Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-12-09

large, but 1t would require no ready cash
nor bonds any faster than tie emancipa-
ton progresses. This might not, and
probably would not. close before the end
of thirty-seven years. At that time we
shall probably have one hundred millions
Of people to share the burden, instead Of
thirty-oDe millions as now and not only
SO, but the increase Of our population may
be expected to continue for q long time
after the period, as rapidly as before, be-
cause our Territories will not have become
full l do not state this inconsiderately
At the same ratio of increase which we
have maintained on an average, from our
first national census il 1870 until that of
1860, we should in 1900 have population
of lO3. POS. AS; and why may we not con-
tinue that rstio far beyond that period p
Our abundant room. our broad national
homestead, is an ample resource. Were
our territory as limited as are the British
isles, certainly our population could not
expand as stated. Instead of receiving
the foreign-born as now, we should be com
PEELED to send part Of the native-born
away but such is not our condition. We
have 2 963 900 of square miles Europe
has 8 S09, 600, with y population averag-
ing 734 persons to the square mile. Why
may not our country At some time average
as many? Is it lees fertile? Has it more
waste surface by mountains, rivers, lakes,
deserts and other causes? IL it inferior to
Europe in any national a3uantagef If.
then, we are at some time as populous as
Europe, how soon? As to when this may
be, we may judge by the past and the pres
ent. As to when it will be, depends
much on whether we maintain the Union.
Several Of our States are above the average
of European populetioE of 73s to the square
mile. Massachusetts, has ISL Rhode Is
land 1873; New York and New Jersey,
each, 80; also twolother great Slater, Penn
sylv, MIA and Ohio, are not far below. the
former having 63 and the latter So The
States already sbpyo the European aver
age, except New York, have increased in
IS rapid ratio since passing that point as
ever before, while no one Of them is equal
to some other parts Of our country in nat
ural capacity for sustaining dense popu-
lation. Taking the nation in the aggre-
gate, we ind lite population and ratio of
Increase for the several decimal periods as
follows: 1870, 1923, S27 1909, 5,305 ,937;
ratio of increase, IS 62-l00 per cent
1910 .239,Sl4; ratio. 81 &-100. 1920,
9,688, l3l; ratio. SO l3-l00. 1880. TO-
I.US -
453; ratio 80 67-lO0. 1880, %, I93, s76:
ratio. IS 67-lOo. 1860. 81 .433, 700; ratio.
80 os-lO0. This shows an average deci-
NAL increase of 81 6S, 100 per cent, in pop
ulatlon through the seventy years from
our first to the last census taken. 1t is
seen that the ratio Of increase at no one Of
these seven periods is either two per cent.
below or two per cent. above the average
TINS inf
quently how reliable the law of Increase
in our case is. Assuming that it will con-
tinue, it gives the following result: 1870
A. 1913 372; 1880, 1851 ,S72; 1900. lO3.-
| 208. AIS; 1910. 1873, 9l9, 500; 1920, 1876. :
9S4. 1886; 1880, Isl, 68O,9l4. These fis
ures show our country may be az populous
as Europe at some point between 1920 and
! 1890, say about l925,-our territory. ut
! 73! to the square mile, being of capacity
! to contain 2l7 lS6, 900, and we will reach
this, too If we do not ourselves relinquish
the chances by the folly and evils of a dis
union, or by long exhausting war, spring
ing from the only great element of discord
among us. While it cannot be fnreseeu
exactly how much one huge example of Sc
cession, bringing lesser ones indefinitely,
would retard the population, civilization
and property, no one can doubt that the
extent of it would be very grea. and iniu-
riuus.
The proposed emancipation would short
en- this war, perpetuate pesee, insure this
increase In population. and proportionably
the Increase in the wealth of the country.
With this we should pay all that emanci-
patton would cost without our other debts,
easier than we should pay our other debts
without 1t. live had allowed our old ma
tonsi debt to run on at 6 per cent. per
annum, simple interest, from the end of
our ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS till to-day with
! out paying anything on either principal or
| interest, each man of US would owe less
on that department now than each man
owed upon it then, and this because our
increase OF men during the whole period
has been greater than per cent, and has
! run faster than the interest upon the debt
Thus time alone relieves debtor nation
so long as its population increases faster
| than unpaid interest accumulates on its
| deLt. This fact would be no excuse for de
laying the payment of what is instly due
but 1t shows the great importance of time
In this connection, the great ADJ antages Of
| policy by which we shall not have to paw
until we number 100000, 900 what, by a
different policy, we would have to pay now
when the number is 81 900, 600. In a word
It shows that dollar viii be much harder
10 pay for the war than a dollar for emau-
cIpation on the proposed plan: and then
the latter will cost no blood,-no precious
life. 1t will be saving of both.
As to the second article, | think il would
be Improbable to return to bondage the
class of persons therein contemplated -
Some of them, doubtless, In the property
sense. belong to loyal owners, and hence
provision is made in this article for com
pensating SUCH
The third article relates to the future of
the freed people. 1t does not oblge, but
merely authorize Congress to aid in colon
Izlng such as may consent. This ought
not TO be regarded as Objectionable on the
one hand or on the other, inasmuch as it
comes to naught, unless by mutual consent
of the people to be deported and the Amer
lean voters through their representatives in
| Congress.
cannot make it better known than it
alrtaiy is that | strongly favor coloniza-
ton, and yet | wish to say that there is an
objection against the colored people re-
naming in the country which is largely
imaginary, if not sometimes Malicious
1t is insisted that their presence would in
Jure and tisplace white labor and white
labtrers. If there ever could be q proper
time for mere arguments that time is surely
not now. In times like the present, men
should write nothing for which they would
not willingly be responsible through time
and eternity. Is it true, then, that colored
people can displace any more white labor
by being free than remaining slaves? If
thoy stay in their own places they jostle
no 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 without deportation
would probably enhance the wages of
white labor, and very surely not reduce
| them. Thus the customary amount of
labor would still have to be performed