Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-12-05

And we tCH reach this, too. if We do not
relinquish the chance, by the folly and evils oi
disunioD, or by leng and exhausAng war
spriuging from the only great element OF ma
tioBal discord among US. W hile it cannot A2e
foreseeu exactly how much one huge example
of secession, breeding lesser ones indefinitely,
would retard population, civilization, and pros
peritv. 10 one can doubt that the extent of it
would be very great and injurious.
The proposed emancipation would shorten
the war. perBetuate peace, insure this increase
of population. and Propuriiouately the wealth
of lhe country. With these, we should pay all
the emancipation would cost, together with
our other debt, easier than we should pay our
other debt, without it If We had allowed our
old national debt to run at six per cent. per
annum, simple interest. from the end OF our
revolutionary struggle until to-day, without
paying anything on either principal or inter
esl. each man would owe less uPJ1 that debt
NOW. than each man owed upon it then and
this because our Increase OF men, through The
whole period, has been grea:e :er 'Han slX per
! cent; has Iun faster than the interest up3h 'ue
debt. Thus, time alone, relieves debtor ma
tion, so long as its population increase faster
than unpaid interest accumulates Oh its debt.
This fact would be no excuse for delaying
pay ment OF what is justly due; but it shows
the great importance of time in this connect
ion-the great advantage OF policy by which
We shall not have to pay until we number one
hundred millions, what, by different policy,
We would have to pay NOW, when We number
/ but tnirty-one millions. In Il wQr.i, it shows
/ that a dollar will bc much harder To pay for
/ the war, than will be d liar Tor emancipation
/ on the proposed pan. And tie latter will
cost no blood, no personal lie L Will be a
saving of both.
As to the second article, think it would
/ be inlpracticabie 10 return TO bondage the class
of persons therein contemplated. Some Of
them, duublrss in the property sense, belong
TO loyal owners; anI hence provision is made
| in this article Tor compenstting s1cl.
The third article relates to the iulu'e Of The
! freed people II does not oblige, but merely
,uthor'zts Congress to all il colonizng such
as may consent. This Ought not To be regard
! I'd rs Objectionable on the one hanI. or on the
| other i1souuch as il comrs 10 nothing unless
10y tie mutual consent Of the people 10 be de.
pr cd, aid he American voter ,hrous their
Representatives in Congress.
| cannot make it better knnwn than il al
ready IS, that strongly favor colonzl,ion
And yet with 10 say there is an objection
urgcdngaiist ir,c co!orrd persons remaining
in the country, watch is hugely ilnag gintry, if
no: Sometimes malicious.
II Is Insisted that their presence would in
| jurc and d'space white labor and white labor
crs. II ;h.rr cvrr could be proper tim for
mere c,'ch arguments, that time surely Is not
Inow. Ia times Ike the present. men sh,n,d
utter Hothing for which they would not willing
.ly fe resp ,nsble through time and eternity -
l. il true then. that color,d pcop'c can d;Spiace
any more white labor by being free, than by
ielllIinin2 slaves? il they say in their o.
places They ioSt.c no white lru ,l; if they lea,
their aid PAGES. they leasc them pen 10 white
ilbJlura Logically. 'hert is uriIh,.r more nor
iuSs tr 4. EusaEc iIali,n. even without d p
porati,,n ~ouid propab,y ct.ia1 = iha ages of
whifc labor, and very surely. wov not r,d ice
th'In. TiuS the cu>tumry' an GHt Of labor
would sill have 10 e performed Tie EeI
people would surely not do any more t:an
tier oil former proper ion Of tie labor,
and very probably, l0r tihln, wduli do less
leaving an incre,-sei part 10 w!.ic ahIcrs,
bringing thor aatr in.o 2r ntcr dc;nai. d and.
Consequently. enhtucing he wage, Of il. With
deportation, cycn 10 limited extent! pnhane
wages 20 w!iiic i;.bur is rn.t'hmdIcai'v y crriain
Labor is like any other c,n1al ,,iity i the ula-
krt-ircrri.sc he demand i,.r H. ;..,,i rrn H.
crcI-e the plcr oi il. Rrd"ct s,ipy Of
black lnbor, by rticnil ng he hack lail,rrr
out Of the c'unt'y, and l,y lfe"i ely so nnca
! you ia, rcasc the t;cnAnd ior, uud Wrgrs oi,
! the white laboler.
But ii Is dreaded ;hit III. freed pc, PIE will
swarm forh. a.:d cover the whole lald. Are
! they not uitcaay i'll the lun,l? VIII liberation
| uiskc them aLy more 7,imeruus? Equally dis.
tribu:r,l ullon-s the whites If The whole cunrs
! try and there ", I'd be bu one color, j, 10 :
white~. Could the ,le, in amy WY. grcaly
/ disturb the seven? There are mary condiu..i
cs now, hlviug mere than onr cu.oitd p.r,
snu to seven white; AID Ills vi heat any ~.
parcut ,usi csS Of evil rr,.Mi it. Tie Us.
/ tr.ct Of Combia aud the States Of Mary.
land and D,awAIc. are all in This con.
dill n Tue District has more Than O G
free cclorcd 10 six whites: al d yet il i : ne
quprt peiiliors 10 Congr, -, hrl A"r il has
never presented The presence Of free culortd
persons as one Of lis gricy2hces. Bul why
should emancipation s,u ii, s,Gpd The freed
people north? People Of any co'or. seldom
run, unless there be some hing 10 run from
RenLofore cololed people to some extent, have
he north lrnm bondage; and mar, perhaps,
from both brndagc and dcstiuliUn. But if
gradual emancipation and deportation be
adopted they will have neither 10 fee lrufn.--
Their old masters will give them wages at
| ltas: until new lahurcrs can be procured: and
the hccd men, in turn, will gladly give their
labor for the wages, liil new homes can he
fuutid iur them, IN cmgrrial imcs; aid with
people Of their own boad and race This
proposition c.n be trusted on the mutual iu-
teress involved And, in any event, cannot
the north decil. for i'seIf, whether 10 receive
them?
Again, as practice proves more Ihan theory.
III any cl.c, has there been any rrupti;u Of
colurcd people nor Inward because of the ahOl-
ishncnt Of slavery III this District last spring
What I have aid If he Iropo, iion of free
cnlo cd persons to tie whites in The District
! IS from ;Ee census Of 1860 having no reference
10 persons called cenrabAnds. nor to those
made free by She act Of Congress abolisLing
slavery here
+ hc plan consisting oi three articles * rec
commended, not but that restoration of The
national authority would be accepted without
lis adoption.
Nor will tie war, nor proceedings under the
proclamation of Sept. %, 1862. be stayed be-
cause Of the recommendation of this plan
It's timely adoption, doubt not, would bring
restoration and thereby stay both
And notwithstanding this plan, the RECON-
mendaton that Congress provide by law for
compensaling any State which may adopt