The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-31
Special Dispatch to the Daily Eagle.

] :
TOPEKA, July 30-Ingalls' sharp fir,
into Colonel John Brown, a colored states-
man Of this city. is an indication thai
Ingalls, is in the coming campaign to STAY
Two days ago Brown called upon the Re
publican state central committee TO take
/ ingalls, out of the campaign and thai
irridescent statesman comes back at him
in an open letter. Ii is:
To Colonel John Brown, ToOeBa. Kan:
ATCHIsON, Kan, July 21-Dear Sir:
am gtleved to learn from an imperfect re-
| port of your speech in the Capital last
| evening that you have Instructed tue Re-
! publican State central committee to call
me off under penalty of the loss of the
/ negro vote at the coming election. unless
! | apologize for having advocated the ''de-
! portatiOn of the colored race" This is not
| the first time have been informed what
! opinions | entertain by critics who censure
what they have not read, but your control
! of the cOiOred vote of the state Is so ALSO
| lutte and your ability SO commanding tuat
l must plead the menace 10 the party and
myself IN excuse for the precipitation of
my reply.
My attitude from early life has been one
OF friendship and compassion for the uu-
fortunate race to which you belong. | was
an aoolItiOnist in my boyhood. aud have
! been importunate in my demands for JUS
iLCc SINCE lneiF emancipation anu eDlfdE-
chisement. l have witnessed with impa-
tient regret the acquiescence OF the
Republican party in the abIogation OF the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments by the South aud the aban-
donmeut of the negro to his fate. In every
Southern state where the colored vote is
large enough To threaten the white
supremacy, citizenship is farce and suf-
frage mockery. BY the recent repeal of
the national election laws by the Demo-
cratic party IN congress the last shred of
protection for the black mau's ballot has
been destroyed, and he has been delivered,
bound hand and foot, TO the tender mercieS
OF his enemies.
The horrors of Siberia, the edicts of the
czar against the Jews, the brutal mob
violence TO the Chinese, have aroused the
conscience OF humanity, but they are sur
passed III inhumau barbarIty by the iu-
crsaSlng crimes against the negroes In the
United States. Scarcely a day passes
without the record of the death by torture
OF some negro brute" at tine hands of au
Infatuated pOpulace. To accuse is to con-
denim. Without trial or defeuse they are
dragged to death at the stake or by the
rope. No one car read the ghastly "details
or burning, mutllatlOD, torture, the thrust
ing OF hot irons into the eyes, the flaying
alive, the aggTayation of agony, without
lmpassionate credullty. There are revela
tlODS Ol iucOnCelNdDie Utpf4NiIy. lie
Grimes OF which the victims are accused
are inexplicable, but they are not proved,
ana the vengeance Is Internal. 1t is ap-
proved by public opinion, aud has the
completely of the state
l have said and shall repeat as often as
occasion serves, that If this condition is
inevitable. If the races can not be recon-
clled upon the basis of justice and equal
rights, then separation at whatever cost
IS the dictate of wisdom, morality and
safety for both. By consenting TO these
gigantic crimes, the north becomes fally
an accompilce. ana must suffer the pen
atty, share aud share alike, with those by
whom they are committed. We can not
protest that we not our brothers keep
erS and escape responsibility. His blood
Will cry out against Us from the ground
The colOred voter Is native American
citizen and has, in theory, under the con-
stItutioE and laws, the same rights THAI |
possess. In practice he is stigmatised,
degraded and prescribed in half the states
OF tue Union. In many ways his condi-
ton Is becoming worse rather than better
lie has tie right of free migration. lie
can come and 20 as he will No one can
compel him To depart; but it has not hith-
erto been regarded as felOniOuS to allude
TO colonization as one of the solutions of
what still confessedly remains Que of the
darkest problems of our civilization.
/ nave neither auNOCAIeU It, nor con-
demned il. | have stated il as one of the
remedies that remained, and have dis
cussed j.: but bad l gone further. | shonId
not have lacked good companionsnip. The
separation OF the races has been for many
years favored by many illustrious men.
black aud white. jefferson aud Madison.
so long ago as 1SlG, advanced the propo-
sition. Ia 1916 tue Virginia legislature
passed resolutions in lis favor. and
societies were organized both in Northern
aud Southern states. Bushrod Washing
ton, Charles Carroll of CarrolitOn, Henry |
Clay, Rufus King, Daniel Webster. DR.. /
Channine, James q. B.rney, GerreUt
SMITH. Bishops Hopkins aud Turner, and !
Prof. BiyCeu are few among the philan-
thrOpists who believed in separation, and |
the colonization OF the black race in Africa !
No one need apologize nor be ashamed TO /
be found ii snch society even in Kansas
where man is always Judged by the com
pany he keeps.
In view. therefore, of the fact that I am !
not the inventor, but only the historian of |
he plan which you GisapprOve, and be- I
cause, also, OF the exLenuating circum-
stance that | was friend Of the colored /
race before some of the empty, ignorant !
and mercenary crap-shoogers who now /
pose IA their representatives were born, | !
venture TO hope that you will recall the |
you have submitted TO tae /
committee, and not deprive me sum- |
marily of toe opportunity of being heard /
by the people upon the important State /
aud national issues presented in the cam |