The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-12-06

low or two per cent. above the average Thus
showing how infexible and consequently how
reliable the law of increase in our case is. As.
Stunning that it will continue, it gives the follow
ing results
RATIOS CARRIED FORWARD
Years. Population.
1870. 4s. aga 40
1851. ....... ................... 56,986,2l6
! low. $500. 76,677,872
loVO 49,. l03, EOS, Ais
I.lstO.. ........ l3S, ,528
1871. 6,984;335
| 1851. ...... .25l ,6S09l4
These figures show that our country NAV he
as populous as Europe at some point between
1920 and 1880, say about 1925 Our territory
at 73i to the square mile being of capacity to
CO ntsin PIT, ls6,ss4. This future we relinouish
by the folly and evils of disunion, or BY long ex
hausting war springing from the only great ele-
ment of discord among us, while it cannot be
foreseen exactly how much one huge example Of
secession, bringing lesser ones would indefinitely
retard the population, civilization and prosperity.
No one can doubt that the. extent of it would
be very great and injurious.
THE BLESSINGS OF INDEPENDENCE.
The proposed emancipation would shorten
this war, pepetuate peace, insure the increase in
population, and proportionably the increase in
the wealth of the country. With this we should
pay all that emancipation would cost, without
our other debts, easier than we should nav cur
other debts without it.
A COMPARISON.
| If we had allowed our old national debt to run
at per cent. per annum, simple interest from
the end OF our revolutionary struggle till to day,
without paying anything, either principal or in.
terest, each man of US would owe less upon that
debt now than each man owed upon it then, and
thus because orr increa of mon throrob Tho
whole period has been gre ter than six Der cent.
and has run faster than the interest upon the
debt.
THE CONVERSATIONS OF TINE.
Thus time alone relieves debtor nation so
long as its population increases faster than IN
paid interest accumulates on its debt. This
fact would be no excuse for delaying the pay.
ment of what is justly due, but it shows the
great importance of time in this connection,
and the great advantage of policy by which we
shall not have to pay until we number loo, OOO
600, what by a different policy we would have
to now when the number is 81, OOO, 900. In
word, it shows that dollar will be much harder
to pay for the war; than dollar for emancipa
ton on the proposed plan, and then the latter
will cost 10 blood, no precious life. 1t will be
saving Of both. . ..gsE .,
OF THE RETURN OF FUGITIvEs.
As to the second article, l think it wou Id
impracticable to return to bondage the class of
persons therein contemplated. Some of them
doubtless in the property sense belong to loyal
owners and hence provision is made in this ar
ticle for compromising such.
THE FUTURE OF THE FRIED MEN
The third article relates to the future of the
freed people. 1t does not obge but merely au-
thorizes Congress to aid in coloniziug such as
may consent. This ought not to be regarded as
Ohiao fi0p h1o m 70 han - o.ko
inssmuch as it comes to naught unless by mutual
consent of the people to De deported and the
American voters through their Representatives,
Congress. 4 r ..r
THE PRESIDENT FAvoRs COLONIZATION.
/ cannot make it better known than it al
ready is, that strongly favor colonization, and
yet wish to say there is an objection against
the colored persons remaining in the country,
which is largely imaginary, if not sometimes
malicious. 1t is insisted that their presence
would injure and displace white labor and
white laborers-if there ever could be prep,
er time for mere arguments that time surely is
net now. In times like the present, men shnuld
utter nothing for which they would not viii.
lingly be responsible through time and eternity.
. HUMANE VIEW.
Ish true, then, that tho eolored people can dis.
place any more whits labor by being free than by
remaining slauess If they stay in their own
places, they jostle no white laborers. If they
leave their old places, they leave them open to
white laborers. Logically, there is neither
more or less of it. -- as. a-rY -
EMANCIPATION WOULD ENHANCE WHITE LABOR.
Emancipation, even without deportation,
would probably enhance the wages of white
labor, and very surely would not reduce them.
Thus the CUSTOMARY amount Of labor would
still have to be performed. The freed people
would, surely not do more than their old pro.
portion of it, and very probably, for time,
would do less; leaving an increased part to
white laborers-bringing their labor into
greater demand, and consequently enhancing
the value of it. With deportation, even to 8
limited extent, enhancing wages to white Is.
Dor 10 Mechanically certain. Labor is like
any other commodity in the market Increase
the demand for it and you increase the price
of it. - .-....s -.
Reduce the supply of black labor by colo
nizing the black laborer out of the country,
and by precisely SO much, you will increase the
demand for wages for white labor.
A BUGBEAR EXPOSED.
But It is dreaded that the freed people will
swarm forth and cover the whole land. Will
liberation make them any more numerous?-
Equally distributed among the whites of the
WuOAC SOuutIy tucTe WOuu Oc Dub Oue CU!'
| ored to seven whites. Gould the one In any
way greatly disturb the seven? There sre
many communities now having more than one
free colored person to seven whites, and this
without any apparent consciousness of evil
from it. The District of Columbia and the
States of Maryland and Delaware are all IN
this condition. The District has more than one
free colored to six whites, and yet in its frequen!
petitions to Congress- believe it has never
presented the presence of free colored persons
as one of its grievances.
WHY SHOULD THEY GO NORTH.
But why should emancipation in the South
send the freed people North? People of any
color seldom run unless there is something's
run from. Heretofore colored people have fed
North, to some extent, from bondage, and now
perhaps from both bondage and destitution;
but if gradual emancipation and deportation
DO adopted, they will have neither to fee from.
| Their own masters will give them wages, 81