Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-12-10


20 $50 ENANGIPATIoS PROCLAIM ALTON
On the 22d day of September last l.r
d clamation was issued by the Executive.
N copy OF which is herewith submitted
r accordance with the purpose expresse
: IN the second paragraph of that paper.
l. now respectfully recall your attention
! what may be called Compensated Ernal
Il cipation. A nation may be said to COZ
:; sist Of its territory ITS people and its law
e The territory is the only part which is ,
! certain durability. lone generation pas
i eih away and another generation eoiIetl
|, bat the earth abideth forever .i
? 1t is of the first importanee to dul
, consider that portion of the earth's SUI
face which is owned and inhabited by til
people'U Uf the United States IS well adar
ted to be the home of one national fam
: lily, and it is not well adapted for two o
! more. It's vast extent aud its variety u
climate and productions are of adyantag
in the age of our people. whatever the,
might have been i'm former ages Steam
and telegraphs and intelligence llaY,
brought these to be anadyantageous com
bination for one united people. a-l
In the inaugural Address brief,
pointed out the total inadequaey of dis
union AS remedy for differences between
the people of the two sections. did SC
IN language which | cannot improve and
which. therefore | beg to repeat.
| One section of our country believes sla-
very is right and ought to be extended,
while the other believes it is wrong, and
ought not to be extended This is the on
ly substantial dispute. a..s ils
The fugitive slave clause of the Consti-
tuition and the law for suppression of the
African slave trade are each as well en-
forced perhaps as any law can ever be in
community where the moral sense of the
people ihperteetly supports the law ITSELF
me great body of hepeople abide by the
legal obligations in both cases and few
! break over into each. This / think can
not be perfectly cured, and it would be
worse in both instances after separation
OF the sections than before f.a ilH r
The foreign slave trade now imperfect
ly suppressed would be gltimlt ltely re-
vived without restrietiction in nesection,
while fugitives. now only partially sur
rendered, would not be surrendered at
all by the others. Physically speaking we
cannot separate, we cannot remove our
respective sections from each other nor
build an impossible wall between them.
A husband and wife may be divorced and
go out of the presence and beyond the
reach of each other, hut the different
parts OF our country cannot do this.
They cannot but remain face to face
and intercourse either amicable or hostile
must continue between them. Is it pos
sible then to make that intercourse more
advantageous or more satisfactory after
separation than before? Can aliens make
treaties easier than friends can make laws?
Can treaties be more faithfully enforced
between aliens than laws can among
friends? Suppose you go. to war You
cannot light always, and after much loss
on both sides and no gam on either you
cease lighting, the identical old question
as to terms of intercourse are again upon
you. There is no line straight or crooked
suitable for. 2 national boundary upon
which to divide.
Trace through from east to west upon
the line between the free and slave ooun-l
try, and we shall find a little more than
one-thirds of it's length are rivers easv to
be crossed, aifd populated, or soon to be
populated thickly upon b1th sides. while
in nearly all its remaining length are
merely surveyors lines, over which peo-
pie may walk back and forth without any
Of their presepoe. No part
of this line can be made any more diff
cult TO pass by writing it down on paper
or parchment as national boundary
The fact of separation, If it comes, gives
up on the part of the seeding section the
fugitive slave clause, along with all other
constitutional obligations upon the SEQ
ton seeded, from which / should expect
no treaty stipulation would ever be made
to take its place. But there is another
difficulty. The great interior. region
bounded east by the Alleganies, north by
the British dominions, west by the Rocky
Mountains, and south by the line along
which the cultivation Of corn and clifton
meets, and which includes part of Virgin
ia, part of Tennessee, all of Kentucky,
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Hi
nois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa. Minnesota.
and the territories of Dacotah. Nebraska. l
and part of Colorado, have above ten
millions of people, and will have fifty
millions within fifty years, if not prevent
ed by any political folly or mistake. 1t
contains more than one-third of the coun-
try owned by the revolted States, certain |
ly more than one million of surface miles. !
0ne-half as populous as Massachusetts,
already is, it would have more than sew
enty-tive millions of people. a glance at
the map shows that, territorially speak !
ing, it is the great body of the Republic. |
The other parts are but marginal borders |
to it the magnificent region sloping west !
from the Rocky Mountain to the Pacific, /
being the deepest and also the richest in I
the undeyeloped resources, I'm the produc- |
ton of provisions, grains, grasses and all 4
which proceed from them, This great (
interior region Is naturally one of the !
most important in the world Ascertain
from the statistics the small proportion of
into cultivation, and also the large and /
rapidly increasing amount of its products, 4
and we shall be overwhelmed with the 4
of the prospect presented; and (
yet this region has no sea coast. touches |
no ocean anywhere. As. part of one ma
ton, its people now find, and may forever !
find, their way to Europe by New York, |
to South America and Africa by New Or |
leans, and to Asia by San Francisco. But /
separate our common country into two
nation, as designed by the present rebel /
lion, and every man in this great interior 1
region is thereby cut off from some one
Or more of these outlets, not, perhaps, by |
a physical barrier. but by embarrassing I
and onerous trade regulations: and this /
is trues wherevera dividing and hounda- |
ry line may be fixed. .'.-..-....l ..-..-
Place it between the now free and slave
country. or place it south of Kentucky or |
north of Ohio, and still the truth remains |
that none south of it can trade to any port !
Or place north of it, and none north of it I
trade to any port or place south of it. ex-
cept upon terms dictated by govern
ment foreign to them. These outlets
east. west, and south. are indispensable I
to the well-beipg of the people inhabit-
ing and to inhabit this vast interior re-
gion. Which - the three may be the |
best is no proper question all are better |
than either and All of right belong to that :
people and to their successors forever.
True TO themselves they will not ask where
/ line of separation shall be, but will VOW
,ather that there shall be no such line