eight million colored people there were ten
thousand white people exported ,here and
kept there, the whole difficulty would be
settled and that the difficulties Of the race
problem existed in the excited imaginations
and ineradicable prejudices OF q few white
men, not between the races themselves Ed
ucation, not emigration, is the only remedy
for present evils.
II is really difficult TO take seriously such
propositions as those made, apparently in all
earnestness, by Senator Butler aud Senator
Morgan and yet, as We happen to know,
they really represent the sentiment, if not
the mature thought, Of very large number
Of persons in the Southern Slates. The rul-
ing race in those states lay down Is an AK
ION, to begin With, that, as Senator Morgan
said the other day, if the negroes remain,
there is no middle ground between marry
ing them and numbering them and that
the former alternative is impossible II is
troublesome to keep on numbering them.
year after year, and besides. occasionally
white man gets murdered too so the
rulers want the colored people sent
away.
Now, our white fellow citizens in the
States lately in rebellioa may as well make
up their minds at once that any such solu-
ton of the problem as they propose is i'm
possible, and will not be attempted that 4
majority of the people Of these United States
have ordained in the Constitution thereof
that equal civil and political rights shall be
denied 10 none on the ground Of race. color,
OF previous condition OF servi;udr, and
mean TO enforce that Constitution that the
soouer they accept the law Of the land in
good faith, the sooner the end of their troub-
les viii be in sight aud that the best thing
they can do for themselves and their negro
fellow citizens is to provide for the education
OF all. equally. in the eleIaeEgs of knowledge
and the principles Of republican government.