The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28
NEGRO SUPREMACY

1t is now forty or fifty years since the
possession of property as qualification
for voting was generally abolished.
From that suspicious day, this coun-
try has been ruled not by its wealth, but
by its laboring white masses The great
majority of this class have little or no
property beyond their household effects
and the implements of their several yo-
cations.
Generally possessing the rudiments of
learning, frequently well educated, and
often exhibiting rare intellectual attain
ments, they have been guided in their
political action by keen instincts and
common sense which have more than
supplied the place of the lore taught at
the universities.
Mingling among and sympathiZing
with this class, have been seen not lit
tie OF the genius and culture@ofz the
country, also IJUUr III I1I1s yVUrIdS goods.
but rich i'll those imperishable gifts and
requirements that wealth cannot buy.
To these two classes, possessing no APP
prcciabie property, and especially to the
laboring masses, the Republic is indebt-
ed for its rapid growth, its vast resour-
ces, its gigantic power, its brilliant fame,
and the success whcrewith it has yindi-
Gated the wisdom and energy of polit-
zeal system that protects alike the poor
lHC lIlc AcStk dIi(l Tile
and confers equal rights upon all.
In the future, as in the past. the desti-
ny of this country will be controlled by
the white laboring masses. Those who
assert that it is about to be subjected to
the rule of the black race, pay poor COM
plinent to the solid sense and superior
numbers of those who have governed
it so long and so we'll. Let us impale
this bugbear on the nine digits.
L. ~
States is about 5.S00,000. This aggregate
is ascertained as follows: The votes
cast by the loyal States for President in
1864 were 4,034, 7S9. The number given
iii 1860 by the eleven rebel States that did
vote in 1864 was ], OF 800. Add to these
two sums 100000 for the increase i'll the
North since 1864 and 10000, the esti-
mated number of negroes recently en-
1ranchised, and the aggregate is 5,9l2,-
| $50. Deduct thcrefrom 1000 for reb-
els temporarily DISTINGUISHED, and the
balance is 5,S12,2S9.
Now. the whole number Of negro vo-
| ters i'll the United States docs not exceed
100000 Hence, the white voters exceed
the black full 5000, 700, or i'll the proper
| ton of moro than six TO one.
In the North, negro voters arc so few
as not to be an appreciable quantity.
When the Southern whites abandon, as
| tI1Cl VIII dG lIiC OpPOA
their suicidal policy of non voting,
there will not be more than one State
South Carolina-and after short time
not even one, wherein the the black yo-
tiers will not be in minority, while in
nearly all of them the whites will be in
| a large majority. In the sixteen old
''slave States" their majority will be
full 100000, or nearly two to one-the
white vote Being about, 100000, and
the black about 10000.
So stand the figures to-day. For OBJ
vious reasons, the difference in favor OF
the whites will rapidly increase from
year to year. These facts laugh to scorn
the simulated fear that the whole Union.
or any section of it is in the slightest
danger of being subjected to E'negro SUI
premacy." And thus we see that, when
dragged into the light this horrid spec
tire turns out to be the variest phantom
ever conjured up by the morbid imag'
ination-N. y. San.