The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-12-05
OF SLAVES FREED BY THE WAR.

AkIit III. ---. All slaves VINO snail nave
enjoyed actual freedom by the CHANCES of
war at any time before the enl OF the re-
bellion, shall be toreeer free: but all
owners of such who shall not have been
disloyal, shall be compensated for them
at tie same rates as is provided for States
adopting the adjustment Of slavery, but
in such way that no slave shall be twice
accounted for.
VOLUNTARY COLONIZATION IN THE UNITED
STATES.
ARTICLE Congress may appropriate
money or otherwise to provide for colon
izing free colored persons. with their con-
sent, an any place or places within the
United States.
THE ARGUMENTS THEREFOR,
! beg indulgence to discuss those pro-
posed articles at some length. Without
slavery the rebellion would never have
existed; without slavery it could not
continue. Among the friends of the
Union there is great diversity of senti-
ment and policy in regard to slavery and
the African race amongst US. Some
would abolish it suddenly and without
compensation, and some would abolish it
gradually and with compensation. Some
would remove the free people from US,
and some would retain them With us. and
there are yet other minor diversitics.
Because of these diversilies VIC waste
much strength in struggles amongst our
selves. By mutual concession we should
harmonic ind act together. This would
be a compromise among the friends and
not with enemies Of the Union. These
articles are intended to cmbody plan of
such mutual concession. If the plan
shall be adopted, Il is assumed that enan-
cipation will follow, at least in several of
the States.
HARAoEIzIEG DIFFERENCES.
In the first article the main points are !:
First, The emancipation. Second, The
length Of time for concentrating in years;
aud Third, The compensation.
The emancipation will be unsatisfactory
to the advocates OF perpetual slavery, but
the length of time should greatly mitigate
their dissatisfaction. The time saves
both races from the evils OF sudden de-
ran.enent, while most of those whose
course OF thought will be disturbed by the
measure, will have passed away before its
nsummation. They will never see it,
Another class will hail The prospect Of
emancipation, but will deprecate the
length Of time. They will feel that it
goes for little to the now living slaves.
But it really gives them much. 1t saves
them from the vagrsn, restitution which
must largely attend immediate emancipa-
ton in localities where the circumstances
are very poor. and 1t gives the inspirit
ing assuiatce that their posterity shall be
free forever.
The plan leaves to each State choosing
10 ac: under it to abolish slavery now Or
at the end of the century, or any inter
mediate time, or by degrees extending
over the whole or any part of that pc
Rod /; and it obliges no two States to pro-
coed alike 1t also provides for compen-
sation, and generally the mode of making
IT, This, it would seem, would further
mitigate the dissatisfaction of those who
favor perpetual slavery, especially those
who are are to receive compensation.
wHr COMPENSATE.
Doubtless some of those W Ia are 10 pay
and not to receive will object toit That
the measure is both just and economical
is certain. The liberation Of the slaves is
the destruction of property acquired by
descent or by purchase, the same rs any
other property. 1t is no less true for
having been often aid, that the people
of the South are no more responsible for
the introduction Of this property than are
the people of the North and when it is
remembered how unhesitatingly We oil
use cotton and sugar. aud share the pro-
fits of dealing 10 them, it may not be
quite safe to say that the South has been
more responsible than the North for its
continuance. If, then, for common OBJ
ject, this property is to be sacrificed, is
is not just that it be done at common
charge? And if with less money, or
money moro easily paid, we can preserve
the benefits Of the Union by this means,
than we can by the war alone, is it not
economical to do it2
AN ECONOMICAL VIEW.
Let US consider it then; let us ascer-
tain the sum We have expended in the war
since compensated emancipation was pro-
posed last March. and consider whether,
II that measure has been promptly accept
ed BY even some Of the slave States. The
same sum would not have dose more 70
close the war than has been otherwise
done. If SO, the measure would save
money; and in that view, would be pru-
dent aud economical measure, certainly
1t is not 80 easy to pay something as 1t ia
to pay nothing. but it is easier to pay a
large sum than larger one.
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