Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-09-02
eye Democratic and Mulattoes
From The Chicago Press and Tribuso.l

From The Chicago Press and Tribuse.l
The census tables of 1850 exhibit a few
peculiar facts. The State of Mississippi
contained &c, 1865 mulattoes in 1850, while
the State of Illinois at the same date con-
tanned only 2,506, and at The same date the
State OF Mississippi contained but 26,s72
Democratic voters-6,5ll more Democrats
than mulattoes. A mulatto, as Noah Web
ster defines it, is a person that is the off
spring of white and black parents. The
definity in the Southern States of this
Union has been somewhat improved by
social and legal distinction as to the sexes
of the parents. A lnulatto there is always
understood TO have had black mother
Hence the inference that three. fourths of
the Democrats in Mississippi are the parents
or brothers of one or more mulat,oes. 1t
does not destroy the force Of our logic to
say that the merit of this gigantic job must
be divided with the Wings Of Mississippi
Most Of them have since become DEM
ocrats, and in any event the need o! Mis-
sionary effort is not diminished. We take
it there is to-day about one Dfulatto in
Mississippi to each Democrat, and that one
is related by blood to half dozen other
Democrats besides progenitor, either as
brother. cousin or nephew. But in Illinois,
where there are only 2,5o6 mulaltoes, it
happens that more than one-half of them
are born out oil the State--a fair proportion
of them doubtless IN the South. Thus we
see that there is just sirteea times as much
need Of oratons against ama!gamation in
Mississippi as in Illinois. Aud-ahem.-
we find in the little triangle called the Dis
trict of Columbia, O7S mulattoes to
white male population of 8,49i; thus open
ing wide and growing field for Mr.. Doug
las talents as preserver OF the purity of
the white race. When we come to Vir-
ginia--mother of stntesmen-where all the
families are first families, and most OF them
claim connection with the daughter Of an
indian, we find the astonishing number
of 79,775 mulattoes, or about one and one
halffimes the number in all the free States
together.
The genealogical tree of these mulattoes
runs into the wilderness Of rami6cations
with the branches, boughs, twigs and
leaves, of all the first families. The whole
number of Democrats in the State at the
same date was only y 4l3, and the whole
number of voters only l2S,745. The pre-
sumption is that every first family in the
State counts mulatto sens, daughters,
brothers. sisters, &C., by the score, and
that every Democrat in the State is re-
sponsible for the deterioration Of the white
race" to the extent OF one, or that the
number of those " no are not so responsible
is compensated by the extra diligence Of
their Democratic neighbours.
Leaving the details we. end that there
were IN 1850 about 500 ,Oo6 uulattos IN the
Southern States. and 435 .s36 Democrats
The coincidence between the number OF
mulattoes and Democrats is so regular as to
leap to the belief OF design or intention
somewhere. We will not say there is or
was such design, bu, it is susceptible OF
proof, that wherever you find a Democrat
South Of Mason and Dixon's line, YOU find
mulatto. How he came there we will
not pretend to say