Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-12-09

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emancipation would cost, without oui other
debts, easier than we should pay our Other
debts without it.
COMPARISON.
If we had allowed our old national debt
to run at 6 per cent, per annum, simple
interest from the end Of our revolutionary
struggle till to-day without paying any
slthing, either principal or interest, each
Imam Of US would ore less upon ihat debt
now than each man owed upon it theu,and
thus because our increase of men through
the whole period has been greater than six
per cent. aud has run faster than the inter
est upon the debt.
THE CONVERSATION OF TINE.
Thus time alone relieves a debtor ma
sion SO long as its population increases fas-
ter 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 adj
vantage Of a policy by which we shall not
lave to pay until we number 100,000,000,
what by different we policy would have 10
have now when the number IS 81 100000.
In word, it shows that dollar aOiH be
much harder to pay for The scar, than q
dollar for emancipation OH the proposed
plan, and then the latter will cost no
blood, no precious life. Il will be a saw
ing of both.
OF THE RETURN OF FUGITIYEs.
AZ eoonrl .tioia thipb tuopl1
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.
THE FUTURE OF THE FREEDMEN.
The third Article relates to the future Of
the freed people 1t does not oLlige 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 inasmuch as it
comes to nought unless by mutual consent
Of the people to be deported and the Amer
lean voters through their representatives in
Congress.
TIE PRESIDENT FAvoRs COLONIZATION.
/ cannot make it better known than it
already is, that | strongly favor colonial
ton, and yet | wish 20 say that there is
an objection against the colored persons re-
naming in the country, which is largely
imaginary, if not sometimes malicious. 1t
is insisted that their presence y ould injure
and displace white labor and white labor
er8-if there ever could b. a proper time
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.
HUMANE VIEW.
Isu true, then, that The coIored people
can displace any more white labor By be-
ina free than By remaining slape2 lfthey
stay in their own places, they jostle no
white laborers. If they leave their old
places, they leave them open to white la
lorers. Logically, there is neither more nor
less Of it.
EMANCIPATION WOULD ENHANCE WHITE
LABOR.
Emancipation, even without deporta-
ton, would probably enhance the wages
Of white labor, and, very surely, would not
reduce 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 it, and
very probably for time, would do less;
leaving an increased part to white laborers
bringing their labor into greater demand,
and, consequently, enhancing the value Of
it. With deportation, even to lin ted
extent, enhancing laGor to white labor
is mathematicaIly certain. Labor is like
any other commodity in the market In
crease the demand for it, and you increase
the price Of it.
Reduce the supply Of blac's labor BY
colonizng the black laborer out of the
country, and, by precisely SO much, you
vii 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.
VIII liberation make them any more nu-
meroua? Equally distributed among the
the Whites Of the whole country and there
would be but one c1lored 10 Se0ea 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 consciousness Of evil from it.
The District of Columbia and the States Of
Maryland and Delaware are all in this con-
dition. The District has more than one
free colored to six whites, and yet in its
frequent petitions to Congress, believe it
has nevor presented the presence Of three
colorcd persons as one Of its grievances.
WHY SHOULD THEY GO NORTH.
| But why should emancipation in the
South send the freed people North : Poo
pie Of any color seldom ran, unless there
Is something to run from. Heretofore
coloref people have fed North, 10 some
extent, from bondage, and now perhaps
from both bondage and destitution; but
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