The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-01-02


the Democracy for a seat jn the
United States Senate. It turned the
walls of its concentrated wrath upon
Kellogg for defeating the purposes Of
the combination. It has loaded him
With all the anathemas of the dam ned
for holding on to the prize in hand /;
it has stitled all Of argument, as it aes
Overriden all of reason. It placed
him, from the first. under ban oi
excOmmunication ten times as efioc-
tive as would have been a veli;able
bull from the Pope with the Jesuits.
Had he possessed the purity Of a
saint, with the wisdom of q Solomon,
it would haze counted as pothing.
He stood in the road of the De-
mocEacy-i. O., :" the people "-of
Louisiana. None so bold among !" the
peoples" as . consequence, as to dare
to even countenance his pretensions.
More risky still, by far, to counsel a
fair and candid consideration. The
claims Of Kellogg vs. McEnery could
only be viewed from a ste ndpoint
that admitted Of not even an apology,
much less a discussion, in favor Of
the former. r III
McEne,y was the candida te of the
people, Kellogg was the candidate
of the Radicals~i. e., . carpet-bag-
gers and niggers.n The result Of an
election, q common honesty, weighed
as nothing in the scale. q The
people ri. e., the Democracy - Of
Louisiana must needs control LOaisi-
ana by sheer force Of prejudice bone,
il nothing else. There was no argu-
ment to be admitted in the premises.
! The t carpet -baggers aud niggers"-
i. e., Radicals or Republicans had
no right in the case worthy Of even a
respectful consideration. And yet
there would seem an equitable claim
in their behalf. te\
Turning to the census Of 1870, we
find, with some slight discrepancies
in the various tabular statements, a
fair showing of the population Of the
State to be an aggregate OF 726, ,275
souls. OF these 36s, ,Oo5 were whites,
and 3o4 ,2lO colored. The total white
males we find rated at ia, 4,l57.
These arc made up, in turn, of $780,
OOJ classed as male citi,;ens," and a
residue of lJ,l86 aliens, or unnatu-
rallied resident foreigners. Follow
ing the same authority, we have :
White males over twenty Zone, ST.
O66 colored males over twenty -one,
56,9,3, giving an excess OF whites to
the number of l53.
Now, to arrive at the relative iorces
OF the respective parties: DedactiDg
from the white males over twenty
one, rated, as seen, at ~ ,O66, the
sum Of J5, ,lS6 as the number Ut aliens
included in the aggregate, we arrive
at 1850 as the sum total Of the
white voting population Of she State.
As immediately opposed to these We
have a total Of colored males over
twenty -Oue, all citizens and voters,
amounting to S6,yl3. This gives an
excess OF Is, o.; in favor Ot' the blacks.
Tae usual estimate placed by the
Republican leaders upon, the white
Republican vote Of the State has
been, in round numbers, an aggregate
Ut 10000; making an allowance Of
iity per cent as u liberal deduction
| from the estimates Of partisan le..d-
ers, we have still white Republican
vote Of 5000. Deducting this 5000 from
the total white vote Of n, $50, and
chasing the remainder as all Demo
q ats, we arrive ut G6,68O as the ag-
glegate Of the Democratic vote. Add
| ing the 5000 to the colored vote OF
o6,9 which, up to the late elec-
| ton, at least, was indisputably Re-
| publican to a man-we have an agg-
g,egate Republican vote Of 81 ,9l3.
This gives clear Republican ma
jority Oh a total vote Of -, ,023. - -
The figures, being official census
leiurns, can scarcely be classed as
| partisan. However unpa]atable, like
facts in general, they are bard t.
obliterate. They are borne ,ut as
undoubtedly correct, too, in any ex-
animation or comparison with those
of the past. In point Of actpai fact,
in any such comparison, they arc
made to appear rather favorable than
otherwise to the Democratic siGe o1
the house. In 1850, for instance, we
find the total registered white vote
to have been but S., 5,5l0. In 1870 we
lind it registered, as per census, at
| $50. This gives an increase for the
ten years of 5000, or very nearly
three per cent per annnm. Taking
4 the first registration Of colored voter.
in 1867, and we find it to have beel
l64,327. As per census in 1870, OF
tb,ee years later, it is seen as 56,9l3
This gives, as the increase of coloree
votes in three years, 1886, or but the
merest trifie imaginable over one Pc
cent per annum. The figures are seen
therefore, as at least not partisan il
favor Of the Republicans. Mor;sliz'
as one may, or carp about abstrac
theories OF political economy As de
duced from q Southern Democratic
standpoint, they meet him in tn
face with an unyielding front.
A Republican majority Of p, ,033 o.
q total vote should, Of course, show
corresponding proportionate nj 4jorit,
in the actual vote of an election
Going back to the election Of 1860