Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-01-07

States, in proolaiming II for the propaga-
tion Of Slavery, seek to make the issue, that
this must be altogether q slave or q free
government. II they triumph, slave.
~ under a military Government is
the consequences. The success of
the loyal states restores peace with
freedom, under the benign influence Of re-
publican institutions.
EMANCIPATION.
Toe Government of the United States
locks to the result of this struggle with the
confidence that belongs 10 good cause and
would turn the evil, that is inevitable, to ul-
innate good. The movement Of & nation
towards reform should be slow to make il
safe, hence the Presidents recommendation
of cOlonizing the African race, when some
system of gradual emancipation is developed
| by the events of war. An act of immediate
general emancipation, throwing four millions
Of the colored caste loose on society, north
and south, would leave them more enslaved
than they are now. Without the intelligence,
power and means Of master Of the superior
race, 10 support them in the competition with
that race In the business of life, they would
perish. The North rejecting them, as it has
done in many of the States, and might do
In the others, the four millions, let loose In
the South, would encounter a war of castles
"a war Of extermination.
ooNTIsoATIoN.
Measures tending to a happier destiny for
slavery are already broached in Congress-
Il Is proposed to take the control of the sub
ject ont Of the hands of the rebels seeking TO
v,ptyo fha o. dnsFrovfpv frao
government and to do this it Is necessary
to escheat all their property and all the
means Of waging war. Indeed, the right of
putting all the means Of waging it in the
hands Of loyal citizens belongs to the Gov.
ernment. The Government at this moment
commands all the means and property In the
loyal States, their credit included, in this
conflict for freedom. 1t has imposed direct
tax on the rebel States for like purpose,
bnt Il IS rendered aboTtive by the military
power raised against the civil authority hav-
ing the right to collect it. Congress propo-
ses, therefore, unless the rebel States, OF the
individual citizens assessed, shall have paid
the direct tax imposed; that the property
which is liable for it shall escheat and be
vested in the United States. As eur army
shall win Its way into the region of the re-
bellion, the act contemplates the seizure of
the estates Of those engaged in it, placing
them in the hands of commissioners; ap-
prenticing, employing and paying the slaves
belonging to them for 8 time preparing
them for emigration, the proceeds of their
labor, as well as the landed estates OF the
rebels, ultimately to be applied to the pur-
poses of colonizing the negroes indemnify
lug loyal citizens for losses they may sustain
at the hands of the rebels, while the Gov
ernment of the United States will leave the
estates undisturbed in such owners as shall
have shown themselves faithful in their alle-
glance to the Constitution; and the escheat-
ed rebel estates will undergo distribution for
sale and donation by the Government in
freehold homesteads to reoompense its SOL
diers.
ltis not improbable that the principal which
underlies the great measures contemplated
by its movers In Congress may receive its
contamination at the hands Of the Legisla-
lures of the rebel States, if the arms of the
United States shall prevail fully at the con-
clusion of the war. It is certain that slaves
taken from their masters by the war will
never be restored to them unless the loyal
States are Vanquishod. If the movement of
the Union army into the rebel States, now in
progress, be successful, the establishment Of
the apprentice system on the rebel estates,
with the ultimate view to colonization, would
induce loyal owners TO adopt a like system
upon reasonable compensation. The exist
tence Of the system of apprenticeship on the
tax-escheted estates, putting great multi
tude Of slaves on the march to freedom,
would make absolute bondage on neighbor-
ing estates condition not easily maintained.
EFEEcT on SLAVERY.
The necessity OF dspriving the rebels of
the men and means employed by them to des-
troy the Government and the necessity of
recognizing the right which loyal slavehold-
ers have, under the Constitution, in thei- Pc
culiar institution, will produce a difficult di-
lemms on the restoration of the Union. Il
will, In such event, doubtless become a uat-
ter of negotiation between the Federal and
State Governments, and there can be little
doubt that the process of liberation and col
onizstion, which must be carried into effect
in regard to tee slaves of rebels, will be
gradually applied by the Legislatures of the
restored rebel States to all the rest; the
Government of the United States making
ample indemnity to the owners for the sac.
riiee. Il may take many years to accom-.
plish this deliverance, but, when accomplish
ed. every non-slavehOlder in the South will
feel that Il restores him to an equality with
those Of his own race, asserting superiority,
never known to him before, and the slave
holders will obtain In the influx Of a free
and industrious white population, and the
growth of arts aud manufactures, an in
crease in the value Of their lands far exceed
ing the value of the interest they held In
their slaves.
The national grandeur that may be
achieved by removing the cloud now OBJ
scuring the prospects Of the great Repub.
lie. and giving birth to q new one, In our
American intertropical regions, spriBging
from q race Of freedmen, born among us,
imbued with ideas and skillful industry
derived from US, assisted, directed and
protected in founding a government for
themselVes-in 6 country provided for
them by us-is q consideration which can
net fell 10 commend the Presidents scheme
of colonization to every man who would
exalt the glery Of the nation. The colonies
of Greece and Rome reflected renown on
those ancient republics. The splepdor and
power Of Great Britain are derived from
the people she has planted the freedom and
oivilizstion she has spread around the
globe. The OanHdas are worth moro to
her than the conquest Of India. The tri-
umphs che has won for civilization in her
vast island domain, in remote oceans, have
done more for her glory than ali her great
victories on the continent Of Europe. The
redemption Of her West India slaves, and
the colony she has founded for them at the
Balizs-a territory acquired on the main
land from Gustamsla, 10 extend her power
over the Isihmus-is an example which
1 the necessities as we'll ss the honor and
interests of the United States require them
to follow. The slaves, which the war now
vsQed shall Wrest as weapons out Of the
hands Of treason, must soon be provided