The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-06-18

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This is no violence Of mine upon arithme
tic. This is the cocl calculation Of men eager
to carry out, at small cost, their schemes. /
give credit to the motive wuich prompts col
onizatiOn. But where are these enormous
sums to come from? 80, the war expenses
are as much, and ought to pay it," or, as Sir
Boyle Roche would say, every man ought
to give his last guinea TO protect the remain
der" Are not the war expenses already run
up 10 such = sum that men founder in their
calculation Of themY But, it Is said, the war
expenses are not yet done, and by this
scheme we may save the remainder. / would
like 10 think so. Such schemes of emanci-
patton will only prolong the war and add to
its expenses. This enormous tax is to be
paid, it is said in thirty-seyen years, at an
annual tax OF $50 100000! We are to use
ourcrsdit by bonds, and thus establish ua
tional debt. Great as our resources are, this
burden is too enormous. 1t leaves no hope.
It creates despair. Ask the question OF the
people: "Can you meet these liabilities in sd
dition to the war debt, now estimated by
Senator Simmons, at the end Of July, 1862,
al $3.50, 100000, and to be doubled before
the war IS over, supposing that it will end
in year?"
Such scheme even destroysa large por.
tion Of the means to pay for itself. The labor
Of the negroes after they are freed and colo.
nized is nothing, worse than nothing. 1t is
a loss to the country OF just what will take
in time and trouble to replace it by other
labor equally good. 1t is a loss to the couu.
try OF the labor and laborers themselves es
timated at $6O0,000,0O0.
Then we have the following results:
Cost OF compensation to owners
of slaves 81 200 600 900
Cost of deportation and main
tenance one year 6Oo,OOo,OOO
Cost OF land to be purchased,
bridges, houses, roads. &c. 20 ,000, 900
Loss of the labor and laborers
10 the country and to the
masters before a new sup
ply Of labor can be mad. GOO, 900 O0C
Debt already, according to Sec.
retary CLase's last report. 49l, ,445 1884
Var debt additional. by 1868.
according to Senator Sim.
mons. 5OO,OOOo ooC
This sum almost equals the national debt
ufGreat Britain which as the accumulation
of centuries. amount to f757 ,486, 997 ,.or a.
bout $3,797, 7,C00,OO0! Here is bridge o.
gold for the African exodus! Ohio builds
one span of one tenth, to cost $34, la ,459;
my district pays ne-twentieth of that, or
ST l,705,722 But how much Of the accumu'
lations of our people will this sum take?--
Secretary Chase tells US that, according to
the census of 1860, the real and personal
property OF the people OF the United States
is SIG, l02 1924, 116! Hence one ffb OF all
we have would scarcely meet this enormous
liability!
In the name of advantage, economy, sense
and humanity will not the people repudate
this prodigious expenditure? The men who
levy it, sir, are runninga a desperate hazard
Where secession has placed, by the tax to
put it down, only yokes OF wood on the peo.
pie, which they will cheerfuly bear, this
scheme makes yokes Of iron Think you the
authors OF so grand scheme can escape the
vengeance OF the people by resignation OF
exile? Theirs will be doom worse than
that OF the Gracchii or Robespierre:
But these dreamers do not intend to buy
and colonize. Their ethics, like their speeches
are cribbed from the pharisaical spoutings o.
Exeter Hall. The House has voted down
the project of colonization proposed by the
gentleman from Missouri Mr.. BLAIR They
will not so outrage human nature-not they
What! says Wendell Phillips, export the
four millions which are the iulcrum of the
lever by which the nation is to be restored
Oh, no. Is not this the land OF their birth!
! Even the colonization members do not pro.
pose coercion. Their bills deny compulSion
What then?
| Ill. 1t is proposed to free ALL and leave
Lob noo fo diStr rihnto thovn ovpopo tho paopla
Chance, sir, is poor economist, and worse
ruler. Let US consider the effect OF this
proposition.
| A distinguished Senator from Vermont MI
CoELAMER] fixed the proportion OF this dis
tribution at one negro to every five or 81,
whites.* He was right By the census o
1860 there are in the United States ~, ,003,
O81, whites and 1899 535 slaves. Iftht
slaves were distributed equally north and
south this would make one negro to ever,
seven whites but if all are driven north by
social conyulsion, as shown by the gentleman
from Kentucky, Mr. MALLORY, it would
make more than one black for every fiv,
white persons.
But we know that the African will not 20
to New England, at least in such Numbers al
to other States. He does not thrive there
In Boston the city register shows that 70
the last five years there were 134 births II
376 deaths among the colorcd people.
If Ohio were open, as my colleague advo
Gates, we would have at least twice as man,
negroes flock into that State as to the rest 0
the North, and twice as many in central anC
southern Ohio as in northern Ohio; or on
negro for every three white persons in tn
State, and perhaps twice that ratio in south
ern and central Ohio. Take Massachusetts,
as fair average of the North. There ever,
inducement is offered to his immigration
He is made voter, he is admitted to the bar
he is even made better than white man il
suffrage, provided the white man comes from
Germany or Ireland. Yet, in O. population
of ], ,23l ,065, the blacks number only 9,454
or one black to $50 ofthe population; Will
in Ohio, with not double the population
there is one black to So of the population. =
The increase OF blacks 10 Ohio is 43 80 pc
cent, while in Massachusetts, it is only 20 9t
per cent. So that am justified, not alop
the census, but most, by the geographical
position and nearness OF Ohio to the Soutl
and the extent its slave State border, il
inferring that she would receive more thai
double the number assigned 10 the State
north, by Mr.. Collamer's apportionment- -
What, then, would be the result? Ohio ha
1903, ,374 white people. She would thel
have ct ratio OF one black to every thre
persons, an addition OF 767 ,791 to her blacl
population! My district, composed of Frank
lin, Licking, aud Pickaway counties, wher
Il refer to the following in the speech of Sen
ator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, made at this ses
s'oDt -,,
"A distinguished gentleman lfrom Vernon
was first elected to Congress in 1913 One 0
the we'l.to.do farmers in his neighborhood call
ed upon him, the evening before he was to go Il
Washington, to pay his respects He found hin
in his office, and told him he had came for tha
purpose, and to bid him good bye And no,
4 judge said he, when you get to Washington
4 want to have you take hold of this negro bu
siness and dispose Of it in some way or other
have slavery abolished and be done with il y
Well" said the judge sas the people who owl
4 Akapn all oil 49, L - K.