The census. compared with the election returns from the Congressipnal districts of Tennessee for the members of this House. beautifully illustrates my pasition that in this House Democrats represent the blackest sections and the Republicans the whitest sections of the South. The whiter the vote the larger the Republican majority. Of the States once cursed with human slavery. West Virginia. the whitest region. has just become Republican. Old Virginia. with an enormous influx of white immigration. is with increasing whiteness fast becoming a Republican State. Missouri and Maryland. the next whitest slave States. are advancing to Republicanism. In Maryland where the percentage of black vote is greatest. in the.
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