Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-19

were registered ul1Qer UlUcrellG names, /
at as many precincts, and also many !
thousands who had not attained their !
majority, and did not know what their
age really was. a census ordered late
ly by Gen. Schofield showed that in one
ward of the city of Richmond II full !
fourth of the registered black voters /
could not be found, and yet these Spu-
rious voters had elected Judge Under |
wood, Hunnicutt, and three others to the
convention. .-r5tG -
The white males, per census, over 81
were 96S, 606; the white males registered
were, 630,299. Deficiency, 33S, 307.
Again examining the registration ta-
bles, we find the following States put
under the dominion of the negro race
Alabama, negro majority, 1880; FlOri-
da, negro majority, 4,2S6; Louisiana,
negro majority, 80, 232; Mississippi, ne
gro majority, 1867; and South CARO-.
lima. negro majority, 33,576 Five
States handed over to the balcks by
registration! aisa0p "A
In Georgia the white and black vote
so nearly balance each other, that q
change of one white man in u hundred
(and there is usually far more than that
proportion of mean, malignant, or unre-
liable men in every community,) would
hand the State over to the black race.
Say there were one or two thousand
whites in the party. The immense pro-
portion of negroes composing this party
wouldsmake it practically a black mans
party, and antagonize it at once in intes-
tine strife with the white blood, the
property, and intelligence of the State.
In Virginia and Texas very small
! changes are necessary to assure black
domination. In the first State this was,
however, deemed an imperfect reliance;
and here, as in North Carolina, Georgia,
and other States, the military overseers
resorted to geIrymandering; prolonged
elections for three days, midnight bal
| loting, and other trickery, to make as
surance doubly sure.
In the teeth of all this we are told
chat there was no purpose to secure pc
/ litical power, and none whatever to put
the whites under the dominion of the
black race. s H.
| A gain, it will he seen above that there
were 1888, 307 white males over 81 years,
| by the census of 1860, who are not now
registered. We are graveiy told that
"only $4,000" these were disfranchiS
ed, and that the remainder, to-wit :
2SS, 1907 whites, stayed away and refused
to register, from indifference! More
than a fourth of the whole white popu-
lation, Indifferent to the question of ne
gro supremacy! Indifferent to the eXer-
i the only means by which they could eN-
erciSe it. Ht
Il And yet it is known that every paper
in the South 1--WE defy any one to name
an exception, from the Potomac to the
Rio Grande, including even the smallest
and most obscure village newspapers
advised the people to register. Every
public man of every party, who gave
/ advice at all, gave the same advice
f And yet we are to explain away this
brutal disfranchisement of 33S, 1907 b5
) pretending that 2SS, 1907 persons were
totally Indifferent, or ayerse to be reg
: istered.
Docs the late election in Alabam;
show that the white population were
: Indifferent to the question of being rule,
S by negroes and IL negro made constitu
J ton, with negro political equality, ne
: groes in the jury box, negroes besid
3 their wives and daughters at hotels ant
0 public conveyances, negro children made
the associates of their own children il
e the public shoots? Look at the figure
/, and see how wide and sharply is the lin
j, drawn between the two races at the lat
: election. Mobile, 4,916 blacks and s
Y whites. Mason, Lee, Gilmore, Tallapoo
, sa. Chambers, Bullock, and C0osa-ne
J. groes, 13,OS2; whites, q! This is tn
:, vote cast. ,
t We read in some large counties of
/, white vote of three or four, all cand
e dates for Office.
: Does any man suppose that the Amer
l. lean people are not sufficiently 1nteil
/ gent to understand all this! Here yo
@ have white race i'll n State which
i placed by Congress i'll a minority {
Q 1880, staying away almost ca mass
IS from the polls; thus seeking to dcfea
It this negro government-sincet to secuT
IS its adoption there must be clear majo
V ity voting of all the registered voters
If this constitution be adopted, VIVA
will it be but n negro government, tn
sole creation of the negroes, and III
posed upon the whites against their a
most unanimous protest, and enforce
by the army of the United States, as
it was intended by Radicals to blacke
the laurelsit has heretofore won in hoi
orable combat?
No! the disfranchisement of FIJI
third of the Southern whites, the shallo
counsels by which guilt often overhead
es itself in the end, was considered ne
essary in order to save the Radical pa
ty; and it was ruthlessly executed. Ho
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