Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-02
dBe pag spp dalurtesu, GussOap 1omlng act 2, 1882

cases after the separation of the sections than
before. The foreign slave trade, now imper-
tectly suppressed, would be ultimately reviv
ed without restriction in one section, while
fugitive slaves, only partially surrendered,
would not be surrendered at all by the others.
Physically speaking we cannot separate.
| We cannot remove our respective sections
: from each other nor build an impossible wall
between them. A husband and wife may be
divorced and go out of presence and beyond
/ reach of each other; but the different parts
of our country cannot do this. They cannot
t but remain face to face; and intercourse,
! either amiable or hostile, must continue be-
| tween them. Is it possible then to make that
intercourse more advantageous or more salts
/ factory after separation than before? Can
( aliens make treaties easier than friends can
make flaws? Can treaties be more faithfully
enforced between aliens than laws can be
among friends? Suppose you go to war; you
cannot fight always, and when after much loss
on both sides and no gain on either, you cease
fighting, the identical old questions as to
terms of intercourse are again upon you.
! There is no line straight or crooked, suitable
for a national boundary upon which to divide.
| Trace through from east to west upon the
line between the free and slave country, and
we shall find little more than one-third of
its length are rivers, easy to be crossed, and
the country populated or soon to be populated
thickly upon both sides, while nearly all its
remaining length is merely surveyors line,
| over which people may walk back and forth
without any consciousness of its presence. No
part of the line can be made any more diff
cult to pass by writing on paper or parchment
| national boundary. The fact OF separation
! gives up on the part of the seeding section
fl,t oil
! constitutional and sectional obligations upon
the section seeded from, which should ex-
pect no treaty stipulation would ever make
| good.
And there is another difficulty. The great
interior region bounded east by the Alleghan-
les north by the British dominions, west by
| the Rocky Mountains, and south by the line
! along which the culture of corn and cotton
meets, and which includes part Of Virginia,
| part of Tennessee, all of Kentucky, Ohio,
Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, and the ter
ritories of Dacotah Nebraska, and part Of
| Colorado, has above 100000 of people,
and will have 100000 within fifty years, if
not prevented by any political folly or mistake.
1t contains more than one third of the coun-
| try owned by the United States, containing
| more than one million square miles. Make it
one half as populous as Massachusetts is,
and it would have more than 75,000,000 of
| people.
A glance at the map, shows that, territori-
| ally speaking, it is the great body OF the re-
| public; the other parts are but marginal bor
ders to it, the magnificent region sloping west
| from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, be-
| ing the deepest and also the richest in unde
| veloped resources, in the production of pro-
visions, grains, grasses, and all that proceeds
| from them. This great interior region is nat
| urally one of the most important in the world.
Ascertain from the statistics the small proper
ton of the region which has not yet been
brought into cultivation, and also the large
and rapidly increasing amount of its products,
and we shall be overwhelmed with the magni-
tude of the prospect presented, and yet the
| region has no sea coast, touches no ocean
anywhere; as part of one nation its people
find and may forever find their way to Europe
! by way of New York; to South America and
Africa by way of New Orleans, and to Asia by
| San Francisco.
| But, make our common country into two
nations, as designed by the present rebellion,
and every vein of this great interior region
| is thereby cut off from some one or more of
these outlets; not perhaps by physical bar
rier, but by embarrassing and onerous trade
regulations; and this is true wherever dIvis-
ion or boundary line may be fixed. Place it
| between the free and the slave country, or
south of Kentucky or north of Ohio, and still
| the truth remains, that none south of it can
trade to any part or place north of it, and
none Lolth oft can trade to any part or place
| south Of 1t, except upon terms dictated by
government foreign to them.
These outlets, east, west, and south, are in
dispensable to the well-being of the people in
habitng and to inhabit 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 to that people, and to
their successors forever. If, true to them
selves they will not ask where a line OF sep
aration should be, but how rather that there
shall be no such line; nor are the marginal
regions less interested in the communication
to and through them to the great outside
world. They, too, and each Of them, must
have access to the Egypt of the west, without
| paying toI at the crossing of any natural
| boundary.
Our national strife springs not from our
permanent part; not from the land we inhab-
it; not from our national homestead. There
is no possible savOring Of this that would not
multiply instead Of mitigating the evils among
us. In all its adaptation and aptitudes it de-
mands union and abhors separation. In fact,
it would ere long force reunion, however
much Of blood and treasure the separation
might have cost. Our strife pertains to our
selves; to the passing generation of men; and
it cannot without CONFUSION be hushed with
the passing Of one generation. In this view
recommend the adoption Of the following res
olutlOn and articles amendatory to the consti-
tuition Of the United States:
Resolved by the senate and house Of rep
resentatives 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
tOurths Of the said legislatures or conventions,
to be valid as part or parts Of the said consti-
| ton, viz -
| ARTIcLE-Every state wherein slavery now
exists which shall abolish the same there at
any time or any times between the present
time and the first day of January, in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hundred, shall
receive compensation from the United States,
to wit the president of the United States
shall deliver to every such state bonds Of the
| United States, bearing interest at the
rate OF five per cent, for each slave
shown to have been therein by the
eighth census of the United States said bonds
to be delivered to such states by installments
or in one parcel to the completion of the
adjustment accordingly as the same shall
have been gradual or at one time, within such
state; and interest shall begin to run upon
any such bond only from the proper time of
its delivery as aforesaid; and afterwards, any
!