Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-12-11


shows that dollar viii be much harder
to pay for the war than will be dollar
for emancipation on the proposed plan
and then the latter viii cost no blood. nc
precious life. 1t will be saving of both.
As to the second article, think il
would be impracticable to return to bon.
dage the class of persons therein contem-
plated. Some of them doubtless belong
to loyal owners, and hence provision is
made in this article for compensating such.
the FUTURE OF THE FREED PEOPLE.
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 Objectionable
on the one hand or on the other, in SO
much as it comes to nothing unless by mu-
tual consent Of the people to be dcported,
and the American voters through their
representatives in Congress 1r cannot
make it better known than it already is,
that | strongly favor Colonization orAnd
yet / wish to say there is one objection
urged against the colored persons remain
ing in the country, which is largely i'm
aginary, if not sometimes malicious. 1t
is insisted that their presence would in
sure and displacc white labor and white
lahorers. If there ever could be proper
time for mere arguments. that time surely
is not now. In titncs like the present
men should utter nothing for winch they
would not willingly be responsible, thro
time and eternity. q i7.sPa91gs' %
Is it true, then, that colored people can
displacc any more white labor by being
free than by remaining slaves? If they
Stay in their old places, they jostic TO
white laborers If, they leave their old
places, they leave them open to white la
borers. Logically, there is neither more
nor less of it. Emancipation, even with
out deportation would probably Guidance
the wages of white labor, and very surely
would not reduce them Thus the GUS
tomary amount Of labor would still have
to be performed. The freed people would
surely not do more than their old proper
ton oft, 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 it. With deport-
alton even to limited extent, enhancing
wages to white labor is automatically
certain. Labor is like any other COM
modify in the, market. Increase the de-
mand for it and you increase the price of
it. Reduce the supply of black labor
by colonizing the black laborers out of
the country, and by precisely so much
you increase the demand fo., and wages
of, white labor.
But it is declared that the freed people
will swarm forth and cover the whole
land. Are they not already in the land !?
viii liberation make them any more Nh
merous? Equally distributed among the
whites. Of the whole country, and there
would be but one colored man to seven
white men. Could the one in any way
greatly disturb the seven. There are
many communities now having more than
one free colorcd person to seven whites,
and this without any apparent conscious
ness of evil from it. The District of Col
umbia and the states of Maryland and
Delaware are all in this condition. The
district has more than one free colored to
six whites, and yet in its frequent petit
lions to Congress, | believe it has never
presented the presence Of free colore1 per-
sons as one of its grievances. But why
should emancipation south send the freed
people north? People of any color seldom
run unless there be something to run from,
Heretofore colorcd people to some ex-
tent have fled north from bondage and
now perhaps from both bondage and des-
titution. But if gradual emancipation
and deportation be adopted. they will
have neither to flee from. Thei old mas.
tiers will give them wages, at least until
new laborers can be procured, and the
freed men in turn will gladly give their
labor for the wages, until new homes can
be found for them in congenial climes
and with people of their own blood and
race. This proposition can be trusted il
the mutual interests involved, and in any
event cannot the North decide for itself
whether to receive them again, as practice
4 proves more than theory in any case
Has there been any Eruption of colorec
people northward because Of the abolish
ment Of slavery in this district las
spring? What | have said Of the pro
4 portion of free coiored persons to tn,
whites in the district, is from the censu,
of 1860, having no reference to person.
called contrabands, nor to those mad
free by the act of Congress abclishin,
slavery here. q
THE QUICKEST WAY TO OBTAIN PEACE.
The plan consisting Of these articles i
recommended not but that restoratio,
Of the national authority would be accept
cd without its adoption, nor will the wa
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