Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1864-06-16

The statistics Of industry and popula
ton show that they are industriou
when opportunity is given. Look a
Maryland an example almost within
sight of the Capitol. Free negroc
comprise onc-eighth Of the population
The people Of that State have Away
relied upon the labor Of these negroes
and recently, by a majority of NOR
than fifteen thousand, have decide,
in favor of Immediate and nDcondi
tional emancipation as the true polio.
of the State.
New Orleans, as appears by tn
census Of 1860, contained in that yea
q population Of one hundred and sew
enty-five thousand of these fifteen
thousand were free colored, ten thou
sand slaves, and the remainder whites
The free colored men were taxed TO
an average of 81 1000 to each person
while the whites were taxed for onl.
1882 to each person. How have the.
acquired this wealth if not by thei
own industry? Some of the wealth.
est inhabitants of the city of Charles
ton, South Carolina, are the free color
ed population. Experience demon
strates at Port Royal and elsewhere
where the freedmen have been permit
ted to occupy abandoned lands ant
cultivae them that they are industri
Gus and prosperous, accommodating
property and improving the lands al
Iottcd to them. ...-.... .......,r
The results of emancipation in tho
English and French colonies prov,
that the freedmen as a class are in
dustrions. .-.s a...#. .sn .#.
Lord Stanley, in 1912, characteriz
ed the transition from slavery to lib
erty in the following terms a3@
"The negroes are happy and satisfied
they give themselves to labor they hav,
ameliorated their manner Of living and in
creased their comfort while crimes have Ill
minshed, their moral habits have become bet
ter "4.
He further says:
"The number of negroes who became free
holders through their industry and economy
amounted in the whole island of Jamaica tc
two thousand one hundred and fourteen in
1888, under the apprentice system, which
was abolished in that year, and the number
increased to seven thousand three hundred
and forty, two years afterwards. - ..
In Jamaica, tho most important Of
the slave colonies, the freedmen, in
four years, expended for the purchase
of lands and the erection Of houses
more than four million francs. Of the
eighty.two thousand slaves cmancipa.
ted in Guinea fifteen thousand nine
hundred and six had become freehold
ers in l843. 'aa.
A colonist of Jamaica in 1851, says
at may be supposed that the whites have
| the pre-eminence there.
Z" But apart from that pre-eminence which re
suits from wealth and intelligence in every
community, the whites have no privilege ovel
their fellow-citizens. We have proved by ex,
perience that the colored man can raise him
self to the first rank of civil society and hold
his place there as well as any European by
origin"
On all these points the French testi
mony accords completely with the
English reports.
After emancipation the aggregate
commerce of the French colonies in
creased. The value of productions
increased, Notwithstanding the unfa
vorable legislation of the French AS
sembly. 1t is true, for three years af
ter the emancipation exports largely
fell off, but recovered again in five
years and in ten years, in some Of
the islands, doubled.
Both before and after emancipation
in the English and French colonies thu
home Governments sought to increase
colonial production by encouraging
the immigration of hired laborers.
This experiment did not prove sue.
cessful, from a variety of causes. But
it did prove that the hired laborers
from Africa were the most industri-
Gus and least vicious. In other words,
it is from the African race that labor.
ers are borrowed destined to replace
other Africans who are accused of idle.
ness and vice.
Is it likely that this great work OF
emancipation could have progressed
until the stain of slavery now rests
upon but one nation of Europe had its
results shown the black race unfit for
freedom In some instances distur.
Dances and Instructions followed
emancipation /; but in no instance
were they the result of it. The tran
sition has generally been peaceful
The emancipation of eight hundred
thousand slaves, on the same day and
at the same hour, in the English colo
MES, did not cause as much disturb
ance as an election in some of the
Democratic wards in New York city
Emancipation was no more RESPONSE.
BILE for revolution and outbreak in the
colonies than was our Government re-
sposible for the riot of Mr.. Scymour's
friends last summer, or for the recent
rebellion in Illinois. Political dema.
gogues in the colonies, in some instan
ces, took advantage of the ignorance
of the freedmen, the fruit Of which was
revolution, as these riots were the lie.
gitimate fruit of the teaching of men
in this Hall and out of it who are now
the allies, and who formerly were the
partsans, of those directing the re-
bellion.
The colored man with proper encour
agement is industrious, does acqnil
property and appreciates with us the
blessings Of liberty, is ready with Us
to die in its defence, and should re-
ceive the generous encouragement oil
a magnanimous people and the pro
tecting agis of u just Government.
Mr.. Speaker, no man believes that
the institution of slavery can survive
this rebellion when destroyed it ID
our duty to protect the freedmen ia
the conquered territory as well as the
white race. They live within our
territory and will continue so to live
| look upon any scheme Of colonial.
ton as impracticable. and if practica.
BILE, pernicious in it's results to the in.
dustry of the nation. We need these
freedmen to till our fields and increase
our production there is now and al
~avS w III ha in THE counfrv n roat do,