Year: 1862

cent TdllO Vi IuCItaet lCuOs 81 mo
= 790-3.556 per cent. ratio of increase
t This shows an average decennial increas
. of 3.460 per cent. in population througI
the seventy years from our first TO on
last census taken. 1t is seen that tn,
ratio of increase at no one of these sever


periods is either two per cent. below O.
two per cent. above the average, thu
showing how infexible, and consequently
how reliable the law of increase in oui
case is. Assuming that ii will continue
it gives the following results: 1870
42,323,341; 1880, 5G,967,2lG; 1890
76,677,872; 1900, 103,208,415; 1910
1873, 8,918,526; 1920, 186,984,335; 1880
! Pol ,G80,9l4. These figures show that
our country may be as populous as Eu-
rope is at some point between 1920 and
1930--say about 1925-our territory at
73 l-3 persons to the square miles being
at the capacity to contain 2l7,136,000 ;
and we will reach this, too, if we do not
ourselves relinquish the chances by the
folly and evils of disunion, or by long
and exhausting wars springing from the
only great element Of discord among US.
While it cannot be foreseen exactly how
much one huge example Of secession,
breeding lesser ones inde fnitely, would
retard the population, civilization and
prosperity, no one can doubt that the ex-
tent Of it would be very great and injuri-
Gus. The proposed emancipation would
shorten the way, perpetuate peace, in
sure this increase Of population, and pro-
portionably the wealth of the country
With this we should pay all the emaBei-
patton cost, together with our other
debts, easier than we should pay our 9TH
er debts without it. If we had allowed
our old national debts to run at per
annum, simple interest, from the end of
our revolutionary struggle till to-day,
without paying anything either on prin-
cipal or interest, each man of US would
owe less upon that debt now than each
man owed upon it then-and this because
our increase of men through the whole
period has been greater than 6 per cent,
and has run faster than the interest upon
the debt.


Thus time alone relieves the debtor
nation, so lcng as its population increases
faster than unpaid interest accumulates
on its debt. This fact would be no ex-
cuse for delaying the payment for what
is justly due-but it shows the great i'm
portance of time in this connecion-the
great advantage of a policy by which we
shall not have TO pay until we number a
hundred millions, what by different
policy we should have to pay now when
the number is 100000. In a word,
it shows that dollar will be much hard
er to pay for the war than will be a dol
lar for emancipation on the proposed
plan, and then the latter will cost no
blood-no precious life. 1t will be a sa-
wing Of both.


THE FUTURE OF TIE EMANCIPATED


SLAVE.


The third article relates to the future
of these freed people. 1t does not oblige,
but merely authorizes Congress to aid in
colonizing such as may -cnasent This
ought not to be regarded as Objectionable
on the one hand or on the other, mas
much as it comes to nothing unless by
mutual consent Of the people to be de-
ported and the American voters through
their Representatives in Congress. |
cannot make it better known than it al
ready is, that | strongly favor colonial
ton, and yet wish to say there is an OBJ
lection urged against the colored per-
sons remaining in the country, which is
largely imaginary, if not sometimes ma
licious. 1t is insisted that their presence
would injure and displace white labor
and white laborers. If there ever could
be a proper time for mere argument.
that time surely is not now. In times
like the present, men should utter no.
thing for which they would not willingly
be responsible through time and eterni-
ty. Is it true, then, that colored people
can displace any more white labor by be-
ing free than remaining slaves? II they
stay in their old places they jostle no
laborers. If they leave their old places
they leave them open to white laborers.
Logically there is neither more nor less
of it.


Emancipation, even without deporta-
ton, would probably enhance the wages
of white labor, and very surely would
not reduce them. Thus the customary
amount of labor would still have to be
performed. The freed people would
surely not do more than their old proper