The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-02-06
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s. S. SCHOFF, M FRANZ EditorS
Can Ihe slaves if E4ibcrnied Maintain
Themselves.
As the event becomes more and more proba
| bic, that the putting down Of this shareholders
rebellion will involve the emancipation of the
slaves of this country timd people are enquir
| ing more anxiously, what can be done with the
slaves? What will the slaves do if liberated
| Will they work without the inducement of the
masters lash? Can they take care of themselves:
and thousand other questions. 1t is natur a
that people should ask these and similar ques
| tons. We have been brought up to believe the
black man Incapable, or too indoent to take
care of himself, and the greatest argument in
| favor of American slavery has been that it is
necessary, because the slaves are not fit TO take
care Of themselves. We publish on our first
page an article illustrating several ofthe points
raised by such questions rs We have alluded tc
above, and giving them practical answer that
is worth more than all the iue spun theories OF
pro-slavery Philosophers. And this evidence
of the will and capacity of slaves to take care
OF themselves, is all the more valuable, as com.
ing from Shareholder and one who was ac.
tuated by no feeling of favor towards the slaves
nor conscientious scrupes as to the righteous.
ness of slavery.
Some of our Northern people who are per
tectiy satisfied of the wickedness of slavery
and ofits incompatibility with Free Institutions
and Free Labor and who are fully convinced
OF the necessity Of the abolition Of slavery
as military necessity, are yet fearful that
the north would be ovtrrun with hordes of va.
grant negroes. We think this fear is unfound-
ed and ex travagant. The negro is eminen,ly
a laboring race. They maturity love warm
and genial climate and the work of the planta-
ton is what the race in this country is best ac-
quanted with and most delight in. Let them
be treated humanely and paid for their labor,
so that they may purchase their little homestead
and own 1t, rs we'll as well themselves, like 9TH
er labOrers, and the inducements to wander tn
the colder and more unc0ugenial North would
be much less than they are at present. There
is work in the southern statas for the entire
negro population of the country, that can
not be done as we'll or as cheaply by any other
class of laborers, and it is labor as productive
as any other in the country and the pronrietors
can as well afford to pay for it, as any landed
proprietor can afford to pay for his labor at the
north Let the curse institution of slavery he
once done away with, and the natural course
OF events would soon bring the demand and sup
ply OF labor at the south to level The wages
Tor laborers in the south would draw thousands
OF the free blacks from the northern states and
Canada thither.
we look upon the scheme of colonization
connected with emancipation as visionary and
impracticable 1t might be well TO aid sucb
enahclpated slaves az wish to emigrate, either
to Liberia or Hayt, but the south cannot spare
the great body of her Iaborers, although she
can afford to pay for her labor A thous and
instances and examples have proved that paid
laborers will do twice or three times the amoan (
OF labor, in given time, that slaves will do,
hence the increased production of the southern
states nader the system nf Free labor would in
few years day for the entire value of he slaves,
and for their labor into the bargain.
We presume there are some surface peonIe
who, after reading the allows will declare that
we are abolitionists, but men are becoming
less tender on that subject than they formerly
were. The term MboltioniSt has come to have
but little terror to the well-informed aud honest
| citizen. Whatever it might once have meant
it simply means now, any person who is in ia.
Vor or bringing this civil war to a speedy ter
mination, and putting down this rebellion in
the most etfectual manner, so tina. it will stau
down. Everybody knows and admits, to HIM
self at least, that slavery is she prime cause of
this rebellion, and almost everybody is finally
convinced that the task OF putting it down
and preserving intact all the rights, privileges
aud franchises of slavery to the rebels is impos-
sibe. In preserving slavery we are directly pre-
serving the cause of this rebellion, as well as
its strength. Senators, Representatives in Con
gress, Statesmen, officers of every grade have
come to this same conclusion, but the old bug
bear OF abolition rises before their startled Wis
ion, and they wander around among the impos-
sibllities and impractcabilities for some plan
of accomplishing the eud in view without meet
ing and overcoming the real difficulties. What
other reason is there for keeping an army of
100000 in field and camp, month after month,
without al attempted movement? What other
reason is there for the want of some general sys-
tenn or plan Corporations, that now characterizes
the conduct of the war In one department,
the principal business of the Union soldiers
seems to be the capturing and returning fugi-
tive slaves to rebel masters. In another, the
slaves of rebels or others are forbidden 10 come
within our lines, while in still another, if they
d. they are put into Jail and kept until reclaim
ed. These things cannot always 90 on. There
must oe some end to this state OF things, though
every man in the country have to wear the
brand of AboItioniste.