Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-12-16
COLUMBIA COUNTY, PENNA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1865


fit and good will The experiment involves
us in DO inconsistency; let us, then, go on
and make that experiment in good faith,
and not be too easily dishcarteued.
The country is in need of labor, and the
freedmen ore in need of employment, cul-
ture and protection. While their right of
voluntary migration and expntriatioo is
not to be questioned. l would not advise
their forced removal and colonization.--
Let us rather encourage them 10 honora'
bic and useful industry, where it may be
beneficial to themselves and 10 the couu-
try and, instead of hasty anticipations Of
the certainty of failure, let there be moth
iug wanting TO the fair trial OF the expert.
pent. The change in their condition is
the substitution of labor by contract for
the status OF slavery. The freedmen can.
not fairly be accused of uswillingness 10
work. so long as a doubt remaus about
his freedom of choice in his pursuits, aud
the certainty OF his receiving bis stipulated
wages.
In this the interests of the employer
and employed coincide. Tho employer
desires in bis workmen spirit and alacrity,
and these can be permanently secured in
n other way And il the one ought to
be able to enforce the contract; so ought
the other. The public interest will he best
promoted if the several States will provide
adequate protection and remedies for the
freedmen Until this is in some way ace
complshcd, there is no chance for the ad.
vantageous use of their labor , and the
blame of i'll success will not rest on them,
know that sincere philanthropy is
earnest for the immediate realization Of its
remotest aims but time is always an ele-
mont in reform. 1t is one Of the greatest
acts on record to have brought tour million
Of people iuto freedom. The career Of free
industry must be fairly opened to them !
and then their future prosperity and con.
dition must, after all, rest mainly on them
selves. If they fail, and so perish away,
! let US be careful that the failure shall not
be attributable to any denial cf Justice
In all that relates to the destiny Of the
freedmen, we need not be too anxious TO
real the faiure many incidents which,
from a speculative point of view, might
raise alarm, will quietly settle themselves,
Now that slavery is a. an end, or near
its end, the greatness Of its evil, in the
point Of view of public economy, become:
more and more apparent, Slavery was
essentially monopoly of labor, and a:
such locked the States where it prevailed
against the incoming of free industry
Where labor was the property OF the cap
} italist, the white man was excluded from
! employment, or had but The second bes
chance of finding it, and the foreign emf
} grant turned away from the region wher'
/ his condition would he 50 precarious.-
, With the destruct' on OF the monopoly FIRE
] labor will hasten from all parts of the civil
lied world to assist in developing variou
, and immeasurable resources which hav
G hitherto lain dormant.
$ The eight or nine States nearest th
; Gulf Of Mexico have soil of exuborar
r fertiity,a climate friendly to long lille an
= can sustain denser population than
+ found as yet in any part oil our country
e And in the future influx Of population
them will I've IA inly from the North, {
r from the most cultivated nations III Europ
= From the sufferings that have attend(
e them during our late struggle, let US 10
e away to the future, which is sure to be Il
e den for them with greater prosperity tha
- has ever before been known. The remoV
4, Of the monopoly Of slave labor is pied
'e that those regions will be peopled by n
OF neroas and eeterprislng population, viii
e, will vie with any in the Union in compa'
y ness, inventive genius, wealth and indr
30 try.
Our Government springs from a1d W
We made for the people, not the people for
of Government To them it owes ailegiane
IT from them it must derive its coura.
II, strength aud wisdom. But, while the &c
b. ernmcnt is thus bound to defer to the pt
h. pie, from whom it derives its existence,
ss should, from the very consideration OF
II. origin, be strong in its power OF resistar
W to the establishment of inequalities. \
an uopoes, perpetutie' and class iegsIat'
ent are contrary to the genius Of free COVE
ws meut, and ought not TO be allowed. Ii
ed. there is no room for favored classes
of mouopolics the principle Of our Cover
Of moot is that Of equal laws and freedom
raj industry.
ide Whenever monopoly atlains footh'
bs it is sure to be source of danger, disc
ro. and trouble. We shall but fulfil our du
- as legislators by according "equaI and
hey act Justice to all men, special prisilf
on TO none. The Government is snbordiI
tive to the people but, as the agent and
ugh resentatlve of the people, it must be
had superior to monopolies, which in tn
t of selves ought never 10 begrauted, and wi
ud- where they exist, must be subordinate
Iave Weld to the Government.
re- The Constitution confers on Con!
, OF the right to regulate commerce among
nos! several States. 1t is Of the first pece
for the maintenance Of the Union,
, af- that commerce should be free and u
,pe- structed. No State can be justified in
ex- device to tax the transit oil travel
geral commerce between States. The pos
faith of many States is such that, if they
n in allowed to take advantage OF it Tor pV
right ses Of local revenue, the commerce
Just tween States might be injuriouSly bu
rong. ed, or even virtually prohibited. 1t Il