Connecticut western news., 1890-01-29
FIERY INGALLS,.
The Kansas Senator Crowds
 the Chamber.
He Discourses on the Race Question In
 His Usual Unique Style.
The South Standing on . avolcano.-Collision Between Whites and Blacks Inevitable.

Jan. g was an Ingalls, day in the Senate.
 There are not in Congress to-day half a dozen men who can pack the galleries of the Capitol Co their fullest capacity by the mere announcement that they will make speech.
 Senator John James Ingalls, of Kansas Is one of these men, and it is tribute to his mental powers that he can command an audi ence when other legislators have to talk to empty benches.
 1t is not that Mr. Ingalls, is such matchless orator that people flock to hear him. MT. Ingalls, can never thrill an audience. But the Kansas senator is master of invective, an adept in the use of sarcasm-sareasm so bit ing and pitiless in its application that his vic tim writhes in agony when the vial of yitriol Is opened and the acid resistlessly does its work.
 The Senator's theme and his audience to- day recalled some stirring events in the na- tion's history. Half-a-doZen of the persons who sat around him had been the chief actors, the benefciaries and the victims of the race conflict which he described. He himself stood in the Senate chamber the represents tive of sBloody Kansas" whose history is wrapped up with that of the triumphs of the Republican party. Close behind him sat the white-haired veteran from Massachusetts whose election as speaker of the House was one of the first fruits of the popular judg- ment upon the attempt to fasten slavery upon Kansas. From the gallery looked down the children of the Republican President whose Virginia ancestor had sought to carry slavery into the Territory of Indiana. Over behind the Democratic side sat the one represents tive of the colored race whom the fortunes of politics had let in Congress.
 Gen. Banks was one of the early cOngres- sional arrivals on the floor. He took seat immediately behind Senator Ingalls and next to Senator Hawley. MT. Morse shortly after followed him in and stood at the head of the centre aisle talking with Senator Blair, his broad expanse of white shirt front gleaming like good deed in 6 naughty world. MT. Lodge was also an interested listener and, in fact, all the members at the Mass. delegation, with the exception of MT. Rockwell, MT. Wallace and MT. O'Neil were present. Maj. Merrill occupied front seat in the reserved gallery, and near him was Col. Ben. Lowell.
 Mrs. Reed, wife of the speaker, and the wives of many of the representatives, were in the galleries.
 On the floor was assembled nearly all of the senators, both Republicans and Demo- erats, and fully 100 members of the House. A noticeable pair sitting side by side, were Secretary Rusk and ex-Speaker Banks.
 Mr. Ingalls spoke from his desk, whereon . pile of Congressional Records held his manuscript near his eyes. The orators long, thin body was closely wrapped in tight-fit- ting Prince Albert coat, buttoned from neck to knees.
 Both sides of tLe chamber indulged in hughter when Mir. Ingalls spoke of his own ancestors having owned slaves in Massachu- setts within century, and added:
 Phillips, Emerson and other apostles of Freedom were as right in 1850, as they were in 1860, yet their appeals for liberty fell on deaf ears among the Puritans. New England never roused to a condemnation of the i'm mOran0s1eNlavery till it had ceased to be profitxb}e.o
 Among the crowd in the galleries were sev. eral hundred colored men, who hung on the orators words as if they were ropes of saliva ton.
 MT. Ingalls, spoke for two hours, and at the conclusion of his effort was warmly congrat- ulated. He said among other things: In 1860 there were in the United States 4,440,- 900 negroes, slaves and free. In 1870 there were 4,4S0,OO0; in 1880. 6,5S0 ,000; an increase which q say in passing) can only be account ed for on the principle of premeditated and intentional fraud on the census. At the close of this century, probably, there will not be less that 15 900 900 of the black and eOlored race on this continent.
 The problem is still further complicated by the fact that they are gregariOus. The line of cleavage between whites and blacks is be coming constantly more distinct and pereep- ube. There is neither amagamatiOn, nor there would be armed collision between the races.
 The South is standing upon a volcano. They are breeding innumerable John Browns and Nat Turner's.
 The colored people, MT. Ingalls, continued are here. They are natives. They are citi- zens. Man for man, they are our politica equals. They came here involuntarily. as prisoners of war, captured in fight. They are of ancient lineage, genuine F. F. V.'s (Laughter.)
 The citizenship of the negro, must be abso lutely recognized. His right to vote must bt admitted and ballots that he casts must b' honestly counted. These are essential pre- Kminaries. the conditions precedent to an, consideration of the ulterior and fundamen tai questions of race supremacy or race equal hy in the United States. North or South.