Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-12-10

le to when this may be, we may judge
I'd the past and the present. As to wheth
III IL will eyerbe. depends much on whet
,erwe preserve the Union. ile. E..
Of Several of our States are above the q
- erage of European population of 73l
n the square mile Massachusetts has Is
,e Rhode Island 1873; New York and Ne
n Jersey, each 80 I; also two other gre
IS States-P Pennsylvania and 0hio-are n
5. far below. the fermer having bS and Il
d latter SO. The States already above IL
Is European average, except New Yorl
= have increased in as rapid ratio, sint
passing that point, as ever before, viii
Y no one of them is equal to some 9th,
e parts of our country in natural eapacii
g for sustaining dense population Tai
r ing the nation in the aggregate, we fin
n its population and ratio of increase fC
(: the several decennial periods to be as 70
i lows: IT90, 8, ,929, ,S27: 1900, 5,3O5. .937 :
e ratio of increase, 35 62-l00 per cent: 1871
f : .239, Sll ratio, SO 45-lOO; 1920. 9.6ss
] l3l; ratio. SO l3-l00 u 1880. -I0. sec. .O2O
: ratio, 80 49-l00; 1910, II, ,OS9. .453 ratio
D S2 e. 100; 1850, %, 1913, SIG ratio, IS 81
: 100; 1860, 81, ,433, 100; ratio, 35 $780,
This shows an average decennial 'increas
OF "a 6O-lO0 per cent. in population thro
the 20 years, from our first to our last cen
sas taken. 1t is seen that the ratio of in
crease at no one of these seven periods i
either two per cent below or two pc
cent. above the average; thus showins
how infiexible and consequently how re
liable the law of increase in our case is
Assuming that it will continue, it gives
the following results 1870. 42, 323, ,372:
1880. sc, ,e66. .2l6; 1890, rs, ,677.S72; 1900,
l0S, ,20S, AIS; 1910, 1873, ,9l8, ,526 1920, ls6,
9S4,335; 1890, 25I6S0, ,9l4. pm = nr
These figures show that our country
may be as populous as Europe at some
point between 1920 and I930-say about
| 1925. 10 zT.s5--s ,-.iII'-.---i 81 LII
Our territory at 73t persons to the
square mile. being of the capacity to con-
tain 2l7. 1876. 500. and we win reach this
too, if we do not ourselves relinquish the
chances by the folly and evils of disunion
or by long and exhausting war, springing
from this only great element of discord
among US. While it cannot be foreseen
exactly how much one huge example of
secession breeding lesser ones indefinitely
would retard the population, civilization,
and prosperity, no one can doubt that the
extent of it would be very great and iniu-
rious. The proposed emancipation would
shorten this war perpetuate peace, insure
this increase in population and, proper
tionabiy, the wealth of the country
With this we should pay all that eman-
cipation wonld cost, with our other
debts, easier than we should pay our 9TH
er debts without it. If we had allowed
our old national debt to run at 6 per cent,
per annum, simple interest, from the end
of our revolutionary struggle till to-day
without paying anything either on prin-
cipai or interest, each man of US would
owe less ON that debt now, than each man
owed upon it then. aad this because our
increase of men tlr lgh the whole period
has been greater L L 6 per cent, and has
run faster than interest upon the
debt. Thus time ne relieves a debtor
nation so long a. population increases
faster than unpa4 lterest secamGlates
on its debt.
The fact wouldl De no excuse for delay
ing the payment of what is justly due,
but 1t shows the great importance of time
in this connection, the great advantage
OF policy by which we shall not have to
pay until we number 100, ,000, 900, when
by a different policy we would have to
pay now when the number is 81 ,000, 900. /
In word it shows that dollar will be 4
much harder TO pay for the war, than a
dollar for emancipation by the proposed
plan and then the latter will cost no
bfood-no precious life. 1t would be
saving of both. M al ..i
As TO the second article | think it
would be impracticable to return to bond
age the class of persons therein eontem-
plated, Some of them doubtless in the
property sense belongt to loyal owners. and |
hence provision is made in this article for
SUCH The third article |
relates to the future of the freed people. |
1t does not oblige, but merely author
izes, Congress TO aid in colonizing such as
may consent. This ought not to be re-
garded as Objectionable on the one hand /
or the other, inasmuch as it comes to /
naught unless by mutual consent of the /
people to be deperted and the American |
voters through their representatives in
Congress. ei --a71iE
I cannot make it better known than it |
already is. that strongly favor coloniza- |
ton, and yet | wish to say that there is |
an objection against the colored persons !
in the country which is largely |
if not sometimes malicious
1t is insisted that their presence would
iniure and displace white labor and white
laborers If there ever could be proper
time for mere arguments, that time is
surely not now. In times like the pres
ent, men should utter nothing for which
thew would not willingly be responsible
then, that colored people can displace any
more white labor by being free than re-
slayess If they stay in their
own places. they jostle no white laborers.
If they leave their own places, they
leave them open TO white laborers. Log
icaIly, there is neither more or less of it.
even without 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 sure
ly not do more than their old proportion
Of it, and very probably for time would
DO less, leaving an increased part to white
laborers, bringing their labor into greater
and consequently enhancing the
wages of it. .t.....-
With deportation even 10 limited ex-
tent, enhancing wages to white labor Is
nathematioally certain. Labor is like
any other commodity in the market. In
crease thedemand for it, and you increase
the price of it. Reduce the supply of
black labor by colonizing the black labor
er out of the country, and by precisely so
much you will increase the demand for,
and wages for white labor. But it is
dreaded that the freed people will swarm
forth and cover the land. Will liberation
make them any more numerous? Equal
ly distributed among the whites of the
whole country and there would be but
one colored TO seven whites. could the
one in any way greatly disturb the seven2
There are many communities now having
more than one colored person TO seven
whites, and this without any apparent
of evil from it. The Dis
trict of Columbia and the States of Mary
and and Delaware are all in this condi-
lion. The District has more than one
colored to six whites, and yet in its fre-
-, L Hol,a.o . |