Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1862-12-10

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.lhN WHI i0tr0'1hir IaI.n htuu Ihh In.
r.mea nl l1ru.HlI0H aul w1pWl.0nltoN
Abe wealth ol iht country Win lhp.
wU should imy hI. lhy emancipation tuulH
cost. together with uut ulhut dnhia. nUti
than yu should pay unt slhttdpbt with.
oui il five bud allowed our old nation.
nj debt lo ran nt o pee cent per onnum
d simple Interest. lrom the end OFF llo Rev.
. .olulIuuhry struggle until 10 day without
paying ON either principal or interest
each man of us would owe lcfs upon that
debt now than each man owed upon %
] then and this because our inference OF men
through the whole period has been great.
or than G ucr cent. hns run faster than the
interest upon tho debt, Thus time alone
relieves dphto" usliun 20 long rs lis
population irCrCgccS lRstCr than UNI luld
interest accnmaates upon its debit This
fact would be no CXCuse for delaying
payment Of which is Justly due but IL
shows the great Importance of time in
this nnccron. The great advantage
Of the policy 10y which We shall aui have
10 pay until ne number orc hundred
million, what by q different policy we
would have to gay when we number but
thirty.one million. In q word, it will
show that dollar will be much harder TO
pay for the war, than will bt u dollar for
emancipation on the proposed plan, and
then the latter will cost no blood, no pre-,
cious life 1t will be q saving of both.
As to the oecond article, think it
would be impraclicable TO return to bond
age the class of persons therein contcm~
plated. Some Of them doubtless, in the
property sense, belong TO loyal owners,
and hence provision is made IN this arti,
Gle for compensating such. The third ar
tice relates to the future Of the freed peo~
pie 1t does not obIige but merely qu'
lhoriacs Congress to aid in colonizing such
as may cousept. This ought not to be re-
gmded as Objectionable on one hand or
the other, inasmuch as it comes to nothing
unless, by the mutual consent Of the peoN
pie to be depor!ed, and tho American
voters through their representative in
Congress.
Hov Emancipation pW qftct White hJor.
cannot make it better known than il .
already is that | strongly favor coloni1ae
tion, and yet wish TO say there Is An oh. |
lection urged against FREQ colorod persons
remaining in the country which is largely !
if not sometimes malicious. 60
1t Insisted that their presence would in |
jurc and displacc white labor and white |
laborers. Ifthere ever could be q proper |
time for mere catch argument, that time |
surely is not nov. In times like the pres
Il, for url,
they would not Willingly be responsible
through time and eternity. Ia 1t tue,
then, that Coored people can dsplace any |
more white labor by being free than by !
slaves? If they stay in tholr +,
I'D places, they jostle no white Aborers
If they leave their old places they leave
ham open 10 wLLiitn lab0rers, Logically
here is neither more nor less &. r.
even without deportation,
gould probably enhance the wages Of
White labor and very surely would not re-
luce them. Thus the customary amount
IF labor would still have 10 be performed.
The freed people would surely not do
more than their old proportions Of it, and
'ory probably for time would do less,
eaving an increased part to white labor
,rs bringing their labor into greater de-
nand, and consequently enhancing the
wages of it. With deportation even 10 a
limited extent, enhanced wages 10 white
abor is mathematically certain. Labor is
ike any other commodity in the market;
increase the demand for il, and you in.
1reace the price OF it, Reduce the supply !
Of black labor by colonizing the Ulack la
Dorer out of the country, andby precisely so
much you increace the demand for and
wages of white labor. But il ls dreaded !
hat the freed people will swarm forth and
,over the whole land. Are they not els
'eady in the land? Will liberation make .
hem any more numerous Equally dis
rbuted amoEg the whites of the whole /
country, and there would be but one col
bred to seven 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 apparent .
of evil from it. The Dis .
rict of Columbia, and the States OF Mary .
and and Deeware, are all in this conGl>
ion The district has more than one free .
,olored to six whites, and yet in its tre- .
iutlG ltllAlOlo w NSH N9o' 1 NA'o'N -
las never presented the presence Of free
,olored persons one ofits grievances. I
But why should emancipation South
end the freed people North2 People OF
my color seldom run unless there be
omething to run from. Heretofore, en-
,losed people, to some extent, have fled
North from bondage, and now, perhaps,
rom both bondage and dnstItuton but
gradual emancipation and deportation
,e adopted, they will have neither to flee
iom Their old masters will give them
wages at least until lRborers can be pros
.ured, and the freed men, in turn, will
gladly give their labor for the wages till
lew homes can be procured for them in
.ongenial clime8 aud with people Of their
,wn blood and race.
This proposition can be trusted on the
mutual interests involved, and IN any