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Show 52 TILE GOLDEN II Ult VII I. TilE GR ADUAL PLAN. tl at lloracc Greeley was A BoiiEMIAN story relates, l l a IIigh-Church teamer w lOll lately travelling on a s ' board, bcmunc much . . tor who was on Episcopalian muns ' . 1 's) soul. At len gth ,. in()" Ins (Grec cy . exercised concern o IT G and 111 a solctnn this clergyman ap Pro ached . · .· '·e if y' ou have ever . ·a " Fn.c nd ' may I 1nqun " t vo1cc, sm , ,, replied Greeley, no . d?" "Wcll,no, been bapttze . . . t d " t I 've been vacClna c . . exactly; bu b t as much to do With . tion has a ou . Gradual ctnanc1pa 1 l Slavery as vacCl-putting down this rc~ellion t Iroug l ' nation has with baptlsm. . tl e Pre idcnt the right . power alone gtvcs l . 1' 1 The war . t1 States \vith lns 1tt c 1 Slavery 1n 10 even to touc l d the rnilitary advantage l 1 done; an finger' as le I as . a reason for his late 1d ass1rrns as which he sees ai o . emancipation with slave . t' to co operate In propOSl lOll - . f f abolition by the war power. States, is sufficient to JUS I y d . Chief' . O'uns. Of the Cotntnan or-In- b ' It is thus one · ff 1 and to n1ake I. t gradua1 wou ld be like .f tnng o a gul . time -if that were possible. . a little at a ' . . .11 help us to crush tlus So far as emanCipation Wl . d . Tadual lan which \vas ever conceive rebelhou, no g P d A y mea nrc d t ~· d can do us the least goo . n an r le t all to his Southern which leaves the slave bound a Tim GRADUAL PLAN. 53 master, keeps hi1n thoro adding to tl!c wealth and support and military power of the hostile section. And if four millions of tho. e laborers remain to furni ·h those supplies to tho enemy, tho South \viii be aLlc to keep in tho field all their white population, and, what .. ever advantages we 1nay gain, their rebellion will survivo tho youngest person in this nation. But, looking at tho matter apart from tho national emergency, and sin1ply as a question of political economy, to say that gradual cmanci pation is better for all is to throw away all tho light of experience in this matter. N cgro slaves have within this century been emancipated in seven or eight countries. And if thoro is one thing in which all reports agree, it is, that wherever tho thing was dono in any half way, tho country suffered in exports and imports ; wherever it was done cleanly, immediately, and unconditionally, tho country never failed to reap a full and immediate reward. Whilst tho island of J a1naica, under the gradual plan, groaned under its losses, the adjaccn t i ·lands which made a clean sweep of Slavery saw their five talents at once swell to ton. Russia is now undergoing the same experience with its serfs, who, kept in limbo between Slavery and Liberty, have proved such a burden that the ta ·lnnastcrs arc crying out to the Ozar to have thc1n given equal rights or none at all. IlOl\fER NODDING. I allnclc to tho Rev. IIomcr Wilbur, of the Atlantic Monthly. Many a noble refrain of freedom, which lingers in our hearts in the watches |
