Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1890-01-24
a REMARKABLE SPEECH.
Substance OF the Remarks Of senate
Ingalls, Of Kansas on tho CoIorcd Kace
Que stion.

Ingalls, Of Kansas on the Colored Hacs
que stion.
.WAshiNGToN, Jan. 90. 3.-TEe substance
OF Senator Ingalls, remarks ou the col.
ored race question 10 40 follows:
10 our race humanity IA indeblel for
religion, for literatnre. for civilization. 1t
mas aeDius for conquest, for politics, Il r
Jurisprudence and for administration.
This Is not the time nor ID IL the occasion
10 consider the profoundly interesting
question OF the unity of races, II is duff
ticient to say that either by instinct or
hesigu the Caucasian race, at every sep
OF Its progress from barbarian to enlight-
cnment, has refused to mingle Ito blood
or to assiini,nte with the two other great
human families, the Mongo!lan aud the
Airirau, aud has perslstently rejected
ndulteraiion."
In prsising the oolored people for their
hdelity TO the south during the war, he
said:
Il. seems Incredible that gratitude
should not havc. defended and En,cided
them from the hldeous aud indescribable
wrongs aud crimes Of which they have
bean, for quarter Of a century, tho
guiltless and unre sisting victims. The
came impulse which made them loyal to
their masters throughout the war has
made them faithful to their deliverers
sihee. The allegiance to the party OF
Lincoln and Grant Is persistent aud un-
swerying. Ttoir instincts were more IN
fai,ible than reason. They have voted
with their friends."
Mr. IugAlls went on to speak of the
n m ., Mt fnn f,E N A.,
the negro as factor from lis polit cal
aud social history; and quoted evidence
on that poiut IRON Democratic news.
papers and Democratic politicians. lie
tent 10 tie clerks desk aud had read ex-
tracts from the Jackson, M,ss., Clarion,
just before tho election, seventeen days
ago, in which the Interrogation; "Who
carcs? The Bolton boys will be here
Moadsy; thero will be \ fair election, ="
was repeated dozsn limes, the only
difference being the name of the com
panies TO be thcro was changed. When
the last interrogstory was rad, Mr.
Ingslls said: They were al there"
(Laughter.)
1hs speaker then read the statement Of
a oorrtspoDdeDt that the election at
jackson WAS the most Outrageous he
had ever seen, aud that the towp had
been taken possession of by "roughs
with Winchester rifles" and held
throughout the day. ln this extract i,
was said that Senator Georges .on was
one of the rlneinen. Resum.nK. Mr..
ingalls, said:
rRErExTs FOR ourRAGEs.
"The pretexts ior this condition OF
things have beeu mAuy, but they all rest
upon the iafetioiity OF the African race
upon the fear Of negro supremacy.
confess with humiliation that 10 this
nuiliiication Of the Constitution, to this
breach OF plighted faith. this violation o
the natural rights OF mun the p,opie o
the North have apparently consen ted
Praciicslly-l say II with shame and he
m rso-the esroe, have been abandoned
TO their fate.
A FORMIDABLE PRo3LEM.
"On the threshold OF our second cen
'ury," continued Mr.. Ingalls,, I'VE ar,
| confronted with tho nost formidable and
port. ntious problem ever submitied 10
| Tree people Tor solution-compltx, un
precedeuttd; Involving social, moral ant
| political considerations, party suprem
acy, aud in the estimation OF many
though not In my own, the existence o
our system OF government. Its solution
| will demand all the resources aud states
manship Of the prosent and ofihe future
TO prevent crisi. that may become
catastrophe. 1t should be approache,
with candor, with sclcmnity, with pa
tr,otic purpose, with fearless scrutiny
without subtcrfuGe, and without reserve
| Let me state It in the language of one o
he rnost brilliant, the most impass,o one,
aud powerful Of all the orators of til
| Ranth-nnw slpfarttnatclx, pf cl
"lsa Henry w. Grady died, lumi
nous meteor disappeared from the South
ern ornament"
MIR. lugal thereupon seLt to tb
clerks desk ard had read an extrac
from Mr.. Grady's GRAFTON before tn
Boston Chambe OF Commerce, a1d the
won't on to-say:
.'Let inc state the arithmetic OF thi
problem. In 1860 there were In th
United States 4.4i0, ,00) negroes, slave
aud free. In 1870 there were 4, : 1870, ,00l
in 1880. 0, $50, ,000-an increase which,
say In passing. can only be accounted 10
on tho principle Of premeditated and In
tentional fraud on the census. At th
close OF this century probably there vii
not be less than $1,000, 100 of the blac
aud colorsd race on this continent.
"Iho problem Is still further compli
Gated by the fact that they are grega
rious. They insiinctIvely separate them
selves Into their own communities, wilt
their own habits, their own customs
their own methods OF lie. They WORSHIP
separately. They are taught separately
The line OF cleavage between whites ant
blacks Is becoming constantly more dis
tIct and percep,lblc. There Is neithe
smalgaination nor absorption nor assimi
l..tI nNtt mi. um ttat..
with the victors In the late civil war
Socially and by locality and residence
they are associated with the vanquished
"Will the experiment that has iaile,
elsewhere succeed herel Can't tho Llxel
race exist a. citizens OF tho United State
on terms OF political equality with tn
Caucasian race? And II not, why not
HoaoeENEITr NOT POSSIBLE.
Fred Douglass, the most illustriou
living representative of the negro race
greater, think, by his Caucasian re
enforcement than by his African blood
once said to me that he thought as pre-
judioe and social and political aptagonisn
disappeared the races wonld blend
coaleece, aud become homogeneous.
do not agree with him. There is NJ
natural afiinity-bctween the raees
This solution OF the problem IL imposs
bic. The relations between tho sexes II
the time OF slavery were compulsory
The hybrid was the product OF relation
between white fathers and black mother
aud never between black fathers and " bit
mothers. And the inference from tha
resu't, cthnographically, Is the conolusio
oil tlnt question. Such solution, i
my judgment, would perpetuate til
virae OF both races and the vistues q
neither. There is ro blood poison S
fatal as aduiteration of race.