Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-01-24

LANCASTER, PA, January "a, 1880.
Ingalls,, Noaseass.

Senator ingalls, has succeeded finally
In delivering to the Senate and the
public the pile Of manuscript which
he has twice before advertised n ready.
The goods have host nothing by the delay
or the public by the wait. We generally
know what Ingalls, has In his basket
before we get It. It IL q uniform style Of
fruit marked by sharpness rather than
soundness. His speech Is TO the galleries,
which his reputation suffices to fill.
He IL not speaker who speaks to
convince and persuade. He is full of
bitterness and gall aud has thought
rather TO sharpen his speech that he
may puncture aud irritate than to soften
II that he may placate and win. He
speaks for present effect, and Is entirely
without influence with the country.
His present speech Is devoted to show
ing that the strained relations between
the white and black races In the South
ern states may lead to national war.
Such proclamation Of opinion from
more solid and sober senator might have
some influence in exciting public opin-
ion but ingalls, cannot stir up breeze.
The Southern negro is likely to wait
long before he finds white folks ready
to fight to put him on the level with
white folks, that he fails to reach with
his own efforts when freed from the
shackles Of slavery accidentally by the
war waged for the preservation Of the
Union.
We have the belief that the white peo-
pie generally Of this country without dis
tinction of party, think that enough has
been done for the negro race by his
white brother; and that ifthe black man
cannot get along in his present situation
It behooves him to move out of it or get
out of it the best way he can and by his
own efforts only. We doubt whether
public sentiment is entirely ready to
give him the help which Senator Butler
proposes In paying the cost Of his volun-
tary emigration.
No doubt IL is true, as Senator Ingalls,
says, that the black voter down South
does not have fair show with the
white voter. We have always consid-
cred the logic Of the situation, where
white officers only are elected In dis
tricts where the black voters are most
numerous, rs convincing proof Of the
proposition of tile domination of the
negro voter by the white. 1t Is done
BY moral force and may be
peaceful persuasion or q threatening
one. Whatever It Is the negro comes
down to 1t, without the use Of force, in
which he Is superior; and we are quite
prepared to take the position that race
that may be thus subdued to the will of
another is fair game for the other, and,
that Its suffrage may be regarded fss be-
Ing properly and proiiss.bly exercised
when 1t is used to keep Its bosses on top.
AEA clearly 1t Is not only In the South
that the negro vote IL used to elect the
white man. Down there II Is the Demo-
cratic office-holder who profits by it up
here 1t is the Republicans. The negro
vote here has beenpenistently and nearly
wholly cast for the Republican party for
. quarter Of century, and where are
the negro office-holders to-day? Where
are they In Congress, the state legisla-
lures and the national, state, county
and city Offices? They are not there in
very perceptible numbers. The negro
brothers vote is wanted but not the
negro brother.
1t will I've long day ahead when
white folks fall to fighting for the ne
gro's sake. There will need to be big
element of consideration for themselves
In any issue which calls them 10 arms.
Senator Ingalls, can frighten nobody
with his nonsense.