The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-07-03
Negro Ascendency.

cOlOred 36I ,S5O. Since Tn n theFe
have been many removals of whites
from the State and but few of negroes
so that the relatives proportion OF
colored to whites has increased. If
the number of actual voters of each
race should be in proportion to the
above totals the colored voters will be
a majority of the whole, which though
small. will suffice to retain Radical
ascendency in the Legislature and in
sure to them Radical State officers.
The regist cred voters of 1870 were
1853, 800 only about two-t thirds of whom
actually voted or LOG, 7G2. All will not
vote in November, but the increased
interest in general and Presidential
election will call ont much larger
ballot than has ever been polled in the
State. The negro vote will be as
nearly compact as ever; the Grant
vote will be almost entirely colored,
the white adliereDts of Grant number
Ing but few hundreds.
BY divisions in the ranks of the
opponents of Radicalism it may hap
pen that the negroes may carry their
National, State and Legislative tickets,
and then we shall have over us a
colofed State administration and a
colOred General Assembly. Such State
Government may be no worse than
the present and it might possibly be
somewhat better; but it would be
noised abroad that Louisiana had
colored rulers; that the colored race
was in the asccndency; that they
made the laws to suit themselves;
that they had their own judges, law
yers and juries, and that "a large ma
iority of all public functions from
Constable to Governor were performed
by colored men. Throughout all the
Southern and border States it would
soon become known that this was a
negro State.
The result would be vast immigra-
ton of colored people, invited not only
by fertile lands and a congenial
climate, but by black administration
aud Il general colored ascendency.-
Louisiana would thus become the
Canaan of all the negroes of Missouri,
Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, North
Carolina ard Tennessee, vast num-
bers of whom, as soon as able, would
swarm over the rich fields and throng
the towns of the entire State. They
would be superior in intelligence to
the average of the native negroes, but
their sympathies would correspond
and they would become strong and
welcome allies. If twenty thousand
immigrants were to come in 1878 the
number would be trebled the follow
ing year. and in a few years the colorcd
population of Louisiana would be
twice what tits now.
The colored regime thus established
and the prepODderance of colored in
habitants thus being made permanent
a reverse effect would be produced
upon our white population. Rattle,
than endure the absolutism of an al
most universal negro equality the
white inhabitants OF our best parishe.
would seek homes in States ruled by
whites. The decrease of whites NIGH
, not at first equal the influx of negroes
but few years of negro rule would
produce an exodus of our most valued
, white citizens on large scale, SO tina
by the time the colored census woult
reach eight hundred thousand tn
white census would not reach one
third of that number. White me-
will not live under the rule of negroe
if they can help it, even mixed rul
of white and colored beng distastefr
and barely tolerable. Louisiana is nc
> an island colony, and when her whit
Inhabitants are oppressed and threat
ened with ruin by colorcd rulers the
have not far to go to make their e.
cape. If Louisiana and Mississippi bt
: come negro kingdoms we are tharkf,
y that Texas will afford refuge in on
Il directions and Georgia, (perhaps AL.
; bama,) in another.
The question whether onr fruitf
and beautiful commonwealth and til
great metropolis are to be doomed
perpetual Authorization is to be settle
:, at the November election. If by
solid and unaided negro vote they on
. win ascendancy, their strength W
wax while ours wanes, for a centu,
to come. Let those who are trring
:, divide and neutralize the conservati
votes of the States think web of t
=, negro dynasty which they will til
!, help to erect.-[ New Orleans Bee.
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