Tri-weekly union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-186?, 1866-11-06
HOW 1T WILL WORK IN TIIEsOUTH
From the National Intclligencer.l

From the National Intelligeneer.
As the Radicals are so madly pressing
universal suffrage, which is to inauguratC
the millennium, we have glanced over the
census returns for 1860 for several of the
Southern States TO get some idea of the
! practical working Of the system.
We find that in two States the blacks ex-
coed the Nhites in the sum Of total pOpula-
tion-in Mississippi and South Carolina.
As soon as negro suffrage is established, if
1t operates as the Radicals desire it, to con-
solidate the blacks in an opposing mass to
| the present white dominant race, two States
will at once pass into the hands of the ne
groes. In other States many counties will
pass into their hands.
When this takes place, especially if the
blacks are urged ON by crazy fanatics-and
there is never likely TO be any deficiency of
them-there viii be "A che esrairig ii s4atirough-
out the South. But will the North be able
to keep the flames from spreading to their
borders?
1t is this alarming uncertainty about the
future which casts such sombre hue over
our country. We appear to be gradually
and steadily approaching one of those ter
rible social commissions which strew the
shores of time with the wrecks Of society.
Our fanatics are just like all other fanatics,
they shut their eyes and go ii blind.
We annex little summary of the white
and black population in several of the
Southern States, which will throw some
light on our subject.
One fact is worthy of observation-that
the white and black population is not
equally distributed throughout any of the
Southern States. The white population
predominates in the high and temperate
regions, and the blacks in the low lands.
Hence, in every one of the Southern States
the black population is more or less local
lied, which would give it local control, if
it became distinct political element. If
parties were organized on the basis of antago-
nism to the present white race, the tendency
would be for a segregation of the two races
in each States. The blacks would tend to
the low lands and the whites to the high
lands. In this way the low lands might in
time come to be abandoned entirely to the
blacks. Should this separation of the races
take place, what would become of the black
race?
The questions arising out of the difference
of races South are of immense magnitude.
We should advance to their solution not as
the Radicals desire, per Sditum, but feeling
our way with prudence, as Is the spirIs of
President JoHNsoN's policy.
Louisiana. Whites, 357, 456; blacks, $780,
1873. There are forty-eight counties in this
State. The blacks have majority in thirty
two counties.
arkansas. = Fifty-fve counties; eight
where the blacks have a majority.
Florida. 77,747; blacks, 62.677.
Thirty-seven counties, in seven Of which the
blacks are in the majority.
South CarOLina.-Whites, 291, 300; blacks,
4l2326. Thirty counties, in twenty of
which the blacks are in the majority.
Mississippi Total whites, S53, S99; blacks,
36,63l, Sixty counties in twenty-nine Of
which the blacks are in the majority.
AIabaaG. Whites 526, 27l; blacks, 49,
40. Fifty-two counties, in twenty ofwhich
the blacks are in the majority.