Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1890 — TAME SCORES INGALLS. [ARTICLE]

TAME SCORES INGALLS.

The Kansan Senator’s Speech Likened to the Tail of a Comet. * [Washington dispatch.] Senator Vance, of Not th Carolina, addressed the Senate Thursday on the Butler negro-emigration bill. He criticised Senator Ingalls’ speech, which, he said, reminded him of an astronomer's description of the tail of a lecent comet. Its length was described as 100,000,000 miles, its breadth as 50,D00 miles, and yet the solid matter which it contained could be transported in a one-horse car. He (Vance) had with the greatest entertainment to that speech; he had searched and he had wondeied where the remedy was for the evil that was depicted in such colors. Suddenly, before the light expired and Ue Senate was left in darkness, the solution was announced as “justice.” The Senator announced that the millennium bad not yet dawned on the South, end that the land of reconstruction was not yet a land of perfect righteousness. Just north of Mason and Dixon’s line there was such a land. There was a country where there was no suppression of the popular vote by gerrymandering or otherwise; where there was no purchase of the floating vote in “blocks of five;” where there was no ejectment of colored children from white schools or of colored men from theaters end barbers’ chairs; and where it was to be hoped that, in the process of time, one black man would be chosen to sit in Congress, and that even some railroad attorney or millionaire would make room in the Senate chamber for a colored brother. He hoped that in course of time one accomplished black man might be sent abroad to represent the country to some other land besides Hayti and Liberia. He even hoped that a colored man might be found fit to serve his country in some other region than the South, and that greet dumping ground of political dead-beats, the District of Columbia, on whose helpless people had been imposed—in every office from the judiciary down —the worn-out partisans for whom their people at home had no fuither use.

Senator Vance quoted Senator Ingalls' speech ns to the South standing on a volcano. and said he believed the Senator had passed the blackest and foulest judgment on his own people. He believed that hundreds of thousand of stout hearts would rush to the rescue of their Southern brethren should the South have need of such help. But the South could wage such a war without assistance, and could easily overcome an uprising of 7,000,000 negroes. Then there would come a solution of the negro problem which would stay sohed. What, he asked, was the pioblem? Even a highspirited, libeity-loving, cultivated, dominant race, occupying a free St te, full of capacity, energy, and progress, and, with that race, a nice of manumitted slaves of recently barbaric origin, with no race traditions, no pride, no of progress; how, he asked, should* the two be macle to dwell together in peace and fraternity? It was a fundamental principle in American law that a majority of those to whom the franchise is commitled shall rule, within limits; but it was a principle of nstuial law, as old as man hunself, that the stronger must rule, without limit. He affirmed not that the negro was incapable of civilization, but that he was incapable of keeping up with the .civilization of the white race. His solution of the problem was simply “hands off.” He could not support Senator Butler’s bill. It did not reach the case. There was ample room foY the negroes in the Northern and Northwestern States, and it was entirely practicable to induce them to settle in those States. If, said he, the negro is a good thing, let ns divide him out. In conclusion be said, addressing Senator Ingalls: “If you cannot help either white' or black, common decency requires that you should hold your peace."