Huntsville gazette., 1893-06-17
DOUGLASS, is TRUE.
Defends His Race From Ingalls,
Spleen.
The People Have Decided The
Negro is Citizen.
CoIored People Had The Courage
to Crush White Tralto

In Chicago special to the N. 7,
World, las Sunday, Hon Frederick
Douglass speaks plainly on the recent
article of Ex-senator Ingalls, which
misrepresents the colorod people of this
country. Mr.. Douglass speaks in his
characteristic manner. and shows that
he is still true to the race. The Cour-
ant re publishes the article 81 consider
John j Ingalls, man who has lost the
confidence Of the colored people," said
Fred Douglass to-day in speaking OF
the Senator's recent article on the black
race. 1t is not 30 many years ago." he
continued, 'since he posed as a defen-
der of John Brown, and the champion
of the colored people. There have been
but few national problems in the last
thirty years of which he has not sooner
or later 0een upon both sides. He is
now agitating a subject that has been
settled: The wal settled the slavery
question. Congress settled the entran-
chisement question and the question Of
civil rights. The. people have decided
that the negro is a citizen, that he is en-
titled to the emoluments and honors Of
office, and that he shall be protected in
his civil rights. The social question
cannot be settled by legislation. The
rict man will associate with his class,
and poor man with his. A person
may occupy seat at the best table in
the land, and still be as distant from
the company socially as the North Pole
is from the South Riding in tue best
car, eating at the best table. and oCs
casionally mixing IN fine company do
not make social equality. The g must
be mutual interests intellectual and
moral attractions.
Ing all's ale CATION that the blacks
and whites are as far apart as in the
beginning is not borne out by facts
There has been an admixture Of the
whites and blacks. Whether the pro
portion will increase in ratio in the fu-
ture | do not know, but the evidence
points that way. | see that he cites
myself as an example of what he terms
the superiority of the Anglo Saxon in
the admixture OF blood. He is pleased
to say THAI whatever talents ! possess
acquired from my father. How does he
know? My mother was slave and the
only one on the plantation that could
read. How she learned to read do not
know. 1t is an accepted theory that
the moral and intellectual character IS
inherited from the mother. "Eqnally
baseless in his statement that no me-
goes have held positions Of trust and
honor under this Government John
K. Lynch was in Congress and was tenn i,
porary chairman of National Republi +,
can Convention. B. K Bruce, ex-
Congressman Elliott, and ex-senator
PHI chbeck were influential members OF
both branches. / have been minister
to Hayti, and there have been other
colered men who represented this coun-
try abroad.
The trouble with Senator Ingalls, is
that the colored people of Kansas
crushed him, add he takes this way OF
venting his spleen. This theory that
the negro is drifting back to barbarism
is confuted on every side If he will
look about he will see a rising genera
ton Of well educated negroes. He will
see the negro reading and thinking.
He will see him interested in moral
and political reform; he will see them
steadily climbing upward and onward.
Bot then ingalls, is color-blind. He
can't see anything but the av alanche oil
ed him. "He cites a prominent South
CIh ludh III puhpOIt Va Dio tHcOilOc
and just here, l want to say that the
South has way of giving bad things
good names and good things bad names
1t never used the word slaves. They
were servants. Slavery was referred tc
as our peculiar institution but the
word 'abolitionist' was always preceded
by an epithet or by the adjective black
l was almost always black abolitionist.
However, as champion of the South
Ingalls, is not a success. There are
many men in that sect!o n who can easi'
ly beat him at this game.
while in the Senate be exercised
some influence, but since his enforced
withdrawal he has lost whatever infu-
ence he possessed. His public utteran.
ces since Kansas repudiated him. have
indicated that he is running amuck
cutting and attacking everything with
in reach. This is not his first ebulli
ton of passion against the negro. JUS
before he left the the Senate he made 9
sp, ech much on the same line with this
article. | answered him. and it was
this speech and answer that materially
assisted in defeating him.