NEGRO SUPREMACY.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 258, 29 May 1868, Page 3

NEGRO SUPREMACY.

In the future, as in the past, the destiny of this country will be controlled by the white laboring masses. Those who assert that it is about to be subjected to the rule of the black race, pay a poor compliment to the solid sense and superior numbers of those who have governed it so long and so well. Let us impale this bugbear on the nine digits. The number of voters in the United States is about 5,800,000. This aggregate is ascertained as follows :—The votes cast by the Loyal States for President in 1864 were 4,034,789. The number given in 1860 by the eleven rebel States that did not vote in 1864 was 1,047,500 Add to these two sums 100,000 for the increase in the North since 1864, and 730,000 the estimated number of negroes recently enfranchised, and the aggregate is 5,912,269. Deduct therefrom 100,000 for rebels temporarily disfranchised, and the balance is 5,812,280. Now the whole number of negro voters in the United States does not exceed 800,000. Hence, the white voters exceed the black full 5,000,000, or in the proportion of more than six to one. In the North, negro votes are so few as not to be appreciable quantity. When the Southern whites abandon, as they will at the earliest opportunity, their suicidal policy of non-voting, there will not be more than one State —South Carolina—and after a short time not even one, wherein the black voters will not be in a minority, while in nearly all of them the whites will be in a large majority. In the 16 " slave States," their majority will be full 600,000, or nearly two to one —the white being about 1,350 000, and the black about 730,000.— New York Sun.