American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-21
The White and COIOred Vote.

FOR the cement ct the tlmlu ana
lukewarm-those who are ready to
fold their arms in inglCriouS ease,
aud yield mp their all without
s1rul gle, we publish the following
Communication from Col. McCardle,
which we find in the NickSburg
HerdM O; the 18th inst. Col. Nc
Carlle shows The strength OF the
whites aud blacks i'll the State, and
proves conc!asiveiy, we think, that
witt, proper energy and industry,
and a general rally to the polls.
Mississippi can be triuniphantly
carried by our own people, in No
vem5er next. Wit, these facts ard
figures before us, il We dt not re-
deem Mississippi in the coming
contest, the disgrace will be ours:
THE STATUS OF 1IISSISSIPpI-WUA
THE CENSUS FIGURES SHOW.
Editor TickSbayG Herald.
| have Recently beer deyotlng a
leisure hour to the examination of
the tables of the United States cen
Sus for 1870. and some of the figures
strike me as being worthy of ii more
extended publicity in Mississippi
than they are likely to attain while
confined to the cumhrGns volume in
which they are to be found. 1t is
ouite common, when speaking of a
political contest in Mississippi, TO
hear intelligent gentlemen say,"Oh.
there is no use making contest !;
the Radical-negro majority in this
State is so great that it is idle to
attempt to overcome it " Now,
sir. look into the pages of the cen
|-sus report will diSabuse the minds
eff these gentlemen, and satisfy
them that by an easnest, manly and
energetic effort, we CAN carry the
State, NheRercf zee CHOSE TO tay!
Because Alcorn was elected Gov
eInor over Louis Dent by some
forty thousand majority, many peo-
pie have jumped the conclusion
that those figures represent the
Radical majority in the Stete'; and
TO show, by undeniable facts and
figures, that this is a wrctched iilu-
sion, is the purpose of this note.
II Your readers will turn to table
%, United States census report,
page 619, they will there iand fiat
in mississippi the males of the age
of twenty one years and upwards,
representing the voting population
of the State, are put down as fol-
lows:
ColOred males 81, 92O
White males. - -Sa 81
Negro majority ------. o,l42
Add to this ma jority ten carpet
baggers and five renegades to each
county, which is a very large est
mate, and the Radical majority will
he sweiled to say 5000! VIII any
sane man say that eighty-four
thousand brave and true men are
to stand sllivering like towards be-
fore ninety thousand interiors--in-
feriOrs III intelligenc &c, energy and
coura ge--and thi;s basely abandon
the contest, and yield this fair State
to the perpetual rule Of the rob
bers? If there be one such ia Mis-
sissippi, he would do well to emf
CRATE, or go boldly over to the enc
my; for, unless l sadly miSunder-
stand tho people, no such craven
counsels will prevail with them. Ii
majority of six thousand should
be accepted as Il victorious column,
which no skill, courage or strategy
could overthrow, there would be an
end to political contests, and people
would bow in AFFECT Submission to
the degrees of an inSOlent majority.
This, however, is not the history of
American politics. In every state
in the Union feeble minorities have
struggled manfully against vast
maiorities, and in every State, faith,
courage and energy have sooner or
later been rewarded with the crown
of triumph. The brave men who
fought against Ihajorities for years
have seen their hopes realized, and
have themselves become victorious
leaders Of Triumphant maicrities.
Were the men of Mississippi cast in
a less heroic mould? Have the he
roes of hundred bloody fields lost
their courage and forgotten their
manhood l will not believe 1t
Very truly your friend,
WIN. Il. MCCARDLE.
June Il, 1919.
WE learn from the Nicksburg