The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-25
The lacrosse Of ssutIsera Power
by Negro saErage.

The steadfazt readers Of the CLARIox
will remember that in the dark days Of
reconstruction, when almost d" solitary
aud alon, Z" and amid Misrepresentation
ADD abuse, we we're appealing 10 the
white people Of the State 20. to attempt
70 prevent the inevitable fact Of negro
suffrage, but to accept il and make the
best possible use Of IT., We urged as a
reason for this course that as voters the
negroes would prove an agency Of i'm
mense power 10 tic Southern section in
the federal government and we insitied
that the argument would be practically
demonstrated in a decade if our people
would make the. best Of the circum-
stances in which they were placed and bide
their time IN patience. Fully as soon as
We expected, the prediction has cJme 10
pass. The Southern States will have
40 votes in the electoral college. One
hundred and ~eighty-fye are necessary to
elect a President. Take away Negro
suffrage, and the Southern strength in
the electoral college would be only 80.
Take away the increase derived from
the negro vote in the electoral college
and you destroy what is now admitted t.
be the almost certain prospect Of the cleo
ton Of the Democratic nominations 70
the Presidency and Vice-P Presidency
Not only 30, but it has corresponding,
increased the Southern representation j
the popular branch Of Congress. TAX
away suffrage from the negro and redue
him to the scale Of a dgmb brute so ia
as participation in the government
concerned, and what, under the existin
basis Of representation, would be tn
number Of Representatives Mississippi
would be entitled to in the Nation:
House Of Representatives?
Tho logic of these results, whic
have flown from negro suffrage by regu
lar operation Of cause and effect, has nj
escaped the Republican leaders of ii
North. The discomfort it has produced
aud which, in the chapter Of events, ma
develop into a Northern Republics
movement for depriying the negro of h
suffrage, directly or indirectly, was for
Swallowed in the suggestion containedint Il
last annual message Of President Gran.
that an educational qualification shout
be established for voting. And here
another more direct appeal to Northel
sectional feeling in behalf of a movemel
to disfranchise the negro. a correspo.
dent Of a Republican journal says:
"Behold what great power negro sufrra,
has given to the soulful T. has i~ncreas,
their representation so largely that, wi
the aid OF New York, Connecticut and Ca
~ifoFuia, for instance, they can control legi
ntion. elect the president, and admluist
the government machine as they may S
ft. The rest o. the United states can viii
tie. The solid South and the three stat
named will be the government in all th
the term applies. The far-seeing men
the Nuuth, or those HEO are e>ttemed as Ia
seeing, declare that nothing can prevent {
South from having q controlling voice
the government but the disiranChisement
the blacks And they argue that III
viii be the next great question which "
agitate the country. the North contendii
for black Acknowledgement, In order to he
the south from running the governmet
Il T. plain, very plain, that the blacks W
- be iAade subseryient % the whites
every Southern State, aud that so far fro
u enabling the North TO hold the governmcl
this entranchisemCnt Is having precise
the opposite effect, giving the South so lar
"a nutaher Of Congressman and eleetol
= votes that the 1opth will virtually hei
after be the ruling powss ~ Washington
Now when the issue thus f~oreshadow
IL is presented by the Republicans of t
ly North, upon whom will the negro,
rs, against whose privileges i is directe
5, rely for championship? The day is i
o. far distant when they will turn wi
er anxious hearts to the Southern whit,
whose counsels they hsge in too ma
ms cases discarded It the instance OF seiE
adventures whose motive of action
'ss been to plumber and Cypress both rae