Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-12-11


1900 lO3, 20S, AIS
lSlV loo,
1920 lS6. 9S4 1886
1880 PSI $50, GA
These figure show that our country
may be as populous as Europe now is.
at some point between 1920 and 1880,
say about l925--our territory at 73k
persons to the square mile, being OF
capacity TO contain 2l7, 10000.
And we wW reach this, too, if we
do not ourselves rclinquish the chance
by the folly and evils of disunion, or
by long and exhausting wars spring.
ing from the only great element of ma
tional discord among us. While it
cannot be foreseen exactly how much
one huge example of secession, breed
ing lesser ones indefinitely, would re-
tard population, civilization and pros
perity, no one can doubt that the ex-
tent Of it would be very great and in.
furious.
The proposed emancipation would
shorten the war, perpetuate peace, in
sure the increase of population, and
proportionately the wealth of the coun'
try. 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 of our
Revolutionary struggle until to-day,
without paying any thing on either
principal or interest, each man of us
would owe less upon that debt now
than each man owed upon il then and
this because our increase of men,
through the whole period, has been
greater than six per cent. has run
faster than the interest upon the debt
Thus, time alone relieves a debtor
nation, so long as its population in.
crcases faster than unpaid interest &C.
cumnlatcs on its debt.
This fact would be no excuse for
delaying payment of what is justly
due (; but il shows the great impor-
lance of time in this conncction-the
great advantage Of a policy by which
we shall not have to pay until We num-
Der a hundred millions, what, by a
different policy, we would have to pay
now, when We number but tlirty-one
millions. In word. it shows that q
dollar will be mucl, harder to pay for
the war than will be dollar for eman.
cipation on the proposed plan. And
then the latter will cost no blood, no
precious life. 1t will be a saving of
both.
AS to the second article, l think it
would be impracticable to return to
bondage the class of persons therein
contemplated. Some OF them, doubt
less, in the property sense, belong to
loyal owners I; and hence provision is
made in this article for compensating
such.
The third article relates to the fu.
ture Of the freed people. 1t does not
oblige, bnt merely authorizes Congress
to aid in colonizing such as may con-
sent. This ought not to be- regarded
as Objectionable on the one hand or on
the other, in so much as it comes to
nothing unless by the mutual consent
of the people to be deporteI, and the
American voters, through their repre-
sentatives in Congress.
! cannot make it better known than
it already is that l strongly favor col
onization. And yet wish to say
there is an objection urged against
free colorcd persons remaining in the
which is largely imaginary.
If not sometimes malicious.
1t is insisted that their presence
would injure and disturb white labor
and white laborcrs. II there ever
could be proper time for mere catch
that time is surely not
now. In times like the present men
should utter nothing which they would
not willingly be responsible for
time and in eternity. Is it
true, then, that colored people can dis
place any more white labor by being
free than by remaining slaves? LII
they stay in their old places they jos
tie no white laborers if they leave
their old places they leave them open
to white Iaborers. Logically, there is
neither more nor less Of it. Enamel
patton, even without deportation,
would probably enhance the wages.
of white labor. and very surely, would
not reduce them. Thus the custom.
airy amount Of labor would still have
to be performed the freed people
would surely not do more than their
old proportion of it, and very proba-
bly, for time would do less, leaving
an increased part to white laborers,
bringing their labor into greater de-
mand, and consequently enhancing
the wages of it. With deportation,
even to q limited extent, enhanced
wages to white labor is mathcmatic-
ally certain. Labor is like any other
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