The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-12-05
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| III lne Hrel hf'ltIe inc main points
arc--first, the emancipation: Sec
ond. the lerglb Of time for consum.
mating 81 years; and bird, the
compensation. The emancipstion
will be unsatisfactory to the advo
Gates OF perpetual slavery; but the
length OF time ohould greatly miti,
gate their dissatisfaction. The time
saves both races from the evils OF
sudden derangement-in in fact, from
the necessity OF any derangement;
while most OF those whose hsbitual
course OF thought will be disturbed
by the measure, will have passed
! away before it's contamination --they
will never see it. Another class
will hail the prospect OF emancipa
ton, but will eprecate the length oil
time. They will feel that IT gives
900 little to the now living slaves
but it really gives them much It
saves them from the vagrant desti-
! tntion Which must largely attend
, immediate emancip ton, in 'ocali
ties where their numbers are very
great, and it gives the inspiring as
surance that their posterity shall be
! free foie,e er. The plan leaves TO
each State choosing to act under Il,
o abolish slavery now or at TIE end
{. OF the century or at any internedi
? ate time, or by degrees extending
? over the whole or any part of that
: period, and It obliges no two States
TO proceed alike. 1t also provides
e 'or compensation, and generally the
I mode Of making il. This. it would
1 seem, must further mitigate the die.
satisfaction o. ihose W. IL vor per
{ petusl slavery especially those who
Q are to receive compensation. =
y Daubtless some Of those who are TO
b hlpay.and not to receive will object =
= Yet that tho measure is both ins,
n and economical is certain Thp lib
y cration OF the slaves is the destruc'
P l,ion of property acquired by de
scent and by purchase, the same as
p my other property. IL is no less
g trne for having been often said, thai
the people Of the South are no NOR,
i Irresponsible for the Introduction o.
d This property than sro the people o.
: the North, and when il is remem
d bered how nnhesitatingly we all u,C
! cotton ard sngar, and share the
!, profits OF dealing in them, it may
r not be quite safe to say tf.at the
: South lia7 been more responsible
g than the North tor its continuance
Q II then, for common OH ct, tai,
i property is to DO sacrificed, is j
II NOT iust that it be done at com.
: mon charg,? And if with less mo
Iney, or money more easily paid, ",
d can preserve the hentii,s OF the
l. Unicn by this means than we cal
by the war alone, ia it not economic
c al to do ia Let US consider it then
el Let us ascertain The sun we hav,
y expended in the war, since compen
l. sated EN- ,ucipation was proposed
"a last March. and consider whether /
= that measure bad been promptly ac
: cepted by csen some OF the sliv,
e States, The same sum wonld no
u have done more TO close the wa
i IN II has been otherwise done.
d so, tue measure would save money
e and in that view, would be a pru
d dtut and economical measure Ger
tainIy. 1t is not SD easy to pa!
n something as it is to pay nothing
u but it is easier to pay a large sun
y than it is to pay a larger one, anC
u it j. easier to pay any sum Wien w
d are able, than it is to pay it beior
q we .re able. The war require
o them at once. The aggregate sun
necessary for compensated eInanci
IS patton OF course wonld be large, bu
e it would require no ready cash no
o bondsmon, any faster than tn
n emancipation progresses. This ma,
y not, and probably would not clos
:. before the end Of the thirty-sevel
d years. Az that time we shall prob
e ably have 100,O0O,000 people t
,e share the burden instead OF 81 900
le 600 as now; and not only so, bu
At the n,rease OF cur popul .tion ma
J BE- expected 10 continue for lon
y time alter that period rs rapidly a
,r before. because our territories wi
; not have become full.
's = PULATInN.
, DO not state this inconsiderate
lily. At the same ratio of increas
\ which we have maintAined on q
average from our first national Ger
II sus in 1890 until that of 1860, W
,e shonld, in 1900, have pcpulatio o
4 of 1913 30S, AIS, and why may "
"a rot continue that ratio far beyon
h that period? Oar abundant room
i our broad national homestead is 4
Of ample resource. Were our terrific
or ry as limited as are the British lslel
Of certainly our population could nC
M expand rs stated. Instead of re
ceiving the foreign born as now, "
j. should be compelled to send part
~ the natye born away; but such
n not our coudition. We have 81 ,93
or 900 square miles. Europe ha
$500 900, with population ave
lDOirp 73 Ia Dcreops to the snua,