Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-30

with Winchesters and wearing badges head
ed ''White Supremacy" Was it any won
der, he said, that Democrats themselves had
become alarmed at this condition of affairs.
Mr. Ingalls, read an extract from an inter
view with Hon. Frank Burkett Democrat,
who said that there were two Democratic
factions in Mississippi. equally honest
"a valuable admission" said the Senator.
TLaughterl. ''The State of Mississippi" said
Mr. Burk EFT, 'sstood to day between Winches
ter rifles and Federal interference" The
South, said Mr.. ingalls,, intended to deprive
the negroes of their vote and of their indie
pendence; and practically the North had
acquiesced in this. Forced attempts had
been made to pass civil rights laws and
Federals election laws but they had failed.
The negro had beed abandoned by the North.
But he wished to warn the people of the
South that the North the West, the East
would not allow their commerce, their man
ufactures and their social condition to be
modified by executive and Congressional
majorites obtained by the suppression of
the colored vote of any other vote. No
one could tell how long this patient endur-
ance of the North would continue; but that
the crisis would come in peace or in blood,
was the memorable decree of fate. If this
condition of affairs continued, nothing could
avert armed collision between the races in
the South. Ultimately the colored race
would be strong enough to resist violence
and intelligent enough to resent fraud. The
South was standing on volcano 1t was
setting On iHe safety waive. 1T WAS preceding
innumerable John Browns and Nat Turner's.
Already the use of the torch and the dagger
was advised. He deplOred it but God was
his judge no other race in the history of the
world had submitted to the wrongs heaped
upon the negro in the last twenty five years
without revolution and bloodshed.
Mr. ingalls, sent to the clerks desk to be
read newspaper extracts to show that the
''theory of determination" was already be-
ing put into practice. In one of these it was
stated that 155 negroes were lynched in
Mississippi last year. The negro, the Sena-
tor said. was no coward. He had been
brought here prisoner of war. The Atheni-
ans had erected a statue to 1E5op, who was
born Il slave. The American Nation should
also place the ''slavc upon an eternal pedes-
tai" His conduct had been most admirable.
Despotism made Nihilists, tyranny Com
munists, injustice the greatest manu-
facturer of dynamite. The murderer
wounded himself when he stabbed his vic
tim The South should remember that there
was nothing so unprotitable as injustice, and
that God was "A relentless creditor. The
South was in greater danger than the
franchiscd slave. 1t had loaded itself with
heavier manacles than those with which it
had burdened the negro. There no
affection between the North and South. The
South had not forgiven the North for its
premacy and its superiority. If the South
could hold the purse and the sword. it was
patriotic The South had not accepted the
amendments of the Constitution in good
faith. They had their own heroes and ami
verSarieS. They exalted their leaders above
the leaders OF the Union cause. Until these
conditions were changed, co operation in
solving the Southern problem could not be
expected from the North. The South must
tread the wine press alone. He could
derstand the reverence of the Southern peo-
pie for jefferson Davis. He nonorcd them
for their consistency to that heroic man.
Ideas could never be annhilated. No man
was converted by being overpowerel.
Davis had not 'crOokcd the pregnant hinges
of the knee, that thrift might follow fawn-
ing" He had remained to the end the i'm
movable type, exponent and representative
of those ideas for which he had Staked all
and lost all. On the occasion of the death
of Jefferson Davis, the town of Aberdeen,
in the State of Mississippi shroud
ed in mourning. The court house was
draped, and one ev idence of their
grief the people of that town
had strung upon cable efligy which
they had labeled "Red Proctor" Laugh
teri To that town of Aberdeen came Il tin
ner named Fauz, small of stature, inoffensive
of demeanor aud conciliatory of address.
While working on the roof of one of the
houses to which was attached the cable
bearing the efiigy of ''Red Proctor" the
traitor Fauz had occasion to move the cable
1t slipped and the eflgy fell. He protested
that he had no desire to offend the citizens
of Aberdeen, yet when he came down from
that roof he was Intercepted by man
named Mcdonald, who delivered at least two
DlO"S upon MS person with a large
whalebone whip. That evening the citizens
had bought ticket and sent FAUX out OF
town and he had never been heard of since
Mcdonald had been punished. He had been
fined fifty dollars, and the people about
him had raised sixty dollars to repay him
If such outrage had been perpetrated on
an American citizen in England million
men would have sprung to arms to avenge
the insult. He had said that he did not be-
lieve in the Authorization of this country or
"a mari of hut nc ir,nn of
Mississippi Justice, he wOnid rather a thou /
sand-fold that that State should be inhabt- !
ed by negroes than by the people now living !
there.
Mr.. Ingalls, quoted from Mr.. Grady's Bos-
ton speech He spoke of the work done by |
the negro in developing the South. The |
black race, lie said, was capable of civliZa- |
ton. 1t had already made greater progress +
than could well have been expected. There |
was nothing in his origin or history to justi- /
fy the belief that the African could compete /
with the Caucasian in art or practical af- |
fairs, but there was no reason to believe /
that he was not capable of high civilization.
Measured by the standard of the race that |
still existed in ''indescribable degradation |
and inexhaustible fecundity' on the dark |
continent, his development had been magnif- /
icent.
The were five means of solving this race
problem. The first was amalgamation; the |
second, determination; the third, separa-
ton, and the fourth, disfranch isement. The /
fifth, the universal solvent of all human
difficulties had never been proposed or tried !
ana that the solution of justice ''for |
which every place should be a temple and
all places sanctuary" He appealed to the
South to stack its guns and to register
every voter, black and white. And
if when at the experiment had been fairly
tried, it should be proved that the com
plexion burdened on the negro by an African
sun was Incompatible with freedom, he
pledged himself to unite with the people of
the South in finding another way out of this
difficulty. Till then nothing could be done.
Those who freed the South ask for nothing
more; they will be content with nothing
less" said Mr.. ingalls,. "The experiment
must be fairly tried. This is the starting
point and this the goal. The longer it is de-
ferred the greater will be the evaporation
and the more doubtful will be the final re-
suit
Mr.. Ingalls, finished his speech at p m,
and upon taking his seat was loudly APP
plauded.
An English lady of great beauty
and attraction who was an ardent adj
mirer of Ireland crowned her praises of
it at party by saying: Il think l was
meant for an Irishwoman." Gross the
madam" said Lover. who was
present, land millions will say you were
meant for an Irishman."-N. Y. Ledger.
Some women dread wrinkles almost
as much as they dread the aporOach of