The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-10-29

Inc returns rom the last TWO states are not
yet quite exact, but the above table is very
approximate. 1t will be seen by this that the
black power Is becoming fearful one In
the hands of fanatical politicians This, how
ever, is but the FIRST cloud that precedes
the hurricane. Georgia has her election
to-day, and has registered majority Of
only one thousand eight hundred and eighty
six whites. The Florida election of forty-six
black delegates to State Convention will
give thirty-six blacks. Nine-tenths Of the
delegates to the Mississippi Convention, on the
9Th of November, will be radicals.
In the States of Alabama, Virginia and
Louisiana as we have shown, the blacks carry
over one-fourth of all the representation at
the State Conventions, while one hundred and
seventy-nine white radicals-nearly two-thirds
of the whole number of delegates-hound
on the barbarians. Four millions Of negroes,
in all, now assail the stability of the
government They are armed with the vote
the weapon that Congress, by unwise legisla-
ton, has put into their hands. This vote will
give them such a power as will yet make
the nation reel In common with ignorance
wherever found in the worlds history, the
negro will seek division of property for he
has as yet no idea how property is acquired
New and fanciful ideas OF his rights will find
place in brain already gone mad in too rapid
on elevation. Let his ignorance force q mea-
sure TO the surface, despite the common sense
of the country in opposition, and what can pre-
;feh aoa To- hot
idle speculations the late election returns too
well show. Strange anomaly! We were never
willing that the Southern white should legis-
late for the North. but are willing that the late
Southern slave, representing the most concen-
trated element of barbaric ignorance on the
whole Western Continent should shape our
future. There are two courses to choose
European civilization and African barbarism.
The radicals have apparently chosen the
latter, and by their action they now absolutely
force the white civilized element of the
South to appeal to that first law of nature,
seli-preservation. How well the whole South
appreciates this is best shown by the numerous
extracts which we are constantly publishing
from the conservative Sou hern papers, which
calmly calculate the force of the coming black
invasion They ses the approach of q war of
caste in which, after an exhaus i've and terrific
struggle, the black will disappear and the
white be left nothing but remnant Of its pre-
sent number.
Says the Richmond Wing of October &c,
speaking of the late election Sag linst these
things we made what resistance we could, and
made il in the spirit OF men who are contending
for life, for liberty, Tor property and whatever
else is valuable"
The Lynchburg Vrginian s,ys -" Let it be
developed at once whas negro suffrage me ms.
The farther the volution goes the more vio-
lent viii be the recoil. The North will not be-
lieve until they see and they will see wien
the Southern elections are finished" This is
undoubtedly true, and the disgust which al
ready gives evidence of its presence in the
North will be in short time irresistible.
Negroes will, under the radical programm, =,
soon take their seats in Congress and shape the
laws.
Negroes, by voting Tor any measure in mass,
Immediately draw a distinction in race that
forces the whites, for their own protection, to
also band as unit. This is the point Of rcvo-
luton to which we are rapidly marching. II
Is shown Mechanically by the elections, and
indicates war OF caste, unless it is wisely
checked by the North. The North, then, to the
rescue We saved The nationality once from
the attack of tho master, but we have to save il
now from the more dreaded attack Of the
former slave.