The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-03-14
RASPING THE SOUTH.
Northern Senators Revive the
Race Question.
EusT's' BITTER PROTEST.


WAsHrssros CsrY. March is.--senafor
Eastfs today referred 20 statements made
ny Hoar yesterday. ore o. shsn being
that IN the state OF Louisiana and some OF
tie other states there were laws witch
mace II penaa oaense soT q white man TO
associate On ferms of equality with negro,
and another 10 the effers thar there Was
law which provided MASTER for any col
orss nsAn found for certain tins ont Of
work and that former masters should
have the preference In purchase. lie
denied enphzsicasly that there was any
such Law IN Louisiana and spoke OF the
reeklsssness and aessifufson of sense Of re-
sponsibiiity with which Republican sena-
tors spoke OF Southern affairs.
Hoar said be might have erred as 10 the
state in which such law was passed. but
quoted them substantially from the laws Ct
Mississippi passed in 1855. He thought
substantially the same iaw had been
enacted in Louisiana He admitted that
his statement about the laws OF Louisiana
was incorrect
Sherman asked Eustis whether he did
not know that tile fifteenth amendment
never would have been proposed but for
the TACT that the laws Of the Southern
states we're depriving the negro OF the
rights OF citizenship.
Eustis replied il was his honest convic-
ton that al reconstructed measures were
adopted by the Republican party with the
single object OF Africanizing the South and
maintaining political supremacy, and be
characterized 1t as the greatest crime ever
committed ag1inst civilized communities.
sherman then took part in the discus
sion. which became heated political con-
troversy. He traced the course OF the
reconstruction movement and said at the
close OF the war it had not been contem-
plated 70 arm the negro with the suffrage.
but the laws passed by some OF the South
ern states were so unjust 10 colored people
ard to white Republicans in the South
that the people OF the North became con-
vineed that the object in the south was to
overthrow the results OF the war and de-
prive freedmen of all rights OF citizenship
When the time came ii was seen there was
no way to protect the emancipated people
except by arming them with the suffrage.
Congress had reluctantly, slowly but de-
hberately adopted that remedy asthe only
one fitted for the case.
He tSherman) had sometimes thought IL
might possibly have been better not To
have adopted the fifteenth amendment
conferring suffrage on the colored people
because that right had been nullified and
uprooted. The result OF the fifteenth
amendment WAS practically to give the
Southern states increased representation in
the House Of Representatives and Increased
power In the electoral college. Hthere was
anything wrong in the situation of the
9ar,
had brought it on themselves There was
no feeling OF hate in the North against the
South. III equal rights OF ali people in the
South were secure the people OF the North
would be satisfied. Ii was true the fif-
teenth amendment had not turned out as
expected, because no man dreamed of such
measures as had been resorted TO. No one
bad dreamed of kuklux clans and all the
savage machinery by which that exclusion
had been perfected.
Sherman said that the selection of An
drew Johnson. Southern man and Demo
crat, for the vice-presideney was proof Of
the generous treatment the North had
shown the South, bat johnson had deserted
the Republican party and turned his back
upon il when be came into power, and con-
gress tied his hands and prevented him
from carrying out his policy.
Butler understood the senator from Ohio
to admit that the Southern people were no.
alone responsible. but that Andrew John
son, rs president, was more responsible for
the enactment of extreme measures against
the South.
sherman-I look upon Andrew Johnson
as Southern man and Democrat
Bntler-iie was your Republican presi-
dent. and the people of the South had no
other authority TO look to after they sur
rendered except the executive.
The Southern people had right 70 look
to congress as the governing power OF the
country" continued sherman. 81 would
not care II the whole OF the negroes would
vote the Democratic ticket. but this feeling
of injustice does prevail IN the North that
while you are depnsiug colored people of
votes you are exercising undue power in
the government The North denies hatred,
but demands justice and | say that be-
yond anu above the educational bill or any
other pending measure is an act of con-
gress sh at Will secure to every man in the
United States entitled 10 vote his rights 10
east his vote and have IL counted
Butter followed aud spoke OF the excln-
sion Of colored men IN the Northern states
from ali political Offices and said on the
contrary there WAS no such discrimination
in the South He had seen accounts of out
rage on co.oFed people in Ohio and Inai-
ana and yet bad heard not one syllable of
protest. he appealed TO senators and peo-
pie To believe Southern men when they
said they we're TAR more interested in an
orderly. humane ard honest settlement OF
the question than the people Of the North
eg,ta..k fosslSly Re