The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-10

| from every pArsh, except Cak1ON, are 6"eA
and the totals are 74,670 CONSERVATIVE an
GO, 7l9 Republican, or total vote OF IA. 80;
To complete the State Carroll must De add
. cd, and it's 2744 males over twenty-one Justlf
the estimate of 700 white and 800 colore
voters. These added to the vote reported fc
= the other parishes, yield the following result
for all the parishes, viz: 1870 Conservativ
and n. 219 Republican votes, or sum tota
l of lag. $50 votes cast. Now, for purposes Q
COMPARISON, the votes of ''the seven parishes
of which the registration is not reported
must be deducted from the total vote Of tn
entire State
The results are that 649, 736 population
with 157,4I males over twenty-one, regis
tered 149, 737 voters, and cast 1885, 1879 votes
, and these data were distributed between tn,
| races as follows: 324. 3l6 whites, with IS, O0'
males over twenty-one, registered 81, AZ:
voters, and cast IS, 693 Conservative votes
1925, 465 colored, with 70, 413 males over TWEEN
ty-one registered S2,315 voters, and cas-
G6, 5O4 Republican votes.
These official figures render it certain thai
if more colored voters east the Conservative
than white voters cast the Republican ticket,
as is rendered manifest by the Is, 693 Conser.
| vative votes cast, then o considerable Conser-
| of "a fair and peaceable election" The total
vote is, in proportion to population, largely
| above the general average Of fair and peace
| able votes in the fair and peaceaJle States OF
| the Union; and proves conclusively that there
| could not have been any serious and wide
spread intimidation of any class of voters-ex-
cept, perhaps, Of some part of the IL. 600 to
II 900 colored voters who wero fraudulertly
registered beyond all question.
Some of the necessary results Of the official
figures arc instructive to illustrate the extern
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prosperous Louisiana and its rapidly-progres-
sive New Orleans For, if the colofed regis
tered 81. 315 in the same ratio to its total
population As did the, whites, i e., one TO 4.8
Tor four and four-fiths), then the colored
population is In 1874 ct least 60, 600 more than
the census gave it in 1870. or 385, 900 instead
of the 325, QUO Of United States census for the
forty eight psrishas considered. And, if in
New Orleans the co!orsd population registered
Ii, 1874 in the same ratio - did the whites, l. e.
one to five, then the cOlored population of
New Orleans has increased SINCE 1870 by
49, 900 and u really $4,000 instead Of the
pendous absurdity Of this claim is fortunately
proved fully by the mortality statistics for
every year from 1866 10 1876.
As to such official claims and some vague
rumOrS of large negro immigration to certain
parts Of this State, the following additional
facts deserve consideration:
/. A similar excess Of coiored registration
occurred in 1868 and in 1870, (the very year
the census was taken, - well as in 1874; |
therefore the Republican registrations Of 1865 |
and 1870 re!uts any claim that the colored !
population has notably increased since those |
years.
I 2. Immigrants seek prosperous countries,
and Louisiana has not been prosperous since |
1870.
3. Immigrants increase tho prosperity OF |
State. 1t is not believed that the official bu-
reaus at Washington, or any reliable authori-
Ties, are able to report any notable increase
Of acres under cultivation, of manufactures,
IF commerce, or in fine of any of the products
md resources of this State. .-
4. II there has been any large number of
'uch immigrants, then TO what parishes, and
sre said parishes healthy or sickly; and if the
after, then what number Of immigrants is re-
luired to maintain the number of the popula-
ion unchanged?
S. Something is said about colored immi-
rants, but nothing about what must be con-
idered in connection Herewith, the number
tho have certainly elnigrsted from the State.
6. A very large number of colored immi.
rants would be required to seriously
fl ct calculations based on y number so large
$ "the 1854 $50 colored population " Of the
ntire fifGy-seven parishes.
As to any increase of population in New
orleans, two facts deserve consideration in
edition to those given by the mortality sta
istics. A natural increase cannot be urged |
q presence of the facts that the annual aver
ge deaths from 1870 to 1875 have exceeded |
500, while the annual births have certainly
ot equaled this number. And il the popu- !
alton has been increased from without, then ,
hese immigrants ought, but are not, to be :
ound in the hotels, boarding houses, new !
esidences (noD erected, or in the unusually ! i
'rge number of old houses, now for rent. II
All Of the estimates submitted are derived l
ON official data, aud therefore can be tested 7
nd verified. The only exceptions are the =
sgistration statistics, which were obtained =
ON the official organ, the Republican, Nov. o
It. 1874: and tue statistics Of voters. which
ere obtained from the published report of t
he Conservative Committee (BuLLErIH and 3
icay,oae, Dec. %, 1879, said committee hav-
g taken oath that their report was an &C.
lrate copy from the original reports Of the 4
supervisors of Election Of the vote actually h
st by the people, though no: SO counted by a
10 Returning Board. III. 10
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