Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1862-12-02

the great importance 81 time IN this connection
the great advantage of "A policy 10y which We
shall not have TO pay until We humber a hun
DIR millions, what, 10y "A different policy, We
would have to pay now. when We number but
thirty one millions. In word, il shows that
a dollar will be much harder to pay for the
war than will be a dollar 7 emancipation, On
the pro, osed plan. And then the Latter will
COST no blood, no precious life. 1t will be Il
saving of both.
As TO the second article, think it would be
impracticable to return To bondage the class OF
persons therein contemplated some of them,
doubtless, i'll the property sense belong TO 10y
al owners and hence, provision is made i'll
this a, ticle ior coin. eusAiiDg such.
The third article relates 10 the future of the
freed ,-ople. Ii does not oblige, but merely
authorizes, Congress to aid IN colonizing such
as may consent This ought not To he regarded
as objectionable, on the one hand, or N the
other, in 80 much as II comes Ia nothing, un
less by the mutual consent OF the people TO he
depOIted and the American voters, through
their representatives iu Congress.
,aunot make it better known than it al
ready Is, that | strongly favor coliuizatipu.-|
And Vet | wish To say there Is objection
urged against free coored persons remaining in
the country, which is laTg,l ly imaginary, il not
sometimes malicious
jure and displace white labor and white labor
ers. If there ever could he "a proper time for
mere catch arguments, that time surely is not
nov. la times like the present, men should
utter nothing for which they would not willing
ly be T-spDur hle through time and IN eternity.
Is it tue, then, that Colored people can dis
place any more white labor 10y being free, than
by remaining slaves II they stay in their old
places they lo,tle no white aburers; if they
,,l. a fh.xl ham, m,
white laborers. Logically. there is neither
more nor less oft Emancipation, even with
out deportation. would probably enhance the
wages of white labor, and, very surely, would
no. reduce them
Thus the customary amount of labor would
still have 10 he performed the freed people
would surely not do more than ther old pro-
portion OF it, and very probably, for time,
would do less, leaving an Increased part 10
white labor-rs, bringing their labor into greater
demand, and, consequently, enhancing the
wages ut il. With deportation, even to a
limited extent, enhanced wag 10 white labor
is math .metlcally certain Labor is like any
other commodity in the market increase the
demand for il, and You increase the price OF il.
Reduce the supply of black labor by cooniz-
ing the black laborer out ui the country, and,
by precisely So much, you increase the demand
for and wages OF, white labor.
But it is dreaded that the freed people will
swarm forth, and cover the whole land Are
they not already in the laud9 viii liberation
make them any muie numerous Equally dis
tributed among the whites Of the whole couns
try aud there would he but one colUrtd to seven
whites Could the one, in any way greatly
disturb the scv,n' There are many communi-
ties now, having more than one free ColoTei
person to seven whites and this, without any
apparent consciousness Of evil from it. The
District of Columbia and the States Of Mary
la "a and Delaware, are all in this condition. -
The District has more th III one free colored to
SIX whites; and yet in its frequent petitions TO
Coz gees, belle'e II has lever presented the
pres-nc- If free colortd per-ons as one Of its
grlevauces But why should emancipation
soutu, serd th'' freed people northf People, Of
any col r. seldom iun, unless there be some
thing to run from.
Hsrdofss cDloTed people, to some extent,
hav, fed north from b ndige; and pas, per
hsps. from both bondage and destitulion. But
if gradual emancipation and deportation be
adoptrd, they will have neither TO flee from
Their old masters will give them wages, at least
until new laborers can be prUcu ed, and the
freed men, in turn will G adly give their labor
for the wage TIL new homes Can be found for
them in congeniai chimes, and with people #
their own bloud and race This Proposition
can he trusted on the mutual interests involved
and i, any event cannot the north decid. for
i,s.f whether 10 rece yr tb,mp
A,ain a. nr,ctice nrove. more than theory.
in .n, c,s, h a. th.r, been any irruptjou OF
c,lo,sd ,.ople ,orthward n cause of the
ab Al. hment of slavery in the District last
snr,ng
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b.,a
m. nlan Consisting of these articles ia re.
commended not but that a restoration ol IN.
narinraI authority would be accented without
;,s ad,ntio,
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