New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-31
THE RACE PROBLEM.
SENATORS VANCE AND HAMPTON OPPOSED
TO SENDING THE NEGROES TO AFRICA.
REPLYING TO Mr.. INGALLS's SPEECH - Mr.
VANCE SUGGESTING THE APPoRTIoN,
MENT OF THE NEGROES AMONG

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ALL THE STATES.
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Washington Jan. 3o.-when Senator from North
Carolina and ono from South Carolina give nolice
that they will engage political other discussion
the public is likely look for an agreeable cohoeu'
enlivened by some of the traditional Inconvenience
ties OF diplomatic intercourse between these wv
states Unlike the Governors of conviviai menVi!'
however, the two Senators who announces
appearance in debate on tne rsn.rls
the Senate today directed their remains
~ -, .ach otnsr Int at the distinguished senator
from Kansas who unfortunately was aooe"s 80
the oreater mart Of the session, and was mus aepd
from extending 10 his two opponents anehi.i0' "
are supposed TO characterize debate among '"o ""'0
hnas. ,, hr,gh+ and
lively enough 10 attract many listeners 10 'io 800 80,
hNoH ei' 20 tbe interest excited by his comments
o. NJ prtIers hill for the deportation OF the hoeIoos
from the southern states was strong ehoue" W -
the audience through a good deal OF INC Pio'' 49,
of the speech from Mr.. Hampton wmch loho"0'
20 tho merits Of the Butler BILL and the bearing VI
the negro question generally the two senators ho'u
,do,v dinerent views and the criticism ana sug-
c.s,ions they made showed only this point Of agree
mont that the negro failure as cltlHei' anu
not entitled to assert his political rights in oppos
tion TO the wishes of his white neighbors.
Mr.. Vance in brief after going into long ms'or!
If he 1"'N' SN
as impracticable and visionary. The negroes as
hoar would not 90 to Africa. If any went, they
would he the most intelligent and respectable OF inc
rocc the ones who would make the best ctzens mere
The right way to solve the problem OF getuns "'0
coored men out of the South was 10 appofuoh ui0,"
nv law among all the States of the Unon' each oVo
10 take its Quota according to its white popuiatoh'
This would put the negroes everywhere INTO per
manent minority, and the race question would oiSap
near from politics Mr. Vance favored an approprfr
tion from the Government large enough 10 pay al
expenses of the proposed colonization OF the sPi"
negroes of the South in the States OF the Nor'h "
West IT was not entirely clear whether thls PROPOSE
ton was made in all seriousness OF was one VI ",0
pckwickian embellishments of the North CarolniahS
argument. IL, l.,
senator Uampton took up a good deal of time IN
exnlaininr that he did not favor the determination
of the negro. Senator ingalls,, lie salo, mas eeu
him with holding this view. lie supported 'e Dulci
bill cordially, far as 1t WENT put thoush' ~ Wv
q homeopathic" It did not offer inducement enough
n the colored man to emgIate. Let the Government
give him bounty for going, and guarantee 10 pay
his expen.es for year in his new home on the
Congo or elsewherea The Senator also suggested
commission to inquire into the subject OF colonza1on
and seemed, as another solution OF tie trouoie' 10
want to have the United states buy Cuba, and set up
a black State there.
This country its destruction the result OF the
civil War and the establishment Of the reconstructed
Governments in the South. Then he went on to crti
else Mr. Ingalls's speech, which he characterized as
niece of oratoical pyrotechncs conceang It's paucy
NJ ideas 1t reminded him forcbly of an astronomers
description of the remarkable tenuity of the tail of
recent comet Its length described as 1OOOOOOOO
miles as il stretched athwart the sky its breadth as
so 900 miles yet the solid matter which 1t contained
could be transported in one-horse car. Mr. vance
had listened and listened with the greatest entertain
ment to that speech; he had searched and searched
and he had wandered where the remedy was for the
evil that was depicted in such colors. He wanted to
see the solid matter of the illumination. suddenly,
before the light expired and the Senate was left In
darkness the solution was announced as Justice"
The Senator had gracously promised that II the remedy
still proved failure, he wouio-do "hdV' ho "0uiu
counsel with the South.
Since the admission of the negroes to cllzenshp'
continued Mr.. Vance, they had been elected in the
South 10 both branches Of Congress they had occupied
almost every place under State authority they hsa
controlled entire States and municipalities; and, IN
every case their rule had been marked by failure
and ruin The negroes had begun to prosper the
very moment the whites Of the South had taken con
Mr.. VANCE quoted Mr.. Mgalls,s speech as to the
safety valve and of its having 10 tread the wine
pressp alone lie believed that the Senator had passed
He believed that hundreds of thousands of stout hearts
would rush to the rescue Of their southern bIefen on
ming Should the South unhappily have need of such
help But the South would not call for 1t.
What asked Mr.. Vance, the probleml Nature
would solve it. Given high spirited, liberty loving,
cultivated dominant occupying free state ful
of capacity energy and progress and, with that race
race of manumitted slaves, OF recently barbarlc
origin with traditions, no pride no history
of progress how he asked should the two be made 10
dwell together in peace and fraternity He affirmed
not that the negro incapable OF CIVILIZATION, but
that he was incapable of keeping with the cviliza
ton of the white Any attempt TO force the
negro into an equality in the OF progress could
white race His solution for the problem was simply
a." hands off, No might be afraid-f the Northern
neonIe ceased their interferencetha the negro would
10 wall. 1t such interference tlat
had driven him to the wall whenever lie was driven
there Men would not be buled into doing right.
MIR Hampton, in the course OF his speech, quoted
tom The Atlanta Constitution the following extract
frnIes history false teacher, 1t is not possible
for two distinct races, not homogeneous. 10 exist on
terms of political equality under the same govern,
ment one or the other must go TO the wall" That
aid Mr. HAMPTON is signed y. j. ingalls, " while
The speaker was full accord with the measure pro
nosed he hardly thought that the remedy met the
reourements of the case. There was as yet not
Surfcent information on which to base lntellgenI
action and until such Information was obtained all
action on the part Of the Senate would be premature
II was first to be ascertaned whether any negroes
were i'm favor OF immigration. and II So WHAT deSha
ton they preferred Then II would have 70 be seen
whether proDer place could be found Tor tnein ana
approximate estimate of the cost must be MADE
SENATOR CHANDLER BEFORE THE NAVAL |
BOARD.