The Portland daily press., 1862-08-29

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PRODUCTION rom us TO the lnteiliSent men OF
Maine. Mr.. Owen has recently addressed a
latter IN Mr. Secretary Stanton IN the oues-
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''oli vi an" " eno" NO hiouo Vi
reasoning, and the views TO which his logical
mind has arrived, we make below quite liberal
ex,racts II is not needf,l for ne 70 axnress
~,
an opihio'i III ieiatioh W MI o"ehS ooheio-
sions; he has expressed his views in language
SO plain and terse that every intelligent reader
oan s,u, oo,o,,ro,,o,d him IIa says.
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My political antecedents are known to you.
Always Democrat but never pro-slavery
democrat; opposed in principle and feeling,
from my youth up, TO human slavery, but be-
lieying, until recently, that, in the interests OF
liberty itself, it was the part of wisdom in the
North to abstain interference with the danger
fraugnt domestic institution of the South, and
to trust to time for its eradication; opposed
with a hereditary aversion, to war, was will
ing to make any honorable concession that
might avert its horrors.
But political convulsions bring with them
great lessons and new duties. War could not,
under the Divine economy, have been permit
ted, as IN all past ages 1t has been, II 1t had not
had its mission. But to attain the good 1t
brings, we must recognize It's necessities.
Seven or elght huhdreu miinons are spent.
AT the best, as much moreis likely to go. Two
thousand mliiions or upwards Is not an I'M
probable total. Ihat Is hall the national debt
Oh EhSianu; anu the interest on IL pIooapiy
at doupie tne rate Wmch sile pays, WIN make
our our anhuai burden nearly 70 eqliil hers. II
the war lasts thfee years longer, these hsures
may DC douDied. IL mus. US, hot last liree years
longer, uhiess we are VIKING 10 rish hatiohai
plnhrup.cy. ..,,
noW can .ie mal oc quichy anu i, enectusliy
.erinihateus Nhat guaranty is suinceht that
IL VIII not pe resuiheu.
Gradually, very gradually, as this contest
proceeaea, nave 1 peeh approaching the con @
Nlclioii lhat lhere y one such Yuaian.y nne IN.
cii,.eipa'ioii Vi hesio ai"'oS 'hi 'iiis
CONTINENT
am no. an ad'ocate oi Revolutionary SNORT
cuts OUT o, aiincui.y. l a'i hos III ia'or Vi
violating ''le consu.uson, py way VI ,escaplng
~ansare Int The nrecndant i ranInte with nor
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Gould s,a,or, h.ro h.on a,,o,;s,oa ,,r nor.,,-
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Nil, ana Sn,,,l u-;,lo,., ,,;,iat;on of tha
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in,;,n.,,u 80 . Cioariv nat can siayarr ~
aradica,ed NOW In war without sucb yiolaf;on
re 's.s.;a,; H. ,aa.ss,,,, 90 an,,, ~,
,,a.e,at &c and s,asty Of o,r oxorn,a,,t
pand n 10 aro n,ill;ng 70 nav al, loyal sl,ya
ounars a reasonable nr;ca for their slaves
o,oarI,, ,as p'eS -
For ,o nr;,c;nle I, ,,w ;s better established
,ban his that When ;mnort,nt nnhlic Interest,"
dam.nJ 4 nr;vate nronertv may he ,,Lan n, :
fair annraisement for punlic nse.
O,,gbt we n declare General emane;nation
co,nled wifi, a nroy;s;on far paymcn, 10 ali
loyaI Slave owners. of the apprised value nf
their slaves . This ouestion resolves itself into
another. Have tbinos gone so far that the
Union in its neacefuI integrity and neoro-slav
erv. within its borders. can no LONGER c3,-exist2
That l. THE GREAT oyrrsrIoy or THE nay
I think il must be answered. even now. in the
Affirmative.
Have we the means of paving loyal slave
owners n fair price for their slaves? If weact
now before protracted contest has exhausted
our recources, yes. II we wait the termina-
ton of Il three or four years war, very GER
tainly, no.
In that price deportation must not be osti-
mated. The South asserts that negro slaves
are indispensable TO her. That is only so far
true, that she does absolutely need hired negro
workmen, and ought not to be deprived of
them. Her agriculture would, for a time, be
ruined without them. But no good man de-
sires a settlement under which any section of
our country would be even temporarily ruined.
Suppose declaration, to the effect that the
government, urged by the necessity of self pre-
servaton, takes. at fair valuation, the slave
property of the South J viii such declara-
tion, cause negro insurrection and indiscrim-
mate assassination of whites throughout the
slave states
The result, so far, has clearly shown that the
negro, mild and long-suiering, is little dispos-