Wilmington journal., 1867-10-04
Negro SUPREMACY.


to hedge upon the question of manhood
; suffrage" Of the elections now pending
J in only one State, Ohio, does it form {
question in the canvass, and in the entire
Southern portions of that State, their ora
tors have but little to say in its favor. II
!; Pennsylvania it is not even endorsed Iii thC
party platform, while in New York, the
Constitutional Convention, the most out
and-out Radical body ever assembled il
that State, has adjourned until after the
election without endorsing the proposition
by ordinance or resolution; and their State
nominating Convention weakly declared il
favor of impartial suffrage only.
In order to assure their Northern readers
that there is no danger of negro
supremacy in the South, Radical papers
parade the figures of the entire white
and negro population in the excluded
States by the census of 1860, but keep
most jGdiciously in the back ground
the results of registration in these same
reconstruction acts of Congress, and the
partial rulings of the Boards of Registrars.
While their organs work to deceive the
people of the North as to the actual relative
voting strength of the whites and blacks,
! their miserable tools at the South are using
all means, often the most dishonest and
tyrannical, of adding to the strength of the
latter and subtracting from that Of the
former, and with such success that with
but few exceptions, in the face of all calcu-
lations and the census, the negroes have
registered a large majority of the voters
Although in 1860 there were nearly or
quite million more of white than black
males in these States, yet, under the legiti
mate and illegitimate application of the
acknowledgements of Congress, this i'm
mense white majority has been entirely
swept away, and negro majority returned
in its stead.
In Louisiana, South Carolina. Florida
and Alabama, the negroes have immense
maiorities in several OF them more than
doubling the white vote, while their ma
jority in Mississippi will be fourteen thou
sand. In Virginia and Georgia the whites
have small majorities, and in this State
their majority will be more decided.
Texas and Arkansas have not been def
nitely heard from, but under the just ad-
ministration of General ORD, we believe
the former State will return decided
white majority, and we expect the mill
tary commanders, with their partizan pro-
scription, will give to the negroes the
supremacy in Texas. But as yet these are
merely surmises, for We have seen no re-
turns.
These figures present startling facts for
the consideration Of the people of the whole
United States, especially when we consider
that ninety nine one-hundredths of these
newly enfranchised citizens, comprising
the ruling class in at least six of the ten
excluded States, have just emerged from
condition of slavery, and readily fall vic
TINS to the willy demagogues, who cater to
the prevailing sentiment, to anticipate and
intensity it, in order to use it for their own
base ends. In these six States certainly
also in Georgia. probably in all of them, if
the negroes hold the balance of power, the
dominant party will be non-tax paying.
Under the plea of establishing schools and
building works of internal improvement,
but really to feed swarms of office holders
and to support corrupt government, agra
rianism of the worst kind will be estab- |
lished. In fact, in the speeches which com
manded the most attention and received |
the warmest applause, confiscation, in the |
shape Of tax of one dollar per acre on
land, was foreshadowed in the late white |
and negro Convention in this State When |
non-tax payers are arrayed against tax-pay- |
ers, with the latter completely in the power
of the former, property is left at the mercy
of thriftlessness and corruption Laws
passed by those who pay no taxes repre-
senting constituencies who share none of |
the burdens Of the government, care very
little how these burdens are distributed, so |
that those least interested reap the benefit. |
And the constituencies, not affected iniu-
riously by Unjust discrimination and abuses,
will have no concern in the matter, but will |
approve any and all which may inure to
their benefit.
When, too. the negro republics are
erected on the ruins of the State
Governments, by means of the Con-
gressional acts, they will be perpetuated
by their own legislation, as in Tennessee
The disfranchisement which secures their
temporary success will not only be ratified,
but extended beyond the hope of future
defeat, and these States will pass perma-
nently under their control. The more ra-
pid increase of the white population by i'm
migration or otherwise will be useless to over
come this voting majority so long as their
power is exercised to continue and increase |
the numbers disfranchised, and nothing
but bloody issue could establish the au-
thority of the white supremacy. In the |
meantime, life and property insecure. the
prosperity of the South must languish, and
the advancement of the whole country re-
tarded by the prosti alton of one-third.
In all hotly contested Presidential cleo |