St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-31
NOT SPEEDY ENOUGH.
Negroes Cannot Keep Pace
With the Progress Of the
South.
Senator Vance Says South
erners Are Not Afraid Of
an Uprising.
If the North Loves the Col
ored Man, Why Not Take
Him.
President Harrison Nomi-
mates an Obscure Ohioan
Solicitor General.

to day listened to speeches by Senators
Vance and Hampton on the race ques-
ton. Mr.. Hale reported back from the
committee on census bill appropriat-
ing Sl,000,000 to enable the superintend-
ent of census to prepare statistics of
farm owners, renters, mortgages, inter-
ests. etc. Mr.. Sherman opposed the
bill, and characterized the required
statistics as of no value. The money,
he said, would be wasted. After some
discussion the bill was pasSed-4T to 4.
The ''silk ribbon" bill was taken up, and,
after being slightly amended, was passed.
A resolution was agreed TO instructing
the committee on public buildings and
grounds to inquire as to the necessity
for an addition to the White House, a
new government printing Office, etc.
Mr.. Vance then took the floor and ad-
dressed the senate on the negro emf
grafton bill. Mr.. Vance's speech took
humorous turn and was frequently ap-
plauded by the crowds In the galleries.
He began by saying that 1.-The sins of
the fathers shall be visited upon the
children" which he said was one way
of saying that the mistakes and crimes
of one generation remain to plague an
other generation. He sketched
THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY
from its Introduction to its abolition and
said that for the sake of the negro we
are to-day threatened not only with po-
litical aff1ictiOn, but with a Servile war,
whose weapons shall be the midnight
torch. and the assassin and dagger, and
whose victims shall be sleeping women
and children. He criticized Mr.. Ingalls,
remarks as pyrotechnics cOncealing
paucity of ideas. He had searched that
speech and wondered where the remedy
for the existing evils was suggested in
it. The Kansas senator's solution of
Justice" was about as definite as the
twinkling that remained under the
closed evelids after the withdrawal of
light. Justice" meant that the people
of the South should quietly and grace
fully submit to negro rule wherever
the negroes were in the majority. Since
the war, wherever the negro had ruled,
his course had been marked by fail
ure and ruin. A few years of such rule
would constitute a damnable blot on the
memory of those who authorized it, and
who had looked on with Omplacency so
long as the thieves were Republicans
and the victims Democrats. Mr.. Vance
said that the negro had begun to pros
per only when the control of affairs had
been taken from his hands. He referred
to the suppression of the popular vote
north of Mason and DiXon's line, TO the
exclusion of negroes from theaters and
other places there. He said it was to be
hoped that one black man would be
chosen to represent that section
in congress some day, and
that the intelligent black man
might some day be sent to represent the
United States somewhere else than in
Hayti and Liberia. Oaughter). MIR.
Vance said that notwithstanding the
threats of Mr.. Ingalls,, he believed that
the people of the North would go to the
rescue of their Southern brethren if
that threatened uprising of The negroes
should occur. But the South would not
need their help. If that uprising should
come, it would bring the solution of the
race difficulty. Mr.. Vance said that he
did not claim that the negro was in
capable of civilization, only that he
could not keep pace with the progress
of the white race. His solution for the
race problem was "hands off," If the
North would cease to interfere, there
was no danger that the negro would
BE DRIVEN TO THE WALL.
Every speech in the senate denun-
ciatory of the Southern people only
postponed the coming of the day of har-
mony between the white and the black
races. He did not think the bill of the
senator from South Carolina for assist
ing the removal of the negro from the
South reached the case. Few people
would leave the United States under its
provisions, and those probably would be
the best. There was plenty of room for
the negro in the Northern and Western
states. If" said he, ''the negro is
good thing let US divide him." Laugh
teri. Mr.. Hampton addressed the
senate at some length. He de-
MED the statement of the SEN
ator from Kansas (Mr. lngalls) based
on newspaper extract, that he was in
favor of the determination of the negro.
He favored no such horrible policy. He
did not think the methods of Mr..
ingalls, in dealing with the great public
questions were becoming. Mr.. Hamp-
quoting from the Atlanta Constitution
the following extract: ''Unless history
is false teacher, it is not possible for
two distinct races, not homogeneous, TO
exist on terms of political equality un-
der the same government. One or the
other must go to the WALL" and that,
said Mr.. Hampton, is signed j. j. In
gals. Mr.. Hampton said that, while in
full accord with the measure proposed,
he hardly thought the remedy met the
requirements of the case. Strong reme-
uieS WOulu nave 10 Oe reSOrteu 10, ana
much wealth and much earnest consId-
Grafton would have to be given to 1t.
There was, as yet, not sufficient infor-
nation on which to
BASE INTELLIGENT ACTION.
And until such information was OBJ
tanned all action on the part of the SEN
ate would be premature. 1t was first
to be ascertained whether any negroes
were in favor of emigration, and if so,
what destination they preferred. Then
it would have to be seen whether
suitable location could be found for
them and SO approximately estimate
the cost. At the conclusion of MIR.
Hampton's speech the bill went over
without action, and the senate after
brief executive session at 4:25 o. N.
adjourned till Monday.