The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-12-06


number . hundred millions, what, by
different policy, We would have TO pay
now, when we number but thirty-one
millions. In word, il shows that a dollar
would be much harder TO pay for the war,
than will be dollar for emancipation on
the proposed plan. And then the latter
will cost no blood, no precious life. It will
be o saving Of both.
As TO the second article, think Il would
be 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 article fer COM
pensating SUCH
The third article relates to the future Of
the freed people. 1t does not obligo, but
merely authorizes Congress TO aid in col
onizing such ss may consent. This ought
not TO be regarded as Objectionable, on the
one hand, or on the other, in so much as it
comes 20 nothing, unless by the mutual
consent Of the people to be depOrted, and
the American voters through their repre-
sentatiges in Congress.
cannot make it better known than it
already is, that | strongly favor colonial
ton And yet | wish to say there is an
objection urged against free colored persons
remaining in the country. which is largely
imaginary, if not sometimes malicious
Il is insisted that their presence would
injure, aud displaee white labor and white
laborers. If there ever could be proper
time for mere catch arguments, that time
surely is not now. In times like the present,
men should utter nothing for which they
would not willingly be responsible through
time and in eternity. Is 1t true. then,
that oolored people can displaoe any more
white labor, by being free, than by re-
naming slaves? If they stay in their old
places, they jostle no white laborers if
they leave their old places, they leave them
open to white laborers. Logically, there is
neither more nor less of il. 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
proportion of il, and very probably, for a
time, would do less, leaving an increased
part to white lAborers, bringing their labor
into greater demand, and, consequently,
enhancing the wages of it. With deporta-
ton, even to limited extent, enhanced
wages to white labor is mathemati-
cally certain. Labor is like any other
commodity in che market-increase the
demaud for it, and you increase the price
of it. Reduce the supply Of black labor,
by eolonizing the black lAborer out of the
country, and, by precisely 30 much, you
increase the demand for, and wages Of,
white labor.
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swarm forth, and cover the whole land ?
Are they not already in the land viii
! liberation make them any more numerous
J Equally distributed among the whites Of the
whole country, and there would be but ono
colored, to seven whites. Could the one, in
; any way, greatly disturb the seven
| There are many communities now, having
more than one free oolored persons, 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 frequent pc.
titions to Congress, l believe it has never
presented the presence Of free colored per.
sons as one Of it's grievances. But why
| should emancipation SOUTH send the freed
people north? People, Of any color, sell
dom run, unless there be something to run
from. HEREToToRE colored people, to some
extent, have fed north from bondage anC
restitution. But if gradual emancipation
and deportation be adopted, they will have
neither to flee from. Their old master.
will give them wages at least until new
laborers can be procured and the f. eeG
men, in turn, will gladly give their Labor
for the wages, till new homes can be founC
for them, in congenial elimes, and will
people of their own blood and race. Thi
proposition can be trusted on the mutua
interests involved and, in any event, can
not the north decide for itself, whether Il
receive them
Again, as practice proves more than theor,
in any cause, has there been any irrup
ton of-colored people northward, becaus
of the abolishmsnt Of slavery in this Dis
trict last spring
WhatsI have said Of the proportion O
free colOred persons to the whites, in til
District, is from the census Of 1860, hayin
no reference to persons called contrabands
nor to those made free by the act of Con
gress aboishing slavery here.
The plan consisting of these articles
recommended, not but that restoration Q
the national authority would be aocepte
without its adoption.
Nor will the war, nor proceeding
under the proclamation Of September 2.
1862, be stayed because of the REooMMES
DATIoN Of this plan. Its timely ADOPTION,
doubt not, would bring restoration, an
thereby stay both.
Aud, Notwithstanding this plan, the rt
commendation that Congress provide b
law for compromising any State which ma
adopt emancipation, before this plan cha
have been acted upon, is hereby earnestl
renewed. Such would be only an advanc
part Of the plan, ond the same argumsnt
apply to both.
This plan is recommended as a means
not in exclusion OF, but additional to, a
others for restoring and preserving the nG
tional aothority throughout the Union. TIL
subject is presented exclusively in its econ
omioal aspect. The plan wovld, | am COR
fdent, secure peace more speedily an
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