Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-12-10

in the we alth of the country. With this we
should pay all that emancipation would cost,
without our other debts, easier than we should
pay our other debts without it.
4 Comparisons
If we had allowed our old national debt to
run at per cent. per annum, simple interest
from the end of our revolutionary struggle
till to-day, without paying anything, either
principal or interest, each man Of US would
owe less upon that debt now than each man
owed upon it then, and thus because our in
crease of men through the whole period has
been greater than six per cent, and has run
faster than the interest upon the debt.
The Compensations- of Time
Thus time alone relieves debtor nation
so long as its population increases faster
than unpaid interest accumulates on its
debt This fact would be no excuse for
delaying the payment of what is justly
due, but it shows the great Importance of
time in this connection, and the great ad-
vantage of a policy by which we shall not
have to pay until we number 100. 900 900
what by a different policy we would have
to have now when the number is Il 600
600 In a word, it shows that a dollar
aciU be much harder TO pay for the scar,
than a dollar for emancipation on the
proposed plan, and Their the latter will
cost no blood, no precious life 1t will be
a saving of both
Of the return Of Fugttices
As to the second article think it 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
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pensating such,
The Future Of the Freedmen.
The third article relates to the future oil
the freed people 1t does not oblige but
merely authorizes Congress to aid In col
onizing such as may consent This ought
not to be regarded as Objectionable on
/ the one hand or on the other iuasmuch as
it comes to nought unless by .outual con.
sent Of the people to be deported and the
! American voters through their represen
tatives in Congress.
The President Fauors Colonization.
| cannot make it better known than il
already is, that | strongly favor colonial
, ton, and vet | wish to say that there is
an objection against the colered persons
remaining in the country, which is large
It is insisted that their presence would in
iure and displace white labor and white
iabo:ers-if there ever could be Il proper
time for mere arguments that time surely
is not now. Ia times like the present, men
should utter nothing for which they would
not willingly be responsible through time
and eternity.
A HUMANE VIEW.
Is it true, then, that the coIored people
can displuce any more achite labor by be-
ing free than by remaining Stare II
they stay in their own places, they jostle
no white laborers. If they leave their old
places, they leave them open to white Ia
borers. Logically, there Is neither more
or less of it.
Emancipation would enhance achite labor.
Emancipation, even without deportation
would probably enhance the wages oil
white labor, and, very surely would not
r. duce them Thus the customary amount
of labor would still have to be performed.
The freed people would, surely not do
more than their old proportion of 1T, and
very probably, for a time, would DO less
leaving an increased part to white labor
ers-bringing their labor into greater de
mand and consequently enhancing the
value Of it. With deportation, even to a
limited extent, enhancing V ages to white
labor is rnathematically certain. Labor
is like any other commodity in the mar
ket Increase the demand for it, and you
increase the price of it.
Reduce the supply of black labor by
eolonizing the black laborer out Of the
country, and, by precisely so much, ycu
will increase the demand for wages for
white labor.
\ 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 but one col0rcd to
seUen aohites. Could the one in any way
greatly disturb the sever ? There are
many communities now having more than
one free colored person to seven whites,
and this without any apparently con-
seriousness of evil from it. The District
of Columbia and the States of Maryland
and Delaware are all in this condition
The District has more than one free color
cd to six whites, and yet in its frequent
petitions to Congress, | believe it has new
er presented the presence of free colored
persons as one of its grievances
Why should they go North
But why should emancipation in the
South send the freed people North ? Peo-
pie any color seldom run, unless there
is something to run from. Heretofore
colored people have fled North, to some
extent, from bondage, and ROW perhaps
from both bondage and restitution; but
IF HIYol md Jonorfa
be adopted, they will have neither to dee
from. Their own masters viii 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 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 the