The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-12-06

aele information IN spticpaton q more elaborate
report which win In due limo BE- furnished, en-
orsciae some valuable tests In chemical science
% ProereSs In the laboratory
Tne creation of this department was for the more
Immediate benefit Of large GLASS Of our most vain
ns aG.e eitissns and l trust the liberal basis upon
which 1t has been organised will not only mssi
your Appreciation but that Il VIII realize at no dis
tant day, all the fondest anticipstians oi iss rost
sanguine friends, and become the fruitful source oi
advantage to al our people.
! COMPENSATED EMANCIrArIos.
On the 2ad day Of September lag. proclamation
was inued by the Exscutive, copy Of which ID
pose expressed IN the second paragraph OF sha.
paper, new respectfully call your astsnsion 70
what nas be called "Compensatsd Emancipation
,ns nslon may be said to "onsist Of the people,
part which Ia OF certain durability Zone genera
ton pssseth away. and another generation cometh.
but the earth atidsth forever" It is Of the fi-st
Importance to daily consider aud estimate this ever.
enduring part Ths; portion Of tho ea-th's surface
which Is owned and Inhabited by the people Of the
United States ID we'll adapted to be the home Of our
national family, and It Il not well adapted for two
or more Its vast extent and its variety of climate
and productions are Of advantage in this age for
one people, whatever they might have been in
former ages team, telesraphs and intelligence.
nave Drought these to DO an advantageous combi-
naiiso aor one united people
Il tho inaugural address Ibris6y pointed ont the
total inadsq1sSy of disunion, as . remedy for the
differences between the people of the two sections
did % IN language which I cannot improve and
which. therefore. / beg to repeat:
"One section Of our country believes slavery IL
vHhs,snd onRht to be extended while the other be.
neves it IL Uron1. and ough: not to be extended
This Is the only substantial dispute Phe fugitive
slave clause OF the Constitution, and the law fAr
the sup ression Of the forign slave trade are each
az we'll enfnrcad Perhaps ~ any law can ever be In
community whero the moral sense of the pe,p 9
inpersectly support the law itself lie great body
OK tne people abide by the dry legal obligation in
Doth cases. and a fow break over In each. rois
think cannot be perfectly cured; and it Soud be
worss In both after he separation of tbs sec
tiocs thsn before The foreign slave trade pow
imp srfectly u,pressed would be ultuate,v reviy-
ed without restriction in one ectioc while fugitive
slaves, now only partially surrendered. would not be
surrendered ut ali bs the other
"Physically spe aking We cannot separate We
cannot remove our res 1ectye sections from each
other, build All inpsssable all between them
4 husband and rife may be divorced, and 20 out
OF the presence and beyond the reach Of each
other, but the different parts OF our country canpot
do this They cannot but remain face ~ face-sn
intercourse. either sncaols or hostlle must con
time between taem. Is it imposs ssible then to
make that intercourse more advantage ;rs or more
satisfactory after separation than 6efoYep Gan
SlisEs aaAAe treaties easier tDar friends can make
lawai Gan treaties be more faithfully enforced
between aliens than laws can sm,ug friends! Sup
pose you go to war you car not fight always; aud
When aft much loss on poi sstss ani 10 gain IN
either, you aea-s hshtiag tea idsotica old ustes-
tioDs to terms f intercourse sre again upJs
you"
There is no iIe, s.raiea. or crooked suitable Il,
a national boundary, upon which TO ds7ids rrsc
through, from Rsst TO West. upon IN, lin be,wee a
tie free snd siava country and shall md Az,
more tnsn oue.tnrd OF ts length are rivers easv t
DO crossed and populated. so1n 10 be popu stsa
thfekly upoa ooto sides; while nearly all its rs-
| naming length are merely surveyors tines over
~ Ian, nax lo or1o EclE
\ any consciousness of their presence 10 part of
this line can be made soy mote difficult to pass By
writing it down on paper or parchment, ss q ma
tionsl boundary. - The fact Of separation, If it
comes, gives up, on the part Of the seeding sec
tiop the fugitive Save clause, along Eitn all other
constitutional obligations upon th- section seeded
from, while should expect no treaty stipuistion
| would ever be made to tsss it, pIscs
But there Is another diffic ,lty The great IN
rior vsgiGo bounded east Dy the Aes shaaies no1 sh
By the British doInniOns west by the Rocky noun
taius and south by the line along whion the eultus
OF aud cotton masts and which includes art
| of Virgins, part OF Tennessee, ali Of Kentucky
Ohio, Indiana Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, mis-
souri, Kansas, iows Minnesota, and the Territories
| OF Dskotsh. Nebraska, and part of Color ado al.
| ready has above ten millions Of psopis and will
| havs fifty millions within fifty years If not prs
! vented by any political folly mistake. II con
tains more tuan ono third of the country owned BY
the unsed ststes-certainly more than one nil ion
| of square miles. Oncs haf as populous al Assss.
| chnsctts already is, 1t would have more than sev
| en:y five milicrs Of people glance st tae IN N
shows thas teTritoraliy speaking, i: Ia the great
| body os the Republic The other parts are bu;
gle al borders 10 It, the magnfcen' region slopne
ives; IT, "a the Rocky mounta to ,he Pacific being
the dee pest, Gnd Also the sichest udsvsiopea 10
sGurcsi IN tho production OF prov. v.sions, grains
| grsssea and all which proceed from taenl, this
great Interior Region Ia naturally one OF the mos,
import ct in the world ascertain from the Stats
tics the amsll proportion of he region which has q,
| yet bssa brought into cultivation and also the
| large aLd rapidly iaceRsilg amount of Its pro
ducts, ane we stall be overwhelmed with the msg
| nitude OF The prospect presented And yet tais re
| gion haS no ssacOass-toucnes no ocean anywhere
| AS part o. ona nation, its people now hnd srj
may forever hnd thar Wy to Europe by dew Yors
| to south ..merics and atric. by New Orlean and
| to Asia by San Francisco But separate our com
| mon country into two nations desi med by tbs
pl esent rebeiiioa, and every of this great IL
tesor region i5 thereby c1t OFF from aoine oas or
| ct these outlets not, Perhaps. oy physical
| barrier, but By embarrassing aud onerous trade
| regulations
| And tnis is true, Uhererer q diyidug or boundary
| line may Oe fixed Place IL between the uoW tr..
and slave country, or place it south OF Ksntucky =
OF north OF Ohio, and still tae truth rsnana tn al
| none south OF 1t can trade to any port or place
north of it aud none north Of 1t can trade to any
port or place south or it, except upon terms uic
| tsted by Government foreign TO them The se
outlets east, west and SOUTH are indispensable to
the well ceing of the people inhahiring, aud &C. In
habit. this vast interior region. Whica o the three
|
| than either; and sii Of right belong 10 that peo
| pie aud to the successors forever True to them
selves they will not ASK nheys line of sep ar alton
shall be, bat will vow rasuer, that there shall De
| no such line Nor are thu marginal regions less
| interested in these Communications to- aud through
| them, to toe great ouEde world They, too, anu
each OF them must have access to ths R.ypt Of the
West, without paying toli at the crossing of any
| natl ional boundary
vur nasorai s5r,ie sptiags no. from our parma.
n.nt part not from the lad we inhsbit net from
| our national homestead. There is 40 possible sey
elins OF this bat would multiply, snj no % tis ate
evils among Us. In Ad It's Aaap; atoms SsG ami
| tades it demands union, ALL abhors sapsrs lon ii
fact, IL would ere long, force ro.union, however
| much of blood and treasure the separation nigh
have COST
Our strife pertains TO oursel ves--so tine passlns
generations VI asn; and it can. without convu.
sion, be hushed forever ~.ta the passing of gen
| GRAFTON
In this visw recommend the adoption of III,
following resolu ion and articles ameldatory TO me
| Constitution OF th3 Uniied States:
"Rssolrd, by the Senate and House of Rsprsss..a
stres Of ths Uattsd states Of America IN C5ngres
asses.btsd (two thilos OF b.. Houses soncurr IL
| Thai the following ariic os % proposed to tn
Lssalaturcs Tor Conyentions) of the several state
/ as amendments to the DoustItu ion of she Units
States ali or any OF which articles, when rat,tie
by three-four hs Il the Legislatures lor Conveo
tions TO be valid ~ par. or paris OF shs said Col
| stitatiOn, viz
| "Art,,le -. Every State wherein slavery no,
exists which snail aroiish the same therein at al
time or times, DefOrs the Isl day Of January, /
the year OF our Loro one thousand and niae bur
dred, shall receive compensation from tho Un.te
States AZ folows, to Wit:
"Ths President Of the Unied States shall deiivs
to every such State bonds of the United State,
bearing interest at tho rate OF per ceat pe
anu u, to al anornt equal to the aggregate sui
Of - for each slave sh wn to have bee
thsrei by the eighth census Of Inc United State
said bonds 10 be delivered to such State BY lnsta