Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1862-12-11

| 1880 56961,2l6
1890 T6,67T,S72
1900 IO320s, AIS
1910 lS3,9SS, $40
1920 $685., 1886
1880 25l,6sO,9l4
These figures show that our country MAJ
he ss populous rs Europe now is at some
ront between 1920 and 1890 say about 1925
our territory, AT scventy-three and third
persons 10 the square mile being of a capacity
to contain, 2l7,lS6o0G.
And we iriH reach this, too, il we do not
relinquish the chance by the folly and evils OF
disuuon, or by long and exhausting war,
sprnging from the only great element Of Ma
tional discord among us. While it cannot be
foreseen exactly how much one huge example
of secession, breeding lesser ones Indefinitely
would Ietard population, civilization, and
! prosperity, 10 one can doubt that the exteu t
! OF il would be very great aud init rous.
The proposed emancipation would shorten
| the wal, perpetuate peace, insure this increase
| OF population, ami proportionatsly the wealth
of The country. With these, we should pay
our other debt, easier than we should pay our
other debt without it.
If we had allowed our old national debt to
run nj six per cent. per annum, simple interest
| from the end Of our revolutionary struggle
| until to- dty, without paying anything on eI
| Their principle or interest, each mau OF us
| would owe less upon that debt now, than
each man owed upon il then; and this because
| our increase Of men, through tho " hole period
has been great ter than six per cent; has run
! faster thar the interest upon the debt. Thus
! time alone, relieves debtor nation, SO long
as lis population increases faster than unpaid
interest aecumulates on its debt.
This would be no excuse for delaying pay
ment of what is Justly due but it shows the
great importance of time in this coauexion-
the great advantage OF q policy which we
shall not have to pay until We number hun
dred millions, what, by Il different policy, we
would have TO pay now, when We number but
thirty millions. Ina word, it shows that
dollar will be much harder 10 pay for the war
than will be dollar for emancipation the
proposed plan. And then the latter will cost
no blood, precious lite. Il will be saving
OF both.
As TO the second article, think ii would be !
impEa ,tieable 10 return to bondage the class I
OF persons therein contemplated. Some OF
them, doubtless in the property sense, belong I
10 loyal owners; and hence, provision is made I
in this article Tor compensating such
The third article relates to the future Of the 7
freed People. 1t does not oblige, but merely I
authorizes, Congress to sid 10 colonizing such /
Is may consent. This ought not TO be obiec /
tionable, on the one hand or on the other, in
SO much rs it comes to nothing, unless BY The 4
mutual consent of the people TO be dePortsi .
and the American voters, through their rep
resentsuyes in Congress.
cannot make il better known than Il al
ready is. that | strongly favor colonization.
4 I'D yet wish to say there is an objection
urged against free colored persons remaining
in the country, which is largely imag mary, it /
no; some lines malicious.
1t is insisted that their presence would in
lure and disylace white labor and white laho-
rers. If there ever could be proper time for
mere catch arguments, That Time surely is not
now. In times like the present, men should
utter nothing for which they would not will
ingly be responsible through time and in eier-
nifty. Is it true then, that cclOsed people
a'srlace any more white labor by heiug free
than by remaining SlaveS2 Ii they stay in
their old places they jos,!e no white laborers;
il they leave their old places, they leave them
open 10 white aboFerS. Logically, there is
neither more nor less Of it. Emancipation,
even without, deportation; would probably
enhance the wages OF white labor, and, very
surely, would mol reduce them. Thus the Gus
iomary amoHnt of labor would still have to
1e performed, the freed people would surely
moi do more than their old proportion Ct ii.
anG very pruhaly, for time, would DO less,
leaving an increased pari 10 white laborers,
bringing their labor into greater demand and
enhancing The Wages OF II.
With deportation, even 10 limited extent.
enhanced wages 10 white labor is matheuati-
caliy certain.
Labor is like any ether commodity in the
he demand for il, and you
increase the price of it. Reduce the supply
,f black labor, by colcniEing the black labor
IT cut of the country, and, by precisely so I
much. you increase the demand iOr, and wag-
s OF, white labor.
But it is dreaded that the freed people will I
warm forth, and cover the whole hand! Are
hey not already in the lande Will liberation
make Them any more numerous Equally dis
ribu,ei among the whites Of the whole coun-
~, and there would be 6a; one coiorets 10 sew
N whites. Could the one. in any way, great
Y disturb the seven? There are many cou-
nanities TOW, having nnrc than one free CO.
ored person, 10 seven whites: aud this, with
,ui any appsreut Consciousness of evil from il.
The District oi ColR mbia. and the States OF
Maryland anG Delaware, are all in this eondl-
lou. The District has more than one tree CO.
ored 10 six whites; and yet, in Its frequent
petitions TO Congress teleive ii has never
ATesenied the presence OF tree coiored persons
Is oIe OF Its grievances Sat why should en-
saeipaiio1 south, send the freed people northt
People, OF any color, seldom run, uulsss there
,e something 10 run from. l}e-slefort colured
scople, to soms extent. have hei north irom
bondage and destitaliOa. But II gradual EN-
4ueipstion and deportation be adopted, they
will have neither 10 flee from Their old mas
>rs will give them wages 81 least until new
aborers can Be procured. aud the foeed meo, ,
= turn will gladly give their iaeoE.fer wages
I'll new homes can tie found for ;heGu. in con- |
ysaiAl chimes, aad gith people Of their own
Aood and race ThIs proposition caa De iras-
Iai On the mutual interests inTolvs0- Aud
Z any GREAT, cannot tee north decide iar iis-
ss... whether 10 receive Them?
AGAIN. As practice proves more than theory,
IN say ease. hiss there heel say Eruption o.
rolo;si pecplc acrshwaFi because o. the asa-
ishasnt q slavery IN this District last ssviHsF
Mast have sad u the proportion o. iFee
soloEsi parsons IA the whites, in tie District, :
: frsu he eSES@< u ls.se barring no rsferssce
10 ve-zoaS ca ed caairauSaas, nor TO taosc
made Zee b. lie aei d Congress 2eeiiSAins
slsFeFy hsTe.