Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-12
An Africanized Republic.

The c0lOred brother is rapidly gain
ing ground on this continent a. against
the blue-eyed Saxon. The negro is in
creasing and multiplying more rapidly
than the Americana; and while this
country daaws immigration from every
Nation and people and tribe on earth,
the negro in the United States Is a.
numerous as all the foreign born peo-
pie combined. There is no country on
earth however small that does not con-
tribute by emigration from its borders
to our population, but the negro, estab-
lished on the soil not wholly with his
own consent, equals them all in num-
bers and exceeds them all in in
crease. The foreign-born population
in the United States is shown by the
recent census to be 6,677, $50. The col
Ored population ofthe country Is $751;
ISL. Our Republican brethren are
accustomed to assume that the foreign
born voter is ignorant; but all the
foreign-born voters combined do not
equal in number the negro voters.
Another interesting fact to the stu
dent of our future is that the increase
of the negro population in this country
is in excess Of our foreign immigration.
Another interesting fact, we repeat, is
that the increase in the negro popula-
ton is far greater than that OF the
white population of the country. In
fact, the percentage of growth of the
negro in the United States is shown by
the census of 1880 to be greater than
that of the white native population and
of foreign immigration combined. II
this percentage Of increase should be
maintained for q long series of years,
the negro would possess the land, own
the Government, engineer the Republic.
To-day the negro in the North holds
the Republic in his right hand. The
Republican party maintains ascendency
only by the Northern negro's vote. A
few years ago Government in the South
was Africanized: to-day the Govern
ment of the Republic is Africanized. 1t
this Presidency to the Republican party.
Let us look at the negro population of
some of the Northern States. The col
ored population of Connecticut is
1000; of Illinois, $4,000; of Indiana,
MIA, $500; of Massachusetts,, $4,000; of
$4,000; of New York, $4,000. 1t is not
necessary to say that some of these
States are close political States. Neither
is it necessary to say that the negro is
an industrious voter. Still less is it
necessary to say that the negro in the
North is a versatile, movable voter. In
these estimates, however, we shall not
include the migratory tendencies of the
negro.
There are nearly 9, 900 colored voters
in Connecticut; the majority for Gar
field in that State last November was
1868. There are about $4,000 negro
voters in Illinois, and the majority for
Garfield in that State was but Is, ZOO.
But the important fact is found in In
diana. This was regarded as the bat
tle7ground of the Presidential election.
Negroes had been cOlonized in that
State with partisan industry. They had
meandered across the Ohio to Indiana
for the old flag and little appropria-
ton. But without this colored immi-
grafton there were in Indiana, as the
census shows, nearly ten thousand col
ored voters, and the majority for Gar
field in Indiana was but 6, 642. If Indi-
ana decided the Presidential election,
who shall say that the Republic is not
already AfricanizedP
With nearly ten thousand negro
votes in New jersey the Democrats
were still able to carry the State. With
Is, 900 colorcd votes in New York-not
including importations-the Repub-
lican majority was still but twenty
thousand. There are twenty thousand
colored votes in Pennsylvania, and
Gar6eld's majority in that State last
November was 1926. What of our
own State? There are not far from
twenty thousand colored voters in this
State when there is no election pend
ing. There are thousands more than
that number in Ohio on election day.
This is a great Republican State, and
Garfeld's majority in the State last
November was 5,155, a number not
more than equal, probably not equal,
to the number OF negro votes honestly
and dishonesty cast in his favor. ,.,,
The Republican policy is to howl
against the German and the Irishman,
and to forbid privileges to naturalized
citizens, and at the same time to turn
loose the negro on the Republic. Ma
hone and the negro have similar and
dissimilar relations to the Republican
party Malone and he whom he used
to call the "nigger'' stand shoulder to
shoulder; but the Republican party
owns the negro and Malone owns the
Republican party. Malone the Rebel,
the Traitor, the Repudiator, the Slave
master who formerly only owned the
negro, has now added the United States
Senate to his possessions. But this is
aside. The important fact which stares
the country in the face. as the remorse-
less figures which we have given show,
is not that the Republic, if the present
ratio of growth of population shall for
many years increase, will be African
ICED, but that the Republic is African
lied already. 1t is already negro Re-
public, made such. not by the voice of
the negroes in the South, but by the
negroes of the North.
What would be the effect upon this
Negro Republic if the enlightened pro-
visions of the ancient and splendid
C Commonwealth of Massachusetts-re-
curing that the voter shall have paid .
poll tax, shall be able to read the Con-
stitution of the United States, shall be
able to write a legible hand-should be
exacted of the colored brother at the
ballQt-box before depositiDg his vote?