The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1862-12-09

L --a--A ll liAa .vlgcf lf ha
more than one-thrd Of its length arc ,er
easy to be crossed, al populated, or soon tt
} be populated tbickly, upon both sides, Will,
10 nearly all its remaining length are merely
surveyors lines, over which people may wall
back and forth without any conc ousness o
their presence. No part Of this limo can b.
made any more difficult to pass by writing il
down on paper, or parchment, as a nationa
boundary.
WHAT SECESSION sURRENDERs.
The fact of separation il it comes, gives up
on the part of that ssceding section, the fugi
tive slave clause, aong with all other consti.
tutlonal obligations, upon the section seeded
from, while l should expect no treaty stipu-
lalion. would ever be made to take its place.
THE GREAT BODY OF THE REPUBLIC"
Blu! there is another difficulty. The great
interior region bounded east by the Allegha.
MES, north by the British domluions, wes' by
the Rocky Mountains, and south by The line
along which the cultivation of corn and cotton
meets, and which includes part Of Virginia,
part Tennessee, all Of Kentucky, Ohio, Michi
gan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas
Iowa, Minnesota, and the territories of Daco.
tab, Nebraska and a part of Colorado have
above ten millions Of people. and will have
forty millions more within fifty years if not
prevented by any political folly or mistake
1t contains moie than one third Of the coun.
try owed by the revolted States-cerlsinly,
more than one million of surface miles, one
half as populous as Massachusetts, already is.
it would have more than seventy five millions
OF people. A glance at the map shows that
territorially speaking it is the great body 81
the Republic. The other parts, are but mar.
ginal borders to it. The magnificent region
sopbg west from the Rocky Mountains to the
Pacific, being the deepest and also the richest
uDdeveloed resources 10 the production of pro-
visions, grains, grasses, and all which proceeds
| from them.
GREAT INTERIOR REGION.
This great interior region is u .turaly 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, and also the large and rapidly in
creasiug amour of its products, and we shall
be overwhelmed with the magnitude Of the
prospect presented. And yet this region has
no sea coast and touches no ocean anywhere.
ITS NATURAL OUTLETS.
As part of one nation, its people now may
find and may forever find their way to
Eur pc by New YORK. to South America and
Africa by New Orleans, and to Asia by San
Fran cisco. But separate our common
country into nations. as designed by the
present rebellion, and every man in this great
interior region is thereby cut off from some
one or more of these outlets, not perhaps by
a physical barrier, but by embarrassing and
cnerous trade regulations, and this is true
wherever a dividing or boundary line may
be fixed. Place il between the now free
and slave country, or place it south Of Ken
lucky. 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 can trade TO any port or place
south Of it, except upon terms dictated by a
Government foreign TO them. These outlets
Fest, West, anI South. are indispensable
to the well-being Of the people iuhabiting.
and to inhabit this vast interior region.
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
their successors forever. True to them.
selves, they will not ask where a line of Sc
paration shall be, but will vow rather, that
there shall be no such line.
MMoN INTEREST.
Nor are the marginal regions less inter-
ested in these communications 10 and through
them to the great outside world. They do
and each one of them must have access 10
their Egypt Of the West without paying toll
at the crossing of our national boundry.
SOURCES OF OUR NATIONAL EXISTENCE.
Our national life springs not from our per
manent past. nor from the lands we inhabit,
nor from our national homestead. There is
no possible swerving of this but would mul.
,ply and not instigate evils among us. In
all its applications and attitudes it demands
union. and abhors separation. In fact it
would ere long force reunion however much
of blood and treasure the separation 3ht
have cost. Our strife pertains to ourselves.
TO passing generations of men aud it cannot
without convulsion be hushed forever, with
the passing of one generation.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
With this view recommend the follow
ing resolution and articles amendatory to
the Constitution Of the United States:
Resolved, By the Senate and House ol
Representatives Of the United States oi
America in Congress assembled. two thirds
Of both Houses concurring, that the follow
ing articles be proposed TO the Legislature OF
conventions Of the several States as amend.
ments to the Constitution Of the United
States, all. or any CT which articles when
ratified by tlhee-fourths of the said legisla.
ures or conventions to be valid MS part or
! parts OF the said Constitution, namely:
COMPENSATED EMANciPArioH.
ArrrcLE.- Every State wherein slavery
now exists, which shall abolish the same
therein at any time before the first Of Janu
ary. in the year Of our Lord 1900, shall re-
ceive compensation from the United States
bearing interest at the rate Of, for each
slave shown to have been therein by the
eight census Of tho United States, said bonds
to be delivered to such States, by INSTALL
ments. or in one parcel. at the completion o.
the aboshment. accordingly as the same
shall have been gradual or at one time
-. o.. n Q 4. Ill L. =