Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1867-10-17
Radical Villanies.

In an able article reviewing tue ItStstIdtiou
Of voters in the Southern States, by which ne
GRO supremacy is intended to be secured and
the Presidential election thereby controlled,
the National htellgencer brings to view the
stupendous frauds by which the great body of
the whites are not only n be disfranchised, but
degraded The facts stated are startling, and
should awaken the Indignation of every fair
minded man in the Union:
ave find the broad fact, that in the ten ex-
cuded States, where there is indisputably a
large prepouderance Of the white population,
a majority for the negroes has been rolled up
IN six States, aud in four others, where 10y all
the tests of population we have a right to look
for overwhelming white maidrities, the negro
strength, by the kindly and fostering process
/ Of registration" has been 80 quickly and
marye.lously developed that the white majority
Is 81 meagre that it is in the power Of the ne
/ groes, with small faction Of white Radicals,
I to control the power IF the State.
"Such is the general reSut-negro rule and
/ oscendancy from the Potomac to the Rio
| Granle. Taking up some Of the details we
I then presented, we discover that in Florida,
where the whites by the last census were H.
! "a TO 62637 the registering officers have al
! lowed ABB whites and 9.3SS blacks 70 vote.
4 In Georgia, where the whites have a majority
in population of lbs O00 the registering officers
! have 50 manipulated the matter that the votes
/ Of the two races are nearly even. In Alabama
the negro majority on the registration is 1861,
and. according to the numbers Of the blacks
| enrolled. it would appear that there is an in
crease Of over 10000 since 1860 in this social
ed loyal race. Texas is another State where
the registering officers may point TO their work
Of multiplication on the one hand, and dlStran-
chisemeut on the other, with all the pride which
waits on successful and UNPUBLISHED guilt.
"The census Of 1860 showed 400 S9l whites
| to lS3O2l negroes-mnre than two whites tn
one negro. The Tribune is now able 70 boast
a negro majority of ten thousand In LoWs-
ana. where General Banks at the close of the
war reported the negroes had fallen nI one
urth, the registers foot up S2,907 blacks.
which. taking the usual ratio Of population, 10
voters i'm that State, exhibits an increase of 1873
GOO blacks in seven years or fully .W'y.frs
per cent : And, lastly, in Virginia where aycar
| agn the census of the auditor showed majority
If fifty thousand white males over u years ot
age. the registering officers have now brought
this down to $4,000 white majority Such in
brief. is an account of the deviltry planned at
Washington, and executed 10y the military Sd
traps and their satellites, in order to cast the
vote Of the South FIR the Radical candidates
aud at the same time humiIiate the population
hv the imposition of negro rule Can we won-
der that in Louisiana the white population have
abandoned themselves L. despair, and left the
polls 10 the negroes, who are invested 10y the
bavonets Of the soldiery with the political pow
or Of the State; that in Alabama we have a
| like re,ult-the proportion Of negroes voting
in Mobile being about 1000 TO 100 whites
that in both these States the Radicals boast un-
disputed sway or that all over the South VT
hear Of eminent and worthy citizens removing
themselves aud thir families, prefcrrug the
harlships aud bitterness If exile {, the chance
of a revival Of those .eueS Of hurrnrilluStrated
ia St Domingo, and now liable at any moment
To- break forth IN the South
" But our special object in this article is to
call attention 10 the progress Of this RI iicl
fraud Just across the Potomac. in the c 'mm"n-
wealth Of Virginia. where the whites have heeI
very graf usly allowed by Gen. Sch, field Il
retain thirteen ;hou aud out of the fifty thnu-
s.,ul majority tn which they are fairly entitled
I'm this State it might he supposed by the un-
thinking that the whites would have some
chance If securing CONTROL this majority 81
thirteen Thousand ON the registration ough'
certainly t. give a decided majority Of the cleo
ton districts for the Convention t. the whites
But not So fast These registration lists mus
% 10 the AdututS utii1@ at Richmond for the
appointment of delegates 10 be there made
How do they come out If that mill We hay,
before Us the table If a Republican sheet, auD
bel old the magical result. In iorty-siX dis
trjrtS the whites have "a majority and IN fifty
nine the negroes have majority white
mai rjtv n tie registration of over thireel
thousand, a uegro majority IN convention @
thirteen.
who shall say hereafter that figures vii
not lie Or vino shall dispute the bcuih en-
results uf military rule? In the teeth Of mum
hers. is not the yoke fastened upon the whit
population? And though We may not wines
in Virginia the auNpjcous result cbrnuirled II
the New Yrrk Evening POST in respect To- Mis-
sis>ippi W ere i've" Radical kulvr> coutrl
the whole power # that state still may we uo
fairly expect u witness in Niriuia, from th
greater number Of kuavpS there engaged. an,
,heiucreI>el proximity t. the Radical Congress
higher and llr-cr product If vilaiuy-amur
signal illustration 1T the system Of fraud b.
which it Is proposed to govern the American
Union. until the noble system If government
, devised by our fathers stall perish beneath Oh
J weight Of ITS corrurtiouS. aud the very name o
, republic become by-w1rd aud hiSSiu.
among the nations"