Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-26

In 1864 the total number of electora
votes counted in the Presidential cleo
ton was 22l-of these ll9 constitutes q
majority of seven From this it will be
seen that the Democracy have majority
of the total electoral vote, as radically
organized ard used in 1864, in the nine
States they actually, hold at the present
moment.
The Radicals are aware of this fact,
and are laying plans to checkmate and
defeat the really dominant party of the
republic. They propose to vote the
eleven excluded States (including Ten
nessee) as unit for their nominee, who
ever he may be. This accounts for the
injustice, rascality and downright frauds
perpetrated by them, through the five
Rump kings in the districting of the
States held by them SO that the negroes
and their black hearted Yankee Puritan
ical allies, should control the conventions
and secure supremacyin the same-an{t
accounts, also, for the persistency wi tn
which the Radicals adhere to the dan. nm
BILE dogma Of negro suffrage.
Should the Radi, ais perfect their ar
rangement, reconstruct the States.
and conclude to admit them to a partici
patton in the Presidential election of
1868, and Gas they certainly would,
should the States vote for the Rump
nominee, the Radicals would have a total
electoral vote of lT9, or majority of
COL Even should we gain Illinois 66).
Indiana 13), Maine (7), New Hamp-
shire (5), Wisconsin (8), Minnesota az,
and Oregon 81, we would still have a
majority against US of four
Does this not account for the anxiety
manifested by the Rump and its tools. |
the towards and rascals doing their J
dirty work in Virginia, North Carolina
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Al a.
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkar ,sas
and Texas Even should there he a
failure to call conventions in any of The
States by the negroizing acts = fl bring
the sutjugated States into t',e olectn7
raj colleges with negro ras'iori,ies cast
solidly for Grant or Cb.asf as The case
may be 10 ''' S"'0
The people ia ev cry Northern State
which has voted ave co oJemned in the
most emphatic name. The recopstruo.
ton poney Of the RrImp and the infa-
mons idcA of negro equality; but disre-
gard.ng these facts, the Radicals are
determined to maintain their hold upon
the Federal Government and offices by
banding the negroes of the States lately
in revolution solidly against the white
majority of Che republic. In the eleven
States referred to Gncluding Tennessee)
between 100000 and 100000 white men
are DISTINGUISHED, for no other reason
than to secure the consummation of the
Radical plot against the rights and liber-
ties Of the whites of the Unionl
Never were desperate, bold and I'M
principled men more outspoken and
plain Of speech They do not attempt
to hide their purposes, they wantonly,
brazenly, and UNANIMOUSLY declare their
designs, boast Of their power and ability
to carry them outl They ignore the
manifest disapproval of their villainy
expressed again and again at the North,
and audaciously defy Democrats and
Conservatives to help themselves Could
anything be palmer than the following
clipped from the New York Tribune, of
the 10th, in the course of an editorial
announcing its determination to adhere
TO the filthy negro equality idea2
2 "The Republicans are bound TO 90
under (thank God y If they don't en-
franchise the blacks Manhood suffrage
is not side issue" for them, but one
of life and death. II the blacks are not
enfranchised, Vallandigham could beat
Grant for President. If the Southern
States we're reconstructed on white
basis, he would and could carry all but
one of the fifteen slave States by over