Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1870-05-06
At the same election the vote, Demo-

cratic and Conservative, cast for Mr.. Sey-
mour was 62, ,357-his majority over Gen.
Grant being 1919. We throw out the
Gubernatorial election entirely. for the re-
suit of the contest between Judge Bond
and Mr.. Bowie, our present Governor.
was foregone conclusion. But, although
the latter virtually walked over the course,
and there was, by no means, a full Dem
ocratic vote cast-the vote of Baltimore
city alone falling very far short of the
number the Democrats are capable of poll
ing-his aggregate vote was 63. 6O2.
Taking the total population of Mary
land into account. and the political affilia-
tions of her people, we are safe in saying
that, in any hotly- contested election, the
Democrats can easily poll ten thous-
and more votes than they cast at the last
President. Il and Gubcrnatori.l elections.
Everybody knows that the nomination
of Governor Seymour was far from being
a popular one with the Democratic Con-
servative voters of this State. and many
of them. therefore, felt no interest what
ever in the contest In the Gubernato-
rial election the assured certainty of the
success of Mr.. Bowie, owing to the known
weakness Of his opponent, also served as
an excuse, on the part of many Demo-
cratic voters, for staying away from the
polls. These are our reasons for assert
ing that, at those elections, nothing like
the full Democratic vote of the State was
cast.
Turning back to the statistics of the
Tribune, we find it there asserted that a
late canvass of the State shows As, 900
black voters. Let us see how this tallies
with the census of 1861 In that year
the free and slave population of Maryland
was classified as follows: Free blacks,
"a, 1000; slaves, 87,000-making in all,
III, ,000 If We take the black voting
population as one-ffth Of the whole, we
get 81 900 as the total number of that
class of voters in the State, or II 900 less
than the Tribune's estimate.
Adopting the same rule with respect to
the whites, we had Of them also in 1860
a total population of SIG. 600, one-fifth of
which would be 1O3, 900 as the actual
number of voters, This approximates
very closely to the Tibane's estimate.
But to get its majority for the Radicals,
the Tribune-accordipfIto the ratio of
voters to population W. I've laid down
is forced to make the bil population of
Maryland 220. 900, or nesrly fifty thous-
and in excess of what it was in 1860; !;
whilst, at the same time, it. makes the
white population entirely stationary
That the black population has increased
to any appreciable extenttver what it was
in 1860, we most emphatically deny. 1t
has crowded more into the cities, and has
depleted to the same extent the rural dis
tricts but the actual numerical increase
by immigration into the State, if any, has
been comparatively small.
On the other hand, there has been
large increase of white citizens, and nota-
bly, SO by emigration from Virginia and
the States further to the South. 1t is
owing to this cause that Baltimore now
numbers some $500 inhabitants, a.
gainst 212. 1876 in 1860, being an increase
in one decade of nearly 70 per cent. It
is by tricks of figures such as we have
quoted from the Tribune that the impress
sion is sought to be conveyed that the
Radicals and negroes constitute majority
of the voting population of Maryland
We have shown that not only is this not
the case, but that the Democrats and Con-
servatives, in point Of numbers. are capa-
BILE of maintaining their present political
ascendency if the combined votes of the
negroes and their white allies were cast
against them.