The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-12-04

i tnC ldtio III thC dSSlCSdtC Nc Ah0
its population and ratio of increase for
the the several decimal periods as fol:
lAvs:
ears. Population. Rates.
100, 3,929,S27
loo, 5,305,737 1862
1SI0 7239S14 36.46
1920, 9,68S,131 fr 93.13
1885, 1886 O2O 33.49
1910, II, 0S9 453 1851
1850, 23,l93,876 3o.6
1860, 3143s,7OO 35.5
This shows an average decimal increase OF 3D.
6O-l00 per cent in population through the seventy
years from our first to our last census taken.
1t is seen that the ratio of increase at no of
these seven periods is either two per cent. below
or two per cent above the average. Thus showing
how inhexible and consequently how reliable the
law of increase in our case is. Assuming that it
will continue, it gives the following result,
Years. Population.
1870, - AZ, 323,372
1880, $500, PIG
1890, - 1857, s72
1900, 103, POS, AIS
1910, l3s9lS.526
1920, 1856 9s4 335
1880, 5l'sSO'sl4
loas as Europe at some point between 1920 and
$780, say abont 1925. Our territory at 1914 to the
square mile being of capacity to contain 2l7 1885,,
3s4. This future we renquish by the folly and
cFhS vi uiouHiOu, VI w u lOuB tAuduSllDS wal,
springing from the only great element of discord
among ms, while it cannot be forseen exactly how
much one huge example of secession, bringing
lesser ones, would indefinitely retard the popula-
ton, civilization and property.
No one can doubt that the extent of it would be
very great and injurious.
The proposed emancipation would shorten this
war; perpetuate peace, insure the increase in pop
ulation, and proportionaby the increase in the
wealth of the country. With this we should pay
t,ota Al
debts, easier than We should pay our other debts
without it.
If we had allowed our old national debt to run
at per cent per annum, simple interest, from the
end OF our revolutionary struggle till to-day, with
out 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 thus because
our increase of men through the whole period has
been greater than six per cent, and has faster
than the interest upon the debt rff
Thus time alone relieves a debtor
nation so long as its population in
creases faster than unpaid interest &C
cumulates on its 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 con
nectiOn, and the great advantage of
policy by which we 81 all not have to
pay until we number loo, OOO,O 900, what
by different policy we would have to
have now when the number is 81 ,OOO,-
600. In word. it shows that dol
lar aciH be much harder to pay for the
,car, than a dollar for emancipation
on the proposed plan, and then the lat
ter will cost no blood, no precious life.
1t will be a saving of both.
AS to the second articles I think it
would he impracticable to return to
bondage the class of persons therein
contemplated. Some of them doubt
less in the property sense belong to 10y
al owners and hence provision is made
in this article for compensating such.
The third article relates TO the future
of the freed people. 1t does not oblige
but merely authorizes Congress to aid
in colonizing such as may consent.
This ought not to be regarded as OBJ
jectionable on the one hand or on the
other inasmuch as it comes to nought
unless by mutual consent of the people
to be deported and the American vot-
ers through their representatives in
Congress.
l cannot make it better known than
it already is, that l strongly favor col
onization, and yet wish to say that
there is an objection against the col
ored persons remaining in the country,
which is largely imaginary, fnot some
times malicious. 1t is insisted that
their presence would injure and dis
place white labor and white laborers-
if there ever could be proper time for
mere arguments that time surely is not
now. In times like the present, men
should utter nothing for which they
would not willingly be responsible thro'
time and eternity.
Is 1T true, then, that the colored peo.
pile can displace anv more achile labor
by being free than by remaining slaves
If they stay in their own places, they
jostle no white laborers. IF they leave
their old places, they leave them open
to white laborers. Logically, there is
nither more or less oft.
Emancipation, even without depor-
tation, would probably enhance the
wages of white labor, and, very sure
lly, would not reduce them. Thus the
customary amount of labor would still
have to be performed. The freed peo-
pie would, surely, not do more than
their old proportion of it, and, very
probably, for time, would do less ;
leaving an increased part to white la.
borers their labor into great
er demand, and, consequently, en-.
HANGING the value of it. With depor
tation, even to limited extent, en-.
HANGING wages to white labor is math-
ematically certain. Labor is like any
other commodity in the market. In
crease the demand for it, and You in
crease the price of it.
Reduce the supply of black labor by
colonizing the black laborer out of the
country, and, by precisely so much,
YOU will increase the demand for wa ges
for white labor.
But it is dreaded that the freed PEG
pie will swarm forth and cover the
whole land. Will liberation make them
any more numerous ? Equally distribu-
ted among the whites ofthe whole coun-
ty and there wouldsbe but one colored
to seUen aohites. Could the one in any
way greatly disturb the seven. There
are many communities now having
more than one free colored person to
seven whites, and this without any ap-
parently consciousness of evil from it.
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