Nebraska advertiser., 1862-12-13

"a " NAL@
large class of our most valuable citizens,
and | trust that the liberal basis upon
which it has been organized will not only
meet your appreciation, but that It Will
realize at no distant day, the fondest an
~tcipation Of It's most sanguine friends,
and become the fruitful source OF adVan-
tage to all our people.
THE PRoCLAMATioN OF SEPTEMBER I'D.
On the 22d day of September last a
proclamation was issued by the Execu-
uve-a copy of which is herewith submit
ted. In accordance with the persose ex-
pressed in the second paragraph Of that
paper | now respectfully recall your at
tention 10 what may be called %compensa
ted emancipation. A nation may be said
to consist Of its territory, tits people and
its laws. The territory is the only part
which is of certain durability. lone
generation passeth away and another
generation commeth, but the Earth abb
deth for ever.
II UNION ONE n INS~EPARABLE.
That portion of the earth's surface
which is owned and inhabited by the
people of the United States is well ad-
apted to the home of one national family.
1t is not well adapted for two or more
Its vast extent and its variety of climate
and productions are of advantage IN the
age of one people, whatever they might
have been in former ages. Steam and
telegraphs and intelligence have brought
these to be an advantageous combination
for n united people.
THE FOLLY OF DIsUNION.
In the inaugural address | briefly poln-
ted out the total i~nadequacy of dIsunion
as a remedy for difficulties between the
people of the two sections. did so In
language which | cannot improve, and
which, therefore, | beg to repeat.
THE MATTER IN A
Zone section of cur country believes
slavery is right and ought to be extended,
while the other believes it is wrong and
ought not to be extended. This is the
only substantial dispute. The fugitive
slave clause of the Constitution and the
law for the suppression of the African
slave trade are each as well enforced,
perhaps, as any law can ever be in a
community where the moral sense of the
people imperfectly support the law itself.
The great body Of the people abide by
the legal obligations in both cases, and a
few break over each. This, 7 think,
cannot be perfectly cured; and it would
be worse in both instances after the sep
aration of the sections than before. The
foreign slave trade, now imperfectly sup
pressed, would be ultimately revived
without restriction in n section, while
fugitives now only partially surrendered,
would not be surrendered at all to the
other.
Physically speaking, we cannot sepa-
rate, We cannot remove our respective
sections from each other nor build an i'm
passible wall between them. A husband
and wife may be divorced and 60 out of
the presence and beyond the reach Of
each other, but the different parts of our
country cannot do this. They cannot but
remain face to face, and intercourse eth
er amicable or hostile must continue be-
tween them. Is i; possible then to make
that intercourse more advantageous or
more satisfactory after separation than
before? Can aliens make treaties easier
than friends can make lars? Can trea-
ties be more faithfully enforced between
aliens than laws car among friends q
Suppose you 60 to war, You nno fight
always, and when after much less on both
sides, and no gain on either, you cease
fighting, the identical old question as TO
terms of intercourse are again upon YOU.
There Is no line, straight or crooked,
suitable for a national boundary, upon
which to divide. Trace through from
east to west, upon the line between the
free and slave country, and we shall find
a little more than one-lhird of It's length
are rivers easy to be crossed, and popu-
lated, or soon to be populated thickly
upon both sides, while in nearly all its
remaining length are merely surveyors
lines, over which people may walk back
and forth without any consciousness of
their presence. No part of this line can
be made any more difficult to pass by
writing IL down on paper or parchment,
as a national boundary"
WHAT SECESSION RREND
The fact Of separation, if it comes,
gives up on the part of the seeding sec
ton, the fugitive slave clause, along with
all other constitutional obligations, upon
the section seeded from, while | should
expect no treaty stipulation would ever
be made to take its place.
"THE GREAT BODY OF THE REPUBLIC"
But there is another difficulty. The
great interior region bounded east by the
Alleghanies, north by the British Domin-
ions, west by the Rocky Mountains, and
south by the line along which the cult.
walton of corn and cotton meets, and
which includes part of Virginia, part of
Tennessee, all of Kentucky, Ohio,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri,
Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, and the Terri
tories of Dacotah, Nebraska, and a part
of Colorado, have about ten millions of
people, and will have fifty millions with
in fifty years, if not prevented by any
political folly or mistake. L. contains
more than one third of the country
owned by the revOlted States-certainly
more than one million surface miles, one
half as populous as Massachusetts already
Is II would hava more than Seventv- 6vn