Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-01
REeIsrRATIONINTH THE soyTs

The National IntelHgencer of the 18th
has an article on the registration returns
from the ten Southern States subjected to
the operation of the reconstruction act,
and presents the following statistics:
Louisiana, under the auspices of General
Sheridan and the clique of bad men by
whom he was surrounded, and to whose
passions he ministered, was the first to
complete this initial step CT "reconstruc-
| tion," SO called. The official result is
Whites, 44,732; blacks, 82,907-being a
| negro majority of 39,175-and to the end
that the work of installing the negro in
power may go on speedily and swimmingly,
General Sheridan has designated the 9th
and 28th of this month for the election of
members of the convention to frame new
constitution. We shall have occasion to
recur to these figures again.
In Alabama the official result was also
quickly reached by the pious zeal of Gene
raj Pope. The total is 100 995-whites To-
747; blacks, 8,248-being a majority for
the negroes of 15,501.
In South Carolina the official figures give
6,019 negroes to 21,176 whites, being a
negro majority of "a, 843.
In Virginia the official figures are
whites, lis, l57; blacks, 101 AGO, being a
white majority of 1867. General Schotield
has ordered an election to be held on the
22d October for members of a convention.
In Georgia the registration has Just been
completed, and the result is officially an
nounced as follows Total, 1873, 720 whites,
95,503; blacks, 93,4l7. Majority for the
former, 2086.
These five States are complete. In
Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina,
the negro majority is overwhelming, and
the schemes of the authors of these recon-
struction measures bid fair to be accom-
plished. In Virginia the whites have a
majority and may carry the State; but
there, as well as all over the South, the
negroes are banded together by oath bound,
secret Radical leagues, and it has been sup
posed their vote would be cast as unit In
such case, seven thousand whites, or one in
every sixteen of the whites voting the
Radical ticket, would turn over that State
to the coalition resting chiefly on African
support. In Georgia there is also a white
majority of two thousand but with the
negroes in secret leagues, voting as body,
a very small number of bad white men are
enough to turn the scale, and put the State
virtually under negro government.
In North Carolina the results az far as
reached are Il, 703 whites, blacks 1895,
making small majority for the former.
With fair registration, we might count
at least on 10000 white majority in this
State; but if it is to be worked as has been
usual in the South, this is not to be hoped
for. Florida, az far as heard from, gives
CO.'S colored, and 1888 whites, and this
ratio (more than two TO one) will probably
be maintained. In Mississippi the regis
tration is said to be nearly complete, and
to foot up whites 1885, blacks 60,167
and, judging from the actual population,
this looks more like an honest registration
than any other State in the South, The
black majority is 1881. In Texas and
Arkansas the registration has also been go.
ing on. We have no figures from either,
but we understand that in the former State,
where the white population is over two to
one, negro preponderance on the registra-
ton has been arrived at of even a greater
ratio.
Such is the prospect before u--a black
rule, and ascendeHcy from the Potomac to
the Rio Grande, over a coant:y rich in
resources, the abode of FIVE or six millions
of whites, who might become prosperous
and happy if it were not essential to make
their land aprey to anarchy worse than
Jamaica or Hayti in order to compass
ascendency for the Radical
faction.