The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1862-12-03

| much harder to pay for the war than dollar
| for emancipation by the proposed plan and
then the latter would cost no blood - no
precious life. Il would be q saving of both.
As to the second article. think 1t 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 compensalng such. The
third article relates the future Of the freed
people
1t does not oblige, but merely authorizes
Congress to aid in coonizing such as may con-
sent. This ought not 10 be regarded AS ob.
jectionable on the one hand or ON the other,
inasmuch as II comes 10 naught unless by mu
tual cons ent Of the people to be deported, and
the American voters through their Represen-
tatves In Congress.
Icannot make 1t better known than IL already
Is, that strongly favor colonization, and yet
| wish to say that there Is an objection against
the colored persons remaining In the country
which is largely imaginary, II not sometimes
malicious. Ii Is insisted that their presence
would inJure and displace white labor and
white laborers. II there ever could be pro-
per time for mere arguments, that time Is
surely not now. In times like the present,
men shoild utter nothing for which they
would not be willingly responsible through
time and eternity Is it true then, that coored
people can displacc any more white labor by
being free than remaining slaves? If they
say In their own Places, they jostle no white
laborers.
If they leave their old places, they leave them
open to white laborers. Logically, there Is
neither more nor less Of it. Emancipation,
even without deportation, would probably en-.
nance the wages of white labor, and very sure
ly would not reduce them Thus the customary
amount oflabor would still have to be perform
ed. The freed people would surely not do
more than their old proportion Of 1t, and very
hakl f.,r al al
increased part to white laborers bringing thsir
labor into greater demand and consequently
enhancing the wages of 1t.
With deportation even to a limited extent.
enhancing wages 10 white labor Is mathemat-
ically certain. Labor is like any other COM
modify In the market. 1ncrsase the demand
for ii, and you Increase the price OF 1t. Reduce
the supply OF black labor by colonizing the
black laborer out OF the country, and by pre-
cisely 50 much you will increase the demand
for, and wages tor white labor. But 1t IL
dreaded that the freed people will swarm
forth and cover the whole land. VIII lib
Grafton make them any more numerous
Equally distributed among the whites of the
whole country, and there would be
but one colored 10 seven whites, could the one
In any way greatly disturb the seven? There
are many communities now having more than
one ON, Tree coiored person to seven whites, and
this without any apparent consciousness OF evil
from 1t. The District Of Columbia and the
States of Maryland and Delaware are In this
condition. TIE District has more than one free
color ID 10 six whites, and yet in its FREQUENT De
,itions to Congress- l believe 1t has never pre-
scnted the presence Of free colored persons as
one of It's grievances.
But why should emancipation South send
the freed people North2 People of any color
seldom run unless there Is something to run |
from. Heretofore cOlored people have fed |
North, to some extent from bondage, and now
perhaps from both bondage anil destitution /; |
but II gradual emancipation and deportation be |
adopted, they will have neither TO fee from.
Their own masters Will give them wages, ut |
least, I'll rev laborers can be procured, and |
the freed men, In turn, will gladly give their |
labor for wages till new homes can he found |
of their own blood and race.
This proposition can be trusted on the mu. |
tual interests involved and In any event cannot |
the North decide for itself whether to receive |
them Again, as practice proves more than |
theory In any case, has there been any rruption |
nOrthward because of the adjustment of slave.
ry In the District of Columbia last spring.
What have said of the proportion of flee CO.
lored persons to the whites In the District of
Columbia Is from the census of 1860, having no
reference " persons called contrabands, nor to
hose made free by the act Of Congress abol- |
ishing slavery here
TIE plan consisting Of these articles Is recon- |
mended, not but that q restoration Of tho ma |
tlonal authority would be accepted without Its |
adoption. nor will the war or proceedings I'M |
der the proclamation OF September 2lnd 1862. |
be stayed because of the Recommendation OF |
this plan. LIS timely adoption, doubt not, |
would bring restoration, and thereby stay both.
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