Maryland free press., 1862-12-05

be as populous as Europe now is, at some point
between 1920 and 193O-say about 1925-our
territory, at seventy-three and third persons
to the square mile, being capacity to contain
217, 10000.
And we will reach this, too, If we do not
ourselves relinquish the chance, by the folly
and evils of disunion, or by long and exhaust
ing war sprihging from the only great element
of national discord among US! While it can
not be foreseen exactly how much one hugeex-
ample of secession, breeding lesser ones indef-
nitely, would retard population, -ciyilisation,.
and prosperity, no one can doubt that the ex-
tent of it would be very great and injurious:
The proposed emancipation would shorten
the war, perpetuate peace, insane this increase
of population, and proportionally the wealth
of the country. With these, we should pay
all the emancipation would cost, together
with 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 revolutionary struggle until to-day,
without paying anything on either principle
or interest, each man of us would oweless up
on that debt now than each man owed upon
it then; and this because our increase of men,
through the whole period, has been greater
than six per cent, and has run faster than the
interest upon the dept. Thus, time alone re-
leves debtor nation, so long as its population
increases faster than unpaid interest accumu-
lates ON its debt. --,-..
Aud, notwithstanding this plan, the recon-
mendation that Congress provide by law for
compensating any State which may adopt
emancipation, before this plan shall have been
acted upon, is hereby earnestly renewed
Such would be only au advance part Of the
plan, and the came argument apply to both.
This plan is recommended as means, not
in exclusion of, but in addition to, all others
for restoring and preserving the national gu
thority throughout the Union. The subject
is presented exclusively in its economical as
pect: This plan would; I am confident, secure
peace more speedily, and maintain 1t moro
permanently, than can be done by force alone;
while all it would cost considering amounts
and manner of payment, and times of pay
paept u,a..ll H. ---.r r,--.a sa.s--. .-ssiti be gnc
additional cost of the war, if we rely solely on
force. 1t is, much better; very much, that it
would cost no, blood at all.
1.is iaot m1uiu 10 no eAsuse IoI ueiayine
payment OF what ID Justly que; Dut II SHOWS
the great importance Oh time In TINS conne1ion
the great advantage of o policy by which
we shall not have to pay until we number
hundred millions; what by a different policy
we shall have to pay now, when We number
but thirty-one millions. In word, it shows
thata dollar will be much harder to pay for
the war than will be dollar for emancipation
on the proposed plan: And then the latter
WIN cost no olooo' no opreciom me- II VIII bs
saving to. Dotn.
AS to the second article, thik it would be
impracticable to return to bondage tho class of
persons therein contemplated. Some of them
doubtless. in the property sense. belong oloyal
owners: and hence. provision q made in this
art;cle for com ,ensat;,,s, s,,cL s~ = - '-'''
Tbe th;rJ aIt;.I, ,a,s.s~, :. AZ. sn
ead ,.,a % s.'S ~ .s's " I'VE iu.ure ol tne
- uoes hos oolee, pe. merely
au.no.i4es ~ 0onsfess 70 aio IN coioniIng such
as may consent. This ought not to be regar-
ded as Objectionable, on the one hand, or ON
the other, in so much as it comes to nothing,
unless by the mutual consent of the neonte to
be deported. and the American voters thfongh.
their reuresentatives In Conoress = -
I cannot make Il better Known, thar n al
ready is shat 1J,,es nm man y A'-
lNeaay NaSy. =. snas sslongly iasor foionizauon:--
!a anu yee. WISH 70 say tnere y an oplectlon
urged against Tree coiored persons remaining
In the country, which is largely imaginary, If
not sometimes malicious.
1t is insisted that their presence would i'm
jure and displaSe white labor and white labor
ers. If thero ever could be proper time for
mere catch arguments; that time surely is not
now. In times like the present men should
utter nothing for which they would not will
iingiy be Eesponsible Through time and in Q.
ternity, Is It true, then, that .cclored people
| free. than by fef1aininC aihvee 41f tkay atay