The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-04-23
gsaOGR = ESsGY G1F REV. JOHN
RANKIN.
Hhe Forum dion Of VvhnG Il
Now the VSestern frncI
society nt Cincinnati.
CHAPTER IV-continued.
cATFCuISM.

q. S.-What other evils have the
siaVeholding power inflicted upon
the free States!
A.-They are so numerous that
only few Of them can now be
mentioned. The slaveholding pow
er, by getting up this great REBEL
ion, has broken up the regular chan
nels of commerce, and consequently
has caused o siagnhtion of business
by which thousands upon thousands
OF our enterprising business men
are broken up and reduced to pow
rrty; and vast are the numbers OF
the laboriDg classes that are depriy-
ed of employment and reduced to
suffering and want. The free States
baYe been obliged to furnish men
and money TO resist this enormous
slaveholdiRg power, and save the
Government from inter ruin. Hun
dreds of millions of dollars must be
expended, and what is vastly worse,
great must be the sacrifice OF life.
Many have already fallen upon the
field of battle.
.. 9.-Shall we suffer these three
hundred and fifty thousand men,
who have committed all these enor-
mities, and who are now drenching
this nation in blood, TO continue 10
hold their unjust, ruinous power!
A.-NoI neverl They have fer
feited their lives aud property. Let
us free their slaves. Let the work
ing and business men of the nation
demand this OF the Government,
and il will be done. Nothing short
OF this can ever make this nation a
Union. Let this be done: and the
down-trodden white people of the
South will soon feel deliverance
and shout for joy. The welfare OF
the whole nation demands the eu-
tire abolition of The slaveholding
power. A thousand millions OF
dollars will not repair the damage
they have already done, aside from
the lives sacrificed, for which no re-
paration can be made. These three
hundred and fifty thousand slave
holders have clothed this nation of
thirty-one millions of people In
mourning. Shall this ruinous pow
or be permitted to live and rise
again and drench this land with
blood? / call upon my fellow
working men, and all who desire
the welfare of this nation, and en-
treat them, by all the principles OF
justice and humanity, and by the
sorrows of those who are weeping
over dear relatives slain in battle, to
unite in demanding OF the Govern
ment the abolition of the slaYehold-
ing power.
q. lO.-WOuld not the slaves, il
liberated, come into the free states,
and be u nuisance?
A.-They will have no induce
ment to come to the free States.
They can live more cheaply in the
South than in the North, because
less clothing and fuel are necessary
aud the products of the South are
more profitable than those of the
North, consequently wages will be
better. The women that are now
working in the fields will go t.
housekeeping, aud this will create
demand for q half more hands
and the larger part of the colOred
people of the free States will go tC
meet that demand. BY the laws Of
affinity, the colored people will GO
together and occupy the warmer
parts of the South, and the white
people will occupy the cooler parts
and gradually a separation between
the races will take place, by the OPP.
Grafton of the laws of affinity, with.
out any wrong.
Such as are opposed to cOloreG
people living in the free States
should go for freeing the slaves
That will, to q great extent, draw
the colored people to the South. 81
long as slavery exists, the free col
ored people will be forced out upOI
the free States. Such as are oppos
ed to- the increase of the colOreG
race in this country, should go TO
freeing the slaves. Slavery, BY
breeding slaves for market, undulN
increases the race. When liberated
the colored people will increase b!
laws of marriage, and, consequent
ly, they will increase less thai
when bred for market. So long q
slavery exists, slaves will b
brought in from Africa, in despite
of all the laws that can be made
All who hate the negroes should g
for freeing the slaves. 1t will les
son the increase of the race in thi
nation. Let not our hatred of ne
groes, nor our prejudices agains
them, induce us TO suffer that pow
CT to exist longer, which ha
brought so much ruin upon our ma
ton, and which is now drenchini
our land with blood, and reducing
large section of our country to
state of barbarian.
1t was published soon after tn
rebel war commenced. 1t cause,
great excitement at Ripley amOn
some OF the better classes of socie
ty and some of the baser sort. Som
were strongly inclined to mob tn
author, but it was deemed unsafe I
to attempt it. Two thousand c
the tracts were thrown into the riS
err by some ruflians. The sO"iet
printed twenty thousand, and
was translated into German, an
circulated among that class of cit
zens. 1t was well received in a
places except at Ripley.
4 small building was set on fl
In Ripley at night. The colOre
people thought the design of Sc
ting fire to the building was that (
exciting the attention of the peop
while a mob would go out and INC
Mr.. Rankin, who lived n half OF
mile out of town. Consequently,
number OF colored men went out
defend Mr.. Rankin against mo
in case one should come, but non
came.
Two of the tracts Mr.. Rank
wrote for the society were designt
to promote a peaceful emancipatiC
of the slaves by the general goveaI
ment paying each slavehOldiRg sta
the value of the slaves it held, upC
the condition of immediate aud Of
tire emancipation. One tract co..
tanned the reasons why the fr,
states should agree to do it, and Il
other reasons why the slaveholniI
states should agree to do it. III
arguments were so clear and CO
elusive that no one attempted to r
flute them. 1t was believed that Il
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