Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-12-03

deliver to every such State bonds Of the
United States, bearing interest at the rate
Of -, for each slave shown to have been
therein by the eighth census Of the United
States, said bends to be delivered to said
States by installnents, or in one parcel at
the completion Of the abolishment accord
| ingly as the same shall have been gradual
or al one time, within such State; and in
terest shall begin to run upon any such
bonds only from the proper time Of its de-
livery and afterwards. Any State having
received bonds as aforesaid, and after
wards introducing or tolerating slavery
therein, shall refund to the United States
the bonds so received, or the value thereof,
and all interest paid thereon.
Artiele.-All slaves who shall have en-
joyed actual freedom by the chances Of the
war, at any time before the end Of the re-
bellion, shall be forever free, but all
owners Of such, who shall not have been
dislOyal, shall be compensated for them at
| the same rates as is provided for States
adopting adjustment Of slavery, but in
such a way that no slave shall be twice
accounted for.
Article-Congress may appropriate
money, or otherwise provide or eolonizing
free colored persons with their own con-
sent, at any place or places within the
United States.
beg indulgence TO discuss these pro
posed articles at some length. Without
slavery the rebellion should never have ex-
listed. Without slavery it could not con-
tinUe. Among the friends Of the Union
there is great diversity Of sentiment and
policy in regard to slavery and the African
race amongst us. Some would abolish it
suddenly and without compensation. Some
would abolish it gradually and with com
pensation. Some would remove the free
people from us, and some would retain
them with us, and there are yet other mi
nor diversities. Because of these diversi-
ties we waste much strength in struggles
amongst ourselves. By mutual concession
we should harmonic and act together
This would be compromise among the
friends and not with the enemies Of the
Union.
These articles are intended to embody q
plan Of such mutual concession. If the
plan shall be adopted it is assumed that
emancipation will follow, at least, in sew
eral Of the States.
In the first article the main points are
first, the emancipation; second, the length
Of time for consummating-37 years; and
third, the compensation. The emaneipa-
tion will be unsatisfactory to the advocates
Of perpetual slavery; but the length Of
time should greatly mitigate their dissat-
isfaction The time saves both races from
the evils Of sudden derangement,-in fact
from the necessity Of any arrangement !;
/ while most Of those whose habitual course
/ Of thought will be disturbed by the meas
ure, will have passed away before
its eonsummation they will. never see
it. Another class will hail the prospect
of emancipation, but will depreeate
the length Of time. They will feel that It
gives too little 10 the now living slaves
but itreally gives them much. 1t saves
them from the vagrant destitution
which must largely attend immediate
emancipation, in localities where their
numbers are very great, and it gives the
inspiring assurance that their posterity
shall be free forever. The plan leaves to
each State choosing to act under it, to
abolish slavery now or at the end Of the
| century or at any intermediate time, or by
degrees extending ever the whole or any
part Of that period, and it obliges no two
States to proceed alike. It also provides
for compensation, and generally the mode
of making it. This, it would seem, must
further mitigate the dissatisfaction Of
those who favor perpetual slavery,
especially those who are to receive
compensation. Doubtless some Of those
who are to pay and not to receive will
object. Yet that the measure is both just
and economical is certain. The liberation
Of the slaves is the destruction Of property
acquired by descent and by purchase, the
same as any other property. It is no less
true for having been often said, that the
people Of the South are no more RESPONSE
BILE for the introduction Of this property
than are the people Of the North, and when
it is remembered how unhesitatingly we
all use cotton and sugar, and share the
profits Of dealing in them, it may not be
quite safe to say that the South has been
more responsible than the North for its
continuance. If then, for q common OBJ
ject, this property is to be sacrificed, is it
not just that it be done at common
charger And if with less money, OF
money more easily paid, we can preserve
the benefits Of the Union by this means
than we can by the war alone, is It
it then. Let US ascertain the sun
we have expended in the war, since COM
pensated emancipation was proposed last
March, and consider whether if that meas
ure had been promptly accepted by even
some Of the slave States, the same sum
would not have done more to close the war
than has been otherwise done. If so, the
measure would save money, and in that
view, would be prudent and economical
measure certainly. 1t is not so easy to
pay something as it is to pay nothing, but
it is easier to pay large sum than it is to
pay larger one, and it is easier to pay
any sum when we are able, than it is to
pay it before we are able. The war re-
quires them ut once. The aggregate sum
necessary for compensated emancipation
of course would be large, butt would re-
quire no ready cash nor bondsman, any
faster than the emancipation progresses
This might not, and probably would not
CLOSE before the end Of the thirty-seyen
years. At that time we shall probably
have 100000, 900 people to share the bur
den instead of 10000 as now; and not
only so, but the increase Of ouTpopulation
may be expected to continue for q long
time after the period as rapidly as before,
because our territories will not have be-
come full.
U POPULATIoE.
do not state this incensiderately. At
the same ratio Of increase which we have
maintained on an average from our first
national census in 1870 uutiI that Of 1860
we should, in 1900, have a population Of
105, ,206 AS and why may we not continue
that ratio far beyond that period Our
abundant room, our broad national home
stead is an ample resource. Were our ter
ritory as limited as are the British Isles,
certainly our population could not expand
as stated. Instead Of receiving the foreign
horn q nou- We shou1d ha eornnallad "a