The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-04-30
Gratz Brsw. On Enamel pasis..

Believing ~ | do that the more thor.
oughly this subject of emancipation /.
discussed the more visible will become il.
practicability, and the swifter it's progress,
from the very fact of agitation, il will noi
be amiss if enter my total dissent from
70 much OF that programme set forth 10
the New Era ~ makes the expatriation oi
the blacks condition precedent TO their
emancipation. As matter of rigid JUS
tics know Of no right to enforce go ex-
trene penalty when proposing to cancel
great public evil. And as caprice of
mere State craft, cannot but think that
the proposed removal, Insisted on and
its adoption made preliminary to all other
action, will do more to retard and embar-
raes the cause Of emancipation than any
a0lion its enemies could take. Il would
involve an outlay far beyond the means Of
our State, and it is idle to expect pecu-
mary aid from the general government in
tiaaG behalf, for II compulsory the federal
power will never co-operate in such 4
scheme, however willing to aid emancipa-
tion in itself. or migration when voluntary.
Indeed, if proper policy be pursued in
relieving this State from the reproach and
ruin Of slavery, the change of condition
will Be sufficiently gradual to avoid those
evils apprebended by some were m i'm.
mediate universal liberation Of the blacks
10 take place. Moreover, action and re-
action should be equal and if 30 many,
many thousands of US have thus long borne
with their presence here AZ slaves, surely
others can endure their abiding as free
men for the term that may ct them to the
duties of . new life. To q VOLUNTARY col
onization impslled by motives such "a
brought the Pilgrims to these shores, no
objection could be made, on the contrary
it would receive support and assistance in
many unexpected quarters; but the argu-
.ment that assumes al slaves unfit to dwell
here when liberated. that enforces expa
ltriation before freedom is essentially .
pro-slavery argument. 1t calls in ques-
zion the propr,ety - we'll Is the right Of
emancipation 1t alI. whether BY individual
or State, and draws its chief strength from
alleged thriftlessness, immortality and ten
doncy to merge with the white race-al-
legations utterly at variance with the
well known facts Where is the evidence
Of auch pronsness To vice and crime on
their party Your peDitsntiaries and pris-
ons show few freed blacks in them, and
those chiefly for offences against the slave
code, whilst the aversion ia which inter-
marriage between the races is held il suf-
fcient evidence of its rarity and sufficient
guarantee against the prevalence. Nor
are their numbers such q should frighten
|us into harsh dealing. I find in late
authority that there were in 1861 more
than go. .00O) slightly thousad freed blacks
10 the State Of Maryland. Virginia con-
ained 6fty-seyen thousand FIVE hundred,
pennsylvania tifty-six thousand and up
yards, and New York about forty-nine or
lfty thousand. In Missouri at the pres
nt time, there are not more than fifty
thousand blacks both free and slave, but
Missouri Is twice Is Large as MARYLAND,
nd fully equal in extent, resources and
epecity for the support Of population 10
ither Of the States named. Furthermore.
i : fact susceptible Of the clearest proof
~ II not one Of those States, have the
redictions. - lightly uttsrsd il regard 70