Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-12-05

back and forth, without amy consciousness
their presence. No part of this line eau be mad
any more difficult to pass by writing it down o
paper on parchment US a national boundary.
The lhct ot separation. If il CONES, gives vi
On the part Of the seeding section the fugitv
slave clause. along with all other constitutions
obligations upon the section seeded from, whit
should expect no treaty stipulation would eyei
be made to take its place. But there is another
difficulty. The great interior region, BOUNDED
east by the Alleghanies, north by the British
dominions, west by the Rocky Mountains, and
south by the line along which the culture oi
corn aud cotton meets. nnd which includes part
Of Virginia, part of Tennessee, all Of Kentucky,
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois,
Missouri Kansas. Iowa, Minnesota, and the
Territories of Dakota. Nebraska and part Of
Colorado, already has above ten millions Of pen-
pie, and will have fifty millions within fifty years,
II not prevented by any political folly or mistake.
1t contains more than One- third of the country
owned by the United States; certainly more than
one million of square miles. One-half as popu-
ous as Massachusetts already il, it would have
more than seventy-fve millions of people. A
glance at the map shows that, terrtorially speak
ing it is the great body Of the republic. The
other parts are but marginal borders to it, the
magnificent region slipping west from the Rocky
Mountains to the Pacific being the deepest and
also the richest, in uudeveloped resources.
the production Of provisions. grains
grasses and all which proceed from them, this
grent interior region is naturally one of the
most important in the world. Ascertain from the
statistics the small proportion of the region
which has as yet been brought into cultivation,
aud also the large and rapidly ly-increasing amount
OF its products, aud we shall be overwhelmed
with the magnitude of the prospect presented
And yet this region has no sea coast-touches
no ocean anywhere. As part of one nation its
people now find anl rroy forever find their way
Il Europe by Soa York, to South America, and
Africa by New Orleans, and to Asia by San
Francisco. But separate our common country
into two nations as designed by the present re
beliOn, and every man OF this great interior re-
gon is thereby clt off from some one or more of
these outlets, not, perhaps, by a physical
barrier, butby embarrassing and oner0us trade
regulations; and this is true wherever divid-
ing or boundary line may be fixed. Place ii be.
tween the now free and slave country, or place
il 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 1t can trade to any port or place south Of it,
except upon terms dictated by a government
foreign to them.
These outlets, east, west, and south, are in
dispensable to the wel-beiug of the people
inhabiting and to iuhabit this vast interior re-
gion. Which of the three may be the best is no
proper question all are better than either, and
all of right belong 10 that people and to their
successors toreUer. True to themselves, they
will not ask gheye Il line of separation shall he,
but will VOW rather that there shall be no such
line, Nor are the marginal regions less inter
ested In these communications to aud through
them TO the great outside world. They too,
aud each of them, must have access to this
Egypt of the West, without paying toll at the
crossing of any national boundary.
Our national strife springs not from our per-
manent part; not from the land we inhnbit
not from our national homestead. There is no
possible seyeriug Of this but would multiply and
not mitigate evils among us.
In all its adaptations and apttudgs ii demands
Union and abhOrs separation in lact it would,
ere long, force reunion however much of blood
and treasure the separation might have cost
Our strife pertains to ourseyes-to the passing
generations of men and it can, without convul-
sion, be hushed forever wil tine passing of one
generation. In this view recommend the adop-
tion OF the following resolution and articles
amendatory to the Constitution Of the United
States.
ResoiUed BY the Senate and House of Re-
presentatives Of the United States Of America,
in Congress assembled two-thirds of both
Houses concurring, That the following articles
be proposed to the legislatures or Conventions
of the several States, as amendments to the
Constitution Of the United States, all or any of
which articles, when ratified by three-fourths of
the said Legislatures or Conventions. to lie valid
na part or parts of the said Constitution, viz:
Article -. Every State wherein slavery now
exists which shall abolish the same therein ut
any time OF times before the lst day of January,
in the year Of our Lord one thousand and nine
hundred shall receive compensation from the
United States as follows--to wit;
The President Of the United State shall dev.
ar to every such State bonds of the United States
bearing interest, at the rate of - per cent per
lnnum, to an amount equal to the aggregate
sum Of s. for each slave shown to have
been therein by the eighth census of the United
States, said bonds to be delivered to such State
~ instruments, OF in one parcel, at the compile
ion Of the abolishment accordingly as the same
hall have been gradual, at one time, within
uch State, and interest shall begin to run upon
my such bond only from the proper time Of it's
leiyery as aforesaid ANY State having received
,onds as aforesaid, and afterwards reintrodueing
n toleratiug slavery therein, shall refund to the
United States the bonds so received, or the value
hereof, and all interest paid thereon.
Article -. All slaves who shall have enjoyed
ctuai freedom by the chances Of the war, at any
ime before the end of the rebellion, shall be
orever free but all owners of such who shall
lot have been dsloyal shall be compensated for
hem at the same rates as is provided for States
dOpting abolishment Of slavery, but in such
way that no slave shall be twice accounted for.
Article -. Congress may appropriate money
md otherwise provide for colOnizing free colorcd
PERSONS with their own consent at any place or
,laces without the United States.
l beg indulgence to discuss these proposed ar
icles at some length. Without slavery the re-
,ellion could never have existed without slave
y it could not continue.
Among the friends OF the Union there is great
versity of sentiment and Of policy in regard
o slavery aud the African race amongst us
some would perpetuate slavery; some would
bolish it suddenly, and without compensation
ONE would abolish it gradually, and with COM
'ensltion; some would emoye the freed people
rom us, and some would retain them with us
md there are yet other minor diyersities Be-
ause of these diversitcs we waste much
trength in struggles among ourselves. By mu-
ual concession we should hNrmonize and act to-
ether. This would be compromise, but II
would be compromise among the friends and not
With the enemies of the Union. These articles
re intended to embody plan of such mutual
oncessions If the plan shall be adopted it is
ssumed that emancipation will follow, at least
n several of the States.
As to the first article, the main points are,
rst, the emancpation secondly, the length of
ime for consummatiug it, thirly-seven years;
md thirdly the compensation.
The emancipation will be unsatisfactory to the
dyocates Of perpetual slavery but the length of
ime should greatly mitigate their dissatisfac-
ion. The time spares both races from the evils
f sudden arrangement; in fact from the neces-
ity of any arrangement while most of those
ghose habitual course of thought will be disturb
ID by the measure, will have passed away be.
ore its contamination. They will never see it.
Another class will hail the prospect of eman-
ipation, but will deprecate the length of time
hey will feel that it gives too little 10 the now
wing HlAYes. But il ranllv pives them mnnh =