Phoenix tribune., 1919-12-27
signing OF EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
WAS purely A WAR MEASURE and No
CREDIT IS DUE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

One Vi the leaulnS race papers OF
this country. We have failed to re-
ceive any such article from the AS
sociated Negro Press, and this strong
editorial from the pen of one of our
group will prove interesting reading
to some The article follows:)
That the Republican party freed
the Negroes is one Of the biggest
frauds which has been foisted upon
the Negro and the American public.
1t is not true. Now what are the
facts?
The chief issue between the North
the Civil war, and consequently the
emancipation of the slaves, was:
Who shall control the national con-
gress? Who shall control the power
to tax? WHY?
WELL, the South was agricultu-
raj; it raised cotton and had to buy
machinery for giving and cultivat-
\ ing it.
The North, on the other hand, was
industrial, and manufactured such
machinery as the South needed Eng
land also manufactured such ma
chinery as the South needed.
Now, the South wanted to buy
her machinery in the cheapest mar
ket and England was the market Be-
sides, the Manchester textile indus
try of England bought millions of
bales of cotton from the South In
other words, England was the chief
market of King Cotton. Now the
northern manufacturers wanted to
sell machinery to the South. But in
order to do it they must undersell
the manufacturers of England. This
could be done only by levying a tax
upon manufactured goods brought
over from England. Because the tax
upon the article would raise the
price OF the article above the same
article made in the North. But
if these goods were imported free of
any tax, then England could under
sell the manufacturers of the North,
and thereby monopolize the trade
of the South. This tax was called
a tariff and has been known as the
protective tariff.
Hence, the North wanted to get
control of congress in order to levy
a tax on wares made in England
which were used in the South, and
the South wanted to get control of
congress in order to establish free
trade or to make it possible for
goods from England to come in free
of any tax. so that it could buy
them at cheaper price.
Now, as means of getting control
of congress the South attempted to
extend slavery to the non-slave terri
tory which would result in increas-
ing its power in congress. The north
opposed extension of slavery into
new territory only because such an
extension would give to the South a
political advantage in congressman
not because the North opposed slav-
cry of Negroes, as such.
Slavery had already existed in the
North and was only abolished in the
North because the pious Puritans
sold rum to the slave traders which
was used to promote the slave trade
between Africa, the West Indies and
the South.
Now, the Republican party was the
party of the northern manufacturers
at the outbreak of the Civil war and
Lincoln was its spokesman. Lincoln
repeatedly said that his main object
was to save the Union and not to
free the slaves. Lincoln, as the rep
resentative of the manufacturers.
wanted to keep the South in the
Union, because what value would It
have been to have gained the power
to tax and to have lost the market
in which the goods taxed were to
be sold? The Emancipation proc
lamation was purely war measure.
Lincoln only armed 100000 Negro
soldiers when he was compelled to-
It is as logical to maintain that
the Republican party desired to free
the. Negro as it is to maintain that
tenant desires to pay rent. The
tenant knows that in order to live
in house he has got to pay rent.
Lincoln, as the voice of the Repub-
lican party knew that in order to
preserve the Union. he had to eman-
ripate the Negroes.
1t is well to inquire into the cause
of the Civil war and the consequent
Freeing Of the Negro, only in order
10 relieve the Negro mind of any