New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-24
THE NEGRO AND THE SOUTH
BRILLIANT AND EFFECTIVE SPEECH OF MR..
INGALLS, IN THE SENATE. &
kEcoGN1zfNG THE FACT OF REPRESENTATION
OF THE RACES. BUT DEMANDING THAT
THE EXPERIMENT. OF JUSTICE TO
THE coLoREp MAN BE MADE.


JBY TELEGRAPH TINE TRIbuNEl
Washington. Ian. e3-It would be cxaggeraton
30 say OF Mr. Ineass speech in the Senate this after
noon that it surpassed in brillance and effectiveness
even the most sanguine expectations OF thc Kansas
orators admirers and friends. Senator ingalls, mas
made addresses before this as polished and elaborate
10 has, at times, been more mercessy sarcasue MS
wit has had a sharper point, and his epigram more
caustc sting he has engaged in passages at arms with
other Senators more personal and more full of vehe
mence but In no other speech Of his so far perhaps
have ali the characteristic qualities of his oratoy been
10 happily combined and blended. To-day's ad-
fress was strong serious and orcibe 1t dealt Directly
with a question of grave public Importance, ana az
NE same time Of contemporary political and partisan
interest," of its passages 1T rose to plane Oh
ramatic intensity II interspersed with SKIS OF
wit and sarcasm; never falling below the level oil a
igned discussion of great problem Of State, it was
nevertheless dashing and epigrammatic: and though
two hours long in delivery 1t tagged as little as he
almost brcathless attention with which 1T listened
TO on the crowded floor of the Senate and In the sui
more crowded galleries
The Kansas Senator had given notice last Monday
that he would speak to-day Senator Buffers Negro
Deportation bill, and this afternoon had consequently
been looked forward TO the most sensational oil inc
week. But no such rush for seats In the Senate gal
leries could have been anticipated Before IL O'CLOCK
seat and the corridors outside crowded win DIS
appointed applicants. The galleries were soon
occupied also, and there struggle next ior places
about the gallery doors. Hundreds OF people hauc
rip to the Capicl only to find 1t Impossible 10 get
within earshot Of tie Senate Chamber Inc galleries
we're filed by II 80 and the Senate went through llS
morning business with more of an audience than IL
had ever before been favored with during the present
session.
The wait until Mr.. ingalls, appeared was long one
for the Kansas Senator did not enter the CHAMBER
until ten minutes of ., and he did not call up MI
Buffers bill until O'Clock precisely. on first coming
in Senator ingalls, white silk muller aDoue
his throat, but he took this off when he began 10
speak. Meantime the floor of the Senate was grad
ually nlng up, and it looked as II the House OF
Representatives had adjourned, many members
from the other end Of the Capitol stroed in to enjoy
the expected treat Of oatory One of the first arr-
walls was Elijah W. Morse, Of Massachusetts,. General
Banks came next, and accepted seat from senator
Sawyer Then Mr.. Sawyer set the doorkeepers %
work bringing the chairs out of the lobby for the
visitors nearly half OF whom were able to proht by
this commemorate forethought.
On the floor, when the speech began, were thcsc
Representatives among Others Messrs. Boutelle,
Grosvenor Butcrworth, McComas, Henry Cabot Lodge
stivers and Baker, Of New-York; La Toilette, OF WIS
consin Carter and Hermann, from the Far west
Stewart, of Vermont; Houk and Evans OF Tennesseo'
Cheatham, the colored Representative from North
Carolina bolivar and Lacey, of Iowa; Peters, OF kan
sas: Amos Cummings, OF New-York; Kilgore OF Texas
Aen of Mississippi, and Overall of Virginia Others
came later and all STAYED until nearly the end, ~heh
the roll-call in the House forced hasty, general
departure. Mr. Mcpherson, the Clerk OF the House.
sat on the platform with General McCook Inc
Cabinet was represented by Secretary Kusk VINO sat
in a chair near senator Sawyer In the PRESIDENT
new in the gallery were Mrs. Harrison and Mrs
cid aaffh he
reserved and the wives and families of many OF the
Senators were on to listen to the Kansas orator
Mr. ingalls, has been suffering with Influenza but
his voice was clear and strong when he got started III
m his speech. There was intense silence from the
,ntset broken only occasionally by laughter ana ap
plause One of these outbursts was marked enough
!, draw reproof from the vice-Pgesident, who re-
minded the offenders that such unbecomng demon
,,ra,ions could not be tolerated. There was mild
sensation when the speaker declared that there couo
be no more "biting and mordant CRITICISMS on the
south than the TRUTH But the real climax OF feehhs
was reached when the orator warned the southern
Senator'S dramatically, that the negro would not al
ways tamely submit to the denial OF his pohucai
rights Int would meet force with force: and again
when no asserted solemnIy that the crisis would come
u,hen the North and the West and the Northwest
wonId no longer tolerate an injurious interference
with their industrial system their prosperity tler
wealth and their whole civilization by an Executive
and Congress which rested for us power anu ll'
continuance on the suppression OF black votes or any
other votes. -,
senator ingalls,, in beginning his speech, said:
a,, president. The race TO which belong il
A.. moot arrogant and rapacious the most exclusive
and ;ndomitabe in history. 1t is the conquenhg a1
the uncomfortable race through which alone man ha
taken possession of the physical and the moral Wor'
To our race humanity is indebted for rehgloh' 10
literature for civilization 1t has genus lor con
ouest for politics. for jurisprudence ana Tor ADMINS
.ra,,on The home and the family are its oontribu
t,ons IN society," Individualism, fraternity nDeiy ah'
equality have been its contributions u the o,"'e
Al. ether races have been its enemies and lts Ncths
rhs is not the time, Is 1t the OCCASION W con
slider the profoundly interesting question oil inc n
:, rac.s IL IS sufficient to say that, either by III
stnct or design, tho Caucasian race AT every sue
n, IFS procress from barbarism to enliehtenment' ha
refused TO minglc its blood or to assimate WIN VI
two other great human families the Monaghan an
the African, and has persisteniy re'eccd aaui'ei'
tom .,. 49,
Mr. ingalls, went on TO speak of the triumphs ac
counlished by the excs of Plymouth ana james
town who had ventITed on this continent on
hitherto untried experimental paradox OF govern
oeot-in which those who rule are those 10 De gov
..ood Under the shield of the American Govern
nent he said every faith had found It's shc'er ever
creed a sanctuary and every wrong redress IL III"
s~ss,ea the rapcor of party spirit, the vioences
sac,on the peris of foreign immigration the COLLISION
q, civil war. and the jealous menace OF foreign an
hostile nations lie quoted from John BnGhts spec
at the time of the Civil War. in which Mr. briSn
said: 49, -.
al see another and a brighter vision before IN
gaze 1t may be a vision but cherish IT, see on
vast confederation, stretching from the frozen Mort
to the glowing South. and from tie wiz Daiio~
an. Atlantic 10 the oalmer waters Of the Pacific man
and see one people, one language, one IA" anu on
faith and all over that wide continent the home
freedom and refuge for the oppressed OF every ra'
and every cline"
Mr.. ingalls, proceeded
.On the threshold Of our second century VIC ~
confronted with the most formidable ana poi'en'o'
problem submitted to free people ior aoi".'o
.omnIex unprecedented involving social, moral al
nautical considerations party supremacy and In u
estimation of many though not in my OWN the eHis
-. 30 o,r system of government. Its solution Wi