, 1862-08-22

10 other choice. Let not foolish fears and
ord hopes keep Us hesitaing, until it Is
90 late, and the overthrow Of the Union
md constitutional freedom is made sure.
WHAT SHALL We 70 WITH THE
ELACkS~
The great question Of what shall be done
with slavery, and the race enslayed, is
brought suddenly upon this age by the vio-
lent removal Of props and stays which
back into the past, have seemed
to rest and retain With the founders Of the
Republic all responsibility for the institu-
ton The present age found In its posses
siyu life 1ease given it in constitutional |
provisions and their interpretations Gene
rations have come and gone, q great nation |
has shot steadily upward, and among other
crest questions Of nstional policy this has
had its share, but never has any national
policy taken the form Of, What shall be done
with slavery In the States for had not the
fathers in their wisdom settled the matter i
fur all time, Up to the very outbreak of
the war no party nor partlzan ever raised
voice to disturb slavery in Its OWL boun-
daries. The men who were its avoWed
enemies, pioneers Of q movement whose
chorus Of liberty will yet be taken up BY
president and people, those who were for
striking 81 and eradicating the monster ini
guilty, in overriding all guarantees and vest
ed1ights, never had power or weight at eau
cuses, were never heard Of in conventions,
put forward no candidates, were not pos
eessed Of the faintcst element Of political
powcr It is far different now. The doom
Of slavery has been selfin7ited. Its shelter
has been removed in the frantic madness
Of its own deEotees, The monster hitherto
sheltered and nourished by the govern
ment, is now in death grapple with the
nation, and the price Of national existence
seems to lie in no other way than the utter
extinction Of the evil
And this has opened practical ques-
ton which We cannot escape. If the
structure which has been their dungeon
and our disgrace be demolished, if from
among its ruins already gaping and open
ing wide, Its hitherto victims are being
| uslered to new existence, what shall we
dovith them: Already they arc nuner~
| Gus, and gathering by thousands all along
| our army lines They have been taught
by their masters that the banners Of the
Union signal liberty TO them, and already
tens Of thousands Of freed blacks are
among the most unfortunate and helpless
| children Of this Government, The argu-
| ment against slavery would be shorn OF
! half its proportions if it left its victims in
every way possessed Of manhoods attrib-
utes Of self dependence.
And, more than this: The w8r and its
| necessities are upon u.s. It will come as
surely as the seasons follow one another,
| that the decree Of Emancipation must 90
forth We must deprive the enemy Of the
| element Of strength they are using power
fully against us. By the necessity that
| every loyal arm, white OF black, be called
[ to the aid Of the Government, the slaves
nil be led out Of the house Of bondage
What shall we do with them?
One thing We may not do With them
We cannot by any process get rid Of them
| They are here, and here these four mil
lions must remain. Any scheme Of de
portation or colonization eau only dea
with thousands at the most. The w1ols
maritime facilities Of the Governmcn
could not keep down the Increase Of q rae
Of wonderful fecunditE, by carrying of tn
annual crop Of bshlcs. The instant til
scheme is brought in contact with til
thick practical difficulties opposed to it,
ellivcrs to atoms.
The exodus Of the black race is impos
J sible. They are here amongus. Wchay
, borne their presence Us enslayed and d
l graded. Slavery has found no relation {
: coDt:ct Of social life too sacred for then
g save the holy tics Of marriage and mate
# nifty that might have lessened The sla3
D breeders profits. The destiny Of the rai
/ is linked with ours and NC cannot mai
t tuin ard carry out the argument that {
:, they be slaves VIC cannot have too maj
5 blacks, hut SIS trcemen, they must not pa
, between tile wind and our ger tility.
. We must deal with the question in pra
f teal sense, ard look at the subject as it
t and not as We would have it. The publ
0 mind must be enlightened and iberalize
g Out Of the bitter fruits Of this fierce "
l. will spring purer and high
| ETo,--1,s1a oil
c If deportation and colonizati
&C endorsed by the Government, u
le tnly be fertile in fostering hostility and q
&c mostly I'ttween races and feed the iii
&c that arc already at work in our commu1
IT tivs. Tie interview between the Pre
+ dt1t anu the representatives Of the color
II race, i'll which they are lloncs.l J told t:
IT ve cannot tolerate them among US, t!
u thcS must lc:iye OUT communities aud st
IT, Lun1e elsewhere, cons i1utes the wide a
L. g}cemy background Of which the 70
" ground is made up Of the riots and c
C. t,.rbances which have disgraceu wi;!si1
IL short time past our Northern cities. 1t
I'd the last struggle Of oppression and chat
C. 1sn. It is the attempt to reconstruct a
40 patch anew the quaking Bastilc Of the
H. gro drivers by saying to its victims that
st ireenen they can be received nowht
he That with them it must be Slavery O
Is, worse dcgredation. The kindly heart
H. tie President does not mean al this,
ID the deduction is inevitable. It still =
Or rtmuir the great question what we shall
he with them, but the solution will be aie
and advanced by tie carly recognition
ue what We cannot do With thcm,-gtt ri
Gu M<m.
~ TIE COMING: RETRIBCTIoy.
~ 4 strong people are alwsys magns
~ nous, and the North, careless Of South
arrogance, untrammelel in its march
-. prosperity and power BY the feeble j
- ousics and ATTEMPTED impozitions Of re
- grading and demoralized people, dread
~ the madness Of disunlon, aud deprecat
- the evils Of a civil war, had tolerated
- forborne till patience and mercy ccaset
-. be virtues. Nor has it even known tie
' tent # its own endurance, till now, c
- pcllcd to shake itself loose from this del
49, able despotisn1, it rises up as one Il
recognizing how great the burden has [
hy being relieved from it, and dcternli
- it shall be endured no longer. The Sc
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