Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-12-04

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shall not have TO pay until we number Q nun
dred millions, what, by 0 different poncy' W.
would have to pay now, when we namper ".
thirty one milliDns. In q word, II shows tnat
a dollar will be much harder to pay Tor tne
war. than viii be dollar for emancipation on
the proposed plan. And then the latter will
cost no blood, no precious life. II will DO
saving OF both. 80,
As 70 the second article, think IL would be
impracticablo to return 70 bondage the class OF
persons therein contemplated. Some oil them,
doubtless, in the property sense, belung 20 ioyal
owners; and hence. provision 10 maze In 'n's
article for compensating such.
The third article relates to the future oil the
freed people. Il does not oblige, but merely
authorizef, Congress to aid In colonislng s9cn
az may consent This ought not to be regarded
as objectionable, on the one hand, or on the
other, in 90 much 40 Il comes to nothing, unleas
BY the mutual consent of the people to be de-
ported, and the American voters, through tnelr
representatives In Congress.
Icannot make Il better known than IL already
is, that l strongly favor colonization. AND
| yet wish to cay there is an objection urged
against free colored persons remaining 10 the
| country, which is largely imaginary, II nos
i sometlmes malicious. 49,,
i II IA insisted that their presence would In
ime. and displace white labor and white labor
ers. II there ever could be proper time tor
mere catch arguments, that time surely Is not
now. In times like the present, men should
utter nothing for which they would not willing
ly be responsible through time and In eternity
Is it true, then, that colored people can dispace
any more white labor, by being free, than by
remaining slaves7 If they stay In their old
places. they jostle no white laborers; II they
leave their old places, they leave them open to
white laborers. Logically, there is neither
more nor less of It. Emancipation, even with
out deportation, 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 performed; the
freed people would surely not do more than
their old proportion of it, and very probably, for
a time, would do Less, leaving an increased part
to white laborers, bringing their labor into
greater demand, and, consequently, enhancing
the wages Of il. With deportation, even to a
limited extent, enhanced wages to white labor
is Mechanically certain. Labor is like any
other commodity In the market-increase the
demand for il, and you increase the price OF it.
Reduce the supply Of black labor, by coloniz-
ing the black laborer out of the country, and, BY
precisely 80 much, you increase the demand
for, and wages Of, white labor
i But il is dreaded that the freed people will
swarm forth, and cover the whole land1 Are
they not already In the land7 Will liberation
make them any more numerous2 Equally die
tributed among the whites of the whole coun-
try, and there would be but one colored TO
seven whites. Could the one, in any way,
|. greatly i,turb the sevenf There are many
, communities now, having more than one free
, colcred person to seven whites; and this. with
out any apparent consciousness Of evil from IL
The District of Columbia, and the States OF
Maryland and Delaware, are all In this condi-
tlon, The District has more than one free
colored to ak whites; and yet, In its frequent
petitions to Congress. / believe 1t has never
presented the presence of free colored persons
as one of its grievances. But why should
emancipation south, send the freed people
north2 People, Of any color, seldom run, M.
less theie be something to run from. Hereto.
fore colored people, to some extend, have fed
north from bondage; and noto, perhaps, from
both bondage and destitution. But II gradual
emancipation and deportation be adopted, they
will have neither to fee from. Their old mas
ters will give them wages as least until new
|, laborers can be procured, and the freed men, In
turn, will gladly give their labor for the wages,
till new homes can be found for them, In con-
genial cllmes, and with people of their own
blood and race. This proposition can be trust.
ed on the mutual interests involved. And, In
any event, connot the north decide for itself,
whether TO receive them7
Again, ae practice proves more than theory,
In any case, has there been any irruption Of
colored people northward, because of the abol-
ishment Of slavery In this District last spring
Il What have said of the proportion Of free
colored persons to the whites In the District, is
from the census Of 1860, having no reference
TO persons called oontrabsnds, nor to those made
free by the act Of Congress abolishing slavery
here.
The plan consisting Of these articles is re-
commended, not but that restoration OF the
national authority would be accepted without its
adoption.
Nor will the war, nor proceedings under the
proclamation Of September 20, 1862, be stayed
because of the recommendation of this plan
Its timely adoption doubt not, would bring re.
storation, and thereby stay both.
And, Notwithstanding this plan, the recon-
mendation that Congress provide BY law for
compensating any State which may adopt eman-
cipation, before this plan shall have been acted
upon, Is hereby earnestly renewed. Such would
be only an advance part Of the plan, and the
same arguments apply to both.
This plan is recommended as q means, not
In exclusion of, but additional to, all others
for restoring and preserving the national au-
thority throughout the Union. The subject is
presented exclusively In its economical aspect.
The plan would, ! am confident, secure peace
more speedily, and maintain IL more permanent
ly, than can be done by force alone; while all
IL would cost, considering amounts, and man
ner Of payment, and times Of payment, would
be easier paid than will be the additional cost
Of the war, If we rely solely upon force. II is
muoh--veFy much-that II would cost no blood
a. Rll.
The plan is proposed as permanent constitu-
tional law. Il cannot become such without the
concurrence Of, first, tvo-thirds Of Congress,
| and, afterward, three-fourths of the States -
The requisite thFee-fourths of the States will
necessarily include seven Of the slave States.
Their concurrence, II obtained, will give as.
sursnce Of their severally adopting emancips-
ton, at no very distant day, upon the new con-
stitutonal terms. This assurance would end
the struggle now, and save the Union forever.
do not forget the gravity which should
characterize d paper addressed to the Congress
Of the nation, by the Chief Magistrate Of the
nation. Nor do forget that come of You are
my seniors; nor that many of you have more
experience than l, In the conduct of public af
fairs. Yet trust that In view Of the great
responsibility resting upon me, You will perceive
no want OF respect to yourselves, in any undue
eainestness may seem to display.
Is Il doubted, then, that the plan propose, II
adopted, would shorten the war, and thus less
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