Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-03-06

1t thus appears that the emancipation Of the
slaves would give the South fourteen additional
members la the House of Representatives
making ninety-eight out OF the two hundred and
! thirty-three of which that body is composed. II
/ further appears that the slave population is
1893, ,353, or wanting only 647 Of being four
millions The census returns Of free negroes at
the South in 1860 are not yet published; but in
| 1850 they numbered 22S, rs, and, if we add for
1 increase about y per cent, the total would be
/ about a quarter Of a million, thus making the
whole black population about 4,250,OOO. By
deducting quarter of a million from the total
free population in the foregoing table, the re-
msinder is S,lSI, ,l56, being the whole Of the
white population.
In proportion to their numbers, therefore, the
whites would be entitled TO sixty-fOur members
of Congress, and the negroes to thrty-four out Of
the ninety-eight, or more than One-thiTd of the
whole As in two oStates-Mississippi and South
Carolina-they are more numerous than the
whites they would have majority in the Leg
islature, and elect two United States Senators in
each. Of course the negroes would invariably
elect the men Of their own color. There would
thus be thirty-four blacks in the House of Repre-
sentatives and four blacks in the Senate.
Just imagine these sable Senators and Repre-
sentatives discussing earnedly uponsome knotty
point of international law, or dissecting the for
eign policy of the government Or fancy, if
YOU can, without laughing at the absurdity Of
The idea, the honorable gemmen of color
trying 10 unravel in a Congressional debate the
mysteries Of finance, stocks, paper money and
national debt.
Such is the ridiculous appearance Congress
would present to the world at the end Of the
war if Senator Sumner and the other monoma-
MACS of both houses Of the national legislature
should be able to carry out their programme
Nor would this revolving spectacle be all As
the black population increase IN southern eli
mate much more rapidly than white men, the
negroes in process Of time, would Outnumber
the whites, to say nothing Of the diminution OF
the latter and the immense increase Of mulattOes
or men of color which would result from eman-
oipation and the consequent amalgamation OF
the two races. At last the southern representa-
tives in Congress would be nearly all men of
color, from an ebony black to a dirty whitish
brown
This mingled breed would become inferior to
the population of Mexico and South America,
and intestine confusion, disorder and bloOdshed
should be the chronic condition of the Southern
States. The North is free from tdis danger, be-
cause the per centage of black population is so
small that it cannot affect US But when al
ready in two States Of the South the blacks out
numoer the whites, and in the whole South more
than a third Of the population either the deteTi-
Grafton Of the pure white race or the speedy ex-
tirpation Of the blacks would inevitably result
from the emancipation of the latter.
To complete the picture 10 is only necessary 20
add that instead Of waging a war for the pre-
servation of the Union and TO bring back the
southern States, the white men Of the North
would then do what the Confederate States are
now doing-go to war to drive them out OF the
Union. Alternate anarchy and despotism would
characterize the history of the country and wars
of races and mutual determination would go
forward till the whites were well thinned and the
blacks utterly destroyed. And this is what the
disunion sboitioHists in Congress, headed by
Senator Sumner would lay up in store for the
future of the republic of white men founded by
our ancestors.