Nebraska advertiser., 1861-12-05

ment has no Official Information upon t1t
subject. Letters have been written to the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs by severa.
prominent chiefs, giving assurance Of theil
loyalty to the United States, aud expressiog
the wish for the presence q federal troops
to protect them. 1t is believed that on the
repossession of the country by the federal
forces, the Indians viii readily cease the hos
Ii lie demonstrations, and resume their former
relations with US.
Agriculture, confessedly the largest inter
est Of the nation, has not a department or a
bureau. but a clerkship only assigned to it in
the ovenmen While It IS fortunate that
this great interest is SO independent in its ma
tnre as not to have demanded aud extorted
from the government, / respectfully ask Con-
gress to consider whether something more
cannot be given vol UNFAIRLY with general ad-
vantage. Annual reports exhibiting the con-
dition Of our agriculture, commerce and man
ufactures, would present a fund of informa-
ton of great practical value to the country.
While I make no suggestions as TO details, I
venture the opinion that an agricultural and
statistical bureau might profitable be organ
lied.
The execution Of the laws for the suppress
sion Of the African slave trade, has been con-
fded to the Department of the interior. 1t
1t is a subject of congratulation, that the
efforts which have been made for the sup
preston of this inhuman traffic, have recent
" been attended with unusual success. Five
vessels being fitted out for the slave trade,
have been seized and condemned. Two
masters engaged in the trade. and one per-
son equipping the vessel as a slaver, have been
convicted and subjected to the penalty of fine
and imprisonment, and one captain, taking
up a cargo of Africans on board his vessel,
mas been convicted of the highest grade Of
offence under cur laws, the punishment of
which isdeath.
The Territories of Colorado, Dakotah and
Nevada, created bv the last Congress, have
been organized, and civil administration has
been inaugurated therein. under auspices es-
pecially gratifying, when ii is considered that
the leaven of treason was found existing in
some of these new countries when the fede-
raj officers arrived there. The abundant re-
sources of these Territories with the securi-
ty and protection afforded by organized gov
eminent, will doubtless invite to them a large
immigration when peace shall restore the
business Of the country to its accustomed
channels. / submit the resolution of the
territory of Colorado, which evinced the pa
triotic spiIir of the people ofthe Territory
So far, the authority of the of the y S has
been upheld in all the Territories, as it j. to
be hoped it will be in the future. l com-
mend their interests and defence to the en-
lightened and generous care of Congress.
l recommend to the favorable consideration
of Congress the interests of the District Of
Columbia. The instruction has been the
cause of much suffering and sacriic e to the
inhabitants, as they have no representative s
in Congress, that body shonld not overlook
their just claims.
At your late session a joint resolution was
adopted authorizing the President to take the
proper measures for facilitating a proper rep
resentation of the industrial interests of the
United States at the exhibition Of the indus
try of all nations to be holden at London in
the wear 1862. l regret to have been unable
to give personal attention to this subject-a
subject at once so interesting in itself and ex-
t~ensively andfintri ically,,connected with the
material prosperity of the world.
Through the Sec, etaTies of State and Int
rior, a plan or system has been devised and
partly matured, which will be laid before you
underand by virtue of the act of Congress
entitled "An act to confiscate property used
for insurrectionary purposes" approved Aug.
9th. 1861. Legal claims of certain persons
to the labor and service of certain other per-
sons have become forfeited, and numbers of
the latter thus liberated are already Deepen
dent on the United States, and must be prov
ided for IN some way besides this. 1t is net
impossible that some of the States will pass
similar enactmenls for their own benefit re-
spectveIy, and by the operations of which
persons of the same class will be thrown on
their own disposal. In such cese I recon-
mend that Congress provide for accepting
such persons from such States according to
to some mode of valuation in lieu pIo tanto
of direct taxes. Or upon some other plan to be
agreed on with such states respectively, that
such persons, on such acceptatlon by General
Government, be at once deemed free and that
in any event. STEPS be taken Tor colonizing
with classes, or the first one mentioned, if the
the other shall not be brought into expedi-
dience in some place or phases in a climate
~congenial to them.
It might be well to consider, too, whether
the free colored people of the United States
could not so far as individuals may desire, be
included in such colonization. To carry out
the plan of colonization may involve the &C
QUESTION of territory, and also the appropria-
ton of money beyond that to be expended in
the Territorial acquisition. Having p~racticeG
the acquisition of Territory for nearly fifty
years, the question of Constitutional power
to do so is no longer an open one with us
The power was first questioned by Mr.. JEFF
ferson, who, however, in the purchase of
Louisiana, yielded his scruples on the plea of
great expediency,
If it be said that the only legitimate object
of acquiring territory is to furnish homes for
white men. the measure effects the object, for
the emigration of colored men leaves greater
room for white men remaining or coming
here. Mr.. Jefferson, however placed the i'm
portance of acquiring Louisiana more on po-
litical and commercial grounds, than on pro-
yiding room for population, including the
appropriation of money with the acquisition
OF Territory, does not the ~expediency amount
to absolute necessity, that without which the
government cannot be perpetuated.
In considering the policy to be adopted to
suppress the instruction, l have been anxious
ard careful that the inevitable conflict for this
purpose shall not degenerate into a violent
and remorseless revolutionary struggle. ],
therefore, have, in every case, thought prop
er to keep the integrity of the Union prom
inent, as the primary object of the contest on
our part, leaving all questions which are not
Of vifal military i'm portauca tO the mora de-