The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-01-30
ANOTHER PHILIPPIC AND TRADE OF
ABUSE AGAINST THE SOUTHERN
WHITE PEOPLE.
APPLAUDED BY THE NEGROES
He Suggests the Dagger and the Torch fol
Southern Homes and Revolution
for the Negro,
FIFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.


WASHINGTON, January 23.-Mr. Vest pre-
sented the credentials of w. A. Clark anC
Martin Maginnis as senator's elect from tn,
state of Montana. They were read and re-
ferred, on Mr.. Vests motion, to the com
mittee on privileges and elections. On hi
motion also the four gentlemen claiming
to be senators elected we're admitted dur
ing the contest to the floor.
A number of bills we're reported from tn,
committee and placed on the calendar
after which bill appropriating S500,0C,
for work at the mouth of the Columbia
river was passed.
ASP o'clock approached the seats in thu
galleries rapidly filled up, and when Mr.
ingalls, rose to address the senate in oppo
sition to Senator Buffers bill to encourage
the emigration of the colored people from
the United States, the chamber wa!
crowded to the utmost.
Among the bills reported from commit
tees and placed on the calendar was the
following:
To amend the act of July, 1888, to au
thorize the building of railroad bridge al
Fort Smith, Ark.
Authorizing the construction of railroad
bridge across the Brazos river in Texas by
the Brazos Terminal Railroad company.
Az Z u ClOCh Vic StlldJc bOOh up IllC DJl
introduced by Mr.. Butler, to provide fol
the emigration of persons of color from the
Southern states, and Mr.. ingalls, addressed
the senate. He said:
"Mr. President-The race to which We
belong is the most arrogant and avaricious
the most exclusive and indomitable in his
tory. 1t is a conquering and unconquer.
able race through which alone man has
taken possession of the physical and mora
world To our race humanity is indebted
for religion for literature, for civilization
1t has u genius for conquest, for politics
for jurisprudence and for administration
Home and family are its contributions
TO society; individualism, fraternity
liberty and equality have been
its contributions to the state
All other races have been its enemies and
its victims. This is not the time or the
season to consider profoundly the inter
esting question of the unity of races. 1t is
suiicientto say that either by instinct or
design the caucasian, at every step of its
progress from barbarism to enlightenment
has refused to mingle its blood or to assim-
ilate with the two other great human fam
ilies-the Monaghan and African-and
and has persistently rejected
adulteration. Under the shield
of the American government
every faith had found its shelter, every
creed sanctuary and every wronga redress
1t had resisted the rancor of party spirit,
the violence of faction, the perils of foreign
immigration, the collisions of civil war, the
jealous menace of foreign and hostile
nations"
He quoted from Mr.. John Bright's speech
during the civil war; in which Mr.. Bright
said: IL see another and brighter vison
before my gaze. 1t may be a vision, but |
cherish it, | see one vast confederation,
stretching from the frozen North to the
glowing South, and from the wild pillows
of the Atlantic to the calm waters of the Pa
cific main; see one people, one language,
one law and one faith, all over that wide
continent, the home of freedom and refuge
for the oppressed of every race and every
climate"
Mr.. Ingalls, proceeded: "On the thresh-
old of our second century, we are con-
fronted with the most formidable and por-
tentous problem ever submitted to free
people for solution-compleX, unprece-
dented, involving social, moral and polit-
zeal considerations, party supremacy and,
in the estimation OF many, though not in
my own, the existence of our system of
government Its solution will demand
all the resources and craftsmanship of the
present and future to prevent crisis that
may become catastrophe. 1t should be
approached with candor, with solemnity,
with patriotic purpose, with fearless scruti-
ny, without reserve. Let me state it as the
language of one of the most brilliant, most
impasSioued and most powerful of all the
orators of the South-now unfortunately
no more. When Henry W. Grady died a
luminous meteor disappeared from the
southern armament"
Mr.. ingalls, thereupon sent to the clerk S
desk and had read an extract from Mr..
Grudy'S Grafton before the Boston chamber
of commerce, and then went on to say:
" i.rt me state the arithmetic of thus prob
lem In 1850. there were in the United
States 10000 negroes, slaves and free. In
1870 there were 4iiS,O00 and in 1850,
$4,000 an increase which | say in pass
ing, can only be accounted Tor on
the principle of premeditated and inten-
tional fraud on the census. At the close OF
the century probably there will not be less
than 100000 of blacks on this continent.
The problem is still further complicated by
the fact that they are grVgariouS. They in
stincIivey separate themselves into their
own communities with their own habits
and customs, their own methods of life
They live separately, they worship
separately, they are taught separately
Tnere Is neither amalgamatiOn nor absorp.
ton nor assimilation. Politically they are
affiliated with the victors in the late civil
war; socially, and as to residence, they are
associated with the vanquished. Will the
experiment that has failed elsewhere sue
coed here? Can the black race exist as
citizens ofthe United States on terms of po-
Utica equality with the Caucasian race,
and if not, why not? Fred Douglas, the
most illustrious living representative of the
negro race, greater think by his Caucasian
reinforcement than by his African blood
once said to me that he thought, as preju-
dice and social and political antagonism
disappeared, the races would blend
coalesce and become homogeneous.
do not agree with him-therc
is no natural affinity between the races
This solution of the problem is impossible
The relations between the sexes in the time
of slavery were compulsory. Hybrid was
the product of the relations between white
fathers and black mothers and never be-
tween black fathers and white mothers,
and the inference from that result, ethno.
graphically, Is the conclusion oil
that question, such solution OF
the question, in my judgment
would perpetuate the vices of both races
and the virtues 81 neither. There is nc
blood poison so fatal rs an adulteration Of
races. The colored people are held free
They are natives; they are citizens. Man
for man they are our politicale equals. They
came here Involuntary rs prisoners OF
war captured in fight. They are of oriental
Notwithstanding +. +. VS.
After praisiug the colored people for thell
fidelity to the South during the war hi