Nebraska advertiser., 1862-12-13
On ryr prruRN OF rUe1r1vEs.

OF THE RETURN OF FUGITIvEs
AS 10 the second article / think 1t would
be impracticable to return to bondage the
class of persons therein contemplated
Some of them, doubtless. IN the property
sense, belong to loyal owners, and hence
provision is made in this article for com
pensating such.
II FUTURE oE H FREEDMEN.
The third article relates to the future
of the freed people. 1t does not oblige
but merely authorizes Congress to aid IN
colonizing such as may consent. This
ought not to be regarded as Objectionable,
on the n hand or the other, inasmuch
as il comes 10 nought unless by mutual
by mutual consent Of the people to be de-
ported and the American voters through
their representatives in Congress.
THE PRESIDENT FAvoRs c-OLoNIzATI0N.
l cannot make ii better known than it
already is, that / strongly favor COLOMBIA
ton, and yet l wish to say that there~is
an objection against the cOlored persons
remaining in the country, which is large
ly imaginary, if not sometimes malic ious
Ii is insisted that their presence would
injure and displace white labor and white
laborers. If there evor could be a lime
for mere arguments that time surely is
not now. In times like the present, men
should utter nothing for which they would
not willingly be responsible through time
and eternity.
4 HUMAN
Is it true, then, that the colored people
can d~iSplace any more white labor by
being free than by remaining slave If
they stay in their own places, they jostle
no white laborers. If they leave their
old places, they leave them open to white
laborers. Logically, there Is neither
more nor less of it.
EMANCIPATION WOULD ENHANCE WHITE
Emancipation, even without deporta-
ton, would probably enhance the wages
of white labor. and, we're surely,
would not reduce them. Thus the GUS
tomary amount of labor wauld still have
to be performed. The freed people would
surely not do more than their old proper
ton of it, and very probably for a time,
would not do so well, leaving an increased
part to white slaborers-bringing their
labor into greater demand, and conse-
quently enhancing the value ofit. With
deportation, even to a limited extent,
enhancing white labor is fundamentally
certain. Labor is like any other COM
modify in the market. Increase the de-
mand for it, and you increase the price
of it.
Reduce the supply Of black labor by
colonizing 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? Equally distributed
among the whites of the whole country,
and there would be bat one colored to
seven whites. Could the one in any way
greatly disturb the seven? There are
many communities now having more than
one free colored person to seven whites,
and this without any apparently conscious
ness of evil from 1t. The District Of
Columbia, and the. States Of Maryland
and Delaware are all in this condition.
The District has more than n free
colored to six whites, and yet in its fire
quent petitions to Congress, l believe it
has never presented the presence of free
cOlored persons as one of its grievances.
WHY SHOULD THEY co NORTH,
But why should emancipation in the
South send the freed people North
People Of any color seldom run unless
their is something to run for. Hereto
fore cOlored people have fed North, to
some extent, from bondage, and now
perhaps from both bondage and destitu-
ton; but if gradual emancipation and
deportation be adopted, they will have
neither to flee from. Their own masters
will give them wages, at least till 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 climes, and with
people of their own blood and race
This proposition can be trusted IN 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
eruption northward because of the ahoi-
ishment Of slavery IN the District of Co.
lumbia last spring? What | said Of the
proportion of free colored persons to the
whites Ia the District of Columbia is
from the census of 1860, having no ref
erence to persons called contrabands, nor
TO those made free by this act of Con-
gress abolishing slavery here.
THE WAR WILL WAIT FOR
The plan consisting Of the articles is
recommended, not but a restoration of
the national authority would be accepted
without its adoption, nor viii the war or
proceeding under the proclamation of
September 22d, 1862, be stayed because
OF he Recommendation of this plan. Its
adoption, | doubt not, would bring
restoration. and thereby stav both. and