The Placer herald., 1865-09-23
Negro Suffrage.

accurately informed. In the States of South
Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana, and in
some Congressional districts Of Alabama and
other Southern States, the colored popula
ton, as shown by the census returns, are in
an actual majority; whilst in others they
constitute either majority in many coun'
ties or approach to an equality of numbers
with the whites. We find, for instance, in
consulting the returns, that there are in Ala.
bama 20 counties in which the colored pop
uation preponderate; in Florida 6. in Geor-
gia 43, in Louisiana 33 out of 4S in all, in
Mississippi 81, ia North Carolina 20, in
South Carolina 20 out OF 80 in all, in Ten,
nessee 8, in Texas l3, and in Virginia a.
In our own State of Maryand the co|ored
population is in majority in the counties Of
Anne Arundel. Calvert, Charles, Prince
Georges and St. Mary's according to the
census of 1860. In many counties and par
ishes in the South this disproporsion of nun.
bers is exceedingly great. Dallas county, Ala
bama, has but 1885 whites to 25,S4O blacks,
Issaqusna county Mississippi, 5S7 whites to
1924 blacks; Beaufort district, S. c., 6,7l4
whites to 1880 blacks, and in Tensas Par
lsh, Louisiana, the enormous difference i.
shown between l470 whites and 1850
blacks.
The disqualification Of many white per-
sons and the terrible sacrifice of white males
made during the war, will give still great
or preponderance to the colored element
than is exhi,ed by the above citations from
the census tables. 1t follows therefore tha,
the colored race, in at least three States
would have the power, under the grant o
suffrage, to send Senators and Representa-
lives to Congress of their own selection, who
if white, would most probably have gained
their position by the arts of intrigue and for
selfish ends or il black, would prove dis
turblng element wherever they might appear,
atfordng evidence by their presence of a
struggle for local dominancy between the
white and black races a contest which could
only be attended with the most Iamenable
consequences. 1t would be far better for
the freedmen to devote their attention At
first to their material and intellectual adj
vancement, than with all the prejudice of the
white race against them, embark in strug,
gle for polilica power, merely to CRAFTY the
desires Of ambitious demagogues who simply
wish to use them for their own purposes
The policy of the President certainly does
not tend to encourage such a struggle at the
present time, nor to countenance that idea of
social equality between the races of which
some make pretense.
History furnishes, to our knowledge no
record OF successful intermingling of the
three great divisions of mankind which
sprang from the oins of Shem, Ham and
Japhet. The EngIshman and the Hindosta
nee are As separate to- day as in the time of
Lord Give. In spite of every effort and all
the allurements and attractions of commerce
the japanese still bars his doors against the
European, or suleny y submits to the mere
force Of power. Africa maintains her isola-
tion, and her stolen sons, after many gen.
erations, are aliens in the land of their
enforced immigration. The white man and
the Indian Lave been persistent foes since
the days Of Columbus and Miles Standish.-
Hence the expectation of some Of successful.
ly blending inharmonous elements into one
social and political body, at once, is certainly
not practicable.
1t occurs to us that the only result which
can follow the adoption of the policy recon-
,nended by the Massachusetts committee, in
An address recently put forth for Immediate
general suffrage in the South, will be the pre-.
cipitalion of the contest for political power
noticed above, between the white and black
races, which may at first give some Temporal
ry success to The latter element, but expert
ence proves that from all such conflicts ter
rible evils must ensue. Taking the white
and black population of the Southern States,
we find the former superior, both numerical
y and Intellectually, so that though in the
struggle the horrors of San Domingo sh oud
be repeated, the political result except by
the interpositiou of an outside force, cannot
be the same. In saying what we have on
this topic, we feel that we are speaking in
the interests of the black man as we'll as of
the white We desire to see an improve.
ment in the condition of the former every
wbere-to see him occupy useful position
in society, and lake his part in receiving and
conferring benefts-but certainly Just now
the political arena is not the best place for
the exercise of his powers and they are not
bis wisest counsellors who urge him to the
the unequal contest Baltimore Sun.
RAILROAD DEoIsIoN.-Ths Pacerville Mir.
ror says in its issue of September llth:
The District Court, at its recent session,
decided in the cases OF the PIacerville and
Sacramento Valley Railroad company against
certain stockholders, that the full amount of
subscriptions may be co|lected-that the
remedy given by statute of forfeiture of stock
is merely cumulative, and does not affect the
common law remedy of suit to collect the
full amount due on any subscriptions. There
has heretofore been difference of opinion
among shareholders 10 reference TO this mat.
ter, but the question may now be considered
settled.
"THE DiokENs!"-A. n Dickens, Of this
city, brother Of Charles Dickens. the great
English novelist, has been made the father of
three children at one birth. The "Great