The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-12-05

ffatlD fl iHCrcaSe lOr tnt ~cVtfd uPCl-
NAL periods to iie a. follow: 1890,
q 900, ,s2T; 1900, s 305 987; Ratis
Iof incr ase. 30 62-1O0 per cent
1910, 7,239 sf4. Ratio 36 45-10O
per cent. 1920 Q 65S, 1871. Ratio,
.33 1900 1890, 10,SSG 020. -
Ratio 33 49-100. 1s4o II 0s9, ,453.
Ratio, 80 07-l00 1880, 2S 1913 :
$40 Ratio 35 S7-100. 1860, 81, 1
433, 700. Ratio, 35 5s-l00. This
Shove gD average decimal increase
Of 81 60-100 per cent iu population
through the seventy years from our
first 10 our lsst census wac tahens-
1t ia seen that the ratio Of increase
at no one Of tSese seven periods is
either 80 per cont below or two per
cent above the average; thus show
ing how inf xible, and consequent
ly how reliable, the law Of increase
in our Csc is. Assuming that it
viii cohtinue it gives the following
result: 1870 1929 372; 1850,
SO 966. .216; 1860, 70 677, s72; 1900
l03 20S 4l5; 1910. l3S 9lS 526;
l1920, 1s6 9s4,s35; 25l $50 Oi4.
These figure show that our conn
TRY may be as popluous as Europe,
at some point between 1920 and
Is3O-say about 1925, our territory,
at 73b TO the square mile, being of
the capscity to contain PIT ,lS6, 900;
ami we will re, ch this, too, If We do
mot ourselvo relinqnish the chances
lby the folly and evils Of disunion,
lor by long exhansting wir. sprlpg-
ing from the only great clement OF
discord among us. While it cannot
be iorescen * city how much one
huge example Of secession, breeding
losser ones indefinitely; would retard
the population civiliz ,tion and prop
lerty, no one can doubt that the cx :
tent Of II would be very great aud
Injurious.
The proposed emancipation would
shorten this war; perpeiuate peace;
insure this increase in population
and prop 'rtionably the increase in
the wealth Of the country. With
this we should pay all that einanci
patton would cost without our 9th
er debts, easier than we should pay
our other debts without il. If we
had allowed our OLD national debt
torun al 6 per cent per annun, sim
ple interest, from the end OF our
revolutionary struggle TIL to-day
W { ont paying anyth'D; on eith1r
principle or interest, each man OF Us
would owe less Ol that debt now
thsn each m,n owed upon il then
and this because our increase ofmeu
through The whole period has beer
greater than six per cent end has
run ias,cr than the interest mp II th,
debt. Thus time alone relieves :
debtor nation, SO long us its popula-
( ton increases faster than upaii in
terest sccumulat, on its debt. Thi
iact would be no excuse for DELAYING
S%he payment OF what is lnsily due
but it shows the great importanc,
OF time in this connection, the gr, a
advantage OF policy by which W.
shall not have to ray'nntl we mum
Der 100 900 600, what by dItfgren
policy we would have to pay now
when the number is 81 100000 =
In word, it shows th,t II dollsi
will bs much harder to pay for ti'
war, than II dollar for emsncipali /
on the proposed plan; and then the
latter will cost no blooI no prec-
J ious life. 1t will b. a saving o
both.
AS 10 the second article, rhinl
! it would be impraclicabie to return
to bondage the class ci person
, therein contemplated. Some q
. them doubtless, in the property sens
belong to loyal owners. and hCnc
provision is made in this article TO
, compensatin- snch.
The third article relates to the fn
I tute o. the freed people It doc
: not oblige, but merely anthorz
, Congress to aid in colonizing sue
: as may consent. This ought not t,
| be regarded rs Objectionable on th
one hand or on the other, inasmuc
~ it comes to naught unless by mn
tnal consent OF the people to be dc
4 ported and the American voter
. Through their representatives i
n Congress. | cannot make it bette
known than it already is that
G strongly favor colonization, and sc
n | wish to say that there is an ub
e lection against the colored person
j remaining in the country which
h, largely imaginary, ifnot sometime
u malicious. 1t 10 insisted that the
J. presence wonld displace white lsbc
}. and wtiie la6orers. II there ev,
It was time for mere arguments, tht
J. time surely is not now.
e In times like the present, me
ii should utter nothing for which the
Is would not willingly be responsible
; through time and eternity. Is
s true, then. that colorcd people ca
: displace any more white labor b
e being tree than remsing slavess
they stay in their own places, the
It jostle no white laborers. II the
il leave their old places, they lea'
,, them open to white laborers. Log