The Portland daily press., 1868-10-29
The Truth.

who uersist in idiotic defamation ABOUT De-
gro domination at the South. We shall deal
only with facts and if the declaimers are men
who have any latent sense of justice or honor
thew will forever hold their peace about that
phase of reconstruction.
There is no such thing as NEGRO DONNA
ton" at the South, to begin with The idea
that the body polite has been turned UPSIDE
down in that portion of the country so as to
place Sambo above his chivalrous master, is a
grave mistake.
In only two of the States do the negroes at
this time outnumber the whites on the registry
lists. These two are South Carolina and MISS
issippi, and in the latter state the heoel DOM
ination is still so pronounced thae IL LAS
thwarted reconstruction and kept the acts Vi
Congress from taking effect there. Conse-
ouent,v Mississippi has no Representatives in
Congress.
Tn nH the other States the whites who are
not debarred from voting have clear MAORI
IT, and in several of them they outaumner the
negroes too to one.
Taking all the States together the whites
who are voters outnumber the blacks ONE HUN
DRIED AND TWENTY THOUSAND. Nay, if all
the whites who are free to register under the
laws awaited themselves of that privilege the
white domination would be still more marked.
In Alabama alono the number of whites who
have refused to register is 10000; in Virginia
10000
In word, those best informed as to the ef-
feet of the DISTINGUISHING clauses in the new
State constitutions, which are the same as
those of the reconstruction acts before the lat
ter expired by their own limitation. that
only fifty thousand whites in he whole South
are disfranchised.
Now consider the unparalleled impudence Of
those who wax indignant over this mildest
punishment ever awarded to treason The
Southern Rebels refused reconstruction when
offered to them in the shape of the 14tb
amendment to the constitution which did not
disfranchise a Dhite or e,Jranctise @ black, only
it reduced representation in Congress in pro-
portion to the number of citizens excluded
from the polls on account of race or color. No
Rebel State accepted even this. The mon
strous claim they then made, and which they
still make, is that four million blacks shall be
counted in the basis of representation, giving
white Rebels at least 80 Representatives in
Congress and 80 votes in the electoral college
for men who have not a vote! Their Ia
mentation rises night and day and is echoed
from every Copperhead stump and every Cop
perhead journal in the North, because they are
deprived for the crime of treason of fifty thou
sand votes, while they propose to disfranchise
five hundred thousand blacks for the crime OF
loyalty!
II their claim were allowed the Rebel plan
ter in South Carolina who does not yet give
up the ''lost cause" would have a vote equal to
the votes of two citizens of Maine, in the cleo
ton of Representatives TO Congress and of
Presidential electors.
The Metropolitan Style.
1t is better to have good health than to have
he erection bend; it is more becoming to be
PROVINCIAL and honest than to be metropolitan
and rascally The way they do things in New
York must excite the adration, but not
the emulation of the country. After few
more such political campaigns as the one now
in progress in New York it is tolerably certain
that the men and women OF that State will.
tear off their clothing, tattoo. wear rings in
their noses, file their teeth and adopt the insti
tutions of the Feees.
Judicial investigation has recently disclosed
the fact that the price of naturalization papers
there is 50 each. They are for sale at the Dem
ocratic Headquarters, and Mr.. Rosenberg,
Chairman of the Democratic Executive Com
mtee, has been arrested for having them in
his possession. 1t is not proabe, however,
that any. harm will come to him for dealing in
forged papers, for who ever knew any harm to
come to a rogue in New York?
The courts of New York, where the judi.
ciary is elective, are the centres of fraud, for
gerry and corruption. They naturalize all
Democrats who apply, and keep in session far
into the night to accommodate the crowds that
come to them. The newspapers lash them
daily, but they are thick-sknned fellows, and
laugh at the scribblers.
To secure a nomination for Office in New
York requires peculiar qualifications. One
must either be shoulder hitter, like Morris.
sey, mountebank, like Train, a celebrated
scoundrel like Fernando Wood, or the tool OF
some thieving ring like Hoffman.
New York is now the battle ground of the
political parties. The Democrats still hope to
elect Hoffman Governor and defeat Grswold
who built the first Monitor. 1t is not altogeth
or impossible that they may do so. Last year
their candidate for Secretary of State had
over 47,OOO majority. The year before Fenton's
majority for Governor was only 1879 To
give the Democratic majority of last year is
impossible. To overcome the Republican ma
jority of 1866 is not SO hopeless an enterprise
The majority in the country for Griswold will
be immense on so full vote as there will be
this year, but then with the naturalization
machine running by steam, what Copperhead
majority may not be had in the city to over
come it? The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser says: Reliable information has come to
the knowledge of the City Central Committee,
that thirty-two names are registered from
one house. where only two pers ons actually re-
side. In another case, twenty-one are register
ed as residing at one house where but three
persons are known to be residents. That there
are hundreds and thousands of just such cases
in the various Democratic strongholds of the
city, we have every reason to believe, and it is
by just such frauds the Democrats hope to
overwhelm the honest voters of the State"