The state herald., 1890-01-31
TnealIs' Great Effort.
TIE R4cE QUESyT0T -EE
SUBJECT .A.ND THE K.4.N-
Sis SENATOR THE
ORATOR.
AN EARNEST a pPEAL TO THE SOUTH
TO GIVE JUSTICE TO TIE
NEGRO.

TO GIVE JUSTICE TO THE
NEGRO.
"Mr. President, there are five solutions of
the race problem: |. Anialgamati0n. 2 Ex-
termination. 3Scparation. 4 Dlsfranchisc.
inent. But there Is fifth universal solvent
of all human difficulties that has never
been proposed and has never been tried,
and that Is q solution Of justice-justice for
which every place should be temple. |
appeal to the South TO try the experiment
OF justice. Stack your guns, open your bal
lot boxes. register your voters, black and
white. Until this Is done nothing can be
done. The citizenship of the negro must be
recognized His right to vote must be ad-
nitted. The ballot that he casts must be
honestly counted. Those, sir, who freed
the slaves ask nothing more; they will be
contented with nothing less. The expert
ment must be fairly tried. This Is tho
starting point, and 1t Is the goal. The
longer II is deferred the greater will be the
exasperation and the more doubtful the
final result"
With these words Senator ingalls, clo'ed
one of the most significant speeches ever
made anywhere on the race problem In this
country before an audience m large and
distinguished as is often assembled In tho
Senate chamber. Two hours before tho
speech began the corridors leading to the
galleries were packed by persons who vainly
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wards the thronged galleries followed In a
silence in harmony with the sOlemnity of
the speech and the wonderful periods of the
orator. The audience was n tribute 10 one
OF the ablest men who has ever had n seat
In the Senate Chamber. Other Senators
announce two days in advance that they
intend TO speak at certain time on n ccr-
tain subject and the galleries will be empty
and only so many Senators will remain in
their seats as the demands Of an inexorable
courtesy may require. Every Senator was
In his place. Distinguished strangers occu-
pied every accessible place. The house OF
Representatives was present, almost In
body. Mr.. ingalls, appeared in his seat q
few minutes before two o'clock. Upon his
desk there was q pile Of Congressional
Records which was to serve as q pulpit
from which the orator was to deliver this
sermon to his cOuntrymen. Mr.. ingalls,
WAS much palcr than Is his wont. About
his neck there was closely folded a white
silk handkerchief, which showed that he
was still suffering from severe Illness.
His voice had not It's natural strength and
vigor. Those who came to hear u torrent
OF the most extraordinary vituperation Of
which any man in our public life is capable,
who expected to see Southern men aroused
to passion, who believe that they would
listen to an Grafton In which the English
language would be used by n master to ea.
aspcrate his opponents. went away disap-
pointed. Those who came to laugh, went
home to think. Possibly never before In
the United States Congress have the South
crn men had it made so clear TO them that
in their treatment Of the negro they arc
sowing the wind and may rear the wbirl-
wind. And possible few men in public
would care to declare that when that
dreadful crisis shall come In the South,
which may come. when the negro shall In
siNbF' ~ Nh'"i'ht' P''Nh' NV
South will be compelled 10 meet its own
problem, and cannot look TO the North, or
to the West, or Ia the Northwest for help.
Mr. ingalls, explained why he did not resort
To yituperaiior. lie said; The most NOR
dani and biting criticism that can be- made
about the situation IN the South Is the
truth" And he established the truth by
the statements Of white Democratic South
eren witnesses alone. Mr. Ingalls, pleased
some of his Southern hearers by his allusicn
TO the days when slaves were owned In
New England. There was smile along
the Southern side Of the chamber when Mr..
ingalls, said ~ am u native Of Massaclu-
sets. My ancestors held slaves In that
State within n century. Wendai
Phillips and Garrison and l.ovcjoy were rs
right In 1850 rs they were In 1850. but their
appeal fell upon deaf ears in the land of the
Puritans. The conscience Of New
England was never thoroughly aroused to
the enormity of African slavery until It
ceased To be profitable"
But the Southern men had enough 10
think about by the description Of the situa-
oi Mississippi was compelled tJ listen In
silence when Senator Ingalls, read out the
names Of his sons who were members Of
militia companies that Mr.. ingalls, charged
were engaged in preventing the negroes
from voting nj recent election In Mississ-
ippi There was an ominous passage In his
speech. That passage Southern men will
undoubtedly charge Is incendiary. Mr..
ingalls, spoke OF the possibilities In the
South when the black men advances In
education and civilization, should no longer
be willing TO submit TO such great wrongs.
Such crisis Is inevitable. at may bc
postponed for generation II may be pres.
epied at the next Presidential election, and
| warn those who are perperating these
wrongs upon the suffrage that the North
and the West, and the Northwest Will not
consent 10 have their industries, their
wealth, their manufactures, their civiliza.
tion changed inodiliod, and decided By
majoriiics resting upon u deliberate sup
preston of the colored vote, or of any other
vote BY force and By fraud. That time will
come, and that II will come In peace OF In
blood Is the decree In destiny.
Soon OF later they will be consumed away
In som sudden flash like that WAS sect
from he Atlantic 10 the Pacific when JOIN
Br own u, Iiarpcr's Ferry ircd n shot.
| These sentences of ingalls, were receive,
with grta, solcmniiy. Thc Southern me,
seemed disturbed by them. Ne one sough
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