Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-12-13
RATIO CARRIED FORWARD.


LILY l3S ,9ls, 526
I9ZO. ..........l S6 1884, 1856
1880 '................... .251 csc, 914
These figures show our country may be
as populous as Europe at some point be-
tween 1920 and 1880, say about 1926, our
territory at 733 to the square mile being
of capacity to contain 2l7, 1S6,3S4 This
future we relinquish by the folly and evils
of disunion, or by long exhaustng war
springing from the only great element of
! discord among us, while it cannot be fore
seen exactly how much one huge example
of secession, bringing lesser ones, would
Indefinitely retard the population, civil.
cation and prosperity, no one can doubt
that the extent of it would be very great
and injurious.
GREAT BENEFITS OF THE PROPOSED PLAN.
The proposed emancipation would shor-
ten this war, perpetuate peace, insure the
increase IN population, and proportionably
the increase in the wealth of the country.
With this we should pay all that enamel
patton would cost, with our other debts,
easier than we should pay our other debts
without it,
A COMPARISON.
IF we had allowed our old national debt
to run at per cent. per annum, simple
interest, from the end of our revolution
airy struggle till to-day, without paying
anything, either principal or interest, each
man of us would owe less upon that debt
now than each man owed upon it then,
and this because our increase of men
through the whole period has been great
or h., r..
than the interest upon the debt.
THE CONVERSATIONS OF TINE.
Thus time alone relieves debtor nation
SO long as it's population increases faster
than unpaid interest accumulates on it's
debt. This fact would be no excuse for
delaying the payment of what is justly
due, but it shows the great importance of
time In this connection, and the great ad-
vantage of policy by which we shall not
have to pay until we number 100, 900, 900,
what by different policy we would have
to pay now when the number is 81, 100000.
In a word it shows thai q d0llar aoiU be
much harder to pay TOR the aoar, than q
dollar for emancipation on the proposed
plan, and then the latter will cost no
blood, no precious If. 1t will be say
ing of both.
OF THE RETURN OF FUGITIvEs.
AS to the second article, I think it
would be impracticable to return to bon1-
age the class Of persons therein contem-
plated. Some Of therl doubtless, in the
property sense, belong to loyal owners,
and hence provision is made in this arti-
Gle for compensating such.
THE FUTURE OF THE FREED MEN.
The third article relates to the future of
the freed people. 1t does not oblige but
merely authorizes Congress to aid in col
onizlng such as may consent. This ought
not be regarded as Objectionable on the
one hand or on the other, inasmuch as it
comes to naught unless by mutual consent
OF the people to be deported and the
American voters through their representa-
tives in Congress.
THE PRESIDENT FAVORs COLONIZATION.
BUT EXPOSES OBJECTIONS TO THE Ne
GROEs REMAINING.
L cannot make it better known than it
already is, that I strongly favor colonial
ton, and yet | wish to say that there is
an objection against the colored persons
rem lining in the country, which is largely
imaginary, if not sometimes malicious.
1t is insisted that their presence would in
jure and displace white labor and white
Iaborers. If there ever could be a proper
time tor mere arguments that time surely
is not now. In times like the present.
men should utter nothing for which tbey
would not willingly be responsible through
time and eternity.
Is 1t true, then, That the colored peopze
can dlsptoce any more uhjte labor 5g being
free than By remaining sza0e? If they
stay in their own places, they iostle no
white laborers. If thay leave their old |
places, they leave them open to white Ia
borers. Logically, there is neither more
Or less of it.
EFFECTS OF EMANCIPATION ON WHITE LABOR. |
Emancipation, even without deporta-
ton, would probably enhance the wages
of white labor, and, very surely, would
not reduce them. Thus the customary
amount of labor would still have to be
The freed people would. sure.
y, not do more than their old proportion
II 1t, AID, very probably, for time,
would do less; leaving an increased part
% white Ia Observation-Disclosures tbe;r Isho- !