Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-02-05
Race Question in the South.
SENATORS VANCE AND HAMPTON SIP

Race Question in the South.
SENATORS VANCE AND HAMPTON SPEAK.
The following is from the report of the
Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald OF the remarks of Vance and
Hampton in the Senate on Thursday, the
30th ultimo -
''Mr. Vance INDUCED freely in humor
and sarcasm, the latter being directed with
force against the speech made last week by
Mr.. ingalls,, of Kansas. That speech he
characterized as piece of oratorical pyro-
technics marked by paucty of ideas. In
reply TO Mr.. Ingalls, demand in behalf of
the negro for justice, Mr.. Vance said that
since the admission of negroes to citizen
ship they had been elected in the South to
both branches of Congress. had occupied
almost every position of authority in the
Southern States, had controlled entire
States and municipalities, and in every
case their rule had been marked by failure
and ruin. Progress for the negro would
have been impossible under his own rule.
The best thing that could have been done
for the negro, Mr.. Vance said, was what
had been done when the management Of
public affairs was taken from inexperienced
and incapable hands and placed in the
hands of the natural and competent rulers
Of the land. He confessed that the millen-
mum had not yet dawned on the South and
that the land of reconstruction was not yet
land of perfect righteousness. But north
of Mason and Dixon's line there was such
Iand [Lauphter.l There was a country
where there was no suppression of the
, popular vote by gerrymandering or other
l - ,f fteA
floating vote in "blocks of fve' [laughter1 j,
where there was no ejectmeut of colored
children from white schools or of colored
men from theatres and barber chairs, and
where it was to be hoped that, in the pro
GEES Of time, one black man would be
chosen to sit in Congress and that even
soma railroad attorney or millionaire
would make room in the Senate chamber
for colored brother. Laughter. He
hoped that ia course OF time, one accom-.
plisped black man might be sent abroad to
represent the country in some other land
besides Hayti and Liberia. Laughter. ]
He even hoped that colored man might
be found Ct to serve his country in some
other region than in the South.
, MR. VANCE SAYS GLANDS oFF!'
AS to the solution of the race issue Mr..
| Vance said that Nature would solve it,
The stronger must rule. He affirmed not
that the negro was incapable of civiiEa-
ton, but that be was incapable of keeping
I'D with the civilization of the white race.
Any attempt to forcs the negro INFO an
: Eeauality in the race of progress could re-
+ suit ia nothing else than the holding back
of the white race. His solution for the
problem was simply "Hands Off" No man
need be afraid, if the Northern people
ceased their interference, that the negro
would be driven to the wall. It was such
Q interference that had driven him to the
I wall whenever he was driven there. Men
would not be bullied into doing right
Every speech made in the Senate denunci-
atory of the Southern people, every punt
tive law passed against the Southern peo-
pie with the view of suhieoting them to the
! rule of their emaneipated slaves, served
a but to defer indefinitely that state of cordial
harmony between whites and blacks that
was SO necessary to boil.
Mr.. Vance regretted that he could not
support Mr.. Buffers bill. He conld not
saw that he had auy desire to attempt in
any way such a great unhist0rical task as
1.-THE removal of whole people, amounting
to probably seven millions, from. their
native land. There was ample room fer
them in the Northern and North western
States. and it was entirely practicable to
] ipdnce them TO ssttie in these States If,
( said be, the negro is good thing, let us
. divide him ont. [Laughter.1 He admit
ted that such plan would be tho death of
many politician, but il would give peace
to the county and he cenld bear the alb
sence of the politicians. Laughter ]
In conclusion Mr.. Vance said, addressing
himself to Mr.. I-gslls. ''f you cannot
, help either black or white. CON mon de-
eenoy requires that you shodld hold your
peace"
Mr.. Butler, 10 reference 10 suggestion
, of Mr.. Vance, denied that the bill looked
to the removal or deportation of negroes
from, the Southern States. There was not
a word or line or syllable in the bill that
contemplated any such thing.
MR.. HAMPTON DENIES AN IMPUTATIoN.
Mr.. Hampton, of South Carolina, de-
Tended himself against an imputation made
in LIr Ingalls, speech that he (Mr. Hamp-
toni deliberately advocated the extermina
ton of the blacks. He had never for mo-
mept entertained the feeling nor had the
wish that his colored fellow-citzsns should
: be exterminated. Such sentiment was
repugnant to all sense of humanity. It
was abborreut in its conception. 1t was
foreign to every thought he ever enter.
tanned or expressed in regard to that peo-
pie, and he disclaimed efnphatically the
J advocacy of such savage and horrible
policy.
To show what his attitude really was
upon the question Mr.. Hampton quoted
from some published interviews, in one of
which he said that an extensive exodus of
negroes from the South would work an in
| convenience, but no injury, and that he
| h.