The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-10-17
Negro Supremacy-White Men


See where You are going.
We regard the New York Herald as :
truculent sheet but it has tremendous
circulation and wields great influence
In late number it shows the rapid
steps we are making towards negro su
premacy under the Jacobin policy
South. Bennett reasons in this wise
"Nagro suffrage means negro SUI
premacy, pure and simple. This is the
direct testimony Of the registration re
turns. Radical orators appeal to pop
ular sympathy and say that it means
only justice to the downtrodden; and,
again, they appeal to sectional preju
dice and say that it only means bal
ance Of power against the still dsloyal
white men of the South. But the clear
testimony Of the figures is that nigger
suffrage means nothing moro nor less
than absolute niggcr supremacy in the
settlement of the political dcstinies OF
this nation. Returns from the ten
States are sufficiently full to show that
the whole vote will run very near to
twelve hundred thousand. On this
vote, dividing it strictly according to
color, the nigger will have close to one
hundred thousand majority. The mig
ger supremacy party would have this
majority, then, if every white man in
the Southern States voted against it.
1t is estimated, however, that more
than hundred thousand of the white
voters will act with that party, and thus
its majority will be run up to two hun
dred thousand votes. Nothing can
prevent this, SO far rs can be foresecn !;
for even fthe President could give am
nesty to every possible man that stands
in need of it, the number of votes thus
secured could not change the result
Thus the Radicals have, in all proba-
bility, every Southern State of tue ten.
In Virginia the white vote predomi-
mates to larger figure than in any 9th
er; but the Republican white vote is
large enough to more than balance the
tn iltecn thousand by which the white
yo, ors of the Old Dominion outnumber
the nigger voters These figures settle
the question Of reconstruction, for the
States will be admitted at once, now
that it is clear the Radical leaders can
control their action. They will be
rushed in carly enough to participate
in the choice for the next Presidency.
Into that election, therefore, the radi-
cal leaders will go with ten States uni
ted to their platform. Then, if they
can make any decent division of the
Northern vote, though distinct ma
jority of the Northern people who car
ried OH the war and saved the country
should decide against them, yet, with
Il Northern minority, this niger. vote
of the ten States will turn the balance
in their favor Thus. the men of the
Soutt, who were slaves four years ago
will force President and a policy on
the people of the North. The tables
will then have been strangely turned by
folly and fanaticism. Seven years ago
the 5 outh rose in arms against Presi-
dent elected by Northern white votes
Northern men put down that rebellion,
and have carried their putting down so
far tn at they may now have to accept
a President elected by Southern mig
gers. All this may happen unless a
tremendous majority against the fanat
les in the elections this fall in New York
and Pennsylvania shall frighten them
to an abandonment of their pro-
gramme."