The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-18

Electoral vote of Slave States.


1t VIII be seen by the foregoing that New
England loses three votes in tho electoral
college, and it is reasonably certain that AN
other would be lost in Rhode Isand if the
amendment to the constitution, foibidding
the Acknowledgement of citizens on account of
race or color, was enforced rs it is interpreted
and would be enforced in the south. The
great central states lose five electoral votes;
the western states gain eight; the Pacific
states gain one, and the old slave states gain
six. This estimate is predicated on the as
sumption that the number of congressman
will DO increased to three hundred; but the
result would be substantially the same, no
matter how large or how small the house
may be made, as population would govern in
any case.
The march of empire in our country is a
most interesting and instructive study, and
its lessons are indisputable. However States,
men may theorize, the tide of population,
the growth of thrift and the preponderauce of
political power, will gravitate as productive
soil, inviting climate and natural centers o:
trade direct them. Texas, within the mem.
DRY of many readers of the present time as
the Botany Bay of the continent, now
equals Virginia and Michigan and is closely
abreast with Massachusetts, Kentucky and
Indiana as mighty commonwealth, and
certain to surpass all of them
long before the close of another
decade. The Pacific states have made
little progress, and give no pro Mise of
rapid growth in the future. They now have
a power in the electoral college that is
greatly in excess Of their population, when
compared WITH the older states. The west
and the southwest exhibit the highest degree
of advancement. Kansas, Minnesota, Ne
brsska and Texas give the bel, of our terri
tory where agricultural emigration looks
with the greatest favor, and ss that class is
the great producer of wealth and the most
stable in its settlements, it is not difficult to
forecast the overwhelming power western
and southwestern states must soon exercise
in the control of the policy of our govern
ment. This marvellous growth is in the very
heart Of the republic, and its beneficent in
tuence must radate 10 every direction and
give healthful prosperity to all it reaches.
The most startling and impressive lesson OF
the census is given in the marvellous growth
of the south, and it will do more to pacifcate
the sectional strife of the country than all the
eloquence or patriotism of craftsmanship. 1t
will open the eyes of the north to the fact
that while demagogues and partzan organs
have been persistently disappearing the
south as utterly idle and lawless, the people of
the south have been quietly attending to their
own affairs struggling against the terrible
desolation of war; fostering capital and emil
grafton as best they could, regardless of dis
turbers at home and abroad. 1t awakens
Pennsylvania and New York and Massachu-
sets and Maryland to the fact that southern
industry, commerce and political power are
not the myths that partisan disclaimers have
studiously represented them to be; and the
commercial, industrial and financial interests OF
Philadelphia New York, Baltimore and Bes-
ton will discard the senseless falsifers who
make politics trade, and view sectional issues
from the proper standpoint of general tran
guilty and prosperity. 1t is true that the
apparent growth Of the south presented by
the present census is not a correct exhibit Of
its progress during the last decade; but it
does present the south rs it is to-day. The
oensus of 1870 was taken in the south by il
literate, idle, corrupt partisan dependents
who had no interest in or sympathy with the
legitimate progress of these states; but it is
admitted that Secretary Schurz and Sup erin
tendent Walker have had the prese1t census
taken with the most scrupulous care, and
that tho most competent and faithful officers
havo been charged with it in all sections.
Its picture of the south, presented
by indisputable figures telling of advance.
ment in population, wealth and power
will plead more eloquently for peace and for
the harmony Of material interests north and
south, than could all the operators of the
land. 1t will make the business man of the
no.th; the merchant, the manufacturer, the.
banker and all who profit by successful in
dastry, look to the south as fountain of
wealth rattle: than as q political pandemo-
mum; and where business commands, the
mousing partisan must obey. Political pre-
JUDGES may leave men in doubt when politi-
cal necessity compels orators and organs to
misrepresent the truth; but when the cold
figures ola trusted census report enter the
arena with the perversions of demago CUES,
the contest is an unequal one and interest
snd patriotism make common cause TO har-
monte common country.