Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-20
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The Philadelphia Press of the nth
inst. has the following:
tsSeveral of our Democratic exchanges
are very anxious that we should tell them
how il is that The Southern States, with
their masses of colored voters, are going
for the Democracy2 We can answer the
question quickly and conclusively. An
ignorant black man is in no wise differ
ent from an ignorant white man. Both
viii vote the Democratic ticket. The
wisest and clearest heads of the Republi-
can party have always foreseen this result
and accepted it. Until the free schools
have thoroughly emancipated the slave,
and erased the last traces of mental and
moral bondage, we may expect Demo-
cratic successes in Dixie. !"
The Press is very much mistaken if it
supposes that considerable number of
negroes in any Southern State voted the
Democratic ticket The unanimity with
which they vote for Radicals is surprising.
No Democrat can be elected where they
preponderate largely. The truth is, this
upanimity of the negroes in the support
of Radicals for Office, has been serious
cause of weakness to the Radical party in
the South, by driving white Radicals to
the support Of Democrats, as the recent
elections have amply demonstrated. This
disposition is as manifest in the Northern
as the Southern States. Wherever in the
States, north and west of us, pains have
been taken to investigate the matter, it is
shown that the negro vote is an element
of weakness rather than strength TO the
Radical party, driving from them more
white voters than they gain of black
voters. In Pennsylvania, Indiana, New
York, and other States, where the blacks
have voted for the first time, the Demo-
cratic gains have been much larger than
the entire negro vote cast. The effect of
the large negro vote in Maryland is thus
stated by the Baltimore Gazette:
'Tn spite of $1,000 newly regis
tered negro voters; in spite of their sc
cret leagues, their United States Marshal
and his horde of deputies, and lowering
in their rear strong force of Federal
bayonets-in spite of these and of all the
influences, both direct and indirect, which
the Federal Government could bring to
bear upon this election, we have carried
every Congressional District in as orderly
an election as was ever held in this State.
In the city of Baltimore we have beaten
the combined black and white Radical
vote by majority of nearly fourteen
thousand votes, and we have demonstrated
the fact that the pivot on which the cleo
ton turned was the negro vote. So thor
oughly was this understood, that in many
districts where there was large negro
registration, this new Radical element
was entirely nulliied by corresponding
accession of white voters to the Demo
cratic ranks, and the old majorlties were
thus maintained. An analysis of the
vote in Baltimore presents the following
suggestive results: The total vote cast was
SO, 043. OF this the Democratic vote was
"a, S47; the Radical vote, black and
white, was Is, 176. OF the s, 633 negroes
registered not less than 8, 900 cast theil
votes for the Radicals The white Radi.
cal vote was, therefore, but little over
1000, thus clearly showing that the ne
| groes constitute majority of the Radi
cal party in Baltimore"
What is true of Baltimore and Mary
land viii hold good as to other States.
Indeed, it is greatly to be feared that the
question of race will yet become very
important issue in our politics. At the
South, where the negroes are at present
strong enough to be tempted into the idea
of setting up for themselves, in hostility
to the white owners of the soil, they will
find their mistake when it is too late.
When their carpet-bag masters desert and
spurn them as no longer useful, they will
realize the folly of having made enemies
of those whose confidence and friendship
they should have striyen to deserve.