The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-12-12

based on the colored, and only eight on
the white population. yet, in the
choice of those representatives. the
colored voters have no more voice or
power than their remote kindred on the
shores Of Seneganbia or the gold
coast" Fs a5-.
SIN contrast, take two states In the
north (Iowa and wisconsin,, with sew
enteen representatives. They have q
white population of two million, two
hundred and forty-seven thousand, con-
siderably more than double the entire
white population of the the three
southern states have named. In
Iowa and Wisconsin, therefore, it takes
one hundred and thirty-two thousand
white population to send representa-
tive to congress, but in South Carolina,
Mississippi and Louisiana, every sixty
thousand white people send q repre-
sentative.
I'm other words, sixty thousand
white people in those states have pre-
cisely the same political power in the
government Of the country that one
hundred and thirty 1.-TWO thousand white
people have in Iowa and Wisconsin.
Georgia and Alabama have popula-
tion of eleven hundred and fifty-eight
thousand, and a colored population Of
ten hundred and twenty thousand;
they send seventeen representatives
representatives to congress, Of whom
nine were apportioned on the fact of the
white population, and eight on account
of the colored. But the colored voters
are not able to choose a single repre-
sentative, the white democrats choos-
Ing the whole seventeen.
''The four northern states, Michigan,
Minnesota, Nebraska and California,
have seventeen representatives,, based
on white population Of two and a
quarter millions, or almost double the
white population of Georgia and Ala
BAN. So that in these relative groups
of states we find the white man of the
south exercises by his vote double the
political power Of the man of the north.
1.-THE eleven states that formed the
confederate government has by the last
census a population of nine and half
millions, Of which In round numbers
FIVE and a half millions arewhite and four
millions colored. On this aggregate Of
population seventy-three representa-
tives in congress were apportioned to
those states. forty-two or forty-three Of
which were by reason of the white
population, and thirty-one by reason Of
the colored population. At the recent
election, the white democracy of the
south seized seventy of the seventy
three districts, and thus secured h
democratic majority in the next house
of representatives. Thus it appears
that throughout the states that formed
the late confederate government, sixty
five thousand whites, the very people
that rebelled against the uuion, are
enabled to elect representatives in con-
gress, while in the loyal states it re-
quires one hundred and thirty-two
Thousand of white people, that fought
for the union, to elect representatives.
In levying tax, therefore; I'M making
every appropriation of money; in fixing
every line of public policy; in decreeing
what shall be the fate and fortune of
the republic, the confederate soldier
of the south is enabled to cast a vote
that is twice as powerful and twice us
influential a vote as the union soldier
of the north. But the white men of
the south did not acquire and do not
hold this superior power by reason of
law or justice, but in disregard and in
defiance of both. The fourteenth
amendment to the constitution was ex-
pected to be, and was designed to be,
preventative and corrective Of all
such abuses.''
Mr.. Blaine said the issue is forced on
the north. All the republican leaders
favor peace, but not peace with sub
mission. He closed with an eloquent
peroration, warning the southerners
that they cannot maintain the inequal-
ity of white mans vote-that one
white mans vote In the south shall
have double the power of a white mans
vote in the north.