Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-27
Prom the Cincinnati Gazette.
What Will become OF the Emaneipn-
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What Will become OF the Emaneipn.
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This is now the agitation of those who
would make slavery support of the rebel.
iiou. In the FIRST place the emancipation
proclaimed by the President depends upon
our military occupation of the South. II
will be effected only when enforced by ouI
armies. When the emancipation is pro
claimed, ii will invite the blacks 10 aid u
in taking possession of the country; and
then, as the President says, ''the Executive
Government of the Uuited States, including
the military and naval authority thereof,
will recognize aud maintain the freedom ol
such persons" The general emancipation
will'6e conditioned practically upon our
possession of the countTy, and il guaran-
tees the blacks their freedom and the pro-
lection of the Government where they are.
II is Slavery that sends black men 10 the
North. The South is their paradise. Ev.
cry instinct aud prejudice Of the black mau
Is against the North. Against these he
comes to the North for freedom. Aud as
soon as he reaches the free border, he set :
ties down as close To it as he dare; often
I skiing recapture rather than go farther
North. They who are born free, prefer to
live in the South; even with all the jealousy
TO which the existence of slavery makes
them subject. In spite of the natural hos.
tility of the slaveholdiEg class to free ne.
groes, and the various legislation of the
slave States, to rob, banish and enslave
them, the minority of the free negroes are
still in the slave States With freedom in
the South the natural drift of the blacks Is
toward the tropics. II has been stated that
the offer of passage North was declined
by the negroes at Hilton Head aud il is
probable that their attachment to home And
country has vastly more influence in keep
ing them Ia slavery than all the provisions
for the return of fugitives.
The blacks will prefer to remain in the
South. The conditions on which enamel.
patton will be carried into practical effect
Will protect them there. If the whites
would drive them from the country, they
will not have the power. But will any be
so insane as TO think of driviag ont the la
boring population What would the coun-
try be worth without labor2 What would
the properly in Ohio be worth If the labor
ing people were banished2 Labor is the
very foundation of society; aud to propose
to strike it out would be equivalent To-
the suicide of the body politic. Ifauy were
so foolish as to entertain such an idea, il
could not be accomplished, from it's Rbso-
lnte iepossibility. The labOring Dopula-
tiou is bound up with the fate of the land,
and must continue so, whatever their sta
tus.
The freed blacks will be in tue country
where they were slaves. and will be under
the necessity of labOring for their subsis-
tence. The wealth and subsistence of the
lHndholder will depend on the labor of the
blacks. These mutual interests will at
once establish reciprocal relations. This
would naturally draw the free blacks of
the North TO the South. The change would
be beneficial TO the slave States. and to the
trade with them. IL is easy to demonstrate
that II is m IRE profitable to hire labor than
to own IL. The planters cannot refute the
figures on this question. If any deny thai
il is better for the laborer, they had better
be owoed, aud thus live up to their doc
trine. IL is better for trade with other
parts, becanse the free laborer is much
greater consumer OF manufactured goods
than the slave.
1t will be better for the land. because Il
will greatly increase the numbers of free
holds. But the greatest benefit will be 10
the mass of the white population of the
slave States, by removing the degradation
from labor which makes the poor whites
lover than the slaves. The pretense that
the blacks nre naturally indolent aud will
not labor when free, is NO longer entertain-
ed among Intelligent and honest men. The
free blacks in the North are as industrious
as any class. No other race could main
tain themselves so well, both materially
and morally, under the same virtual eE-
clnsion from the most desirable kinds oi
labor, aud their other disabilities. Slave.
ry is founded on the Incidence of the whites
Of the South, and on the industry of the
blacks.