NEGRO SUPREMACY.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 271, 13 June 1868, Page 2

NEGRO SUPREMACY.

11l 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 4,03-1,789. 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.

On the occasion of the Garibaldian invasion of Rome, the American consul in that city espoused the cause of order, shouldered a rifle, marched out with the Pontifical troops, and bore a share in their conflicts with the G-ari-baldini. The American papers state that the consul has, in consequence, been called to account by Mr Seward for his undiplomatic conduct, and that his explanation that he merely marched out with the Pontifical troops for the purpose of collecting early and accurate information for his Government, and that he only shot one Garibaldian who was about to shoot him, has not been accepted as satisfactory. Mr Seward has replied that no instructions from his Government required or authorised the consul to attend the Pontifical army to the field either as a belligerent or a spectator; that no interest of the United States could be served by such a proceeding, and that had he been prudent he would, have avoided the condition of finding himself unexpectedly under fire, and would have saved himself the necessity of considering the question of a retreat. The Secretary winds up the " wigging" with the following significant sentence: — " Your conduct is for these reasons entirely disapproved of. It will depend in part upon your own better conduct hereafter, and in some part upon circumstances not yet fully understood, whether the department can be content to leave the case with the reprimand. Some one calls the time of squeezing girls' hands the palmy season of life. A Bad Sign.—To sign another man's name to a note.