Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-01-24
CAUSTIC INGALLS,.
The Kansas Senator Talks on
the Race Problem.
AN ARRANGEMENT AND WARNING

| Delivered Before n Full Senate and
Crowded GaIieries-New England Comes
In for n Slap or rwo-The Solution
| Abandoned by the North and the south
Left to Fight the Battle to the End
A Plan Suggested as Sine Qua Non
of Northern sympathy.
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan 24-Probably the
man in the United States senate who can
draw tho biggest audience when announced
70 make set speech is the senior senator
from Kansas, Ingalls,. His terse, caustic
sentences catch the popular ear, and reach
the popular understanding His opponents
listen to what he says, for although he is at
his best when giving somebody raking
over, the very vigor, polished as it is, of his
fnvective compels attention and enchains in
terest. Such was the case yesterday In the
senate ingalls, had been announced to de-
liver speech on the race question, and the
only part OF the chamber not crowded was
the diplomatic gallery. On the floor were
number OF prominent mon besides a full at.
tendance OF senator's. Among those present
were were Secretary Rusk and Gen. n. p.
Banks. and when at 9 p. m the senator rose
there was scarcely standing room. As he
rose the hum of conversation ceased, and
from that time on every ear was strained to
catch what the speaker said
The Indomit able Caucasian.
He began by saying that the Caucasian
race was arrogant, exclusive, pretenUious
and indou,itable. 1t either ruled or amir
hilated other races II assimilated with no
race but its own. It's contributions 10 the
state were undividualism, liberty, fraternity
and equality. In the United States these
contributions had been most marked. Here
every creed found sanctuary, every wrong
a redress. But now we were confronted
with the greatest problem ever presented to
free people He eulogized II. W. Grady
and had the clerk read long extract
from that gentleman's sp eech at Boston in
December last Continuing he called atten-
ton 70 the increase of the colored population
between 1860 and 1870 which was only Sc, 600.
while the increase between 1870 and 1880
was put at 100000, a figure which he de-
clared represented a gigantic and premedi-
tated fraud, committed with a purpose that
Is self-evident
Opposed TO AmaIgamation.
Mr.. ingalls, then discussed the question of
amalgaInatiou. He credited the ability of
Fred Douglass to the reinforcement of white
blood IN that ilnstrious representative of
the negro race, and antagonized the conclu-
sion stated by Mr.. Douglass that when preju-
dice disappeared the races would become
homogeneous. This was impossible. and If
possible was undesirable The white and
black had never come together oxcept by
compulsiOn, and then il was ALWAYS the
black woman who was the victim-the chill
dren had never had white mothers, it was al
ways white fathers. Adulteration of race
was fatal poison.
No Superiority of Virtue North.
He proposed TO accede TO the request Of the
senator from South Carolina, that in discuss
ing the issue there be no animadversion: it
II was not needed; the facts were criticism
sufficiently bitter for the state of affairs in
the south. The north had no superiority of
virtue to boast Of The speakers ancestors
had owned slaves, and the New England
conscience did not prick it until slave own
ing ceased TO be profitable Neither was the
war for the Union fight for the freedom Of
the slave, so far as large portion of the
northern people were concerned. Also, the al
legation that the negro had been enfran-
chised 10 perpetuate the Republican party
was calumny that was old enough to be
superanuated.
Status of the Colored Man
Proceeding, Mr.. Ingalls, said that proba-
bly,, If 1t were possible, both races would
prefer that the negro should not be here.
But he was here, and he was of ancient lin
cage in this country; quite an F. F. v, in
fact. lLaughter.l BY their sobriety and
ste adiness they had justified the Judgment
OF those who believed them better than the
brute race. But 20 what did their freedom
smonnti Their citizenship was name The
black vote of the south was practically SUD-
pressed. Senators, editors and the leaders |
OF the south had announced their intention |
OF breaking the control OF the negro.
Reply to II. W. Grady.
Henry W. Grady had said: "When will |
the negro cast a free ballotf7 On that point |
ingalls, said he had other testimony TO offer
and he would call only southern men and |
Democrats rs witnesses. Mr. Ingalls, read
an extract from The Memphis Avalanche
commenting on what WINS called the cleo |
tion in Mississippi last fall Laughter |
The Avalanche had stated that chalmers |
could not get the Office Of governor, how
evor large his majority might be" The
senator said he would not go into archeologi. |
cal research for illustration. He would ex-
hume no cadavers. This extract was printed
In October last On the 10th OF that month /
The Avalanche had said deliberately that
the south did not propose 10 10 governed by
the negro under any conditions. On ac-
count OF this condition Of affairs, Gen. Chal-
mers had withdrawn from the race for
governor. ingalls, quoted at length from
Gen. Chalmers address TO the Republican
voters OF Mississippi He considered that
address, he said, one of the most tragic ut
t=rances that had ever occurred in political
history.
The Election at jackson, Miss.
Seventeen days ago there had been an
other election in Mississippi with which the
country was somewhat familiar. He sent
10 the clerks desk 70 be read an extract
from The jackson Clarion of Jan. 2 In
this extract was the constant reiteration of
the announcement that the ''regulars. ~ s'the
bulldozsrs," etc, would 10 on hand to see
that there was flair election" At the end
If the reading Ingalls, remarked, senten-
tiously: They Were all there, Mr.. Presi-
lent" tLaughterl Ingalls, then read an ex-
tcact from correspondence about the cleo
ton, telling that it had been controlled by
Winchester rides, and that no negro had
been allowed within 100 yards of tho voting
place. He also road q letter from federal
afilcer stating that two sons OF Senator
3eorge had been in the crowd of regulators
armed with Winchester, and wearing badges
headed white Supremacy" Was it any
wonder, he said, that Democrats themselves
mad become alarmed at this condition of
affairs
Predicting n Crisis
The south, said Ingalls,, evidently intended
10 deprive the negroes of their vote and of
their independence; and practically the
north had acquiesced in this Attempts had
oson made To pass civil rights laws and fed
sral election laws, but they had failed The