Evening journal., 1890-01-24
AND THE NEGRO.
The Kansas Senator Speaks on
the Race Question.
HIS SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM.

Digest OF stirring Address Delivered
by the Well Known siatesman-Co Conn
Plimentary References Made to Editor
Henry w. Grady and jefferson Davis.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24-Senator John J.
Ingalls, speech on the race question excited
universal interest. For many years past
there has not been 50 distinguished an assem-
blage in the senate chamber TO listen 10 an
orator. In the gallery were Mrs. Harrison,
Mrs. Morton, Mrs. Tracy, Mrs wanamaker
and nearly all the wives and daughters OF
the members Of the cabinet
Enthusiastically Received.
The door was crowded with cabinet OH
GERS and representatives, who left their own
chamber almost deserted Senator Ingalls,
created a most effective and thrilling scene
when he described the recent election at
Jackson, Miss. He read from Democratic
papers how Senator Georges two sons rode
into town at the head Of armed troops TO
prevent colored men voting. In fact the
enthusiastic demonstrations were SO often
repeated that Vice President Morton was
obliged TO warn tho galleries TO desist.
The Arrogant Caucasian.
Mr.. Ingalls, said the race to which we be-
long Is the most arrogant and pretentious,
the most exclusive and indomitabe IN his
tory. Individualism, liberty, fraternity and
equality has been that races contributions
60 the state. AT every step Of it's progress,
from barbarism to enlightenment, the Cau-
casian race had refused to assimilate with
the Mongolian and African. Upon the
threshold Of our second century the people
Of the United States were confronted by the
most portentious problem ever placed before
free people for solution. II must be con-
sidered frankly and freely, without subter-
fuge and without reserve
A Tribute TO Grady.
At this point Senator Ingalls, paid trib-
ute 10 the late Henry w. Grady, from whose
Boston speech the senator quoted. lie went
on 70 say that in 1860 there we're in the
United States 100000 negroes; ia 1870
1 ,se0, 600; in 1880 6,5s0,00O II was his belief
that the increase shown from 1870 TO 1880
was deliberate, premeditated fraud upon
the census, committed for the purpose OF
obtaining an increased representation.
To complicate the problem the negro was
gregarious The line Of cleavage between
the white man and the black was distinct
ana clear. There was neither amalgamn.
the races. Fred Douglas the most illustri-
Gus living representative Of his race great
er, he though, by his Caucasian reinforce
ment than by his African blood had said
70 him that when prejudice disappeared the
races would become homogeneous He did
not believe it. Such a solution Of the diff
Guilty, he thought, would be impossible; If
possible, most deplurabe. History showed
that where the white and black had come
together during the period of slavery II had
been by compulsion. There was no poison
Ing 50 fatal as the aduteration Of race
The Conscience OF New England.
The senator from South Carolina (Alr.
Butlerl deprecated animadversisn The most
bitter criticism Of the situation Ia the south
was the truth He did not claim a superior
ity Of virtue for the north. His ancestors
had owned slaves The conscience Of New
England bad not been aroused TO a sense of
the enorinity Of the slave system until il had
become unprofitable Besides a large part
Of the people Of the United States had not
contemplated the freeing Of the negro in the
war for the Union. When the negro was
freed he had been given the franchise-not
for the pnrp Sc Of perpetuating the Republi-
can party. II tho negro was not here, Mr.
ingalls, said, he thought the people Of the
United States today would hesitate to invite
him here. With the experience Of two CEN
turies ot slavery and twenty-five years of
ostensible freedom, he believed that they
would prefer to have remained in associa-
tion with their brethren on the dark contf-
nent.
Freedom In Name Only.
But the negroes were here But to what
did their freedom amountl Their citizen
ship was a name. The black vote Of the
south was practically suppressed Senators,
editors and the leaders Of the south had an
nounced their intention Of breaking the con-
troll Of the negro. Henry W. Grady had
said: when will the negro cast a free
ballotqn
Winehesters at Elections.
Mr.. Ingalls, quoted from a Mississippi
paper which said deliberately that the south
did not propose to be governed by the negro
under any conditions, and said that on ac-
count of these conditions Gen. Chalmers
had withdrawn from the race for governor.
The senator quoted another paper ia refer
ence to the election in Mississippi seventeen
days ago, in which was the announcement
that the regulars the "bulldozefs,n etc,
would be on hand TO see that there was "a
fair election At the end Of the enuncia-
tion, Mr.. Ingalls, remarked, sententiously:
"They were all there, Mr.. President y
Laughter). The senator read other ex.
tracts TO show that the election referred 70
had been controlled by Wmchesters, and
that no colored man had been allowed
within hundred yards Of the polling place.
Standing on Volcano.
Mr. Ingalls, also read letter from federal
officer stating that two sons OF Senator George
had been in the crowd of regulators armed |
with Winchesters and wearing badges headed /
white Supremacy Was it any wonder, |
he said, that Democrats themselves had be- |
come alarmed at this condition Of affairsl
The south, said Mr. Ingalls,, evidently in |
tended to deprive the negroes Of their vote |
and independence, and practically the north |
had acquiesced in this. If this condition Of |
affairs continued nothing could avert armed /
collision between the races in the south. The |
south was standing on volcano
A Tribute to Jef Davis.
Mr. ingalls, paid tribute to the late JEFF
erson Davis and said that he honored the
south for showing Mr. Davis the respect il
did. He then referred to the town of Aber-
deem, where an effigy Of "Red Proctor was
to a cable across a street, and when
a man named Touse had caused the efflgy TO
fall, he was whipped and sent out Of town.
II such an outrage, said the senator, had
heen perpetrated on an American citizen
IN England million men would have sprung
TO arms TO aveRge the insult. There were
five means of solving this race problem.
The first was amalgamation, the second ex-
termination, the third separation aud the
fourth disfranchisement The fifth, the