The Negro and the elective franchise. A series of papers and a sermon — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
The Negro and the elective franchise. A series of papers and a sermon
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_TABLE_ 5
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REPUBLICAN VOTE IN THE SIX STATES; VOTE AFTER DISFRANCHISEMENT
SCORED. (World Almanac of 1904.)
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YEAR VA. NORTH SOUTH ALA. MISS. LA.
CAR. CAR.
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1872 93,468 94,783 72,290 90,272 82,175 59,975
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1876 76,093 108,419 92,081 68,230 52,605 75,315
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1880 83,639 115,874 58,071 56,178 34,854 38,016
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1884 139,356 125,068 21,733 59,144 43,509 46,347
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1888 150,438 134,784 13,736 57,197 30,096 30,701
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1892 113,217 100,846 13,384 9,197 1,406 26,563
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1900 115,865 133,081 3,579 55,512 5,753 14,234
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1904 47,880 82,442 2,554 22,472 3,189 5,205
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1872, 1876, Va., N.C., S.C., Ala. (Tribune Almanac of 1896.)
1872, Louisiana (World Almanac.)
1892, Louisiana (Republican and Populists.)
1892, N.C.; 1900, 1904 (Due to Populists.)
Every fresh barrier erected in the South simply publishes to the world
the weakness and inefficiency of those already raised. Each time
dishonest methods are newly justified, and violent declarations,
applauded, fresh evidence is given that these Southern men cannot on its
merits win their case. The policy of white domination is stripped to
unblushing nakedness, and confident of the fear of those who remained
for two hundred years enslaved, the South narrows the issue to one of
physical courage, inviting the Negro to wrest from her the power, which
stands between him and justice, freedom, happiness. _It is not then in
the ignorance, laziness, and vice of the Negro, that the white South
trusts, for the continuance of her policy, but in his defencelessness._