Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-10-18
The Eeauties of RECOMMENDATION.

section publish their sentiments lib
orally and freely. we here, who have no
privileges except to pay taxes and support
the government, the best way we can, take
pleasure in publishing in our columns, in
prominent place, anything which we
think calculated to open the eyes of think
ing men on the present condition Of the
country.
The following article, from the National
hateligencer: appears to us to be quite ap-
propriate to the times, and we accordingly
give it prominent position in this edi-
ton
| g THE BEAUTIES OF RECONSTRUCTION.
eve took occasion a short time since to
review the results of the registration in the
South, and exposed, to some extent, the
working of the plot devised by Congress to
cheat the people out of the rights Of self
government, and, by means of negro votes,
to assure the election of Radical Presi-
dent, in despite of a Conservative majority
in the Northern States. The results of our
expose are so significant that we feel bound
to impress them on the attention of 81 can
did men. We find the broad fact, that in
the ten excluded States, where there is in
disputably a large preponderance of the
white population, majority for the ne
groes has been rolled up in six States, and
in four others, where, by all the tests pop
ulation we have right to look for over
whelming white maj orities, the negro
strength, 10y the kindly and fostering pro-
cess of * registration" has been SO quickly
and marvelously developed that the white
majority is SO meagre that it is in the pow
er Of the negroes, with small faction of
white Radicals to control the power of the
State
"Such is the general result-negro rule
and ascendancy from the Potomac to the
Rio Grande Taking up some of the de-
tails we then presented we discover that
in Florida, where the whites by the last
census were 77,747 to g., 637, the register
ing officers have allowed 4, 1873 whites and
1888 blacks 70 vote. In Georgia, where
the whites have majority IN population of
125, 900, the registering officers have SO
manipulated the matter that the votes of
the two races are nearly even. In Alaba-
ma the negro majority on the egistration
is Is, SCI, and, according to the numbers of
the blacks enrolled, it would appear that
there is an increase CT over $4,000 since
1860 in this called g loyal race Texas
is another State where the registering Off
GERS may point to their work Of multiple
cation on the one hand, and disfranchise-
ment on the other, with all the pride which
waits on successful and UNPUBLISHED guilt.
"Ihe census of 1860 showed 1905
whites to 1874, 021 negroes-more than two
whites to one negro. The Tribune is now
able to boast negro majority of ten thou
sand In Louisiana, where Gen. Banks at
the close OF the war reported the negroes
had fallen off one-fouth, the registers foot
up 81, 907 blacks, which, taking the usual
ratio of population, to voters in that State,
exhibits an increase of 193 900 blacks in
seven years, or fully JVtyJfce per- CENT! And
lastly, in Virginia, where a year ago the
census of the auditor showed majority of
fifty thousand white males over p years of
age, the registering officers have now
brought this down to ID, 900 white MAORI
ty. Such, in brief, is an account of the
deviItry planned at Washington, and exc
cuted by the military satraps and their sat-
elites, in order to cast the vote of the
South for the Radical candidates, and at
the same time humiliate the population by
the imposition Of negro rule. Can we
wonder that in Louisiana the white popQ
lation have abandoned themselves to de-
spair, and left the polls to the negroes, who
are invested by The bayonets Of the soldiery
with the political power of the State; that
in Alabama we have d like result-the pro-
portion of negroes voting in Mobile being
about 4, 900 to 100 whites; that in both these
States the Radicals boast undisputed sway;
or that all over the South we hear of emil
nent and worthy citizens removing them
selves and their families, prefering the
hardships and bitterness of exile TO the
chance of a revival of those scenes Of hor-
ror illustrated in st. Domingo, and now Ii
able at any moment to break forth in the
South
"But our special object in this article is
to call attention to the progress OF this
Radical fraud just ACROSS the Potomac, in
the Commonweai of Virginia, where the
whites have been very graciously allowed
by Gen. Schofield to retain thirteen thou
sand out of the fifty thousand majority to
which they are fairly entitled. In this
State it might be supposed by the unthink
ing that the whites would have some chance
of securing control; this majority of thir-
teen thousand on the registration ought
certainly to give decided majority of the
election districts for the convention to the
whites. But not SO fast These registra-
ton lists must go to the Adjutant's office at
Richmond for the apportionment of dele
gates to be there made. How do they
come out of that mill We have before
US the table of Republican sheet and be-
hold the magical result. In forty-six dis
tricts the whites have a majority and in