Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-08-02

selvcs with their credentials before Con
GROSS ~. soon as the Southern States are
reorganizcd according to law. There is no
doubt of their admission, if they como Ill
Droper shape We need not anticipate the
reflection Of the philosophical upon such an
event.
From the New York Herald, tiad.}
| Ia round numbers the aggregate popu!a-
| tion Of these ten outside States may be set
down at eight millions, and the proportions
| at four millions five hundred thousand
whites against three millions five hundred
| thousand blacks, which give the whites q
majority Of a million. Allowing one voter
to every seven persons, these figures will
cover five hundred thousand black voters
against six hundred and fifty thousand
white voters. The blacks have decisive ma
iorities in South Carolina Mississippi and
| Louisiana the whites in Virginia, North
Carolina. Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and
Texas, while the two races nearly balance
each other in Florida, allowing for the
larger destruction OF the whites by the war
! and the increase of the blacks by accessiOns
during the war, from the border slave
States. Hence, if all the voters Of both
races are brought out, the blacks are sure
OF three States, and they may carry four
or five of the ten. We may safely assume
that Wllle ILe ptdClAS Cft HtEtSS6 viii NCtS VIC
Republican ticket, they will be supported
| by some considerable fractions OF the
whites SO that, il we go no further, the
! chances are in favor of the blacks.
/ But rebel acknowledgements will prOba-
blv in the aggregate cut off say seventy five
| thousand men otherwise entitled to vote
so that in all the ten States concerned the
! whites will have but seventy-fve thousand
majority to rely upon. But, III the next
Mace, the actual registrations made Of w.
ters. from Virginia to Texas exhibit an al
most unbroken catalogue OF black maJorl-
ties, so heavy IN most places as to show that
large numbers Of whites, from indifference,
disgust or despair, have given up the fight
onthe threshold, and that from the Potomac
to the Rio Grande the Republicans, with
their solid black vote and their white sup
porters hold the game Of reconstruction
in their hands.
So. from the facts and figures before US
: the actual situation Of things warrants The
conclusion that the Republican party vii
carry nearly all, if not all, these ten out
side revolutiOnizedS Southern States in theil
work Of reconstruction. Nor is it likely
the blacks, constituting in all these States
the bulk and strength of the party, viii
: consent to do all the work without any Of
its rewards.
honors and offices to get them. Hence, VIZ
NAV confidently expect, and during the
present Congress, that sprinkling of mem
bers of African descent in both Houses
suggested by Senator Sumner.
We are called, then, to inquire what vii
be the moral effect in the political world 0
this startling innovation upon the old orde
of things We may be sure that negro
equality, proclaiming itself through negro
voices from both Houses of Congress, will
make profound impression upon the pub
lie mind throughout the North. We APP
prehend that the result will be genera
I reaction against the Republican party II
2 the Northern States for we know there
q stronger wall of white prejudice agains
y the negro in the North than exists in til
= South. This prejudice elected buchanan
Z in 1856, and would have elected DOugla
: or breckenridge in 1860, had the Charles
ton convention consented to unite upo-
Z either. We may expect then, when tn
blacks assume the political balance of pow
er of ten reconstructed Southern States
and send up their black representatives
e Congress, that there will be Il revolutonar
l. reaction against them among the whites {
,; the North which will upset the Repnbilca
u party
S, This may be the real object of those leat
1uS AOOAtIANA+A n41AtC io44IIC1EtAIo WIZ OK u
ing their people to the experiment of a
a. lowing the Radicals and the blacks all til
h rope they may desire in this business
I'd Southern reconstruction. Let us push tn
E thing of negro equality, say these Souther
n leaders, into Congress, and then the labo
T. ing white masses of the North against tn
Southern negro political balance of powt
e. will take the alarm, and a Northern rea
Or ton of the whites against the blacks vi
be the inevitable result; and thus the Il
he publican negro party will be destroyed /
u its own weapons.
be This WILL in all probability, be the sol
oy ton of the experiment Of the political c
an ganization of the blacks against the whit
lgl in the South-a reaction of the whit
BY against the blacks and the Republican pa
tY in the North. Meantime, however,
le- suspect that the spontaneous and pOwerf
,el popular movements North and South
behalf of Gen. Grant for the succession W
Oh carry everything before them; but with t
his settlement of this question there will u
is questionably come decisive Northern re
ng olution on this other and momentous ISIS
of negro political and social equality.
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ON last Thursday at SARATOGA.