Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-11-21
THE SOUTH.
ITS Condition Political and Social.
AIApAMA

Its Condition Political and Social.
Col. Forney, in letter from Washington,
says f.
The proceedings of the Alabama Conven-
ton now in session, are full of encourage
ment. Every confidence is entertained by
my correspondents that the new constitution
will be ratified by large majority, and will,
when presented to Congress and the people
of the free States, stand In resistless contrast
to the rebel instrument which it supersedes.
The North Carolina election takes place on
the 18th and Goth of this month, and judg-
ing by the way many men formerly identifi-
ed with the Confedency are working with
the Radicals, we may look for decisive
majority. In this State, as in Alabama, the
machinery of reconstruction is in the hands
of experienced statesmen, so that the color
ell men will not be left, as they are in South
Carolina, to the tricks and treacheries OF
their old oppressors.
The same gentleman says of
MISSISSIPPI.
Mississippi has decided in favor of a con-
vention by twenty thousand majority, and
the official returns from Georgia, which vo-
ted on the ssme day, are even more signih-
can't Quite a number of intelligent whites
have been elected to the conventions in
botn States. In Georgia nearly forty thous-
and white votes were thrown, and in every
| county, with one or two exceptions, where
| this vote predominatcd, the largest majori-
ties We're given for the convention. In the
city of Atlanta five hundred of the one
thousand whites who voted supported the
Radical ticket.
VIRGINIA
From Woodstock, Virginia, an intelligent
| Union soldier, canvassing under the auspices
of the committee, says So The members Of
the Dunkarl Church, who have hitherto
kept themselves aloof from politics, have
decided to act with tile Republicans, an(
| they will largely increase our vote when WI
come to ratiiy the new Constitution"
NORTH CAROLINA.
An officer of the Union army, now resi-
dent in North Carolina, says 1.-THE rich o.
governing classts are against us in body
and the poor whites arc our friends, ,althougl
much terrorized by those who claim to b.
their superiors. Most oi these men canno
read, and the few who can, CAN scarcel.
comprehend the complicated statistics AM
intricate arguments OF elaborate essays. w
reach them by plain, short, pilhy appeals
1t was in this way that, during the war,
enlisted more than thousand naive whit
North Carolnians in my regiment, in til
midnight gloom of the rebellion"
LOUISIANA. eu
The New Orleans crescent gives motto
of % Workingmens' Convention, to NEE
in New Orleans on the 10Th of next month
and to contain delegates from Louisiana
Alabama, Mississippi. Texas, and Arkansas
Tue Crescent says: NThe members Of thi
association are all respectable colored mer
raised in the South, and Of no mean claim
to intelligence and information 1t is the
earnest desire to withdraw the attention {
their brethren from the mad pursuit of o
fee and politics to the more reasonable
useful, and profitable occupation Of agricu
tural labor"
LABOR WANTED.
Labor is wanted in the South, but il al
! pears that it would not be so much wantt
/ if some of the people already there woul
! only work. The Memphis Past says TIL
: about the doors Of every corner grocery
the country towns in that region may
I found half score of men, smoking &C
: pipes, and demanding vehcmently, whe
, the dash shall we get labor to raise our CO
. ton?"
u FLORIDA.
: A colorcd man of great ability says, in
n letter dated Jacksonville, Florida, Mover
:, ber s "Our convention, which we sh
. carry by an overwhelming majority. will
1t composed of two-thirds white men, and I
II Southern loyalsts viii be fully and iail
If represented. These are among the saf;
Radicals we have"