Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-23
Some Facts Worth Noting.

The former slaveholding territory is
now occupied by sixteen States. Accord
ing to the census of 1870 the entire popu-
latiOn thereof was then 13,979, ,046. AT
present it would be about 5000, 900. OF
this total (1S70) 4, ,495 ,457 were colored per-
sons, avery large proportion of whom had
formerly been slaves. To examine lit
tie closer will be of service. The States
that went into rebellion embraced in 1870
white population of 1854 ,S06, colored
one of 1898 oil, being a total of 9,4S7,-
S17. The Border States contained a total
population of 1890, ,229, of which SOC, ,446
were cOlored. The proportion is still
maintained. If the total of voters is ex-
amined (1870) it will be seen that in the
former rebel States there was total of
1 800, ZOO and in the Border states of 953,-
S27. The proportion of colored voters is,
in the first division, three-sevenths OF the
whole, or about SAC, ,000; while in the last
named division they are but one in eight,
or, in 1870, 100000 For present purposes
the Border States may be left out of the
argument, which will deal chiefly with
the ex.rebel States. Their Congressional
representation is, in the Senate twenty
two and in the House of Representatives
seventy-three. The Senators are at the
present writing divided-one vacancy, ten
Republicans and eleven Democrats, with
| two others on the same side already elect
cd to fill prospective vacancies. OF the
Representatives seventeen are Repub-
| licans, or about one in four of the whole.
The Republican voters comprise full one
half of the whole voting population of the
ex-rebel States. This is an estimate with
in the mark, as the colored voters, who
never anywhere within those States will.
ingly vote Democratic ticket, are over
three-sevenths of the whole. 1t is mod
erate,i indeed, to put down the white Re-
publicans at only one-seventh, when it is
we'll known that in Tennessee, North Car
olina, Northern Alabama, Northern Mis-
sissippi, Texas, Arkansas and Virginia
there has been large white Republican
vote, able, if allowed without personal or
business ostracism, TO express its honest
convictions, to carry the States of North
Carolina and Arkansas at least, and to
largely influence the results in the other
States named. Especially is this true as
to the Congressional elections.
Take the Border States, also, and it
will be found that there has been some
process adopted to force or bring about a
seeming unanimity Of political opinion
therein. In these States there is only one
Republican Representative elected, where
not 80 long since dozen or more stood
for the respectable minority of voters who
are associated therein with the National
party. These facts fully justify the dis
trust so widely aroused since the meeting
of the Forty fourth Congress against the
Southern leaders specially and the Dem
ocratic party in general,
The manner in which this so-called
unity has been obtained is no longer q
question of doubt. IL cannot be denied
that there are in the former rebel States q
body Of Republican voters, white and
colored 1T least equal TO half of the
entire poll. 1t is seen, too, that the State
Governments have been violently wrested
from the hands of that party in
States wherein it forms majority
as in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkan
sas, and in part in Louisiana. IL il
also established that they now elect but
one in four Congressman, when they are
entitled TO at least one-half, and probably
more. Again, no Democratic calculation
as to Presidential probabilities has ye
been made which does not embrace fol
their nominees the vote of epery Southern
State except South Carolina. Yet 1t is
conceded that Mississippi has a majority
OF Republican voters TO the number of a
least 10000; that Arkansas has 5000
Alabama 5000 to 10000, and Florida a
least 5000, while North CalOlna gave
about 10000 popular majority for the Re
publican nominees TO the Constitutional
Convention. Not only, also, do thu
Democratic calculators count on all th'
Southern States but one, but the mos
Sanguine OF them do not expect TO carry
over three or four OF the Northern ones