New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-05
THE SOU7H md APrOF7IONMEYT

The SOUIH md 4PPOR1IONMENE
The table of votes cast in the several States
for Presidential electors, published by The
CIicaqO Tribune on Monday, differs as to some
States hom dispatches received here, though
no enough to impair III any degree the force OF
the comments hich that journal presents. At
| the North, according to the tabul3hon OF me
| Chicago Tribune, the plurality for Garfield Is
| b332S2 and his majority over all, 332, ISL
| Bat the South mas 106 representatives III Con-
crcss. and the vote pOled in the Southern
States for President averages 25,91O Tor each
! Congressional District, while at the North,
(which has 187 Representatives, the average
vote for President in each District is $4,000.
@With a larger propoIticnate voting popula-
| tjon. the exclusion of voters from the polls III
" the Southern States as compared with the
"yoting in the Northern States. is equal to al
d. average of 1860 voters in each Connes
d" s,onal District" Such a comparison is per
fectIy inst. and it ought to have the attention
of every thoughtful and honest man, of either
party or either section.
Ii is entirely true that the natural proportion
Of persons entitled 10 vote TO the whole popu-
Iation is greater at the South than at the North.
Fol nearly all immigration comes to the
North and there is at all times large body OF
immigrants who are not voters, and another
large body of foreign-bOrr citizens who, though
they have resided here long enough, have thus
far refused to be naturalzed. In this city alone
there ale many thousands o. this class; and
there are many in every other Northern state,
c;tv. or town. where the foreign born popula
ton is large. Hence the number OF persons
entitled to vote, ont of population sufficient
for a Congressional District at the South, is al
WAYS and necessarily greater than at the
NoItn. 1t is claimed on the authority of the
census, too, that the present population OF the
Soutbern States is sufficient to enttle that Sec
ton TO 100 members, upon new apportion-
ment TO be made this year, against only 1S4
members from toe North. On that basis, the
number of voters to a Representative would be
still smaller at the South and still larger at the
North
The practical result of Southern whipping
and uobbing, persecution, ostraclsm, shooting,
aud fraud is that fully twO-ffths of all the
voters at the South are wrongfully deprived of
the suffrage. If a population now emitting the
North to lS4 Members of Congress is repre-
sented by 6,442.04l voters, as II was IN the
late election, the population now existing at
the South, which, according 10 tnc new CELSIUS,
entities that section TO 100 members, must en-
brace more than 3,S16.199 persons entitled
to vote But only 2,749,677 votes are reported
as having been cast in all the former slavebold-
ing States. Hence more than million voters
have been practically robbed Of the right OF
suffrage. Over one-ninth of all the qualified
voters in this country-a number several times
as great as the pretended popular majority for
MI. Tilden four years agO-has been wong
fully deprived of the rights which the Consti-
tuition guarantees This is not wrong to these
individuals alone. 1t is wrong to the whole
people Moreover, it is a wrong for which il is
the duty Of Congress to find remedy, before
it proceeds, by new apportionment, to give
five Sol thern Democrats the power for ten
years to come to outvOte seven Northern Re-
puIlipanG