The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1893-06-09

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ator Ingalls, advocates the deportation
of American negroes to Africa, this
being, he thinks, the only solution oi
the difficulties TO which their presence
iu the western world gives rise. II Il
possible that such separation might
be for the ultimate welfare OF both
races, but there Is no ground for be-
Iieving that Il will ever be accomplish
cd. Here are some of Mr.. Ingalls, re-
marks:
The sonth is asolId" because Of the
negro. The north Is silently sullcn
because OF the negro. The dead line
of the republic divides the sections as
Lpalpably now as In 1851 because oil
| The negro. Democratic success nrous-
cs jealousy and distrust In the north,
as Republican success excitcs terror
aud trepfdatIon in the south, because
of the negro. Slavery Is lead, seccs-
sion Is dead, the Union Is restored, but
In sympathy, In sentiment IN vital ma
tional spirit, we are not blended, as
simulated homogeneous people. Ma
tIonality Is In the north. The south ID
isolated because of the negro.
For $50 years history on this conii-
nent has concerned itself with the no
gro. The politics of the United States
have turned upon the race question
In the convention OF 1887 Mr. Madison
said the states were divided not by
area or climate, but by the effects OF
having or not having slaves. The
slaves have been freed, they have been
made citizens. they have been deprived
OF their rights and reduced to practi-
cal serfdom again. We have omitted
no test or criterion. aud the African
question Is rs far from safe, salisfac-
tory, permanent settlement as at any
former stage of It's consideration. The
ghost of our victim rises at every feast
II will not down al our bidding.
Quo unprecedented alternative re-
mains untricd one method OF extrica-
tion from the desperate dilemma one
avenue of escape from perils that may
be greater than any yet encountered
banishincAt, exile, cxpatriaiion.
The horrors of Siberia, the airoci-
ties of Russian cdicls against the
Jews, the brutal mob violence towards
The Chinese, have provoked indignant
protest, bat they are surpassed in hu-
man barbariiy by the increasing
crimes against the negro Ia all parts
of the United States. Tho north ID
dIsgraced by an occasional lynching
and mob law, but public opinion de-
mands the punishment of the psrtici-
pants. In the south scarcely n day
passes without tho record of death by
torture Of some "negro brute" at the
hands OF an infuriafed populace. BY
what demoniac possession this patient
docilo and tlmld raco who werc safely
lcft In change of the women and child
rem and estates of their masters dur
ing four years of war have been trans
formed into fiends devoted TO rape,
arson and murder, Is not disclosed.
But such Is the trepidation or the true
ulence OF an element In the south that
to accuse a negro Is to condemn him
TO death at the stake without exeuIpa-
ti0n or appeal.
III this condition Is the inevitable con
sequence Of the contact Of the two
races, separation, voluntary or CON-
puIsory, at whatever cost. 10 tho dictate
Of wisdom, morality, and national safe
fy. If reconciliation upon tho basis