Description
A Radical paper in Weston, the Border Times, recently reiterated the charges about “bleached negroes” in the South. The Louisville Courier, exposing just such another slanderer as the Border Times man, presents the following table, compiled from the United States census of 1860, which is the latest data that can be obtained for a comparison:
(Table showing) Black and Mulatto Population of the United States (comparing Southern States to Northern States) - Southern States, Ratio of Mulattoes to 100 Negroes: Missouri 18.67
We ask all to study the above table, and see who are the real miscegenators, and if the noisy clamor of the radical slanderers is not hushed, they are as devoid of shame and decency as they are of honorable politics.
(Researcher's note: In 1867 the Editor of the Platte County Reveille was Thomas W. Park. Park was born in Madison County, Kentucky, in 1842 and came to Platte County with his mother Mary (Park) Gaylord. Thomas W. Park served as a Private and Lieutenant in Confederate General Sterling Price’s Division of the Southern Army. After returning from the Civil War, he started publishing the Reveille in Platte City, Missouri. The Reveille ran until June 2, 1871, when it was consolidated with the Platte County Landmark.)Date(s) of Creation
3/1/1867
