Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-28

lngalls and otner hepuDllcanS cOnIuVe SuA'
argument.
WASHINGTON, January 27.-The resolu'
iion heretofore offered by Mr.. Chandler, call
ing on the Attorney General for the report oi
the United States Marshal for the Northern
district of Mississippi concerning the NAL
treatment of Henry j. Faunce, at Aberdeen,
Miss, was taken up by the Senate to-day fol
consideration, and Mr.. Walthall addressed
the Senate. 1t could not be possibly pre-
tended, he thought, that Congress had any
Jurisdiction Of the subject. 1t had been re-
ferred to by the distinguished Senator from
Kansas CMr. Ingalis) last Thursday in his
(Mr. Walthall's) absence. But from reading
the report of the Senator's remarks he saw
that he had commented on the hanging In
efigy of Secretary Proctor at Aberdeen, and
on a brutal and most outrageous assault
committed on the citizen named in the reso-
luton. From what he (Mr. WalthalD had
heard of that affair he felt warranted in say
ing that it was simply the wanton conduct
of few persons, disapproved by the COM
munitv in which it occurred. He knew that
community intimately, but he had never be-
fore heard of the persons concerned In that
outrage.
THE OUTRAGE CONDEMNED.
Speaking for himself, and as presenting
the sentiment of the people all over Mis-
sissippi and of the South, Mr.. Walthall
condemned, unqualifedlY and unreserved-
ly, that outrage on the Secretary of War,
and on the citizen named in the resolution.
He felt that the people of the United States
would not hold an entire community respon-
Bible for the action of few persons.
Passing from that subject, Mr.. Walthall
proceeded to discuss the question of Federal
interference in State elections. He agreed
with Mr.. Ingalls, that the race question was
the most formidable and portentous ever
presented to free people for solution He
saw no remedy which Congress could apply
that promised any pra ctical result. He be-
heved that arbitrary enactments could not
increase the difficulty. He was unable to
divine how the evil could be mitigated by
any Congressional action, since the laws of
nature could not be reversed by the laws of
men. The proposition of Federal control of
elections was aimed, he said, at the Southern
States. Its professed purpose was to secure
the fair counting of the negro vote, but the
actual object was to count that vote for the
Republican party on the assumption that
proposition was such a menace to the rights
of the people that it must meet with the
condemnation of all men anxious to pre-
serve the spirit of the Government.
HAVING THEIR RIGHTS.
As a proof that the colored people of
Mississippi were not deprived of their righJs
Mr.. Walthall said that the negroes of that
State knew that in a single congressional
\ ~ Of s
that race in Office, voted for by the white
people, than Mr.. Harrison had appointed
since his term began. But, when the ne
groes were encouraged by the passing of
such bills by Congress to believe that they
could rule, when they were invited to array
themselves against the whites, there would
be a serious disturbance of the
present conditions, and the troubles
Of the two races would be
greatly augmented. There would be a
revival of antagonism; an interruption of
those relations that seemed now to promise
good to both races. Prosperity would be
hindered, and business enterprises crippled.
There would be friction and disquiet, and
even bloody strife (Which all deplored);
but in his opinion, the result of no Con-
gressionsl election in any Southern State
would be controlled by any Federal law
that Congress could enact. The white peo-
pie would be driven into closer cooperation
than ever before, for their own protection;
because the election of negro Judges and
officers in State, meant negro domination,
and meant death to every interest and hope
and aspiration of the people.
WHAT HE URGES.
The speaker could not counsel his people
% accept such 6esolating barbarism without
q struggle, nor yet to fee the homes of them
selves and their ancestors. He would not
counsel them to violate any public law or
any private right. But he would urge
them, not as a remedy, but as a means of
present safety, to unity. He would openly
and earnestly impress upon them the value
of absolute unity of purpose and action,
and the necessity for the closest and most
F1gilaut and constant cooperation for self
protection. He would appeal to them, for
their own ssfety, to subordinate all party
differences and party divisions to that end
and purpose. There was no safety for
them In any different course
Mr.. Walthall criticised all the proposed
remedies for the race troubles Gncluding
deportation and disfranchisement) as i'm
practicable and impossible. Such colored
men as Douglas, Bruce and Lynch were, he
said, not types, but prodigies; but some
people at the North, judging the whole
dread in which the Southern people stood
of negro rule. The people of the North did
not know that these eolored men were
phenomena, and that there was as much
difference between them and the average
plantation negro that the Southern people
had to deal with as there was between Ma
poleon and the commonest soldier in the
French army.
FRAUDS IN THE NORTH.
Mr.. Walthall alluded incidentally to the
practice of frauds and bribery at elections
In some of the Northern States, and asked
whether these were not more dangerous to
the population of free institutions. If, he
said, there was show Of force on the part of
white people to save themselves from negro
rule that was at least evidence of more
honest conviction than the buying of votes
Mr.. George spoke of the resolution as nm
paralleled in the history of legislation in
this country. 1t was simple, bold propo-
sition to place on the records of the Senate
the report of United States Marshal, act
ing as a detective. He admitted that the
facts had been correctly stated by the Sepa-
tor from Kansas, the other day (perhaps
with little coloring), and be had no hesi-
tRtion in declaring that the transaction was
such as demanded of the Legislature of the
State of Mississippi an examination and
PREPARATION to the man who had been thus
maltreated.
Mr.. Chandler advocated the resolution.
II the Senate was not only to be taunted,
when wrongs of this kind were committed,
by being asked, "What are you going to do
about III You cannot help yourselves; the
constitution does not allow you to punish
wrongs of that kind" but was also to be
told by the Senator from Mississippi "You
have not the right to inquire, and you dare
not inquire into outrages of the sort on
citizen, then indeed had the Senate fallen
on woeful and lamentable times