White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1862-12-11

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for the 0ar than a dollar for emancipation
on the proposed plan. and then the latter
will cost no blood. no precious life. Ii
will be saving Of both.
OF THE RETURN OF FUaIrIvEs.
AS to the second article. think it would
be impracticsble to return to bondage the
class Of persons therein contemplated
Some of them. doubtless. in the proper.
ty sense. belong to loyal owners. and
hence provision is made in; this article for
compensating such. =.
THE FUTURE OF THE Freedmen.
Ths third article relates to the fnture
of the freed people. 1t does not oblige
but merely authorizes Congress to aid
in colonizing sueh as may consent. --9his
ought not to be regarded as Questionable
on the one hand or on the other. inssmuch
as it comes to nousht unless BY mutual
consent Of the people TO be deported and
the American voters through their repre-
sentatives in Congress.
THE PRESIDENT FAvoRs COLONIZATION.
/ cannot make it better known than it
already is that strongly favor colonies
tion. and yet wish to say that there is
an objection against the colored persons
remaining in this country. which is large
ly imaginary. if not sometimes malicious.
It is insisted that their presence would
injure end displace white labor and white
laborers. If thers.ever could be . time
for mere argmuments that surely is MT
now. In times like the present. men
should utter nothing for which they would
not willingly be responsible through time
and eternity.
HUMANE VIEW.
Is Il true. then, chat the colored people
can displace any more ,ohits labor by being
free than by remaining slaues If they
stay in their places. they jostle no sahite
laborers. If they leave their old places.
they leave them open to white laborers.
Logically, there is neither more nor lsss of
it. .-rE-.g- HTar-'
EMANCIPATION WOULD ENHANC1 WHITE La
Emancipation, even without deporta-
tion, would probably enhance the wages
Of white labor. and, very surely. would
not reduce them. Thus the customary
amount of labor would still have to be
performed. The freed people would, sure.
ly. not do more than their old proportion
Of it, and very probably. for a time.
would do less; leaving an increased part
to white laborers-bringing their labor
into greater demand, and consequently,
enhancing the value Of it. With depor-
tation. even to limited extent. enhancing
wages to white labor is mathemsticslly
certain. Labor is'like any other commo-
dity in the market. Increase the de-
mand for it, and you increase the price Of
it. ,'r.....r-- 4.+.-..r q.
Reduce the supply of black labor by
colonizing the black laborer out of tine
country. and. precisely so much, you
will increase the demand for wages for
white labor. gsH... ..r ..- ..
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But it is dreaded that the free people
will swarm forth and cover t,e whole land.
Will liberation make them any more
numerous :? Equally distributed among
the whites Of the whole country, and there
would be but one colored to seren uhites.
Could the one in any way greatly disturb
the seven? {? There are many eommuni-
ties now having more than one free color
ell person to seven whites, and this with
out any apparently consciousness of evil
from it. The District of Columbia and
the States of Maryland and Delaware are
all in this condition. The District has
more than one free colorel to six whites.
and yet in its frequent petitions to Con-
gress, I believe it has never presented the
presence Of free colored persons as one of
it's grievances. - ,r..#
WHY SHOULD THEY 90 NoRrRa
But why should emancipation in the
South send the freed people North. Peo-
pie of any color seldom run unless there
is something to run from. Heretofore
colored people have fed North. to some
extent. from bondage, and now perhaps
from both bondage and destitution; but If
gradual emancipation and deportation be
adopted. they will have neither to flee
from. Their own masters will give them
wages, at least till new laborers can be
procured, and the freed men in turn will
gladly give their labor for wages, till new
homes can be found for them in congo
nial climes, and with people Of their own
blood and race. This proposition can be
trusted on the mutual interests involved,
and in any event, cannot the North de-
eide for itself whether to receive theE ?
Again. Is practice proves more than
theory in any case. has there been any
irruptions northward because of the abol.
ishment of slavery in the District of Co.
lumbia last spring? What have said
of the proportion Of free colored persons
to the whites in the District of Columbia
is from the census of 1860, having no
reference 10 persons called contrabands,
nor to those made free by the act of Con-
gress abolishing slavery here.
THE WAR WILL WAIT FOR NOTHING.
The plan consisting of these articles