Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-03-15
The Presidents Message.

Congress on the 9TH of the present month
on tho subject of assistance by the gov,
crnment of tho United States to emanci
patton Of slaves in the States. He pro-
poses the passage of a Resolution by Con.
gress, to the effect, that the United State,
ought to give pecuniary aid to such States
as will adopt the policy of emancipation
&c. The 'pecuniary aid (or in plain
english, tie money, so furnished to any
State, is "to be used by such state, in its
discretion, to compensate for the inconven-
fences, public and private, produced by
such change Of system"
We used to hear in Kossuth times oi
material osd,' and upon our coming to
understand distinctly what th9t expression
meant--that it meant something more than
sympathy, speech making, eloquent edi-
torals, professions, committee receptions,
and public dinners-the Hungarian fever
went down rapidly. Enthusiasm has few
victories when it assails the pocket, unless
it make Simultaneous and well founded
appeal to the judgment. 1t is true, Kos.
suth collected funds enough to purchase
George Laws old muskots, and to replen-
ish his private exchcquer, but not enough
to aid, in any material degree, his coun.
trymen or their cause. For we justly
considered that it was no part of our bus
iness as nation, nor.' within the circle Of
our duties as individuals, to levy revou>
tions in Europe, although the appeal came
to US in the sacred name of freedom and
concerned brave and civilized people.
The President of the United States now
proposes that we render "p'cunsary all"
--(that is the delicate form of words chosen
to emancipating states, to be used by
them at 'aisc,etion,' to compensate them
for all 'p4diic and pr, uate Mconuemiences
in changing their system of labor. And
Congress is recommended to commit the
faith of the nation to all this, by Res
olution.
This project is we'll worth examining
coming as it does from the President, and
with as much patience as the nature of the
case will permit Let us understand clear y
the meaning of this 'pecuniary aid and
very likely we may be no more inclined to
render it than we were to render material
aid, TO the Hungarian Orator, who with
out avail proposed to US an Abandonment
of the policy of Washington.
Pccuniary aid, in this case, means-tbe
payment of money out of the national
treasury to purchase the freedom of ne
groes, and it may mean much more. For
we areto remember, that after emancipa-
ton is accomplished the question remains,
what shall be done with the emancipated {!
Are they to be left as an intolorable clement
of idleness, pauperism and vice, in the
same communities where they are now
held under regulation and control Or are
they TO be distributed generally over the
country-north and west as well as south
Or are they to be sent abroad, to Africa,
to the West Indies, or to Central America
BY referring to the Annual Message of the
President, in December last, we will see
that in his plan, deportation follows eman-
eipation. lie consequently proposed the
acquisition of region abroad to which
the slaves that came into our hands during
the war shonld be removed; being SUBJ
stantially the project heretofore urged by
Senator Doolittle, who placed his negro
Paradise, or land of Promise, in some one
of the unhealthy, carthquake9shaken coun>
ties Of the American Isthmus.
If, then,we understand the President, the
pecuniary aid to be furnished from the
United States treasury, is to extend to the
direct cost of emancipation-viz the pur-
chase Of the slaves-and also to the cost
of lands abroad for their residence, and
the expenses Of their shipment thither.--
To which must be added, supplies and sup,
port to them, in their new home, for some
years. For this would be necessary and
demanded by humanity. twill be observed
that the Resolution proposed for adoption
by Congress in the recent message, speaks
of public inconvenience (or lossl as well as
private, as an object of compensation
Does this mean general state loss, by
sacrifice of its form Of labor, in the inter
val before free labor can be introduced
And if SO how is compensation to be made
to the state Is it to be by release from
taxation for period of years, or by direct
contributions from the national treasury 7
In either case, however, the burthen would
be really uDon That treasuEy.