They can not elect a man of their own color to any office. to bring u) that prejudice of race. i believe what I have stated will be the way in which time question will work itself out. This statesman favored negro suffrage after a probationary term of not more than twenty years. not because the negroes would then be fitted for it. but because by that time they would be in a "permanent minority." and thus the dangers he described "would have fully passed away.") In the light of subsequent events see how his project has worked out. If we may adopt the census reports as being even approximately correct. we find that since he made his prediction the negro populatioiA of Mississippi. from being in 1870 about 60.000 more than the white. was 170.000 more in 1880. and even with no greater rate of increase since we must have today about 400.000 more negroes than white people in Mississippi. and it is estimated by some that more negroes moved into the counties composing the Yazoo Delta in the first three months of the year 1889 than there were white immigrants who settled in the entire State in the same time. It is probable that the disproportion will be increased in 1890. and. although these estimates are somewhat conjectural. whether they be correct or not. certain it is that the black preponderance has increased immensely since the date of Mr. Mortons prediction and is growing every day.
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