The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-08-14

negro voters to be only five thousand
stronger than the whites in this
State. Our correspondent dissents from
this opinion, and dissents also from the
deduction drawn, that this number rep
resents a Radical majority which in a
strictly party contest can be overthrow.
The discussion Of the subject is Oppor-
tune. A military leader who goes into a
fight without knowledge of the strength
and position of his adversary would be
counted weak and untrustworthy. The
people who are suffering the Ills of Radi-
cal misrule should have the opportunity
Of discovering all the difficulties of their
situation, and the extent of the obstacles
to be encountered in order to avert the
utter destruction and remediless ruin Of
South Carolina.
Without intending to be drawn into
the controversy on the subject of nomi-
mating a State ticket, which we have
been content to leave to others, we will
add a word to what has been written by
our correspondent.
The communication to which he re-
plies. draws from the Census of 1870 the
fact that the negroes above 81 wears of
age are numerically in excess Of the
whites saw in round numbers five tbou-
sand. Our correspondent argues that
this statement is fallacious. We will re-
mark that the same Census Report pre-
sents other figures which the Five-Thou-
sand Calculator seemed to have entireIv
ovorIootad On tho first fable of The
Ranort tho entire nonplat;on ;s sot down
"a follows.
Co,ored IA on
White. ................,.. 49,, s96
Colored majority ......... 81 .3O5
Tn mak;ng the psuaI estimate IF ono
e. :; -
To-. 60. t,,oI,,o t,.,,,a.,,d ,,a;or;t,, &c
oo1orod no,or- Ri = nst ho -
-.a.:..:.. -
three wears ago Since that time land
owners in various parts of the State.
esneeialIv in the prairie region and the
bottoms of the Mississippi and its tribu-
taries. have imported a large number of
colored peopIe from other States The
accass;ons to the colorad vota from tb;s
ao,,roo - ost;n,otod ,,or;o,sI,- - f.o,,, c.
to ten thousand. Take the lowest figure
and add it to the twelve thousand above
mentioned as a fair deduction from the
Census table and we will have seventeen
thousand as the eolored voting majority.
Take from the whites five thousand as the
estimated Radical number of voters of
that race and add to the other side, and
we have a difference of ten thousand,
which Joined to the seventeen thousand
negro majority makes an aggregate of
twenty-seven thousand Radical majority,
with all the advantages which the prestige
of success and the power to dispense
patronage confers.
These are the cold. naked figures
which have to be considered calmly IT
is folly to seek to overthrow them bv
mere speculative reasoning They must
be contemplated as facts eristiaq and to
be dealt with in the undertaking to avert
the unutterabIe horrors of South Caro-
lima
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