Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-28

uS perfectly uUIe 10 take care ut llem-
selves and prosper in any part of the world
where tropical products grow. Il would
be no greater hardship for them to be SEN
arated from the place Of their birth than il
has been for the hundreds of thousands of
yonng meu and young women who have
emiGrated to our shores from Europe, here
to commence new career; or even for tue
same classes in New England TO seek new
homes thousands of miles away in our
western wilds. Well now, how many
| slaves are there in the country AZ these
agesl We cdn5ge al itonlyappfoxf oxfLnate-
lySNs the details of the census of 1860
haye not yet been published, Bnl on re-
ference TO the slave tables of 1850, we fiud
that between the ages OF fifteen aud tWen-
ty there were then lT6, lG9 males and lSl,-
ll3 females. One fifth of each of these
numbers would give approximately the
number of the two sexes at any one inter-
mediate year. Accordingly there were
some LhiTty: IRE thousand slave male, and
some thTiy-SiE thousand slave females of
the age of eighteen at that time. The
number of males AZ twenty-One of course
was somewhat less. We may safely say
then that, in 1850, serenity lone MousaRd was
the entire number of slaves of both sexes
who were at the period of life we have
specified. The entire slave population
having increased about third since, those
at these ages have increased in similar ra-
tio, so that the eLtirs number now Of male
slaves Of twenty-one and of female slaves
of eighteen must be about ninety five thou
sand.
Now what sane man can pretend that
the annual deportation of that number is
an impossibility, in the face of the fact
that for years, As is shown by official Ia
bles, the annual emigration from Europe
10 the Unlted States was over three hun
dred thousands In 1854 the emigration
was 969, ,Gi3i in 1855 il .3T2, ,T25; and for the
fifteen months prior to December 81 1859.
it was 430, ,43T. TIE Great Eastern steam
ship alone, which can carry 10000 such
passengers at a trip, could, with no extra
effort whatever, convey away the entire
ninety-five thousand each year. What
would be the result! Plainly this: After
eighteen years, when the youngest slave
females now born would reach the specified
age, there would be rapid diminutiOu of
the number TO be deported, by reason OF
the fewer American births, IN consequences
Of the reduction OF the slave population
The necessary emigration wonId diminish
| at the rate of three or four thousand annu-
ally. A little reflection will show any one
that ttrtHty.fIee or t,rrtlty-Siz years, from the
time such a system was adopted, would put
an end to all slave births whatever. The
children would be born in another land,
and free. Were such plan to go into
effect in 1868, before 1890 the last slave in
this republic would have been born aud
slavery itself wonld disappear, as those
died cf who, being Over the ages specified,
remained in the country.
THIS plan would etfectualIy conjoin coll
onizarion with the extinction of slaverJ-i
would entail no hardship upon the blacks
that whites, of similar ages, do not will
ingly incur-would give opportunity for
the emigrants TO be thoroughly prepared
for their new condition-would keep the
requisite number of slave laborers in tho
Hand until their place could be supplied
with free labor-Would be gradual in its
operation, SO as to give society he.e no
shock aud al the same time give the colo
MES 6Fm f0undaIion-wonid open the
South to all the benefits of Iabor-saviug
machines, of which it now knows almost
nothing, aud all the enterprise and skill of
Intelligent industry, thereby in due time,
trebling the amount of its products aud
the value of its lands-wonld rid the
country forever of a curse E hich has been.
its uuceasiug torment and is pregnant with
terrible calamity in the futRre-Would
Plaut the blessing Of Christianity through
tropiial regions where hegthenism only
has been rampant hitherto and which the
white man never can regeneraIe.
BUTT is not necessary that COLOMBIA :
tiOn scheme should assume just the shape
we have given. Expcdiency might vary it.
Indeed tis possible that the black race
might be Withdrawn by mere emigration,
without an colonial system at all Hayti
has offered them hOmesteads and employ
meDt, and is capable of taking all the four
millions without greater density of popu-
latiOn than Porto Rico now has, and with
a far less density than that of Barbadoes
and many other of the West India Islands.
Mexico, too, Is ready to furnish homesteadS
to As many as will come to her wide do
main, and so too would Gaulemala. We
|, need mot touch this point Oar object has
been TO establish that there is nothing Chi
mericai in the general theory-by showing
that the annual deportation Of less than n
| hundred thousand slaves would infallibly
exiihguish American Slavery, aud that
such deportation is practicable without se-
rious injury to any party concerned to the
inealcllable benefit Of all. We have tried
to diyest the subject of the vague deIu-
sions which have surrounded it, and do
Something toward clearing the way-for its
calm consideration. We believe religious
lly that the solution Of the problem, which
has staggered the wisest, and which yet
must have It's solution if the repnb-
lie is to last, lies somewhere IN this direc-
tion.
The Vote on Emancipation in West
/ = VIFGlnia.