The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-01-25

"PurfuTtknf monies. ndScHW fldlcn-
las mus" Senator Ingalls,, Of Kansas 9,
has at last delivered his much adver
tised and much Wanted speech on the
negro question, and what is the result 2
SO far as the press reports may be relied
Oh, it has turned out to be "a voice and
beyond that nothing Such a series
OF Inconsistencies has never before been
strung together, and such an ingenious
admixture OF truth and falsehood has
never been presented to the American
people. In fact Senator Ingalls, seems
throughout his address, TO study
lust exactly how much truth be might
inject into his remarks 50 as to give
them sufficient credit to cause the false
hoods to be believed.
For instance, when he claims no gu
perior virtue for the North on the ques-
ton of slavery, and asserts that the
conscience Of New England was per
fectIy serene and placid regarding
slavery 80 long as it proved profitable
to the disciples Of Higher Morality in
that bleak section Of country, he
speaks the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth.
But when in the next breath
he revived the old and WORKOUT scan
dals about the undue intimacy Of the
Southern planter with his slaves; and
while apparently deprecating the horri-
BILE idea Of miscegenation, he sarcasli'
cslly remarked that Frederick Doug
lass owed whatever Of intellect he had
more t. his Caucasian reinforcement
than to his African blood" he was
guilty Of the most culpable Of all false
hoods-the suppressiO reri-and the de.
liberate attempt to convey false i'm
preston under the disguise Of truth.
II would require far more space than
can be devoted to it to treat, in an ordi-
nary editorial article, Mr.. ingalls,
speech az it deserves. There is. how
ever, one point in it which is worthy Of
special comment. Ingalls, says that
there are five methods Of solving this
vsxed problem, viz: Amalgation, ex
termination, separation, disenfrsnchise-
ment and justice. The methods OF
amalgamation, separation and disfrsn-
ehisement the Senator from Kan
sss openly reprobates, and he
stamps with his quasi approval
only the other remaining two
determination and justice. Judging by
the tenor Of his remarks, he is strongly
in favor of determination, and in real
ity cares nothing for justice, only al
luding to it at all because lac thinks it
may serve to enable him the more deit- |
" to conceal his real sentiments. While |
admitting that il a war Of races the
weaker must necessarily suffer, he
urges the negro to organize for armed |
defiance to the whites, and so, in the
coolest blood, he deliberately invites /
the negro to his doom, thereby plainly
showing that he regards the policy OF
determination as the best to be adopted
in settling this momentous question.
The Southern negro who is endowed
with the slightest capacity for thought
should carefully consider this proposi-
ton of Mr. Ingalls, Of Kansas. 1t will
him that his worst enemy is
the Radical politician Of the North, and
that his to-called friends of that sec
lion, after making all the use OF him
possible as a hobby-horse upon which
TO ride into power, are perfectly will
ing, when they can utilize him no
longer, to consign him to destruction.