The Placer herald., 1862-07-19
spECuLAT10Ns ON TIN FUTURE.

The rebellion it is said must be crushed
out, if even TO do so, it should become nee,
essary to ex,erminate the rebel population
of the South. Humanity shudders at the
savage barbarism that, in cold b.ood, could
seriously arrive at such determination. 1t
is a palpable, indisputable fact, that at least
three fourths Of the people Of the South are
in the category Of rebels. But setting aside
the question of humanity, as one not to be
considered when the mighty interests of the
African are at stake, what then would be the
natural tendency of things! We know that
the silence of death, in a land ravaged and
desolate, is not peace; that conquered proi
vince is not free State, and the perfecting
of the rule of the United States over such
province, would not deserve the name Of
Union-to call it by that name would be a
mockerv. Then, what else would folow?-
Would the slaves be liberated. and colonized
among the people of The free States $50
called), accorded their equal rights and priv
ieges with white American freemenl to
disgrace the white man by dragging him
into the dirty pool of amalgamalionl or,
will he be sent to some distant land TO en-
JOY the fruition Of his new Y acquired satuSl
A statesman solves such problems, not by
the declared intentions of parties, but east
ING his eve ahead until he discovers what in
fact. in such state of affairs, would be the
political and financial interests of the con
qnerors, and having settled in his Judgment
what is. lie knows from The light of history,
that whatever may now be professed or
thought, they will ultimately be true to self
interest. 1t is certain that these liberated
slaves are not wanted in the free States
many of those States have laws against the
negro coming into hem, and the rest will
provide against such nuisance when the
evil becomes (as it wonld) apparent Then
no matter what Horace Greeley. Wendell
Philps, and The rest of the Massachusetts
school of dreamers may have hoped aud Ia
bored for it is not in the nature Of things
to make the negro a white mans equal
among us. Gods laws will prevail, and the
white and black man will remain seperate,
social and politically, among the American
people.
These cheftains in military conquest.
whose avo :ations range aong the coast, in
such an event as complete conquest, would
scarcely fail to discern the stupendous profits
arising from shipments of cargoes Of ne
groes to the West Indies, and then selling
them for from ST. 900 to $500 per hea =
To aid this trafiir, strikers would spring up
in the interior, and this would be the
mighty step ''in the cause Of human freel
dom," waiting the sable brethren, by thou'
sands, to The land OF promise. This IS no
idle fancy. one cargo OF two hundred and
seventy CT the finest negroes about the great
government Fortress Monroe
were deceived on board ship, with every ap
pearance Of connivance hy the military, and
have sailed for the West Indies and a mar
ket. In two days sail the Yankee skipper
will reach market, when this cargo will
Weld at least 100000 clear profit; and the
fruits of northern pbianthrophy is to tasten
upon these negroes slavery much more
cruel than ever existed in The United States.
There will remain however to the conqueror
negroes in the interior not accessible to the
ship master-wil they be allowed to remain
in sloth and id!eness. a tax upon the captors
for their support! tested by the scale Of in
terest would they not work the negroe as
slave, and considering the adaptation of
their labor to soil and climate would they
not, as now, grow cotton hy his labor! Cot.
ton is a necessity OF the world, but ii is only
profitable bv the labor of the slave-in this
labor, is the profit of the whole cotton bu~i
ness Most undoubtedly this would be one
result, and thus the ne9roe will only have
changed masters-changed master with
whom he has been raised and cherished from
hC Il
wants and feels for HE weakness for mas
ter, a stranger to him and his habits, whose
only thought is gain, and therefore more
likely to be cruel, oppressive and inhumanly
despo,ic
As strange as it may strike the mind at
this time, it is as certain as tha. self interest
will rule the conduct of men, that if the
Abolition party of the United States could
succeed in all they now appear to desire, 1t
ultimately would become strong slav- hold
ing party, tratfickng, as they term it, in hun
man souls. They work these refugee slav 5
wherever they can do so within the Federal
lines, and it is inevitable that they must do
so, or ship them, and when the vast profits
of both sh piping and working them becomes
apparent, philan,hrophy will give place to
| the stronger and more permanent motive ot
human action-self interest-and they will
both work and sell them.
The DouGLAs COUNTY NoMIxEEs.-A
glance at the record of these gentlemen
will show that most Of them have great ham
kering after the flesh pots Of office. Mr..
L. G. Smith and c. G. Dudley have both
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