The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-01-17


go any further than 70 stimulate nem, py large ana
generous pecunary consideration, 70 remove the evil BY
their own free will and act.
Such an offer OF compensation would silence M once
ana forever the charge or suspicion tnat the ee sases
are actuated by unfendy feeling toward those tne
South that they throw them all the moral
onus Of planting and sustaining slavery or all the sacr
nee or expense involved In removing nom the land
Men of all political parties, and OF all sections OF the
country, who deprecae the existence OF slavery, from
any motive, could give their cordial adhesion to the plan
proposed because fully recognizes all the prerogatves
which the Southern States claim as their naienable
rights and proposes the only congressional action for
the removal Of the system which the constitution will
allow,
The plan II adopted, would bring the question OF tn
extinction of slavery before the entire nation in com
petely new aspect While II would raise the slaves TO
the condition OF freedom at the earliest possible moment
that il could be peacefully effected it would divest the
act of their manunisson OF all sectional i'll will aud anita
gonsm. For IL would be accomplished by the Southern
States themselves, impelled TO the measure not by
threats or an angry attitude but by grand and noble
overture on the part of the free States.
All who prize the union OF these States above all prc
and would perpetate il for the glory God and tho goo
Of mankind must give their sympathy aad support TO
measure which would not only remove the only source
Of sectional dscord which from beginning to end by
its spirit and working would be calculated attach
State State BY bonds OF unity and brotherhood which
never before existed between them.
Those who have labored for many years TO show the
guilty COMPLETELY Of all classes in the North planting
sustaining slavery who have charged aggravated
upon The nnjnt the presa and the peope of the free
States in upholding the system should give their full
hearty adhesion 10 the plan proposed, as measure by
which all classes and cnmmunities Of The North would ac
knowledge this completely and do works meet for repen
lance.
Those who comprehend the value of the great
cia industrial interests the country must approve
and support measure which surely than any other
that could be odopted would effect the gradual uproonr
Of slavery State by State ana the substitution of free
labor without pecnary revulsion or sectional prosra
ton, without suspendng diminishing the production of
those staples which are 80 vitality nwoven in the manu-
features commerce and general prosperity Of the Unon
There thousands who feel that the delverance OF
the slaves from bondage should be the FIRST motive and
object in the extinction slavery All such should give
their best support TO the proposed for IT would
not only give freedom those bonded millions the
hest possible moment, but would emancpate them under
the favorable and benevolent dsposo for their
subsequent character ad happiness
AS it seemed very desirable that some approxinate
amount should be connected at the with the offer
compensated emancipation that the people both North
and South might better understand the full import Of the
proposition the Cleveland Convention at which the Soce
ty was organized suggested that Congress shall pay 10
each state that shall abolish slavery sum not excsed
ing two hundred and fifty dollars for each and every
tjon which il NAV deem proper y
The sum nronosed is donble the apnnnt aovel NV tho
british for Tho ton o the eli, re in
tho Wcst Indies which was only about slo5 ner be,J
This rate of was thought 10 he liberal nv The
Convention takng the whole slave populaon of ali the
| states infant and AGED decrenid hind and Innat,c
Although the emancipatlon Of 400 600 slaves the
number in 1880 would cost Mt the rate Suggested ss75
600 600 but little of this great sum would be needed il
any one year ior long time 10 come me State most
pr shonld it be delaware only about $500 600 would
S b s id ~ 20 ,ssUa.', .'ooa' SLA,oouoVo
wor sI h po nau ao h men 10
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nns,ive or ;mmediae disnnrseont Of n,nna From ny
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comnensated amoncnation II is nSc;av asta,ad ,h,
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fftv cents per acre would nav for the Of
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