, 1862-12-18

hut that It viii realize, at no distant day, ell the
fondest antcipations Of It's most sanguins friends
and become the useful source Of advantage to
all our people. 5luaes 1Iiets
On the I'D of September list; a proclamation
was issued by the Executive, q copy Of which
is herewith submitted. In accordance with the
purpose expressed in the second paragraph Of
that paper, now respectfully ell your 6tten.
ton to what may be called compensated eman-l
cipali0n. A nation nav be said to consist Of It's
territory, its people and its laws, The territoty
is only that part which Is Of certain dufS6nIly (;
lone generation, plsseth away and another
generation cometh; but the earth abideth for
ever" Il is Of the first Importance to duly con.
slider and estimate this ever enduring fact, that
the portion Of the earth'S Surface oWped and
inhabited by the people Of the United States b
well adapted TO the home Of one national family,
and Il is not well adapted for two or more. It's
vast extent and tafietS n climate and produc-
tons are Of advantage In this age to the exist
ence Of one people, whatever they may have
been in former ages. Steam and Telegraph;
and intelligence, have brought these to be ad-
vantageous to the constitution Of q united peo-
pie. In the inaugural Address, briefly point
ed out the total ihadeduacy Of disGni0h ,as
remedy for differences between the people Of the
two sections did 90 in language which | can.
not improve, and which, therefore, beg to re-
peat: "0ne section Of our country believes
that slavery is right and ought to be extended"
This is the substantial dispute. The fugitive
slave clause OF the Constitution and the aW
for the suppression Of the African slave trade,
are each as well enforced perhaps as any law can
ever be, in country where tho moral sense
Of the people imperEectly supports the law itself
The great body Of the people abide by the legal
obligations in both cases, and a few break over
each. This, think, cannot be perfectly cured,
and It would be, worse in both. instances ailer
separation Of the States than belOre. The for
eign slave trade, now impeTlfctlY suppressed,
would he ultimately renewed without restriction;
while lugitives now only partially surrendered,
would not he surrendered at all by the other.
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, but the different parts Of
the country cannot do this They cannot but
remain face to face, and intercourse either ami
cable or hostile must continue between them.
Is It possible, then, 70 make that intercourse
more advnntaaeona or more satisfactory than
.beioFef Can aliens make treaties ensier than
friends can make lhwsp Can treaties be more
faithfully enforced between aliens than laws
among friehdsl Suppose you 90 10 war, yon
cannot tight always, and when after much loss
on both sides and no gain on either. you eeaae
fighting, the identical questions as TO terms Of
intercourse are again upon yoi There Is no
line, straight or crooked, suitable for q national
boundary, upon which to divide. Trace through
from east 10 west upon the line1 both Of The
free and slave country, and we ehall ind little
more than one third Of It's length are rivers easy
to be crossed aud populated, or so as TO Be
thickly populated on 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 u this line can be made any more dii1- |
cult to pass by writing on paper or parchment,
as q national boundary. The fact Of separation,
IL II comes gives up on the part Of the seeding
section the fugitive clause along with al other
Constitutional obligations upon The section g.
ceded, from which no treaty stipulation would
ever be made to take in that clause. But there
is another difficulty. The great interior section,
bounded east by the Alleghanies, north BY the
British domain, west BY the Rocky Monhtainss
aud south the line lying where the cultivation Of
corn and cotton meet, and which includes part
Of Virginia, part of Tennessee, an Of Kentucky,
Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri,
Kansas, Iowa, MinnesOta; and TerrItufies of
Dacotah, Nebraska, and part 6f Colorado; has
about ten millions Of people, and will have ilty
millions within lllly years, if not prevented BY
any political folly or mistake. II contains mora
than one-third Of the country owned by the re-
volted Statrs, and certainly more than one NIL.
lion miles Of surface. Ono half as populous Is
Massachusetts, already is, Il would have more
than seventy-fiVe millions Of people. A glance
At the map shows that, terFitOFialy speaking, i
is the grsat body of ths republic. The Other
parts are but marginal borders 70 IT, The mag
niicent region sloping west from the Rocky
Mountains to the Pacific, being the deposit Of
great mineral wealth, and also the richest unde-
veloped region in the production Of provisions.
grains grasses, and all such proceeds from themi
that this great interior region Is naturally one Of
the most important in the world, Is certain FROM
statistics Of the small proportion Of the region
which has as yet been brought into cultivation,
and also from the large and rapidly increasing
amotht Of the products. We shall be over
whelmed with the magnitude Of the prospect
presented, and yet this region has no sea coast,
touching no ocean anywhere. As part Of one
nation rs people now may find, and may Tor
ever lind their way to Europe by New York, to
South America by New Orleans, to Asia by San
Francisco. But separate our common eOdhtry
into nations as designed by the present rebellion
aud every man in this great Interior region Is
thereby cut on from one or more Of these out
lets, NOT, perhaps, by physical haffieF, but BY
enEarrnssments onerous TO trade reguatonss
and this is true whenever dividing OF boundary
line may DO fixed. Place il between tbs now
free and the slave country, or place i south 81
Kentucky OF north OF the Ohio, and sill The
truth remains that rome south Of II can trade
with any port or place north Of h, and none
north Of il can trade 10 any port OF place south
Of il, except upon terms dictated by Govern
ment foreign to them. These outlets, east; west,
and south arc indxuensabie 10 the wellheing OF