Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-10-30
AeolktIOnIsH a0d NeEKo servituds ia
gGS NoEs6.

IL is beginning tO be suspected. s.d tie SUE
pioion Ia rot altogether unsupported oy iaess
that the reason why Abolition RristoeEAts are
40 bitter against 5,utharn Shareholders and de-
uand thels exsernlaa.ion, ia thas they erTJ
the latter the possession OF their negroes ano
want 10 sppsopsiate tbem to their own Use II
i sarmissd !Sas for this ressOn, the leading and
ssAllhy AbolitiOEiss, gho have recently be
come such flaming converts TO the doctrine
they fsgmssly dsspised and hoOted at, OF In
mediate emancipation, have seized upon th'
occasion of 9 civil war. when the free ssstes arc
d,a.asa of theis whits laborers, TO demand
enaaoipstion es a necessity Of the war, IN or
der 30 supply themselves with men-aervanss
Aad snaid-seryAnts of the black "persussion''
from the South.
I! wuuid andeniabiy be great convenience
as well es . great comfort to many money
making AbcliticnIss to De able to hire negro
"help'' for half or third Of what no would
have to psy for whits "help," sad when the
hired blacks get eiek, or old, O. i1Gsm, not be
obliged 20 doctor and maintain then as she
shareholders are, bat DO able ct once to turn
them over ss psupeFs TO be cared for aad sap
ported at the public expense.
Besides, should the black emigration from
:he South, Into Ohio and other Western States,
Which has opened pretty briskly :hIs season,
continue and increase, as 1t likely will, Rfter
New Years, when Il 10 understood che PEesi-
deat viii proclaim aIl the negroes In ten OF q
aOsen slsvo ssates "FoSeveE free."i it Ia probs-
hle that nsgso slavery, under some other name
OF ooofso, viii be set up 10 Ohio and other free
States, II the Aboliionists have the order
ing Of public affairs. So many negroes will
have AJcked Into the more southern borders Of
the NoEtheFn States. and they will be found 90
Incompetent to manage fos themselves, go ignc-
raas, shiftless and lazy, that these who have
encouraged this thing, will demand as q "war
measuEe"-ss an absolute necessity Of the
oase--thai some kind Of overseorsbip or mas
sesshlp be instituted over the blacks, to be reg
ulatsd by public authority, 10 order 70 make
them wo.k, and earn their living, and keep
then, on. Of mischief The AbolitioniSis, 10 |
Carrying out this scheme, will probably call
ihia new form Of negro servi.ude, apprentice |
ship, or some sueh conscience soothing nsmei
but It will undoubtedly retain many Of the
hsrsher features Of the old fsahIsnea negro
slavery.
We have been told that the inevitable ten
dsDcy Of slavery 70 90 degrade labor. This 10
tne tex: from which Abolitionists have preached
sith uniting zeal for the last quarter Of cen.
tnFy. Bas now they sre striving to DO ths.
very thing In the North, which they allege
slavery has done In the South-dsgTsde white
labor by introducing into States, now called
free, negro slaves or apprentices. They are
not only seeking to degrade white labor, but ,
10 supsrsede II, BY encouraging and stimulating
blacks to leave their homes Ia the South, and
come North, to take the places as mechanics
and laborsrs Of our young and able-bodied men '
who hsve volunteered and gone into the army 9
30 fight, not for the freedom and elevation Of I
negroes, but to maintain the Constitution and
preserve the Uniou. Not only shis, bus the
black Rosas and Dinahs of the South are being
brought North to take the places Of white girls
who are forced BY poverty to 90 onto service, :
and Of white wldoss aud crphana risde such
By shis unhappy war, Perhaps, our Tszy Abc- |
lhionIsts imsgine II will be great soiaes TO !
our soldiers. when they come home from the
var, esipplsd and ,nangled, or with wasted |
forms and ndimpairsd health and strength, to fnd |
themselves shut out Of employment BY sleek.
fst. aaucy negroes, and their wiveS, sisters and
mothers. reduced BY similar cause to state
worse than chattsl slavery.
Events asen to be demonstrating what must I
hare often suggested Itself to every rsasoting
mind, that Il 10 not so much en- abhorrenoe Of
alasesy or slaveholdsrs that makes modern Z
Abeliiion leader and srialocrat 90 fierce IN bis
dsnnnciation Of negro serviiudo In the South. /,
as Q Jealousy Of Southern slsvsholdess. Hets
cannot bear the idea that the latter should ! ID