The Portland daily press., 1862-10-29
Solution of the slavery Problem,

The following extract from communication
from Cincinnati u the Boston Journal. affords
clue to practical the solution of the slavery
question, and presents facts that should set at
rest the fears of those who think emancipation
will deluge the North with negroes:
Last summer, when Mcclellan was on the
peninsula, and Pope on the Rapidan, large
portion of Gen. Coxs command in Western
Virginia was hastily sent east, leaving about
five thousand men at Charleston. The rebels
wanted salt. aud sent ten thousand men into
the Kanawha vadley, drove out the federal
troops, and for two months have been running
salt works. They have secured a large supply,
ravaeed the valley, contiscating the property
OF Union men, forcing them into the rebel
ranks. An expedition has been organized and
is on its way to recover the valley, but the
rebels have scented the movement and are re-
treating. We shall recover the valley without
trouble, but that will not restore the supplies
the arms, the thousands of salt. | met gem
tleinan last evening who resides in the valley.
He gives painful narratives of the sufierings of
Union men in that section. | should enjoy an
interview between him and some of your faint
hearted Peoples Party men, who have great
fears that the proclamation of the President
will hurt the Union cause. Western Virginia
Is quite as anti-slavery as Massachusetts,.
When men have been stripped of their proper
ty-when they have been hunted down, driv-
ven from home, followed b. assassins-when
they see through secession, and understand
that slavery is at the bottom of all-they are
not very tender-hearted toward the cause.
Cincinnati at the present time is full of ref
urges from Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee.
A gentleman Just from Missouri states that
some of the Shareholders have been Obliged to
hire negroes 10 igork 10 gather their crops of
corn and cotton. They have been forced to il
from the disturbed state Of the country. The
negroes are ready TO work for pay, but they
refuse to work for nothing. He scouts the
idea of the negroes going North Their at
tachments to localaties are strong; they want
TO remain where they are, and will work for
pay, but not as slaves. Through compulson
through seli-interest, at least, the black man
has rights which the white men are boGd to
respect.
The Dred Scott decision has tumbled to the
ground. Chief Justice Taney has lived long
enough to see his extra judicial decision upset
by those against whom it was directed Chief
Justice fancy thought to rivet eternally the
chains upor the black man, but they are falling
from his limbs. The slave refuses to labor un-
requietedly, and theimaster succumbs. 1t is a
| glimmer of the final solution of the problem
| of what will be done with the slaves. They
tctu stay Ichere they are, and triH be paid for
their services. They will indirectly set the
million fingers and nerves of steel, muscles of
iron and brass, now motionless upon the Mer-
| rlmac, again in motion, and coin wealth for
their former masters, for the merchants of Bos-
| ton and New York, for the New England far
mers, for the children of Erin, for every human
being the world over.