Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-12-13


ls4O-l7 Oe9,45s; s2e7 per cent.
ratio Of increase.
1650--23 1880; 35'S7 per cent.
ratio Of increase
1sGO--Sl ,4l3,7 100; 35'5s per cent.
ratio Of increase.
This shows an average decennlal in
crease Of 3l6O per cent. in population
through the seventy years from our first
to our last census yet taken.
1t is seen that the ratio Of increase at
no one of these seven periods is either
per cent. below, or per cent above the
average, thus showing how inhexible aud
consequently how reliable the law of in'
crease in our case is,
Assuming that it will continue, gives
the following results =
1870, AZ ,323,34l 1880, Sc 67,2l6;
1890, 76 ,677 ,S72; 1900, l03,20S,4 AIS (;
1910, 1873 ,9ls ,526; 1920, 1s6,O3i,335;
1880, 25l $50 ,9l4.
These figures show that our country
may be as populous as Europe now is, at
some point between 1920 and 1880, say
about 1925, our territory at 73s persons
to the square mile being of the capacity
to contain 2l7 ,lS6 600 and we will reach
this, too, if we do not relinquish the
chance by the folly and evils Of disunion,
or by long and exhausting war springing
from the only great element of national
discord among US
While it cannot be forseen exactly how
much one huge example Of Secession
breeding lesser ones, indefinitely would
retard population, civilization and pros
perity, no one can doubt that the extent
of it would be very great and injurious
The proposed emancipation would
shorted the war, perpotuate peace, insure
the increase of population, and proper
tonately the wealth Of the country. With
these we should pay all that emancipa-
ton would cost, together with our other
debt, easier than we should pay our other
debt without it.
If we had allowed our old national
debt to run, at six per cent. per annum,
simple interest, from the end Of our Rev
olutiouary struggle unit, to-day, without
paying anything on either principal or
interest, each man of US would owe less
upon that debt now than each man owed
upon it then.
This is because our increase of men
through the whole period has been great
or than six per cent, has run faster than
the interest upon the debt. 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 delay
ing the payment of what is justly due,
but it shows the great Importance Of time
in this oonrection--the great advantage
Of policy by which we shall not have
to pay until we number one hundred mil
lions, what, different policy, we would
hove 10 pay now when We number but
thirty-one millions. In word, it shows
that dollar will be much harder to pay
for the war than will be dollar for
emancipation on the proposed plan. And
then the latter will cost 10 blood, no
precious life. It will be saving of both
As to tbs second article, l think it
would be impracticable to return to bond
age the class of persons therein contem-
plated Some of them, doubtless, in the
property sense, belong to loyal owners,
and hence provision is made in this ar
tele for compensatiDg such.
THE FUTURE OF THE FREED BLACKS.
The third article relates to the future
Of the freed people. 1t does not oblige,
but merely authorizes Congress to aid ia
colonzng such as may consent. This
ought not to be regarded as Objectionable
on the one hand or on the other, insomuch
as it comes to nothing unless by the mu-
tual consent of the people to be deported
and the American voters through their
representatives in Congress.
l cannot make it better known than it
already is, that strongly favor coloniza.
ton, and yet wish to say there is an
objection urged against free eolored per-
sons remaining in the country, which is
largely imaginary, if not sometimes mali
elOus.
It is insisted that their presence would
injure and displace white labor and white
laborers. If there ever could be proper
time for mere catch arguments, that time
surely is not now.
ID times like the present men should
utter nothing for which they would not
willingly be responsible through time and
in eternity. Is it true that the coored
people can 5isplace any more white labor
by being free than by remaining slaves
If they STAY in their old place they jostle
no white laborers.
If they leave their old places, they
leave them open to white laborers.-
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 not reduce them. Thus the custo
mary 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 labor
ers, bringing their labor into greater de-
mand, and, consequently, enhancing the
WAGES of IL. With denortation even to a