Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-10-09

| and they said we are unwilling that the mi
| nority should be stihed here and this bi!
| put through as it was in the House OF Rep
resentatiyes. But, to make the history a
| brief "a possible, after a struggle OF owe
| five weeks, when the Democrats persisted
| in debating every schedule and every item
| in that BILL the Republicans cam tn rs and
| said: III you will allow the tariff bill TO D.
1 discussed and passed or disposed or IN a
| rcasona Die time, we will agree that the Force
| bill shall go over to the next session the,
were determined to give to the Inanutact
urers what they had promised. they wef'
| forced to do it. but they knew they coalt
| not do it so long as that determined ana a.,
| grcssiye minority, under the rules OF tn
| Senate, stood in their path and refused Then
| further progress.
A CONDITIONAL AGREEMENT.
That agreement was III al :. but made
mark you, on this condition. Mr. Ill ar, oi
Massachusetts, who claims Ia b the father
of the Force bill in the Sen 49, rxac,''d o
his colleagues in the II Ebiicaa clEcus
that agreement in writing snoaii b.
si5ned BY them majority of them, tf
the effect that on the first Monuay in Decenl-
Der the Force bill should be taken up and
pressed TO II final disposition in exclusion OF
every other bill or resolution upon the cal
endar. Forty four Republican senators.
ma jority of the Republican caucus signed
that agreement, and to-day the people oi
the United States are confronted with tlat
agreement. and, unless they interfere with
their sovereign votes at the coming Noyenl-
Der election, with the certainly that this
Force bill with all its enormity will be
placed upon the statute books as the la" Of
she LAM.
THE NEGRO.
My fellow citizens. have net one word tt
say agai INST the negro was born among l
negroes raised with thcm; Inherited them
rs property; treated them, as God Is my
judge. as would my own peopie-honest iy.
humaneiy ami Justly. That owned tn EN-
came from the institution, not frem any =
Iitiun OF mime. But am not here to apoi-
ogize to any man for it. have no respect for
the thypncfiteS and PhariSeeS who stand on
upon pcdestalS, safe from the dangers and
horrors of this terrible race strife, and
lecture men VINO wcre not to blame, but
were simply forced to meet the inevitable
slavery. Slavery came to this country by
the action of both sections. Slaves were
brought from tile coast of Africa by the in
habitants of New England. They traded
the rum made from Jamaica sugar fer the
negroes that they afterward sold to the
South. senator Ingalls,, in a speech in Con
gress, declared that the South was more
responsible for slavery than was his own
native New England, and he spoke true
he spoke the truth. Slavery WAS NOS
brought here by the South. But the
South resented interference with what
erty under the Constitution AMI
said: Let settle this question;
We desire no stranger to interfere to tn
institution. which'nas become part of the
autonomy OF the States, domestic institu-
ton intertwined with all that the Southern
people had. have no hostile feeling to the
negroes. y more unfortunate race has
never existed upon this earth. Torn from
their native land through ayarice and greed,
enc section gave up slavery when 1t was
longer profitable, and the other gave it up
under the stern arbitration of battle. What
of history and denounce the Southern peO-
pie Tor doing what he would have done un-
der the same circ umStanceS surrounded Dy
the same facts.
Some years ago. in 1879, the mayor of Kan
sas City, MI Gibson. called on me ut nv ho-
tel, the Coates House and asked me to z"
n he I
there were 12J negroes from Mississippi
the first in~ta.lment OF the exodus. They
hal been persuaded by II lot of scouudreiS-
that's mild term Tor them-to leave the il
homes in the Sunny South and with the iy
thin cotton Festments. shiverinS under the
frost and incienency OF an unknown eli
mate. they Were hunting for homes
of plenty ana luxury in b1eeiins Kan
Tney had chromos gorgeous
~ painted, representing fine
powered cottage. btthed in sunlight
fruits and flowers the patriarch in he por, II
smoking his ancestral pine, the Old lady
with the Bible spread upon her knees, ana
the young miss drumming the pitno to the
vited to this, aad told that the Govern ment
of the United States would give it to them in
tnat State of observation-disclosures Tley were
dumped down in Kansas and in Missouri:
the fr guides abandoned them, and there
they were, half naked half-staryed, utterly
bcwildered IA to locality, and in condition
such as L have never seen even in the
most abject and poverty stricken districts
them, Dut when they found they were in
Missouri they actually turned pale with
fright. Tue children commenced crying.
the women commenced sobbing and the
men commenced protesting: Take u
away! take US away !. we will all be killed
by these border rufians." We took them
across to Wyandotte, kas. Now. I am nos
saying this in any sectional spirit. | am
stating the truth, known to ever man who
has been citizen of Kansas City, Mo, or
Kansas City, I<as or Wyandotte, Kas. They
were taken across by the municipal author
tiles of Kansas City, and the inhabittnts of
IA II htr sll
but with arms, and said. 1--WE want no
nggers in Kansas. Take them back Mis-
back And. NV friends, the negroes,
houseless and uameless. dug holes in the
river bank and crawied into them like
badgers and wild animals. and died there
by the dozen with fever and pneumonia
during that fall. Another consignment
came up the river went by Kansas CITY on
a Steamboat. and undertook to land at
and the people there dragged
out the the cannon and swore they would
sink the boat if they tried to unload them
there. Go to our sister State of Illinois, that
Commonwealth. But few
cine war at Alton, H.. and other localities
because under a, law of the Illinois L.gisIa-
ture it was attempted to put negro chill
in the common school. Go to Ohio
and you will find in the press some
months ago accounts of the same. There is
not one white community in all this land,
the North, South. East Or West, that viii
accept the political domination. of the,
voices the opinion of the whole Northern
people in that letter of his addressed to j
citizen and sriend OF his in this town.
quarters in the army: 1.-THE negro
IS very good felIow-in his, placc--but
10 not want him to associate with me O:
mine l DO not want him 70 vote L want hiIr
as niGger and nothing but IL niger
That distinguished soldier has chanSet his
opinion lately. and he wants now to raViI &c
the u,h again with fire and sword. de-
stroy our State government, pile un just and
blood shed and anarchy in Or |
der to prove the doctrine that he preached /
with arms In his hands from his own head |
quarters in Georgia.
In the State of Kansas, you read accounts |
IF men being butchered at midnight; You |
read accounts of elections in which the sid |
IF the houses overlooking the. polling |
ioothS are pierced with mu kerry, and men !
with iOadet1 guns, cooked and ready to fire. /!
he voter un!esS he votes the right wav. And |
what is the issue in. this election? Is it /
home, property, the autonomy of the State, |
he domination of the negro and semi /
civilized over the Caucasian race tn |
which we belong, and in whose blood flows !
he mingled tide of conquest and dominion: /
Oh, no. The question over which blood is /
she'd in Kansas and armed men found .
around tue polls is which town shall be
county seat, as to where the drug store shall !
De tlauShtcrI that disp .nses tonics and re. !
mixtures 10 the thirsty jurym and wit.
ness who pmes there for rhe purpose oil at /
ending court.
Look at the Northwest, the Pacific coast /
where the surses of the great Pacific sound !
heir diapason from year to year upon the |
II ere when the Cinnamon did not attempt |
% vote, but attempted to work with the !
hat Il lwed III CHASTITY torrents amidst the |
lanes OF Rock creek and Seattle |
Is those Cinnamon were shot down like |
iares flying from their domcile. In the |
state of Oregon to-day, by enactment oil |
he Republican Legislature, none but white |
men are permitted TO work upon works OF |
n sa me nv