The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-17

believed in the total, hopeless depravity of
the negro race
GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE NEGRO.
He believed that there were great oppor-
tunItles in store for the negro. He be-
neVed that II the government would do its
| dutY oy the negro instead of coaching him
and confusing him with civil rights and
| empty statutes; if it would render him
| substantial assistance in his struggle for
regeneration and real freedom, he would
| lllumine the dark continent of his fathers
with tho light Of christianity and law. He
was not alone III that opinion
Eminent white men and eminent black
men shared it. Mr.. Butler quoted
| at some length from q book of L. w
Biyden, e colored clergyman, who had
| lived many years in Africa, to show that
the ultimate regeneration of Africa rested
with the negoes Of the United States. He
also quoted in parallel sense, from letters
of Rev. Mr.. Turner and other colored cler-
| gymen in this country, and from speeches
by.Daniel Webster, Edward Everett, Ste
phen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln.
THE EFFECT ON THE SOUTH.
As to the effect on the southern states of
an emigration of the colored people, he said
| that if the south could be thus relieved of
| part, at least, of its superabundance of
| cheap labor. there would be such an immi-
| grafton of white, Intelligent, progressive
| citizens that the prosperity of the south
| during the last decade would pale into in
significance as compared with its future
| progress.
In conclusion he said: 81 anticipate that
what have said will be assailed by those
who do not, and cannot understand or
| appreciate the motive which influences me
and those who agree with me- | shall
expect to be assailed by those who wish to
| make capital for themselves at the expense
| of the peace and good will of 4he country;
but | shall bide my time, and neither
deviate to right nor left from the line l
have marked out for myself.
MUST MEET TIE ISSUE SQUARELY.
"Vituperation, Misrepresentation, asper-
| sion, never settled controversy, and will
not settle this l would to God there was
no Tace question in this country. | sincerely
| wish we might never feel called on to refer
| to such a topic; but | cannot shut my lips
| to the conditions continually confronting
and clamoring for adjustment. I DO
| not want to transmit to those who
| come after me undetermined, adjusted,
race issues. 1t is very easily for those COG
| viently remote from these conditions to
| indulge themselves in self-satisfying
| theories and ot structions, but to those sur
| rounded, by day and by night, by such
moral social, industrial and political en-
barrassments, the subject will not down.
CANNOT BE NEGLECTED..
| SIT is not an uncommon thing to hear
| men say, Let the negro alone; be makes u
| good peasant class; he is the best laborer
we can get for the cotton fields, etc.. Do
| not all such forget that there is no such
| thing as peasant class under our form of
| governments Do they forget that the negro
is free American citizen, entitled, by
| virtue Of his citizenship, if on
no other account, to equality before
the law with the foremost citizen of the
| land-equality of opportunity. equality of
rightl No sir, you cannot afford to let him
alone unless you are prepared to admit
what no man has ever dared affirm, that be
| is the equal of the Anglo-Saxon in the race
| of Anne rican civilization. 1t is no disparag-
lnent to say that he is not, for no other race
| has ever stood in the Anglo-Saxon's path
| way to power aad undivided dominion and
survived.
CANNOT AFFORD TO BE UNJUST.
81 will say with equal emphasis that we
cannot afford to be unjust to the negro. He
has done nothing to deserve it. He has long
enough been made the football of contend
ing factions. He hes been made TO suffer
enough between the upper and neither mill
stones Of opposing forces. Justice to the
negro should go hand in hand with Justice
to the white man and to our civilization.
And surely there ought to be sense enough,
patriotism and good feeling enough, to
settle this phase Of the race question with
out more ado or trouble"
HoAR AND BLAIR AsToNIsHED.
Mr.. Hoar replied to Mr.. Butler, charac-
| terizing his proposition as the most aston
ishing that had ever been heard in the leg
islative history of the Senate.
Mr.. Blair spoke against the bill, which
| he declared to be either manifest impOssi-
| bility or an absurdity.
The bill then went over without action.
1t will be called up again next Tuesday.
probably, when Mr.. ingalls, will address the
Senate in opposition to it.
Mr.. Pasco gave notice that on Monday
next he would address the Senate on the
subject of federal control of elections.
THE MONTANA SENATORS.
Mr.. Teller presented the credentials of
Wilbur f. Sanders and Thomas G. Power,
es senators-elect from the state of Montana.
| They were read and referred to the COM
mittee on privileges and elections. Mr.
| Pugh desired to have authority given to
| the committee to send for persons and
papers, but Mr.. Teller suggested that that
| was a matter which should be left to the
| committee itself.
| Mr.. Hawley entered motion to recon
| slider the vote by Whlch tne Dill was passed
| Yesterday granting to the city of st.
| Augustine, Fla, a part of the military
reservation near that city. He said that
there were several similar bills before the
committee on military affairs, and the COM
mittee was waiting on information from
| the war department.
The Senate then went into executive ses-
sion, and when the doors were reopened it
| adjourned till Monday.
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In the House.
In his prayer this morning the chaplain
said:
| Almighty God, we come before thee this day
| bearing ia the arms of our tenderest sympathy
| thy serva e. the Secretary Of State, from whose