The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-04


Totals. -. 80 747s45 sOa,2os ssOs
7 White majority-26s.l66
3 Weagree with Mobile paper, in the statemen
that these figures are even below the real stat
of things, as they give less than double whit
over black population and everybody knows tina
/, the whites are nearly three times as numerou
as the blacks while their ratio of increase b.
) birth is four times more, and their decrease b.
death twice less than the black race, and whil
tho white population is daily being recruited
by immigration from abroad and the othe
States of the Union, the black population ha
no source whatever whence to draw its new
supplies or replace deficits.
We can do no better, after having ourselves
so often exhausted this subject, than reproduce
the views of other leading papers, agreeing
with us in the line of policy we have adopted
The following from the New Orleans Com
1nercial Bulletin, erabodies the great principles
of policy for which we have been contending
and which are ultimately, bound to prevail, al
the only ones which offer practical issue te
our present troubles, and the certainty of O
prompt return to power:
The peripatetc politicians who have beer
on the move ever since the first blockaded
bale of cotton and up to the last petition foI
pardon, write encouraging accounts of what
Mr.. vALLAND1oHAM OF Mr. GREELEY propose
to do for the South.
Thess are the same gentlemen who, during
the war, proved the Intervention of Eng
land and France TO be inevitable. They
have managed to live on the best handle
good deal of money, and generally escape
the sight of Southern trouble by being within
the enemy's lines. 1t is time they were re.
called or disayowed as representatives. Of
Southern sentiment or interests. What can
Mr. JOHNSON, or Mr.. GREELEY, or Mr. anybody
else do to restore the Southern ratio of power
in the Union? These remedies SAVIOR too much
of those which expected foreign power to
arm, clothe and free the South.
All such policy is futile. If q people rely
on those abroad to effect their relief, it is but
change of masters it is not independence.
What is the interest of the South? To regain
its position in the Union upon terms Of equal
ity. What is the great obstacle The suprem-
acy of the negro, directed by those who op-
pose the Independent admission of the South.
Now, if this negro supremacy be established, it
will be domestic evil. The most eloquent ad-
vocates of State rights, who ever shouldered q
musket or paid tax to subjugate the South,
can do nothing in Ohio or Pennsylvania to re-
lieve the Southern people from the local rule
of a negro majority. The Southern people
themselves can alone remedy this consequence
of the civil rights law How may this be done !?
l. By according to the coloped race all the
political and legal rights to which, as human
beings emancipated from the disabilities of
slavery, they are entitled.
2. By elevating the electoral power of the
white race by those legitimate agencies which
have made it the dominant power elsewhere.
These are legitimate means of maintaining
the social standard of the South, and pre-
serving in the hands of the best qualified men
the local government of the States and mu-
inequalities
The extension of right to the freedmen
should be frank and cordial. He should vote
and be voted for, when his qualifications make
him the most eligible candidate. He should
never be voted down for his color, nor should
any discrimination be made against his labor
or his interests. He should be made to feel
that his rights were protected in good faith,
and that his interests are guaranteed by the
community to which he belongs. This assu-
rance of course includes the universal educa-
ton of the freedmen, which will make them
better citizens and more productive laborers
This by no means involves the commixture of
colors in the same school any more than in
the ranks, where we see the black and white
soldiers kept scrupulously separated. Our ad-
vice then gives the freedmen all that the Civil
Rights bill intends, in good faith. With this
he should, and Indeed will be satisfied.
| The increase Of Northern power in the cleo
toral and representative colleges of the Union,
will tend to the relative reduction of negro in
fuence A short synopsis of the comparative
strength of the two races in the South, will
show that there is no danger of negro
supremacy, so called, unless the white race is
so stubborn and so supine as to surrender all
claim to control We derive from the Spring
field Republican the figures which follow, and
which base on the census of 1866 the popula-
ton and suffrage of 1867.
The States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and
South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. contain
total of 2,138,3 800 white males, and 1,299, 941
negro males The white voters are 66l ,974.
The black 4l2,1 ,187. If all were registered, the
white majorties would be as follows: In Ala
bama, 2G,278; Arkansas, 35,519; Florida.
1885; Georgia, $780, Louisiana, 24,GSG;
North Carolina, 4s,596; Texas, $4,000; Vir-
ginia, 39,54O. The negro majorities would be;
In Mississippi, 2370; South Carolina, 6439.
Deduct the colored from the total white ma
jorities and there will remain 255, GIG more
white than colored males, or nearly a quarter
of a million white male majority in the ten
Southern States.
To this physical advantage should be added
the great fact that the negro race cannot be an
creased by immigration, while the aUhites may Je
What, then, has the South permanently to
fear from negro supremacy? Nothing. No
law can be passed, no constitutional provision
adopted, that may not be repealed by the
greater number of whites which will be eman-
cinated by law or nature in very few years.