The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-12-05

white laborers-if there ever could be
proper time for mere arguments tha
time surely is not now. In times ike th'
present, men should utter nothing fo
which they would not willingly be re
f sponsible through time and eternity.
HUMANE VIEW.
ha true, then, that The colored pcop1,
can dispiace any more mhite labor ~ be-
ing free shan by remaininy siauesP II
they leave their old places, they leave
them open to white lahorers. Logically,
there is neither more nor less of ii.
EMANCIPATION WOULD ENHANCE WHITE
LABOR.
Emancipation, even without deporta-
ton, would probably enhance the wage.
of white labor, and, very surely, would
not REFUGE them. Thus the customary
amount of labor would still have to lie
performed. The freed people would,
surely, not do more than their old pro-
portion Of il, and, very probably for a
time, would do less leaving an increased
part to white MISUNDERSTANDING their
labor into greater demand, and contquent-
~, enhancing tho value Of il. With de-
portation, even to limited extent,
enhancing wages to white labor is maih-
ematically certain. Labor is like any
other commodity in the market. Increase
the demand for it and you increase the
price Of 1t.
Eeduce the supply of black labor by
colonizlug the black laborer out of the
country, and by precisely so much you
will increase the demand for wages for
white labor.
A BUGBEAR EXPOSED.
But it Is dreaded that the freed people
will swarm forth and cover the whole
land. Will liberation make them any
more numerous EqralIy distributed
among the whites of the whole country
aud there would be but one colored TO
sepen sehites. Could the one in any way
greatly disturb the reven? There are
many communities now having more than
one Tree colored person to seven whites,
and this without any apparent con
sciousness Of evil from it. The District
oi Columbia and the States Of Maryland
aud Delaware are all in this condition
The District has more than one free col.
ored to six whites, and yet in its frequent
petition to Congress, / believe it has
never presented the presence of free coll
ored persons as one ofits grievances.
why SHOULD THEY 90 NORTH.
But why should emancipation in the
South send the freed people North Poo
pie Vi any color seldom run, unless there
i. something to run from Heretofore
colored people have fled North, to some
extent. from toniage, and now perhaps
from both bondage and des,itution; but il
gradual emancipation and deportation be
adopted. they will havs neither 10 fee
from. Their own masters will give them
wages, at least Ill new laborers can be
procured, and the freed men in turn will
gladly give their labor for wages. till new
homes can be found for them in congenial
cllmes, and with people of their own blood
and race. This proposition can be trust
ed on the mutual interests involved, and /,
In any event, cannot the North decide for
itself whether TO receive them
Again as practice proves more than
theory in any case, has there been any ir-
ruption northward because Of the abolish
ment Of slavery in the District of Colum-
bia let srringy What have said of the
proportion OF free colored persons to the
whites in the District of Columbia is from
the censes of 1860, having no reference TO
persons called coLu4LAnas. nor to those
made free by the act Of Congress abolish
ing slavery here.
TIE wAH WILL WAIT FOB NOTHING.
The plan consisting Of these articles is
recommended, not but that restoration
Of the national authority would be accept
ed without its adoption, nor will the war
or proceedings under tie proclamation Of
September 92d, 1863. be stayed because
Of the recommendation of this plan. Its
timely adoption | doubt not would bring
restoration, and thereby stay both, and
notwithstanding this Ilsn,
The recommendation that Congress
provide by law for compromising any
State which may adopt the emancipation
act before this plan shall have been acted
upon, is hereby earnestly renewed. Such
would only be an advance pprt Of the plan
and the same arguments apply To both.
This plan is recommended as means
not in conclusion Of, bu, additional 70 oil
others for restoring and preserving the
national authority throughout the Union.
The subject is presented exclusively in its
economical aspect. The plan would. l
am confident, secure peace more speedily
than can be done by force alone. while it
would cost lees, considering amounts and
manner Of payment and time of payment,
and the amounts would be easier paid than
viii be the additional cost of the war if
We rely solely upon force. 1t is most