Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-06-13

That is, every man, woman and child has
to pay each 500 per annum to support
the negro, or to every father of family
of FIVE. the sum of $145 per annum. -
There is no use arguing such question:
No people can pay it. It is an absurdi-
ty. 1t is clear that the substitution Of
white for slave labor involves the duty Of
sustaining the negroes, or exterminating
them with fire and sword. This is the
plain matter-of fact philanthropy of abb
olitionism and colonization, and includes
the sum total Of its mortality.
The very converse of the above pror
~iti1n ia assumed hv many aholifionietsax !
that the negro loborer is superior to the
white. That is, that the negro, eman-
cipated from the trammels Of slavery,
and elevated to the position of the white
man, will do better will be at least equal
to him, aud in many avocations superior.
These men are not struggling, then, to
make this republic of white men, but
blacks. The result of their argument is,
that blacks being fully equal to the
whites, and in some cases superior, will
be brought into competition with them.
The fact, then, before every white labor
err is, that when this scheme succeeds,
he may expect black competing with
him in every field of life--on the farm,
in the workshop, in the manufactures,
and as domestic servants. Everywhere
he will find the negro underwriting him,
and placed upon precisely equal foot
ing with him. Is there any white labor
ing man, whose philanthropy extends so
ffar, that, for the purpose Of emancipa-
ting slaves, he is willing to take the
bread from the mouths of his little ones ?
And yet madness and fanaticism are daily
and hourly telling him in the lecture
rooms, on the stump and in Congress,
that such is to be the result, for the con
clusion is inevitable, and hailing the day
when it is accomplished as the millen-
mum.
If this be true, the white laborer must
prepare for the consequences. The ne
gro, no longer confined by the laws to a
particular State or section, will seek his
market wherever it can be found. If be
is equal to the white, he will no more
crnline himself 10 one section than the
white does. Indiana. Ohio, and Penn
sylvania, Notwithstanding stringent laws,
will soon lind floods of laborers pouring
in upon them Tho iurrenre % the blacks
connot be confined to the now slave States.
1t must, in the nature Of things, spread,
and il will certainly seek the border free
States. If they arc profitable, more pro-
fitable to employers than white labor,
they will, as inevitable, make their way
to them as water finds its level.
We have thus succinctly placed the
two arguments, tho only two we have
heard that were not all froth, before our
readers. 1t is easy to sec that, granting
in tern the premises upon which each
proceeds, that the emancipation of slave
ry will be direct injury to the country.
We can state shortly what would be the
ultimate result Of either. After heavy
expense and turbulence, the States in
which there were negroes would be COM
PEELED, in self-defense, to resume the old
laws, and again reduce the blacks to bon
dage. Men need not 60 insane upon it.
1t is not question whether slavery rs an
evil or not, any more than il is an evil
for man to earn his bread by the sweat
Of his brow. IL is fact and condition
that cannot be altered without producing
injury to both classes The negroes are
here and must be managed. The wis
dom Of the past shows that they have
been at least as we'll cared for as the la
boring whites, and until we can so i'm
prove upon the past as 10 relieve the
restitution and suffering of our ownrace,
we had better refrain from experimental
plans to add 10 the comforts of one al
ready situated as God intended them"