Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-12-01

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These figures show that our country may be
as populous as Europe now is, ar some point
between 1920 and IG30-say about f9l5-our ter
rltory, at seventy three and a third persons to
the square mile, being OF capacity TO contain
27.iS6,UtO.
And We scH reach this, too, if We do not our
selves reiinqpish the chance. by the folly and
evils OF disunion, or by long ard exhausting
war spriBging from the only great elela,n of
natiohal discord among us. While it cannot
be forcseen exactly how much one huge cxaln-
pie of st ce ssion. breeding lesser ones inoefin-
Itsly, would retard population, civilization AMI
prosperity, no one can doubt that the extent of
II would De- very great and Injurious.
The proposed emancipation would shorten
the war, psrpeiuate peace, insure this incruase
'of population, and l,roporiionaiely tha wealth
the emancipation would cost, toge her With our
other debt, easier Than we should paw our
otfer debt, without IL. If we had allowed oar
Ga national dett to run at six per cent, per
annum, simple interest, from the end of our
Evolutionary struggle until to-day, wfihout
paying nything on either principal or inter
sst, each nan OF rs would owe less upon that
cebt now, than each msn owed upon il taen;
and this tecause orr increase of men. through
the whole period, has been greater than six
per CENT has run faster than the interest upon
ihe debt. Thus, time alone, relieves a de;I.or
nation, so long as its population increases fast
cr than unpaid interest Accommodates on its
debt.
This fact would be no excuse for DELAYING
paymt 1T Of what is justly due; but il shows the
great Importance Of time in this conuay,iol-
the great advantage of a policy by which we
snail not nave 10 pay until We nuinbpr Il hum
drsd millions, what, by a different policy yye
would have 10 pay now, when we numbrr bnt
thirty -onc millions. In a word, il shows that
collar VIII be much harder TO nay for -ha W. a.
thGn Will be a dollar for emancination on ,hs
PR posed plan. And Il Ell the In; e. will CO. no
blood, NO precious life. twill be a sayiny of
both.
AS TO the second article. think il yvon,a he
practicable 10 return to bondage the class of
pers ons therein contemplated. Some of them
doubtless in the property sense, telong to loyai
owners; and hence. provision is made i'm this
article for compensating such
he third article relates to the future Of tho
freed people: 1t does not obligc. but merely
auti orizcS, Congress to aid i'm coionizino sucb
as may consent. This ought not to be reeardad
as objectionable. Oh the one hand or on the
other, IN SO much as il comes to nothing unless
py the mutuai Consent OF the people to be de-
ported, and the American voters, through their
representatives in Congress :
i cannot make 1t better known than il al.
Teady rs hat ! strongly favor colonization.
urged against free colored persons remainino
In the country, which is largely imaginary ii
not sometimes malicious.
1t Is insisted that their presence would iniure
and displace white labor and white Iaborrs
If there ever could be a proper time for mere
catch arguE ents, that time surely is moi now
In times like the present, meN should mr. r
nothing for which they would not wiIIineiv he
responsible through time and in eternity Is it
any more white labor ny being free. than Nv re
naming slaves If they stay in their old
places, they Ilostle ne white laborers; if they
white laborers. Logically, there is neither
more nor less of ii. Emancipation, even with
out deportation, would probably enhance the
WAGES OF white labor, and, very sursly, would
Thus, the customary amount of labor would
suil have to be performed: the freed neonle
would surely not do more than their old pro-
=
%%43uid do less, leaving an increased part 10
Gemand hnTers, bringing their labor into greater
wages oft. Win dspofta:ittft5S, dfatt5 enhancing the
ed extent, enhanced wages to white labor is
mathem3ticaly certain. Labor IA live anv
other commodity in the market-increas. tha
demand for il, and you increase the price of H.
Reduce the supply Of black labor, by coloniz-
ing the black laborer out of the country. and
by precisely so much, you increase the demand
for, and wages Of, white labor.
But it is dreaded 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 numerousl Equally
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 seven There ari MANY
communities now, having more than one free
eolort d person, to seven whites; and this, with
out any apparent consciousness o. evil from IL
The District Of Columbia, and the States of !
Maryland and Delaware, are ali i'm this dondi.
ton. The District has more than one free col
tions to Copgr, SIS, believe it has never pre.
santed the presence of free colored persons as
one OF Its grievances. But why should eman.
cipation south, send the freed people north,
People. of any color, seldom run, unless there
be something To run from. 70 '-r'
Heretofore colorcd people, to some extent
have fed north from bondage: aud ,pos. nsr.
maps, from both bondange and dcstitution
But Il gradual emancipation and deportation
be adop:ed, they will have neither 10 nee from
Their old masters will give them wages at
least until new laborers can be procured; aud
the freed men, in turn, will gladly give their
iabor 1or the wages, tIll new homes can be
found for the them, in congenial ciiInes, aud
win people of their own blood and race. This
proposition can be trusted on the m utual in.
ferssts involved And, in any event, cannot
the north decide ior itself, whether 10 receive
themi
EAgain, as practice proves more than theory
in any case, has there' been any irruption OF
colored people northward, because Of the abol-
ment of slavery in this District last spring I
What have said Of the proportion of free
colored persons TO the whites, in the District, is