The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-10-10
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absolutely distinct and mutually hostile nations,
no longer capable, but by the subjugation of one
by the other of existing under one and the same
government. The only way this divergence can
be checked, the unity and homogenousness OF
the whole American people recovered and pre-
served is by the assimilation of the labor systems
of the North and the South.
We of the North cannot and ought not to ac-
cept the labor system of the South. But the
slave states, by their unprovoked rebellion, have
given us an opportunity of performing an act Of
long delayed justice to the negro population Of
the Union, and OF assimilating the southern la
Dor system to Gus. This assimilation is at the
bottom of the southern rebellion, and the South
has risen in arms against the Union chiefly for
the purpose of extending her labor system over
allthe free states. In doing so she gives us the
right, in our own selfdefence, TO extend our free
labor system over all the slave states-a right
which, but for her rebellion, we should not have
had under the constitution.
THE GAIN OF LIBERTY
If this prove disadvantage to the southern
states, owing to the peculiar character of their
laboring population. they have no right to COM
plain, for it is u disadvantage hey have brought
upon themselves. But this will be disadvan-
tage only as compared with us of the North {;
for it will be better for the South herself to have
her negro population free laborers than it is to
have them slaves. In counting the population
of the South, We must count not merels her white
but also her black and colered population The
neral. spiritual and material well-being of her
four millions of black and coored people must
be considered, as well as the moral spiritual
and material wel-being of her eight millions of
whites. These black and colored people are as
much human beings. whose welfare is as impor-
tant and as necessary to be consulted by the
statesman, the political economist, the moralist
and the christian, that of any other portion of
her population; and what they would gain by
their emancipation should be thrown into the
balance against what might be lost by their for
mer owners. But even the three hundred and
forty seven thousand slave proprietors would, in
reality lose nothing, or gain in moral more than
they would lose i'll material prosperity. We do
not believe southern society would, in case OF
emancipation, be equal to what it would be if
the whole population were Of the white race
The negro element would remain III that society,
aud, wherever it remains it will be an inferior
element; but far less so free, than as enslaved.
The white population of the south must always
suffer this drawback for having collected, or
submitted to the collection Of large African
population on their soil, and they have no right
to complain if obliged to make expiation, as
long as the world stands, for having introduced
and sustained the institution of negro slavery.
But aside from the disadva vantage of having its
laboring population of race with which the
white will not mingle. the South would gain by
the assimilation of her labor system to that of
the North.