New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-05
THE FUTURE VOTE OF THE NATION

compared the military force of the two
parties, for the purpose of warning our
people not to commit themselves anew
to the fortune and fate of civil war. From
our estimate it appeared that the mill
tary numbers of the Democracy would be
chiefly within the solid South, and that |
the Democracy of the North and West |
could contribute very little physical force |
in the three or four States in which they |
are dominant.
We now propose to show that the |
growth of those States in which the Re |
publican party is most numerous is so
much more rapid than that of those
which the Democracy claim to have car
ried, that in future national elections
there can be no possible contest between
the party which claims national suprem-
acy and that which still contends that
each State is sovereign and supreme
within its own limits With this view,
population during the decade ending 1870
in the Republican and Democratic States.
In this estimate we have not taken the
percentage of increase, because that could
be delusive. The increase of 1892 per
cent in Kansas would not equal in num-
Der that of 49, Sc per cent in Illinois, or
even of 1894 in New York. We have
therefore taken the trouble to add the
numerical gains in the States claimed by
each party and found them in round num-
bers as follows: The twenty-one States
claimed for the Republicans increased in
population about four millions. The sew
enteen States claimed for the Democracy
gained something less than three millions.
We shall assume that this rate of growth
has been maintained in the decade ending
1880. Our reasons are: l. That almost
the whole foreign immigration enters
Eastern ports, and passes into the great
| Republican States Of Illinois, Michigan,
Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and the colo
MES on the eastern slopes Of the Rocky
mountains. 2. That the Southern Demo-
| CIdtlC Cbdb6b hhNO ACSSANGO AO AlHtSAApA
increase from this source.
In the comparison of the electoral votes
it will be noted that the Southern Demo-
cratic States received, under the amended
constitution, an accession at the late Fed
eral election of ten or twelve electoral
votes, not because of additional popula-
ton, but from the increased ratio of rep.
resentation upon numbers already exist
ing in those States. The solid South will
then start in any election based on the
next Federal census with a vote chiefly
increased by its normal and natural
growth, while the North and West will
have the same natural vote, with the ad
dition of the foreign immigration which
has resorted to that quarter of the Union
Suppose we take the comparativ,
ratio of representation as it has in
creased within the decade ending in 1870
We have compared the congressiona
vote of the Democratic States. Even will
the representation of the colored peopl
raised two-hfths by the amended constitu
: ton, gained seven members of Congress
and were reduced under the raised rati
! seventeen members. A net gain of on
member to the Republican States on tn
raised ratio, and a loss of seven to tn
8 Democracy, even with an addition to th
colored representation, which can nc
t occur again, since it is now raised
entire equality with the whites PerhaI
there is no other mode Of estimating th
comparative growth Of the national an
State rights parties than that based o
their actual growth in the past, and the
probable growth in the future
: We have no expectation or wish this
: this separation of the American peopi
9 into sections or into parties shall becon
d permanent. The majority of the Anne
o lean people have declared this to be nj
}. tional government. The Democratic mil
d GRITTY, apparently acquiescing in tn
l. declaration, have suddenly and surrept
is tio1sly attempted to surprise reversal
o this national doctrine. The covert a
1t tempt has been providentially averte
D nor can it ever again be perpetrated wi
!. the same opportunities of popular dece
Is ton. The nation has its eye upon Il
,, Democracy as false in its faith, al
u As only having made a jesuitic
.. profession OF accepting the amen
d ments that they might nullify theI
y We do not cOntend that the Republics
10 party can control the United States ps
d manently, except by the election Of go'
le men and the enactment of wise measure
l. but We have no hesitation in afirmii
9, that SO long as the Democracy mainta
l. their present international doctrines, Al
a the political issues shall be as they ha
" been this year, the progressive and pop
ID lar principles Of the Republican par
n will grow and expand with that part
and win assert themselves in the mod
and master republic Of the world.
is Notwithstanding the movement Of