New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-04-14
THE TRlBU n E..
Emancipation.

vol employ your dDic anu usudii'
yo,, naper recommends Mr.. McDonough's plan
;. worthy the attention of all who arc SIN
.eylv interested in the practical emancipation u
hose in bondage. Have you read 'lls ""y'' =,
tbst rcntlenan's statement, ana wen feii''''o
heeon :.
of The Justice and honesty Of compelling men,
uomen and children TO toll 9" fifteen years with
,,, wages, and provided for in such a way tha'
n, McDonouch himself admits that they
seeded many little accessories Of life not proyl-
~ Nv their master; of taking the wages of Their
I'll IN ertra hours before day III the morning
md after evening"" TO pay him for their own
sDnes and sinews-of this say nothing. Nor
III s,op to argue how the willingness TO labor
.,ns excessively for fifteen long years proves an
desire for freedom, altogether contradictory
.i,hc oft.repsatcd excuse that "thc slaves DO not
sau, their liberty
merely ask YOU to observe the fallacy OF this pro-
e.t as a scheme Of emancipation. Mr.. McDo-
.o,rh informs us that by this plan he has real
Id 3 sum of money that will enable him " to go
n virginia or Carolina, and purchase gang o.
n,onle nearly double the number, OF those he
rroldnized. And by this consideration, he urges
,bo nlante-s of MARYLAND and Virginia, when
,her lands arc worn out, to send their sons oft to
ihe new States to try his plan. How this could
a,omoe emancipation, it is difficult to conjecture
even if one looks forward for ages. If Virginia
and the other slave breeding States found such
an increasing market, when would they be Will
linz to give up the profitable speculation II
Alabama and other new States could make such
alarrc revenues" as Mr.. McDonough promises,
vhen would they be willing to stop If his plan
hould generally be followed in part-that is, If
masters should emancpate nithout buying fresh
r,brs. what is the South to do for laborcrs The
irht of common sense and Of all experience
bows that free labor and slave labor cannot OK
N side by side. The laws of slave States show
that such experiments arc deemed too dangerous
TO be tolerated. And even if the South could
withdraw the laborcrs thus shipped Oft, what IS
become of the poor creatures themselves The
slaves of the United States number about 3,OOO,-
600, and increase at the rate Of 70,OOO year-
You can easily imagine the starvation that would
ensle if half that number of poor emgrants
should be landed on our own civilized and cult
tated shores. What then must be the result OF
landing them among sava ges, where there are no
cities to demand labor, and no farms TO supply
roduce The cost of carrying half our slaves
to Africa would exhaust al! the revenues Of the
country in its palmiest prosperity; and again tho
question returns, what could we do without the
aborers, even if they could be shipped to another
continent
That the foreign slavc-trade, as well as the do
nestle, would receive increased activity from
Nj. McDonough's plan, no person who duly re-
aecs on the subject can doubt. Where the de-
! mand is great there will be supply, in the very
teeth Of the laws. Our South Western States
arc now VIGOROUSLY willing to wink at cvasons
Of the law against the African slave trade; and
they would assuredly be more so, on the plan of
large revenues and fresh gangs" suggested by
Mr., McDonough. A scheme better calculated
TO give increased activity to the slave-tradc, to
Erpctaate slavery, to extensively impovcrlsh the
soil, and to increase the grasping avarlcc OF cap
halsts, could not have been devised
BE assured, Mr.. Greeley, that emancipation on
lie SOIL is the only practicable and safe remedy
hr slavery. The simple substitution of Mr.. Cash
IT Mr. Lash, as ovcrseer, is the only thing that
{ an reconcile the conflicting interests of planters
nd their bondsmcn. 1t is the only plan which
an be sustained by the planest principles of po-
hal economy, to say nothing of justice and hui
nnity. c.
Remarks by tie Editor
The above is from lady, which fact must cx-
/ us the tenderness with which we treat It's gross
asstatemcnts and falacics. Not ten lines of it
ave any legitimate relation to the subject it pro-.
tsses to discuss-namely, the wisdom and feast
unity Of MIR. McDonough's plan, of cmancipating
Us Slaves. The policy Of removing them, when
med to Liberia, has nothing to do with the mat
u, as presented III our paper: the necessity
sending all emanclpated Slaves out of Louis
ma being one imposed by the laws of that State.
ADMIT that the negroes should be retained in this
country, is that any reason why they may not be
taeneipated, as Mr.. McDonough's were for
ats all We have commended
|! was the remark of a celebrated Roman
Vnsul,' we suspect, that great many people are
"hsidly chained to their own personal hobbies
@ they would seem rather to prefer that a bcne.
amt act should not be done at all than no, i'll
sf own particular mode of doing it. Now VIC
4o0ld De very happy to sec the Slaves all eman,
SPaed IN any peaccablc way, though VIC would
Esier that they should pass through some such
premiership to Freedom as Mr.. McDonough's
aa-shorter in duration would suit us better
We believe they would thereby be far better fitted
lsa now to ENJOY and profit by their liberty.
a Chief excellence of Mr.. McDonough'S plan
sis harnlonlZlng the interests or the m,S,crs and
saves, and its capacity for universal adoption
ASery STAKEHOLDER might adopt it with decided
''santage, and Slavery be thus terminated with
cut contest or agitation within twenty years. Such
sss the intent of Mr.. McD.s innocent remark
ast he could buy more slaves with the price paie
an BY his freed ones for their liberty remark
(which 50 bad use is made by our correspond
@ We wish all shareholders could be made t,
ssli1e that emancipation is dictated BY their tru