The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-05
Reports Of the Special Correspond
eDts OF the Herald.
POLITICS IN ALAB AN A
ALARMING APATHY OF THE WHITES.
Partial Failure OF the Cotton
Crop In Mississippi.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF TINE HERALD.

Politics in the s,n,c-Thc Number Of Males
An Incorrect Census-pr0bnbie Result OF
che observation-disclosures Apathy Of the
Wbiies-OrgaDizni Of the Rnd'cais-
Nuasbers Of White Unioni-is Leaving the
Loyal MISUNDERSTANDING the Blacks.
MONTGOMERY, Ala JDly %, 1857.
Tho State census of 1860 showed popula.
ton since 1860 Of 632 whites and 325 blackstota
1851 II the opinion OF many, aud II is very appar
emit that the Slate not complete, and that
many blacks in counties were not enumerated in
the census AZ the time the census taken
the blacks constantly migrating from county
70 another, and some who had regular employment
purposey euded deceived the takers belev-
ing that by doing they would be relieved from tho
payment OF taxes IA example In point, showing the
Snaccuracy of the State census may he stated that
This city the municipal authorities were satisfied that
she enumeration of Inhabitants fun aud
pete and had the ceusns retakeu, by which II was
found that upwards OF 500 persons had been
braced in the State returns.
The number persons twhltc) who took the amnesty
oath in 1865 was according 10 returns made 10 the
Secretary OF state about S. 700 which, u is conceded
within ten thousand Of the full voting strength
Of the state al that me: and the OF
Sor Governor at the last election august 1885, was
round numbers As 600 In the Presidential, election OF
1860 there ninety thousand votes poIled. Great
numbers of whites have, for reasons,
fused register Surprising that the last State
a. 10 whites. is IN great measure correct, II will be
thai there many white
twenty one years OF age there 1860. Then
Jrpm ninety thousand tho number OF voters in $780,
there must DC a deduction made for the number OF
voters deceased during the war; considerable number
disfrabchiscd and those who refuse 10 rcgiser-at
least forty tbosandwhch would 10 the probable
number OF whites who will qualify as voters fifty
tbousapd The of 1860 shows the number OF
black males between the ages OF twenty and hun
ded TO be 81 265 but many believe there than
that number. fhe blacks registering very generally
and minors 1t rs stated, IN many per-
united 20 register voters 1t assume, then,
that there VIII be ut least eighty thousand colored
voters From this calculation make the following
SUMMARY.
Probable number Of white voters ........... so 600
Probable number OF colored voters. So 900
Estimated number OF voters In the State. .135 coo
Probable majority OF coored voters S. 600
Judge W. II Smtb, superintendent of Registration
for this STATE estimates that not than about 1856 900
persons will BIO registered II will be safe to assert
that The estimate above made OF the numbe of whites
and blacks that VIII register this State is at least
within tive thousand OF the number Iha. will DO returned
The state Convention will be composed Of ono hun.
ared delegates, that being the number Of members
the most numerous branch of the state Legislature
In at least twenty-five counties, it Is estimated from
tbo partial or complete returns received there will DO
majority Of coiored voters These counties WI, DO en-
t,tied about nifty two ftytour delegates in the
Convention The remaining forty counties, IN which
the whites will have tho majority, will be entitled
about iorty-eight members. IL admit that til o
whites will all vote one way and control part of th
coIored vote throughout the state 1t will DO seen that
they could probably control tho political complexion OF
the Convention and determine its policy. But IT must
be borne mind tina, there is in many count es strong
potent auxiliary " not the controlling element Of the
party ITSELF The radicals and The League have boon
organization, and confidently expect to carry the
State The republican party is composed o
zoe" not to Be saia:ayed that it f has some
bad ia II; but the majority seem 10 be good men,
sincerely anxious Tor final settlement or political
troubles and joined the party because they believed
safe and means OF reconstruction and restora
aud intermediate opinions aud men Of amos, any ante
sedents seem TO readily md place to fan IN and
march with the column:
It's an indspuiable fact that the majority OF the
blacks viii vote the republican tcket-that rs, the way
they drilled and instructed tovoe by the League and
by various other agencies such as promises persuasion
threats religious aud benevolent societies. the te1cusngs
of schools, Sc., hitherto in great measure unknown
In political warfare and difficult TO successfully coinoa
Partial Official returns received at the Bureau az
Registration show appalling apathy and ndGere nee on
part OF the in 20 reconstruction anu
registration Partial returns from forty nine counties
show that only 2S 900 whites round numbersl have
registered to $1,000 blacks making total OF about
Since tho passage Of the last Supplemental Military
In some counties in Middle aud south Alabama Bat
ate CONSERVATIVES have delayed organization too long
fses to be considered Is, that IN many counties where
the anlrconsructon feeling strongest the number
Of ooored voters largely exceed tho whites and the
blacks are for the most part already prepared through
the League other influences to the republican
ticket en- ,nat, and unless the conservatives divide
control large part Of the coored vote the chances
Of success are extremely doubtful
10 reported that IN some OF the hill or North Ala
hama COUNTIES In which the whites exceed the blacks,
tnat large numbers OF whitea quitting the
League This s In part true, but Is
by certain inat the Disguised ex-Leaguers
may not finally vote the republican ticket
In remote counties, where the people much scat
tered the influence of the League will not DO felt a.
sn the large and cities Bot il g safe TO predc,
Thai reconstruction Is certain in Alabama aud that the
republican party will carry tho day N the approaching
sectiona
gard registration the following table exhibits the ff
berence between the lumber Of males white snd back
I'm large countless between the ages OF twenty aad
hundred according 70 the state census Of soo ana
The number OF persons returned registered
aid counties, under the military bills