The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1862-09-18
EmancimtiOn.

Emancipation shall be an incident, not
the object Of this war. Strongly desir>
ing the liberty Of all mankind, and deter.
mined that the Government shall be ad
ministered in the interests of freedom
and with due regard for the Constitu.
tioual checks and legal obligations with
which he is surrounded, he proposes to
exercise the emancipation power, placed
by Congress in his hands, at just that
time and to precisely that extent he
deems will best subserve his country 8
welfare In the permanent and effectual
suppression Of this rebellion. We could
expect no mere, could ask no less. We
may thank God his heart is in the right
place and fervently hope that his judg.
ment may promptly recognize the fitting
moment for decisive action.
Meanwhile, increasing audacity and
vigor mark the daily developments of the
rebellion. Unity ofpurpose and the en-
ergy and desperation lend force and pre-.
cision to rebel blows, and while our lines
stagger and fall back before furious onsets,
the rebellion assumes gigantic dimen.
sions hitherto unimagined.
Bat.hke indeed must be the vision of
that man, who, coupling these facts with
the Presidents declaration, regards the
proximate emancipation of Americas
toiling millions as by any means improb.
able. 1t becomes u, then, to calmly face
the probability and question ourselves as
to the effect Of this novel and important
step.
That any considerable proportion of
the three to three and half millions so
freed will consent to expatriate them
selves, We have not the slightest idea
Were colonization to be the condition of
freedom, it is possible that general ex.
odus might result; but the act frees the
swarthy Americans where they stand,
and leaves emigration optional with them.
1t was in courtesy to the common idea,
so seduously cultivated, that re must do
somethtmy Uith them, that the colonization
scheme was tackled on to the emanci pa.
tiou act But We apprehend, in the
event of emancipation, outside Of any
considerations Of right and wrong, Of
policy or expediency, the stubborn fact
of the entire disioclnation Of the blacks
to emigrate, will settle the question effec-
tually. Born in the country from moth.
er to son for generations, loving it as
fatherland; inhabitivcness having as large
place in their phreuology as ours; as
much afraid of that which is new and
untried as your pale faced conservative,
they will prefer to try titles with starva-
tion at home, even after their muscles
have changed owners.
Freedom, then, as effectipg themselves
and ourselves becomes consideration
Of vast Importance.
BY the party wherein the knaves lead
and fools follow, We are told day by day
through hours and columns, shat the
blacks when freed will become tho bane
of our civilization-that negroes will
swarm through the North like locusts,
filing aims houses and jails, supplantiug
white laborers in their accustomed avoco
tions, reducing the price Of labor, marry
ing our brothers and sisters off hand gen
dering myriad mulattoes, forcing them
selves into our workshops, stores, count
ing rooms, sanctums, pulpts and halls Of
legislation, and filing the land with
nosome effluvia; while at the South,
armed with torch and dagger, they will
riot in rapinc, arson and murder, until
hell shall hold high carnival, and one or
the other race shall be exterminated. In
the name Of humanity and reason is this
SO! or is it the sheer fabrication of wicked
hearts, cunning heads and fertile imag-
nations, designed to beguile the simple
into a frantic horror Of emancipation,
hoping thereby to prevent its consumma.
tion ?
1t IS a fact that the american negro Is
thrifty and industrious. Candid reader,
90 over in your minds the list of blacks
in the scope of your personal observation
and compare them with the same num-
ber of the lowest of our sovereigns, and
agree with US, that considering the
oppression Of caste and class, the thou.
sand insults to which they are daily ex.
posed at the hands of prejudiced aud
negro dcspising race, that there is no
people that more instinctivcly eschews
debauchery aud crime, or more univer.
sally self supporting.
Although legally benighted and syste.
matically debauched, considerable per-
centoge of the slaves have been accus-
toned to hire their time of their masters,
at from ten to twenty y-fve dollars per
month-their native adroitness and
acquired skill enabling them to pay the
monthly stipend, and retain balance,
wberewith to procure articles Of comfort,
luxury or fancy, or to treasure up against
some happy day, when the aggregated
savings may purchase the blessed boon
of freedom. Swarming in the cities Of
the South are multitudes of colored deni-
zens, filing almost every position in
business and working communities, from
the nimble waiter to the shrewd and sue.
cessful merchant. Patient in adversely,
affectionate to fault, the negro is eager
to learn and quick to initiate.
If this much can be accomplished, if
so many and so good specimens, strug.
Cling against every conceivable adverse
cur.stance, challenge the approving
Judgment of the world; if through years
of wrong, the race has earned its own
substance, and that Of its free loving,
on-producing masters, who dare assume
that with the added incentive of the
blessings of liberty-for itself and its
children-it will do less q? Is an atmo-
sphere of liberty really so baneful as to
deprive ambition of all incentive, muscle
of elasticity? VIII the hoe linger over
the cotton because the ball will belong to
, Cuffee, or stalwart limbs toll less sturdiIy
because the lash has ceased to swing =