Emancipation and the war : compensation essential to peace and civilization

              North ~rolina State Lihary
galeigh
E~fANCIPATION AND THE WAR.
Compensation Esseutiai !o Peace and Civilization.
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I~ WRICH IT IS M1DE 1PP1RENT TH1T TOE RESOVKCES OF TilE
COUNTRY 1RE TIIREE-~'OLD GRE1TER T01N TRE EIlER.
GESCY, WRleH WILL C1LL FOR LITTLE, IF
1NY, 1DDITIOll'1L TU&TION • ... .
By DA.J.~IEL It GOODLOE, OF NORTH CAROLINA .
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"If dvU "If OOIll~, It IIl~u r~ctlIlD come, t. thll b~lt .. gued CaplW, II tllla bultled OonruDllnL to He million.
"f Lt.t Inbjecto In arlllt, l11d ha ... no right to brut the fe'~n .. hlth Ihey are forilll; Inlo '1I'ordJ f No! Ttle .1'
power of lhe GOHnulleo1 UD. ''''eep Ibllw.t!IIIUOD inLo We Ou.lr."-J'04,.. q..lnc~ Adofllf • .. .. ~
INTRODCC'I'IQS
Tht! ,uthor of thi. eUIY i, len ambitious of
lIubmitting I ipeclfic plan for the abolition of
Sl,very, than 01 .howing its necessity to the re.­to
ration of peace lind union,-and that thOle can
Duly be made permanent ant! genuine by award­illg
Iiber:li compensation to the slal"eholder.. It
is ar,tued ~i.J1l.t the amelioration of thf' black race
r~,1 only l>e effected through the agency of the
whiteB,-and, to .ecure thl" fair compenaatlon
muet be made for the dejJrhetlon of what South­('
rn men regerd a. their property. It Is main­tained
further, that the i.aue of GOI"erument
atoch to the Southern proprieton, to the extent
of a thousand or twehe hundred millionl, while
Inluring perfect peace and good will between tile
~ort h and Soulh, and between the whIte and
black. races, would at the lime time stimulate In­dualry
In both uctlona beyond all precedent ;
lind the North, in thia way, would he repaid (or
ill ahare in the public burden. Northern agricul­ture,
manufactu re. lnd commerce would receh.
a new lnd unprecedented Impulse (rom the aug­mented
demandl of their full-handed Southern
CU l tomerl . The South would retain el"ery pro­ductive
resource of land an. labor It ponened be­(
ora lhe revolt, and the c"h I'alue of the 11"t's
buldt'. ; and the Tl~lult would be In amount of
importl and e1porla, of profill and prolperlty,
never before known, and a public leyenUe ade­quate
to lhe dtlmaadl upon the trealuay, wltb li t­tle
II any additioDal tu:aUon, Ilia urged that the
alleml't to abolilh Sll1e,.,. without compenaaUon
would embitter and prolong the war, perhapi (or
years, and tbu. cost mOre than the nlue of the
alavel; whUe success would leaye the South
proatrated in resourcea and burlliu.g with iflll'I •.
cable resentmenU. It b propo~<Jd to l>egiu the
work of emancipation by .ubmittlng to the (unl
Slal-e States the pUrpose o( the G"vemlDellt wiah
reference 10 the rebell, accompanied with the 0(­(
er o( compenlltion, at a .pecUie .ahalloa of
their .lave.. The insignificarwe 01 t! e pul..JJe
debt \ .. bich tbi. Icheme InYo!vU, compaled wltb '
the reaourcf'l of the country, are demon,lnted
by ahowing the three_fold greater burtIeo. whicla
the people of Great Britain sUlta.ined CorCy rura
ago.
'VAIIlUIG!e., All'. II, 1811.
TilE l'XCEBlltTY or XM.utCIP"'''IO!J,
III. the hope and the pnyer of the (po,t hu­mane
&lid enlighteneJ part of the American people,
that the civil war which hn rent the country In
twain will only terminate In tho extinction or the
cau-e of It. The Idea Gain. ground dally, that In
.orne lI"y, Slal·ery mUlt be abolllhed before'vo
can h.ve a return of peace and prolperlty. WI ..
and good men and women ace, In the evcnta by
which we are aurrounded, the hand of I'rovldence
Itretched forth to break. el'ery roke, whllo laga­cloul
obaervenl of the world'. affalrl lee no lolu_
tion oCthe problem but In the total ol·erthrow of
Sla\·ery.
P rior to the commencement of hOltilltlu by tba
andaclou. attack on the Nallonlll tlag at Fort
SUlllter, there "" an IndeWhle feeliog perl'arUn,