The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-12-05

is.
Assuming that it will continue, it
gives the following results: 1870,
AZ, 1923, BAL; 1880, $685., 2l6; 1890,
76,67,S72; 1900, 103 ,2OS,4l5; 1910,
13S,91S 52S; 1920, 1S6, 9S4,335; 1880,
PSI ,6SO,9l4 These figures show that
our country may be as populous as Eu-
rope now is, at some point between 1920
and 1890, say about l925-our territory,
at 734 persons to the square mile, being
of the capacity to contain 2l7, 10000,
and we will reach this, too, if we do not
ourselves relinquish the chances by the
folly and evils of disuniou, or by long
and exhausting war, springing from the
only great element Of national discord
among us. While it cannot be exactly
foreseen how much one huge example of
secession breeding lesser ones iudefi-
nitely would retard the population, civ
ilization, and prosperity, no one can
doubt that the extent Of it would be very
great and injurious.
The proposed emancipation would
shorten the war, perpetuate peace, in
sure this increase of the population and
proportionaterr of the wealth of the
country. With this we should pay all
the emancipation would cost, together
with our other debts, easier than we
should pay our other debts without it. If
we had allowed our old national debt to
run at per cent. per annum, simple III
terest, from the end of our Revolution
airy struggle till to-day without pay
ing anything on either principal or III
terest, each man of us would owe less
upon that debt now than each man owed
upon it then, and this because our in
crease of men through the whole period
has been greater than 6 per cent, and
has run faster than the interest upon the
debt. Thus time alone relieves a debtor
nation so long as its population increases
faster than unpaid interest accumulates
on its debt. This fact would be no ex-
cuse for delaying the payment of what is
Justly due, but it shows the great import
ance of time in this connection, the great
advantage of policy by which We shall
not have to pay until we number hun
dred millions, what by different policy
we should have to pay now, when the
number is but 81 100000 In word, it
shows that dollar will be much harder
to pay for the war than will be a dollar
for emancipation on the proposed plan
and then the latter will cost no blood ;
no precious life. 1t will be a saving OF
both.
As to the second article, think it
would be impracticable to return to
bondage the class of persons therein con-
templated Some of them doubtless, in
property sense, belong to loyal owners,
and hence provision is made in this artl-
Gle for compromising such.
The third article relates to the future
of the freed people. 1t does not oblige,
but merely authorizes Congress to aid in
colonizing such as may consent. This
ought not to be regarded as objections
BILE on the one hand or on the other, in
somuch as it comes to nothing unless by
mutual consent of the people to be de
ported and the American voters, through
their repre- sentatives in Congress.
/ cannot make it better known than il
already is that strongly favor coloniza
ton, and yet l wish to say there is an
objection urged against the colored per
sons remaining in the country which is
largely imaginary, if not sometimes ma
licious. 1t is insisted that their pres
enee would injure and displace white
labor and white laborers If there evel
could be a proper time for mere argu
lnents, that time surely is not now. II
times like the present men should uttei
nothing for which they would not will
ingly be responsible through time anc
eternity. ....
Is it true, then, that colored people
can displace any more white labor by
being free than remaining slaves?
they stay in their old places, they jostlt
no white laborers If they leave theil
old places, they leave them open to whit,
labOrers. Logically, there is neither
more norless oft Emancipation, even
without deportation, would probably en-
nance the wages of white labor, and yer,
surely would not reduce them. Thus tn,
customary amount of labor would still
have to be performed The freed peopl
would surely not do more than their ole
proportiOnaOf it, and very probably, TO
q time, would do less, leaving an in
creased part to white laborers, bringing
their labor into greater demand, anC
consequently enhancing the wages of it
With deportation, even to limited ex
tent, enhancing wages to white labor ]
Mechanically certain. Labor is ik
any other commodity in the market; III
crease the demand for it, and you in
crease the price of it. Reduce the sup
ply of black labor by colonizing tn
black laborers out Of the country, an,
by precisely so much you increase tn
demand Of and wages for, white labor
But it is dreaded that the freed peopl
will swarm forth and cover the Who'll
land Are they not alreldy in the land
Will liberation make them any more NJ
merous ?Equally distributed among tn
whites of the whole country, there woulc
be but one colored to seven whites
Could the one in anyway greatly distur
the seven?
There are many communities now ha'
ing more than one free colored person {
seven whites, and this without any app,
rent consciousness of evil from it. III
District of Columbia, and the States
Maryland and Delaware, are all in tn
condition. The District has more tina
one free colored person to six whites
and yet in lis frequent petitions to Co
gress, L believeit has never presented II
presence of free colored persons as OIL