Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-01-17
The Color Question III the Senate.

AN SAOA
In the q. S. Senate yesterday, Senator
Butler in support Of the bill introduced by
him. to provide for the emigration of persons
of color from the southern States to Africa,
said "Sir there is q prejudice between the
races, unrelenting and unforgiving."
Senator Hoar what, deport a nation oil
people from the land of their birth and res
idence? This is the most astonishing prop
osition ever made in this Senate or in the his
tory of any free, civilized and prosperous
people,"
Senator Butler "We have as a nation.
cir, by main strength cleared the abyss OF
disunion and 1 hope reached q plane where
we may safely profit by experience"
Senator Roar The trouble is that they
the people of the South feel that they
must murder or marry the negro. Why
cannot q negro gentleman-a graduate of
Amherst, for exemple-occupy, as a number
of such do in New England, positions OF
honor and trust in q southern city ?"
Senator Butler This is no party ques'
ton. < + X Let US contemplate it from
lhe serene heights of patriotism. "
Too often when a grave question is present.
ed the demon of party will seizs upon, dis
tort, and pervert it. = The mob OF
party leaves the wrecks of wisdom and ga
gacity strewn In the path"
Senator Blair ANY man knows that a
child will forget more in nine months than
it has learned in three"
Senator Butler my bill co%Htemplates
The voluntary and orderly removal of the
negro out of the southern States"
Senator Blair "This question would be
more speedily settled by transporting, mol
500, 600 negroes, but about 10000 irrepressi.
BILE whites to Africa. / believe hat the race
problem exists in the preiudices of q few
white people, and that it by no means exists
between the races"
Senator Butler said that the prejudice sof
the white man against the negro is radical
aud ineradicable. That prejudice ia not
moro marked in the South than in the
North. He said that of the 800 1000 negroes
in the North none rose beyond mental 9th
ces, while In the South he had seen a white
lawyer practicing before a black Judge,
with a black jury and q black sheriff. To
prove that the prejudice is growing, and not
abatlng, he drew this powerful picture:
'Ifin 1860 O. prophet had foretold that in
ten years the proud Caucasian would prac.
tice In such q black court; that a
negro should stand for a sovereign slave
State in the Senate of the United States,
and a negro should represent this nati1r.
at a foreign court, he would .dson hoen cot
down aat"1htas rh won,d II have J been q
MEDrc- n5"u. ae0 ne "ouiu nave uoon =
true prophet. Ifin 1870, ten years later,
prophet had declared that in ten years to
come there would be no black Senator, nc
black ambassador, except to a petty power,
| and few blacks at any post of governments
authority, he would have been discredited
| So let US not condemn without reflection the
prophet who predicts that fifty years hence
| there will not be a full-blooded negro in the
United States"
Mr.. Butler then proceeded TO show from
letters written by negroes of education tina
the blacks Of America were quite as willing
to return to Africa as the whites were tc
have them go.