The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-12-06
RATIOS CARRIED FORWARD.

1880 56,966,2l6
1890 76,677,S72
1900 ............ -lVo,1oo.fIo
1910 ,526
1920 lS6, 9S4. 1886
1851 %oi ,ooo,oA1
@ These figures show our country may be
as populous as Europe at some point be-
tween 1920 and 1880, say about 1920
Our territory at 70 1-3 to the square mile
being of capacity to contain 2l7, lS6, 1884.
This future we relinquish by the folly and
evils of disunion, or by long sxhausting
war sprjnging from the only great element
of discord among us, while it caunot be
fcrseen exactly how much one huge ex-
ample of secession, bringing lesser ones,
would indefinitely retard the population,
civilization and PROPERTY.
No one can doubt that the extent Of it
would be very great and injurious.
THE BLESSINGS OF INDEPENDENCE.
The proposed emancipation would shor-
ten this war, perpetuate peace, insure the
increase in population, and proportionably
the increase in the wealth of the country.
With this we should pay all that emanci-
patton would cost. without our other
debts, easier than wo should pay our other
debts without it.
COMPARISON.
If we had allowed our old national debt
to run at 6 per cent. per annum, simple
interest, from the end of our revolutionary
struggle till to-day, without paying any
thing, either principal or interest each
man Of us would owe less upon that debt
now than each man owed upon it then,
and thus because our increase OF men
through the whole period has been greater
than six per cent, and has run faster
than the interest upon the debt.
TIE COMBINATIONS OF TIME.
Thus time alone relieves debtor ma
ton SO long as its population icreases fast
er than unpaid interest accumulates on its
debt This fact would be no excuse for
delaying the payment of what is justly
due, but it shows the great importance Of
time in this connection, and the great ad-
vantage of policy by which we shall
not have to pay until We number 100, OO0,-
600, what by a different policy we would
have to now when the number is 81 600,
005. In q word, it shows that dollar uiH
be much harder 10 pay fer the scar than dollar
for emancipation on the proposed plan, and
then the latter will cost no blood, no
precious life. 1t will be saving of both.
OF TIE RETURN OF FUGITIyEs
As to the second article hink it would
be impracticable TO return to bondage the
class Of persons therein contemplated
Some of them doubtless in the property
sense belong to loyal owners and hence
provision is made in this article for com.
psnsating such.
THE FUTURE OF THE FREEDMEN.
The third article relates 10 the future Of
the freed people. 1t does not oblige but
merely authorizes Congress to aid in colo
nizins such as may consent. This ought
not TO be regarded as Objectionable on the |
one hand or on the other inasrauch as i,
comes to neugh, unless by mutual consent
of the people TO be deported and the T.
American voters through their represen-
tatives in Congress.
THE PRESIDENT FAvoEs COLONIZATION.
I cannot make il better known than it .
already is, that ! strongly favor COLOMBIA
ton, and yet wish to say there is an OBJ
lection against the colored persons remain
ing IN the country, which j. largely i'm
ginary, If not sometimes malicious Ii is
Insisted that their presence would injure
and dl.place white labor and white labor
ers-if there ever could be proper time
FOR mere arguments that time surely is
not now. In times Ike the present men
should utter nothing for which they would
willingly be responsible through time and
eterEity
AHCMASE VIEW. Il
L, Il trie, then, that tie eolored people ran
itsplace any more ,rhite iaJor By beiq9 .lrec :
han J.; remaining ,iope7 If they stay 10
heir own places, they jostle no white
aborers If they leave their old places, /
hey leave them open TO white laborers. /
logically, there is neither more or less {
IF it.
WOULD ENHANCE WHITE LABOR
Emancipation, even without deporta
ion, would probably enhaace the wages r
II white labor, and, very surely would no,
educe them. Thu. the customary amount !
II labor would still have to be performed
he freed people would, surely, not do |,
more than their proportion of it, and, very R
for time, would do less leav-
ng an Increased part of white laborers- 4
ringing their labor into greater demand,
nd, consequently. enhancing tie value Of
: With deportation, even TO limited
xtent enhancing wages to white labor is
automatically certain. Labor is like h
ny other commodity in the market In
rease the demand for it, and you increase .
he price of it.
Reduce the supply of black labor by 6
olonizing the black laborer out of the
Ountry, and, by precisely So much. you
ill increase the demand for wages for J
hite labor. tn
BUGBEAR EXPOSED ~
But it is dreaded that the freed people pr
i'll swarm forth and cover the whole :;
md. Will liberation make them any
lore numerous Equally distributed >
mon2 the whites Of the whole country %
nd there would be but one colored 10 sevsn
hites. Cold the one in any way greatly r;
istlrb the seven? There are many COM
lunities now having more than one free sa
olored person to seven whites, and this 'e
ithout any apparently consciousness
evil from it. The District of Columbia
nd the States of Maryland and Delaware
re all in ,his condition The District has
lore than one free colored to six whites,
nd yet in its frequent petitions to Con-
-ess, l believe it has never presented the
ee colored persons as one of its griey.
noes. at-4 st .--
WHY SHOULD THEY GO NORTH.
But why should emancipation in the
outh send the freed people North Peo-t Z
e of any color seldom, run, unless there
something to run from Heretofore
,lored people have fled North, to sou,e
ktent, from bondage, and now perhaps
ON both bondage and de stitution; but
Srahual emancipation ana oeportatloh Y
, adopted, they will have neither to fee
om Their own masters will give them a
ages, at least till neS labo-ers can be ~
occurred, and the freed men in turn will
ably give their labor for wages, till new
omes can be found for them Ia congenial S
ines. and with people of their own blood
ID race. This proposition can be trusted
l the mutual interests involved, and. in
~ event, cannot the North decide for
self whether to receive them.
Again as practice proves more than
cory in any case, has there been any ir- c
ption north ward because Of The abolish.
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