Daily national Republican., 1862-11-12
SLAVERY IN THE COTTON STATES.

The New Orleans Delta says that the genuine
Union men of that city are all in favor Of the
Presidents proclamation, and only impatient
for the day when II will come into full force.
II says also that some planters in .ho vicinity
are becoming reconciled to IL, and are prepar-
ing TO organize their labor upon the new system
of freedom and wages. They may he assured
that they will like it, after they become accus-
toned to II, and will make more money than
they ever did before.
A New Orleans correspondent of the Boston
Traveller says that the demand in the city for
laborers, to work at wages on the adjacent plan
tations which the slaves have deserted, is so
considerable as to interfere with the recruiting
Of the Union regiments which are being raised
there.
Il is to secure freedom, by getting within the
Union lines, that slaves now runaway from the
plantations whenever they can get an opportu-
nifty. But this running away will cease when
freedom becomes everywhere the established
law In Louisiana, as II will on the first day of
January, now close at hand.
When that day comes we shall no longer he
asked "mha, Is TO be done ,ciM the freed negroes"
The only difficulty with them arises from the
fact that as yet we have freed but few, leaving
the institution Of slavery itself in full force.
That institution repels the free, of whateuer
color, but especially the freed black man. If
slavery did not exist in Eastern Virginia we
should not hear of any such proposition as that
Of the transfer of five hundred black families
from Fortress Monroe to Massachusetts. Their
labor Is needed where they are, and they will
all he employed and paid, just so soon as the
abolition Of slavery becomes a fixed and admit
ted fact. The instincts of self-interest may be
relied upon, and so long as the cultivation OF
Southern staples is profitable as il is, labor will
be hired when 1t can no longer be obtained upon
the old system of coercion. There will he diff
fculues, of course, in the transition from one
system TO another, but they will prove in prac.
tice far less numerous and formidable than they
have seemed in apprehension.
II is in the Gulf States that 1t will he the casi
est TO overthrow slavery, and where it is also
most important to overthrow it. because If II
falls there, IL falls in the border States as an In
evitable consequence. With Mississippi and
Louisiana and Texas free. We can be very pa
tient about slavery in Missouri and Kentucky
and II will require no great patience to wait fol
the end Of 1t. When the cotton region cease.
to he market for slaves, they will no longel
have any value in the grain States.
II is easiest TO overthrow slavery on the Gull
because it is there that the slaves are most nu
merous. In Louisiana, (outside of New Or,
leans), and in Mississippi, they greatly outnum,
berthe whites. Thephysical power fthe whites
furthermore, has been greatly wasted and ex
hausted by this war. The rebel conscriptior
has taken everybody between the ages of eigh
ten and forty-five. Under such circumstance,
can need but little urging to induce the black
to assert their freedom, and when they hay,
once gained 1t they will never give it up, ant
they will be abundantly able to maintain It.
Their recovery of their long lost but in
enable rights, will, we trust, be peaceable
hut If II is otherwise ii will be the fault of tn,
whites, and the blood will be upon them ant
theirs. Emancipation in the British West In
dies, where the blacks outnumbered the white.
ten to one, was attended with no disorders VIC
lence, because the whites had the good sense t,
submit TO what was inevitable. In st. Domin
20 they struggled madly against their fate, an,
it was this struggle which brought on scenes, o
which the horrors have so often been described
The people of the cotton States must choose fol
themselves, whether they will have peaceful
emancipation, like that in Jamaica, or blood,
one like that In Hayti. Emancipation, at all
events, they must have. The die is cast.