The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-12-11
les. The Commissioner ofIndian Affairs will

furnish full details.
l submit for your especial consideration,
whether our Indian system shall not be re-
modelled Many wise and good men have been
impressed with the belief that this can be
profitably done.
the commissioners, which shows the progress
that has been made in the enterprise of con
strucsing the Pacific Railroad and this sug-
gests the earliest completion of the road, and
also the favorable action of Congress upon the
projects now pending before them tor enarg-
ing the capacities of the great canals in New
ork and Illinois, as being of vital and rapidly
increasing importance to the whole nation, and
especially to the vast interior region hereinaf
ter to be noticed ut some greater length !
propose having prepared and laid before you,
at an carly day, some Interesting and valuable
statistical information upon this Subject -
The military and commercial Importance of
charging the Illinois and Michigan Canal
and improving the Illinois river, is presented
III the report of Col. Webster to the Secretary
OF DIR, and now transmitted to Congress. |
respectfully ask attention to it
10 carry out TIE provisions ofthe act of Con
gress OF the 10Th of May last have caused
the department. OF y Agriculture in the United
States to be organized The Commissioner in
formed me that within the period OF few
months this Department has established an ex
tensive system ofcorrespondencea and exchange
both at home and abroad, which promise to
effect highly beneficial results in the develop
ment of 4 correct knowledge of recent i'm
provcments in agriculture in the Introduction
OF new products, and in the collection of the
agricultural statistics of several States. Also
that 1t will soon be prepared to distribute lar
gely, seeds, cereals plants, and cuttings and
has already published and literally diffused
much valuable information in anticipation of Il
more elaborate report, which will in due time
be furnished, embracing some valuable tests
IN chemicals science now in progress in the
laboratory. The creation of this Department
was for the Immediate benefit of Il large class of
our most valuable citizens and trust that the
liberal basis upon which it has been organ
lzed Will not only meet your appreciation, but
that 1t VIII realize at no distant day all the
fondest anticipations of its most sanguine
friends, and become the fruitful source of ad
vantage to all our people.
On the I'D day of September last, procla-
nation was issued by the Executive a COW of
which is herewith submitted In accordance
with the purpose expressed in the second para
graph OF that paper, L now respectfully recall
your attention to what may be called Com
pensated Emancipation" \ nation may be
SAID to consist of its territory, its people, and
ITS laws The territory is the only part which
Is OF certain durability. The generation pass
eth away and another generation cometh. but
the earth abideth forever. 1t is of the first
Importance to duly consider and estimate this
ever enduring part. That portion of the earth 5
surface which is owned and inhabited by the
people OF the United States is well adapted to
De the nome OF one national family, and it is
not well adapted for two or more. Its vast ex
tent and Its variety Of climate and production
are OF advantage in this age for one people
whatever they might have been in former ages
steam and tele.raphs, in intelligence have
brought these to be an advantageous combina-
ton for one united people.
In my Inaugural Address briefly noint.J ont
the total inadequacy of disunion a. n remedy for
the difference between the people of the two sec
lions did 50 in language which, therefore,
pcs 10 repeat; one section of our country be-
Heves slavery l. right and ought to be extended
while the other believes it is wrong and ought moi
to be extended This Is the only substantial dis
Pute- The FUGITIVE Slave clause of the Cons titu
ii"h anu thc la" i1r suppression of the African
slave trade are each well enforced pcrh,t,. -.
any law can ever be in community where the
moral sense oi the people imTerfectly SUPPORTS the
law ITSELF The great body of the peop!c abide nv
the dry legal obligations in both CIV -cs and a few
break over each. This, think can not be per
icctly cured. and it would be worse in both cases
after tue separation of the sections than before
ne foreign slave trade. now impcrfecty suppress
eli, would be ultimately revived without rc-tric-
ton IN one section, while fugitive slaves now on
ly partially surrendered would not be surren dcrcd
ut all by the other. Physically speakino we cam
not separate; we cannot remove respective sec
tons from each other, nor build an impossible
van "e. ech theh. Il husband and wife may be
divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond
the reach of each other, but the different part of
our country cannot do this They cannot but re-
mann face to face, and intercourse either amicabIe
or hostile, must continue between them Is II
possible, then, TO make that intercourse more ad-
ambiguous or more satisfactory after separation
than before? Can aliens make treaties eaiinr than
friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faith
fully enforced between aliens than laws are among
= friends? supp 'sc You go to war, you cannot feht
Always; ana when, after much loss on both sides,
and no gain on either you fighting, the idcr-
teal old questions to terms of intercourse are
again upon you
There is no line, straight or crooked suitable
Tor national boundary upon which to divide
Trace through from East to West. upon the line
Letween the Tree and slave country, and We shall
n little more than one-third of its length are
fIvers easy to be crossed and populated thickiv I
upon both sides, while nearly ali its remainin,
length are merely surveyors lines over which peo
pie may walk back and forth without any conscious
ness of their presence No part this line can be
ntdc any more dIiicult to pass by writing ii down
ou paper or parchment a national boundary-i
"he fact of separation if it comes, gives up on the
TART OF the seeding section the obligations of
ne Fugitive Slave clause, along with all 9TH
constitutional obligations upon the section
'ceded from, while should expect treaty stip-
ttion would ever be made to- take its place.
Bat there Is another difficulty. The great in
Eor bounded east by the AIIeghanies, north by ,
e British domInIons west by the Rocky Noun
ms, and south by the line along which the cuI-
sc OF corn ana cotton, meets, and which includes
rt OF NIrgInIa part of Tennessee. all Of Ken 9
Ky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin. IlIi- I
rs, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa. Minnesota and the ,
,rritories of DakOtah, Nebraska. and part of +
dorado, has about ten millions of people and =,
'iH have fifty millions within fifty years ii not I
revented by any political folly or mistake 1t !
ontains more than third of the country owned !
= the United States, certainly. more than one q