The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-15
rhe C,ensus-Aga.n.


when we see such Journals az the phila.
tlelphia Telegraph, one Of thf falrest pub
llshed In the North, INDUCING in false state.
mer,s a. 20 tho census. we may know tina,
the reoplc generally OF the North, and espe-
cial.y the Republicans among them, are so
blinded by their prejudices that they are
unable to see In its real character any faci
ths, initiates against northern domination
in an affairs pertaining TO The National Gov
ernment.
TIE facts were all In favor OF the theory
tina. the new census would show greater
Increase OF population in the South than IN
the North. For the very same reason tnat
population increases 50 much more rapidly
In Inc limited states than 1t does In France,
England, or Germany, 1t ought TO increase
more rapidly In the southern States OF this
Union than In the northern namely, the
fac.s that there is so much good and cheap
land for sale, and that there Is so much more
room for increase in a sparsely-popuiated
country than in one already denseiy popu-
laied. We wrote last winter article alter
article upon this subject, intended to con-
WAGE the northern people that the facts
would be found to be very different from
what they expected them TO be. We warned
the Democrats in Congress that 1t was the
Sc, purpose OF the Republicans TO cheat the
South out OF her due proportion oil repre-
sentatiyes in Congress and electors OF Presi-
dent and Vice-President, and thus TO per-
pe,uaie their rule by an outrage greater, II
possible, than the one by which they de-
frauded Mr.. THDEN out of the presidency
OF the United States.
% the Democrats of the North know that
they were cheated out Of the presidency in
1876 by the false census manufactured in
1870 by Republican census takers? There
il no reason whatever TO doubt that such
was The case. Through incompetency or
else 10 order to curtail the power OF the
Democratic party, these tools OF the yilest
parry which ever disgraced this country
reported the population in the southern
State. 10 be greatly below what it actually
was, and thus for the current ten years
insured to the Republicans larger repre-
sentaion in Congress and the electoral
colleges than they were entitled TO, and
thus also defrauded the Democrats
in the last presidential election. After
stealing the votes OF Louisiana, Flori-
ia, and South Carolina, the Repuh-
heans could only make out one majority for
HAYES. 1t is, therefore, absolutely certain
tina, il the southern States had not been
cheated out OF their tar proportion OF
electors, Mr.. TILDEN would have been
elected false census paved the way to
false election. The South was iuggled out
OF her population as a means OF deirauding
the Democrats OF the whole country out OF
the control Of the National Government.
The Republican leaders saw that their in
excusable and outrageous wrongs done 10
this section had rendered solid South
thing OF the near future, and they took
steps 10 counteract as far as possible the adj
yantages which would thereby accrue TO the
Democratic party OF the Union. They
wionged us OF the South, and then used
tina. wrong as a basis upon which to build
a greater wrong to the people OF all the
United States.
We DO not know, OF course, that the Re-
publcans wilfully cheated us; but we pre-
sent the official figures az an unanswerable
argument to that effect. They speak trum-
pet-tored the villainy or the incompetence
of the census-takers of 1870: