Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-08-28
WHOLE NUMBER 2S1.

TIE JOHNSON-STANTON IMBROGLIO
THE NEW ISSUE OF SOUTHERN NE.
GRO SUPREMACY.
TEE rupture between President johnson
and the refractory and defiant Secretary of
War, considered in connection with recent
events and developments bearing upon South
Iern reconstruction, brings forward the new
issue Of Southern negro supremacy into bold
relief It is morally certain that under tho
stringent ahd-rebel and universal negro suf-
rage policy Of reconstruction now pursued ia
the South, the ten excluded States will be re-
organized and reinstated in Congress BY the
predominant negro vote. Letus see what is
/ the inevitable drift Of this business, as now
progressing, from the facts and figures before
US
From the registration Of votes completed
in Louisiana, the blacks have recorded nlaiori-
ty of over forty thousand and as none but
registered voters are to be admitted to the
| elections for the State reorganization, the
blacks, counting all the registered whites
! against them, viii have the State by fortT
! thousand majority; for we may safeIylassume
| that they will all come up to the polls. But
as they will be supported and managed by a
considerable number, say from fifteen to twen-
/ ty thousand Radical whites, they wilIprU-
badly carry through the reconstruction slee-
! lions Of LOuisiona by fifty sixty or seventy
| tive thousand majority. This, if Sheridan'5
| registration is to be adhered to, Is q simple
matter Of arithmetic, for the Tennessee cleo
| ton establishes the essential fact that tho
| Southern blacks are Ell T5asss with the Re-
publican partyg and with its EXTREMIST Radi-
Gals. In Virginia, shorn of the new Sla.e of
West Virginia, there IS, perhaps, allowing for
the losses OF the war, an aggregate pODula-
ton Of $4,000, Of which the blacks havea
majority Of perhaps one hundred and flty
thousand. But under the rebel dislranohise-
ments Of the reconstruction laws Of Congress.
and universal negro suffrage, and the disgust
of many of the whites, the Radicals boast
that they are sure of the State, accord
ing to the books Of registration, by some
thirty thousand majority. We dare say. too,
that they are not very wide of the mark in
their calculations. They are equally saugums
of securing North Carolina, Georgia. Florida.
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas.
with the solid negro vote. As Tor South Car
olna, with ITS aggregate population Of seven
hundred thousand made up of four hundred
thousand blacks against three hundred thous-
and whites, the case IS clear, that as recon-
structiOn Is now going on, the blacks win as
sumo complete and absolute possession of the
State, and will have the power; if they choose
TO exercise it, of making O Legislature of
black men exclusively, and Of electinr nero
delegation to Congress Senate and Housqs,
Thus it appears, from the Developments
and all the evidence before us touching the
reconstruction programme Of Congress, that
if carried out according to the laws as apriiied
by Secretarn Stanton and the present com
mauders Of tho five military districts. the
whole ten Of the States involved i'm tIis or
deal viii be at the mercy. Of the blacks I'VE
are called; then, to meet the question Of the
probable Consequences of this negro supreme
cy. The return of twenty, thirty, or fortv
negro Senators and Representatives to Con-
gress is but an item among the results which
may be reasonably anticipated. The conse1
quences of negro ascendancy in the Legisla-
ture OF this or that State are most to be feared
when we consider the unsettled balances as
slaves which these Southern blacks will be-
apt to enforce against their late white masters.
Some very significant hints in this direction
have already been thrown out in the resolu-
tOns Of the negro reconstruction meetings Of
South Carolina Weknow, too, that those
Northern while Radical stumpers in tho
South who have most broadly suggested tho
possible application from Congress Of Old
Ihad Stevens F" panacea Of confscation have
excited the liveliest enthusiasm among the
blacks. It It any wonder, then. that ex-
Perry, Of South Carolina. and tbnir
leading Southern men counsel the policy of
1uiet submission to their present military COW
5rnment infinitely as preferable 10 tbis recon-