The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-01-17

the scope OF this vas! warIike preparation.
IT Is war for mastery on this Continent,
and the rebel States, 10 proclaiming il for
the propagation o! slavery, seek 10 make
the issue that this must be altogether q
slave or free government. if they tri.
umpb, slavery, under military govern.
ment, is the consequence. The success
Of the loyal States restores peace with
freedom. under the benign influence ofI
republican institutions.
The Government Of tho United States
looks 10 the result. Of this struggle With th,
confidence that belongs to good cause. and
would tarn the evi! that is inevitable to
ultimate good. The movement of q nation
towards reform should be slow 70 make Il
safe, hence tho Presidents recommendation
OF coloDizIDg tho African race, when somo
system Of gradual emancipation is developed
by the ovents OF the war An act of imrDe.
date general emancipation. throwing four
millions Of the colored caste loose on soci.
ETY., North and South, would leave them
more enslayed than they are now. Without
the intelligence, power and means of Q mas
ter OF tho superior race, to support them in
tho competition with that race in the busi-
ness Of life. they would perish. The North
Rejecting them. as it has done in many Of
the States. and might do in the others. the
four millions, lot loose 10 the South, would
encounter war Of castes--a war Of oxter.
mination.
Measures tending TO q happier destiny
for slavery are already broacbcd in Con
gress. II is proposed to take tho control Of
the subject out of tho hands of the rebels.
seeking to make il tho instrument of de-
| n a IL:
is necessary to 'escheat all their property
and all the means of waging war. Indeed.
the right of putting all the means OF wapine
II in the hands of loyal citizens belongs to
the Government. The Government at this
moment commands all the means and prop.
crty in tho loyal States, their credit in.
cluded, 10 this conflict for freedom. IL has
| imposed direct tax on the rebel States for
like purpose, but il is rendered abortive
by the military power raised against the
civil authority having the right to collect il.
Congress proposes, therefore, unioss tho
rebel States, or the individual citizcps
nsssssed, shall have paid the direct tax i'm.
posed, that the property which 10 liable for
it shall escbeat aud DO vested 10 the United
States As our army shall win its way into
the region of the rebellion, the act contem.
plates the seizure Of the estates of those en-.
gagged in 1t, placing them In the hands Of
commissioners /; appreDticing, employing
aud paying the slaves belonging TO them
for time. preparing thsm for OsNiere,iop,
the proceeds of their labor, as vol as the
landed eCiates of tho rebels, ultimately to
be applied to the purposes Of colonizing the
negroes, indemnifying loysl citizens for
losses they may sustain at the baGds of the
rebels, while the Government of the United
States will Ieavo tho estates updisturbed in
such owners as shall have shown themselves
faithful in their allegiance to the Coustitu.
ton; and the escheated rebel estates will
undergo distribution for sale and donation
by tho Government in freehold homesteads
to recompense its soldiers.
II is not improbable that the principle
which uDderlies the great measure contem-
plated by it's movers in Congress may re-
ceive its consummation at the hands Of the
Legislatures of the rebel States, IL the arms
Of tho United States shall prevail fully in
the conclusion of tho var. 1t is certain
that slaves taken from masters by the war
will never be restored 20 them unless the
loyal States are vanquished. If the move
ment of the Union army into the rebel
States, now in progress, be successful. tho
establishment of the apprentice system on
the rebel estates, with the ultimate Wow to
colonization. would induce loyal owners to
adopt like system upon reasonable CON-
ponsation. The existence of the system of
apprenticeship on the tax escbeated estates,
putting great multitude of slaves on the
march TO freedom, would make absolute
bondage on neigbboring estates a condition
not easily maintained.
The necessity Of depriviDg the rebels Of
the mon and means employed BY them to
destroy the Government. and the necessity
OF recognizing the right which loyal slave.
holders have, under the constitution, iD
their peculiar institution, will produce q
difficuit dilemma on the restoration of tho
Upion. II will. In such event, doubtless
become matter of negotiation between the
Federal and State Governments, and ,hcre
can be little doubt that the process of lber-
alton and colonization, which must be
carried into effect in regard to the slaves Of
rebels. will be gradually applied by the
Legislatures of the restored rebel States To
all the rest the Government of the United
States making ample Indemnity 10 the
owners for the sacrifice. IL may take many
wears TO accomplish this delIverance, but,
when accomplished, every nou-slavebolde
in the South will feel that il restores him
10 an equality with those of bis own race.
asserting superiority never known to him
before. and the slaveholders will obtain, In
tho influx of q froe and industrious white
population, and the growth of arts and
manufactures, an increase in the value OF
their land far exceeding the value Of the in-
terest they held 10 their sla yes.
Tho national grandeur that may be !
achieved by removing the cloud now OBJ.
scuriDg the prospects of the great Republic, |
and giving birth to n new one, in our
American inter-trOpicai regions, springing
from q race of freemen, born among US, i'm. |
bued with ideas and skillful industry de. |
rived from Us. assisted, directed and pro.
tected in founding government for lhem-
selves---in country provided for them by
us-is q consideration which cannot fail 10
commend tne Presidents scheme of coloni.
ration to every man who would exaIt tho
glory of tho Nation. The colonies of Greece
and ROme reflected ronown on those an
cent republics. The s2lendor and power Of
Great Britain are derived from the people
sho has planted the freedom and civiliza.
ton sho has spread around the globe. The
Canadas are worth more to her than the con
quest OF Indis. The trumphs she has won for
civilization in her vast island domain. in re.
mole oceans. have done more for her glory
than all her great victories on the continent
OF Europe. The redemption of her West
India slaves. and the colony she has founded
for them at the BaliEe--a territory ecquired
on the mainland from Guatamala 20 extend
her power over the Isthmus-is an example
which :he necessities as we'll as the honor
and interests OF tho United States require
them to follow. The slaves, which the war