The Cecil Whig., 1862-12-06
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE,


dent was read and appropriately refer
~. Want Of space prevents us giving
it cutirc i'll THE Wig, and we therefore
omit the Numerous topics discussed in L.,
and give that portion relating to /" Coul-
|. pensatire Emancipation ~ and the negro
question generally. The President says;
On the 22d day Of December last, proc
lamation was issued by the Executive, n
copy of which is herewith submitted In
accordance with the purpose expressed in
the second paragraph Of that paper, now
| respectfully call your attention to what may
be called " Compcnsa.ive Emancipation.
A nation may be said to consist of its ter.
tory is the only part wh;cl. is of certain
durability. "One generation passeth away
and another generation eometh, but :hc
earth abdeth forever"
1t is Of the first importance to duly CON
slider and estimate this ever enduring part
That portion Of the earth's surface which il
owned and inhabited by the people of the
United States is well adapted to be the home
of one national family, and it is not we'll
adapted for two or more. Its vast extent
and its variety Of climate and productions
tle vi duNhillhne III tHls Az lDT 0f.H pGClSe.
whatever they might have been in torncr
ages.
Steam. teicgraphs, and intelligence have
brought these to be an advantageous comb-
natiun for enc united people. In the uaus-
ural address, briefly pointed CAN isc total
inadequacy Of disunion as Il remedy for dit
ferences between the people Of the two sec.
tions. did so in language which ! cannot
improve, and which, therefore, / beg leave
to repeat:
"One section Of our country believes
slavery is right, and ought to be extended,
while the other believes it is wrong and
, ought not to he extended. This is the only
substantial dispute. The fugitive yl;.v"
clause of the Constitutionand the law for the
suppression Of the foreign slave trade ARE
each as well enforced, perhaps, as any laws
can ever be in community where the moral
law itself. The great body Of the pcopIr
abide by the dry legal obligations in both
eases, and Il few break over in each 1li,
! think cannot lie perfectly cured, and it
would be worse in both cases, tfie' the sep
arat,on of the sectiu:s. than before. Tie
foreign slave trade, now impericcty sup.
pressed, would be ultimately revived With.
out restriction in one section, while :uxitive
slaves, now only partially surrendered.
would not be surrendered at all by the other.
Physically speaking, VIC cannot separate
We cannot remove our respective sections
from each other, roT baild an impassabln
wall between them. 4 husband and wifi,
may may be divorced and 60 out of tho
presence and beyond the reach Of each
other, but the different parts of our country
cannot do this. They cannot but remain
face to face, and intercourse, either amica-
BILE or hostile, must continue between them.
Is it possible, then, to make that intcrrnur>p
more advantageous or more utistctory
nti0 separation than erfwef Car aliens
make treaties easier than friends can make
laws? Can treaties be more faithfully
enforced between alters than laws can be
among friends ? Suppose yon 60 to WAR;.
You cannot fight always, and whcn after
much l12s on bo.h s'"a.;. and no gain uil
either, you cease fighting, the ileulcal old
questions as to terms Of intercourse arc
again upon you'
There is no line, strait or crooked, m.ta-
bic for Z national boundary. gpon which tn
divide. Trace through from east To- west
upon the line between the free and Slave
country, and We shall find Il little more than
one third its length are riYvts easy to bn
crossed, and populated. or soon tn hr pnp-
| uated, thickly upon both srics; while
nearly all its remaining strength are: merely
surveyors lines over which people may
walk back and forth without ANY rrn"i.,us-
| ness Of their presence No par II dis line
can be made any more difficult 20 tAss by
writing it down on paper or parchment IL !.
national boundary.
The fact Of separation, il it comes. gives zip
on the part OF the seeding scction the iuri-
tive slave clause, along with al! other cons,i-
tnlional obligations upon the section sccriet
from, while l bhonld expect no treaty sr,ula-
t;1r r,,ll h.,, d..
But there is another difficulty. The yraa.
interior region, bounded east by the ai,.i-
ghcnies, north by the British domlnion. west
by the Rocky Mountains. and south by tho
line along which the culture of corn and COZ
ton meets and which includes part of Virgin
ia. part of Tennessee, all of Kentucky, Ohio
Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, aud the Ter
ritories OF Dakota, Nebraska, and part of Col
orado, already has above ten millions of peo-
pie, and will have fifty millions within fftv
years, if not prevented by any political folly
or mistake. 1t contains more than one-thrd
of the country owned by tue United States
| certainly more than one million of Square
miles. One-hali Us populous as Massachr-
sctts already is, it would have more than
! scventy.fvo millions OF people. a glance at
the map shows that, !erritorial'y speaking. it
is the great body of the republic. The Other
pa!tS are UU( IBfIuf bDIlerS 10 II, the mag
nifcent region slipping west from the Rocky
Mountains to the Pacific being the dreposr,
and also the richest, in undcvrlopcd re-
sources.
In the production Of prov sions, grains,
grasses, and all which proceed from thvin.
this great interior region is naturally one Of
the most important In the world. Ascertain
from the statistics the small proper; ion of tho
region which has as yet been brought intn
cultivation, and also the large and rapidly
increasing amount Of its prcducts, and We
shall be overwhc lined with the magnit udc Of
the prospect presented. And yet this region
has no sea Coast touches no ocean any
where. AS part of one nation its people nn,v
find and may forever tino their way TO Europu
by New York, to South America aud .!f,.ca
BY New Orleans, and to Asia by San Fra',as-
CO. But separate our common country mo
two nations as designed Wy the present rct,,.-
lion, and every man Of this great int, ,iJr
region Is thereby cut oil from some unr -
more OF these outlets, not, perhaps, by pig
si1al barrier, but by embarrassing and one
GUS trade regulations; and this is true whcr-
ever dividing or boundary line may Il,
9xed. Place 1t between tho 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, nor none north Of it can
trade to any port or place south of il, except
upon terms dictated by u government. foreign
to them.
These onilets, cast, west, and sontll, nrn
ind a.. 80 n t.-.:..