The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-06-07
Neorn Exclusion.

it a point to seek out some ques-
ton sensational in character and take
a position on it that will bring him well
into Wow, Just as some persons like to be
photographed on some famous rock, or in
connection with Niagara falls. or wrapped
in the American flag. One of his
great specialties was jumping on JEFF
DAVIS. He practiced this at stated inter
walls for a number of years. He seemed to
imagine that Mr.. DAVIS was sort of
spring board. by means of which be
could bound into public favor. And he
was right to a certain extent The people
of Kansas were highly diverted by that
sort OF thing until they got to burning
corn for fuel. and then it suddenly &C.
Cured to them that Mr.. DAVIS was back
number. In order to avoid separating
Mr.. INGALLS, from the man of his choice
they made him back number also. This
was in the nature of surprise to Mr.. In
CALLS. Nevertheless it did not change
his nature. He remains as picturesque
and startling as ever.
JOHN Us latest spectacular exhibition
is on the negro question. He has arrived
at the conclusion that the negro must be
expelled from the country. He says:
Ii this condition is the inevitable con Sc
quence Of the contact of the two races,
separation, voluntary or compulsory, ct
whatever cost. is the dictate of wisdom,
morality and national safety. If reconcile
alton upon the basis of Justice and equal
rights is impossible then migration to
Africa should be the policy of the future
To that fertile continent from whence
they came they would return. not as aliens
and strangers, but to the manner born.
To their savage kindred who still swarm
In its solitudes they would bring the
alphabet, the declaration OF independence
and the bible. Emancipated from the
traditions OF bondage. from the habit of
obedience and imitation, from the knoTl-
edge of its vices, which is the only in
struction OF q strong race to a weaker, the
African might develop along his axis of
growth and Ethiopia stretch out her hand
to GOD.
The negro might not want to go. He is
q native. He is a citizen He has a right
to stay. So he has the right to vote. He
has the right to life, liberty and the pur-
suit OF happiness. He has been deprived
of them all. Only the right of domicile
remains. He could, perhaps, submit to
the loss OF this with the same resignation
which has accompanied his surrender of
the rest.
The condition to which he refers is an
imaginary one which he has developed
from the recesses of his fevered brain.
Because a negro is occasionally lynched
for an aggravated crime. Mr.. INGALLS, says
that the negroes have been deprived OF
their right to life. He sees in a piece of
lawlessness of that sort a conclusive evil
dence that the white man looks on the
negro with murder in his heart, and that
the negro race in this country might as
well be considered exterminated forth
with. II in fact the negro has been de-
prived of the right to life, as he says, why
waste any time in the consideration of
sending him to Africa? Why not bury
him at once and be done with it2
Mr.. INGALLS, says that the negro has
been deprived OF the right to liberty and
the pursuit TO happiness" because he is
not allowed to vote In the South Most
Americans have learned by this time that
this is not true. There is undoubtedly
considerable fraud in elections in the
South, as there is in the North, and il il
largely aus - the sentiments of people
snc oe6eVe that purity in politics is an
irridescent dream" There were over
1,35O,OOO republican votes cast in the for-
mer slave states IN 1883, and il would
seem from this that there are still few
negroes voting in the South. Mr.. HARRI-
SON went into office with the avowed pur-
pose of protecting their rights, and if we
may Judge from enthusiastic support
which they gave him in the last national
convention he endeavored to carry out
his policy. The negro certainly retains
his political rights in republican eonven-
tions if in no other place. The greatest
"disfranchisement" of the negro in the
South is accomplished, Just as the disfran-
chisement of white democrats is accom-
plished in republican states, by the gerry
mander. He is also made an easy victim
to political trickery by his ignorance. But
it may be accepted as fact that anv diff
ference in the fairness of elections North
and South is merely a matter OF opportu-
nifty.
ConcedinR that the negro is mis-
treated to some extent, and he is not
more so than any other in
ferior racs-Indisn, Chinese, Mexican
with which We have come in contact, the
question arises. why should we mistreat
him further by banishing him as Mr. IN
CALLS proposes? Ii is not a question of
might not want TO 60" The negroes do
not want to 60. They prefer this country
with all their alleged mstreatment to the
wilds of Africa We have a NEGRO
colony" 10 that country. We have had
an American colonization society for
years. and the number of negroes it has
induced TO emigraie furnishes no reasona-
BILE excuse for its existence. The sensi-
bic solution of the negro question is to
get it out OF politics. When the time
comes, and it is coming rapidly. when DO
litical lines are not drawn on race bounda-
ries, the negro question will take care of
itself. Whatever troubles the negro has
are more due to political bitterness, both
on his own part and on the part of others.
than to race bitterness.
Freedom of Conscience.
There was one point at which THE SEN
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