Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-07-19
Miscellaneous.
Cost Of the Negroes.

oWHVlo, IL luCy Will SGll Incln, lNC lOUr
millions Of slaves now held in bondage IN
the South. This emancipation policy
is now part and parcel of the policy and
financial programme of the present Ad-
ministration. Under the influence of that
policy the slaves of the District of Col
umbia have already cost one million of
dollars, for which an appropriation has
been made by Congress.
Mr.. Goodloc, an Abolitionist, and off,
ice holder under the General Government
at Washington, has written a pamphlet
intended to elaborate and expound the
views of the present Administration on
this eugrossing subject. Here is an cx-
tract:
81 have shown what the compensation
to the border States would be at two
different rates of payment per capita for
the slaves, and it will have been seen
that | have favored the more liberal scale.
| now proceed TO show what would be
the cost of redeeming the whole slave
population of the Union at the same
rates.
'By the census of last year there were
3,0j2,S sol slaves in the United States and
Territories. have already shown that
4j1,i4l, which belonged to the border
States, would be worth, at $3.50 each,
$l13, 3,Gl0,25O, and at 5000 each, $780,
332 300. There remains to be disposed
of, therefore, 3,l06,360 slaves, embraced
in the country subject to the rebels, but
including, of course, large numbers be-
longing to the friends of the Union, who
have been constrained into obedience to
the rebel authorities against their wills.
At the lowest estimated average value of
$3.50, these slaves of the rebels would be
worth SS74,500, 900, and adding the COM
pcnsaton to the border States, on the
same terms, the aggregate cost to the
Government would be S0Ss, ,2OO,2 At
the highest rate of $500, the slaves in
the rebel States would be worth 81 l,O49,-
50s,000; and adding the cost ofcompcn.
sation TO the border States, at the same
rate, the aggregate expenses of cmanci-
patton would be Sl,lSG,S ,SIO.300. Or for
the convenience of round numbers, the
cost Of Emancipation would be, at $3.50
per head, 0OO,O0O,OOO, and at $500
per head, the cost would be $780, 900
O00."
Thus it appears by Mr.. Goodloc's cal.
culation that the slaves of the South will
cost the white mca of the North 81 ,2OO,-
100000! and as the money for this pur-
chase must be borrowed, it follows that,
at SIX per cent. the interest or annual
tax paid for this phiIanthropic purpose
will be seventy-two millions of dollars
Now, as the interest upon the public debt
at the expiration of the war cannot be
less than one hundred millions, the an
nual appropriation for the support of the
Government, including the support of the
army and navy, at least one hundred and
fifty millions; pensions for the support
of our wounded and manned volunteers,
for the widows and orphans of the brave
men who have been killed in battle or
who have fallen prey to disease, not
less than one hundred millions; for the
mUltitudinOus claims against the Govern
ment arising from the contingencies of
the war and the expenses Of a vast sys-
tenn OF negro colonization, at least one
hundred millious Of dollars, it follows
that ere long the annual appropriations
required to be made by Congress, and to
be extracted from the pockets of the pco-
pie, to pay for the expenses of war
iomcntcd by Northern negro worshippors
and declared by secession negro owners,
will amount to upwards of FIVE HUN
DRIED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!
and this enormous amount of annual tax
alton, not including one penny for Il
sinking fund to reduce This monstrous in
cumbus upon the industry and energy Of
the people.
hepopulation of Pennsylvania is one
tenth of the entire population of the
United States therefore, according TO
the above calculation, which time will
prove to have been underratcd, the direct
and indirect a}m,tal tar, payable by the
people of this State to the National Gov
ornment, will amount, at the expiration
of the war, to FIFTY MILLIONS OF DOL
LARS, being about one hundred dollars to
each voter! Surely this is paying rather
dear for the whistle of emancipation,
which has, for years past, been blown
into the years oltho people by the North
ern Aboliliousls!