The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-11
THE DESTINED PEgPONDERANCE OF
WHITES.

The Columbia, S. c., correspondent of the
New York Times says in a recent letter:
In the district in which Columbia is situated
| RChlaDd-theTe is a small settlement Of German
faTm.lsb rers. Il is called Germ 4ntown, aud IA
located 70 miles east Of this city, upon the Wateree
! river. The beginning was made the FIRST of last
| November, under the management of Mr.. Her
mann Lending, native of Germany. and resi-
/ dent OF charleston. The start was MAIDS with
| four fsmies, and negro labor was hired TO d ,
scme kinds Of farm work. With twelve laborers
hey have puth for the present years crop, With
| abundant promise Of good yields, over 200 acres
Ms follows so acres In small grains wheat oats
and rJe,l 40 acres 10 corn, 35 acres in COW peas
10 acres IN cotton, III acres in potatoes Irish and
sweet These items go TO inform the foreigner
as TO what DOR upland soil usually grows. It IA
tie intention Of Nr. Lediug TO make this a mem
eiens, to which he hopes by its success 10 a few
years 10 attract TO IL many laborers as can pos
slbiy he accommodated. similar movements are
stCO'--one 10 PickeBs district, and one ia its iu
ciPiency IN Newberry. immigration is the weapon
Nltl which the Caucasian p opposes 10 contest tle
inership Of the country with the Africans. The
contt st csDnot last many years and the darker
snd Inferior race must 90 TO the wall. This point
has already bad its influence upon the negroes in
some pats OF the STATE, especially within twenty
mi'es OF this Germantown. In these localities
negroes are joining political leagues with the
whites, seeing that CO operation with toe whites is
he only chance for the existence Of the blacks
Legislation need not attempt 10 interfere with
this law Of races.
The radical scheme of subjecting the
Southern States TO the control of black votes
has the double iniquity Of heaping instant
wrong on one race and preparing ultimate
ruin for the other. This in seen and admitted
by every intelligent and candid Northern man
who observes the excessive lengths to which
the negroes, under radical Indictment, are dis
posed to carry the exercise of political rights,
and it begins to be seen by every well in
formed colored man who reflects on the num-
erical relations, present and prospective, be-
tween the white and black populations. The
average preponderance, in the whole South,
OF whites over blacks, is at this time hsrlly
less than the proportion Of three to one. In
the United States at large the number of
negroes does not exceed four millions while
there is total population of about forty
millions. Assuming the extremely doubtful
proposition that the natural increase of the
two races will be equal, the ratio of blacks
to whites must relatively decrease from year
to year under the effect of immigration which
will bring accessions TO the whites and none
to the blacks And after no great lapse of
time, this relative decrease must reduce the
negro element from one-tenth in the entire
country to about one-twentieth, and from one
third in the entire South to about one-ffth or
sixth. Now, if the Southern negroes should
act hereafter in accordance with the political
tuition which they have already received from
the radicals they will insist on offsetting the
larger increase of the whites by disfranchis-
ing corresponding number of the latter pop
ulation. Disfranchisement for the purpose
of putting the blacks in political asceudency,
is precisely what radical legislation has done
at the outset, and it need not be surprising if
the African pupils of rsdicaIism extend that
example into settled policy which they
Will pursue at all hazards to the
bitter sequel The fact is, they cannot ac-