The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-30

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From the st. Louis Republic.
ATCHIs0N. Kan July 2S.-The follow
ing is an open letter from Senator In
gals to John Brown Of Topeka. in reply
to his demand to take the senator of the
Republican platform:
t'ATCHIsON, Kas., July 27.-To Colonel
John Brown, Topeka, Kas.: Dear Sri
am grieved to learn from an imperfect
report of your speech in the Capital last
evening that you have instructed the
Republican State Central committee to
call me off, under penalty Of the loss of
the negro vote at the coming election,
unless 1 apologize for having advocated
the deportation of the cOlOred race"
This is not the first time have been in
formed what opinions entertain by crit
les who censure what they have not read,
but your control Of the colored vote OF
the state is so absolute, and your ability
SO commanding that l must plead the
menace to the party and myself in ex-
cuse for the precipitation OF my reply.
my attitude from early life has been
one Of friendship and compassion for the
unfortunate race to which you belong. l
was an AbolitiOnist in my boyhoOd, and
have been impOrtunate IN my demands
for Justice since their emancipation and
acknowledgements / have witnessed with
impatient regret the acquiescence OF the
Repu bIican party IN the abrogation of
amendments by the south and the aban-
donment of the negro to his fate. In
every southern state where the colored
vote Is large enough to threaten white
supremacy citizenship is farce and suf-
frage a mockery. BY the recent repeal
of the national election laws by the Dem
Ocratic party in congress the last shed of
protection for the black mans ballot has
been destroyed, and he has been deliver
ed, bound hand and foot, to the tender
mercies of his enemies.
sfIhe horrors of Siberia, the edicts of
the car against the Jews, the brutal
mob violence to the Chinese, have arOus-
ed the conscience of humanity, but they
are surpassed in inhuman barbarity by
the increasing crimes against the ne
groes IN the United States. Scarcely a
day passes without the record of the
death by torture of some 1negro bruSe''
at the hands Of an Infatuated pOpuIace.
To accuse is to condemn. Without trial
or defense, they are dragged to death at
the stake or by a rope. No one can read
the CHASTITY details of burning, mutila-
ton, torture, the thrusting of hot irons
into the eyes. the haying alive. the ag-
gravatiOn or agony, without impassionate
creduiity. There are revelations of in
conceivable depravity. The crimes OF
which the victims are accused are mex
plicable, but they are not proved, and
the vengeance is Internal 1t is approx
ed by public opinion, and has the com
plicity of the state
II have said, and shall repeat as often
as occasion serves, that If this condition
is inevitable. If the races cannot be
reconciled upon the basis Of Justice and
equal rights, then separation at what
ever cost is the dictate Of wisdom, NOR
atty aud safety for both. By conserving
to the gigantic crimes, the north becomes
fully an accomplish, and must suffer the
penalty, share and share alike. with those
by whom they are committed. We can
not protest that we are not our brothers
keepers and escape responsibility. His
blood will cry out against Us from the
ground.
sIhe colored voter is a native Ameri-
can citizen and has. in theory, under the
constitution and laws, the same rights
that / possess In practice he is stig-
matized, degraded and prescribed in half
the states Of the union. In mauy ways
his condition Is becoming worse rather
than better. He has the right Of free
migration. He can come and go as he
will. N o one can compel him to depart;
but it has not hitherto been regarded as
feloniOus to allude to colonization as one
of the solutions of what still confessedIy
remains one of the darkest problems Of
our civilization.
II have neither advocated it nor con-
demned it. l have stated it as one Of the
remedies that remained, and have dis
cussed it; but had / gone further,
ship. The separation OF the races has
been for many years favored by many
illustrious men, black and white. jeff
ersOn and Madison, 50 long ago
as 1901, advanced the proposition.
In 1916 the Virginia legislature passed
resolutions in its favor, and societies
were organized both in northern and
southern states Bushrod Washington,
Charles Carroll Of CarrolIton, Henry
Clay, Rufus King, Daniel Webster, Dr.
Claiming, James g. Birney. Gerrit
Smith, Bishops Hopkins and Turner and
Prof Blyden are few among the phil
anthropists who believed IN separation,
and the colonization Of the black race in
Africa No one need apologize nor be
ashamed to be found IN such society even
in Kansas, where a man is not always
judged by the company he keeps
s'In view, therefore of the fact that I
am not the inventor, but only the histo-
rian Of the plan which you disapprove,
and, because, also, of the extenuating
circumstances that / was the friend OF
the colored race before some of the
empty, ignorant and mercenary crap
shooters. who now pose as their repre-
sentatives, were born, venture to hope
that you viii recall the ultimatum you
have submitted to the committee. and not
deprive me sumnlarIly of the opportuni-
ty Of being heard by the people upon
the important state and national issues
presented in the campaign Very re-
specially yours, JOHN J. INGALLS,"
TAKES a BIG CONTRACT
Z. o. Pickering Promises to Close Every
joint III Elected
1. O. Pickering, the Prohibition candi-