, 1862-12-20

more satisfactory after separation than before
Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can
make laws Can treaties be more faithfully en-
forced between aliens than laws among friendsy
Suppose you 60 to war, you cannot tight always,
and when after much loss on both sides and no
gain on either you cease hgtting, the identical
questions as to terms of intercourse are again up
on 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. both of the free and slave country, and we
shall find little more than one-third ofits length
are rivers easy to be crossed and populated, or so
as to be thicky populated on both sides, while
in nearly all its remaing length is merely survey
ors lines, over which people may walk back and
forth without any consciousness OF their presence
No part of this line can be made any more diff
cult TO pass by writing or paper or parchment, as
a national boundary. The fact 81 syY,a1afiUrri6
it comes, gives up on the part Of the seeding
section the fugitive clause along with all other
Constitutional obligation upon the section seeded
from which no treaty stipulation would ever be
made to take in that clause. But there is an
other difficulty. The great interior secion,
bounded east by the Alleghanies, north by the
British domain, west by the Rocky Mountains,
and south the line lying where the cultivation of
corn and cotton meet, and which includes part of
Tennessee, all of Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Territor es Of
Decotah, Nebraska and part of Colorado, has
ten millions of people, and will have fifty millions
in fifty years. ifnot prevented by any political folly
or mistake. 1t contains more than one third Of the
country owned by the revoted States and
certainly more than one million miles of surface
One half as populous Massachusetts, already
is, it would have more than seyentyfye millions
of people. A glance at the map SHOWS, that ter
rtoriay speaking, it is the great body of the re-
public. The other parts are but marginal borders
to it, The magnificent region sloping west from
the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, being The de-
post Of great mineral wealth. and also the richest
undeyeloped region in the production Of provis
ions, grains, grasses, and all such proceeds from
them, that this great interior region is naturally
one Of the most important in the world is certain
from statistics OF the small proportion Of the region
which has yet been brought into cultivation, and
also from the large and rapidly increasing amount
Of the products We shall be overwhelmed with
the magaitnde of the prospect presented, and
yet this region has no sea coast, touching ocean
anywhere. AS part Of one nation, its people now
may find, and may forever find their way to Eu-
rope by New York, to South America by New
Orleans, to Asia by San Francisco 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 one or
more Of these outlets-not, perhaps, by physi-
Cal udlIltTg Dul ny tlnDdIlahoultulh outIOua 10
trade regulations, and this is true whenever di-
vidng or boundary line may be fixed Place it
between the now free and slave country, or place
it south Of Kentucky or north Of the Ohio, and
still the truth remains that none south of it can
trade with 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 government
foreign to them These outlets, east, west and.
south, are indispensable to the well being of the
people inhabiting this vast tinteuor region. Which
of the three may De tl,e best is 10
ton All are better than either, ar
belong to that people and their sul
True to themselves, they will not
Of sepa alton shall be but wi
that there shall be no such id6
with the marginal regions,
in these communications to nm
them to the great outside world Tbev
each one oithem must have ACCESS to The
way. without paying toll at tkl crossing
national boundary. Our national strife
not from oufpermanent yar,. but from the
we inhabit-not iron. our natioual homestead
There is no possible severng. but will multp
and mitigate evils among US. In all its adapt
tiors and apttudes, it demands Union, abhors Sc.
aralion In fact, it would ere long force reunion
however much Of blood and treasure il cost Our
strife pertains to ourselves, to the passing gene
ratons of men, and it cannot without convulsing,
be pushed forever but with the passing Of one gen
Grafton. With this view / recommend the follow
ing resolution and and articles amendatory Of the
Constitution Of the United States
Resolved, BY the Senate and House ofRepre,
sentatiyes in Congress assembled, two-thirds ot
4 both Houses concuTing that the following
tcles be proposed to Legislatures or convento,
of the several States as amendments to the G.
stitution of the United States, all or anv Of vi
articles when ratified by three-fourths Of,
Legislatures or Conventions, to be valid as
or parts Of said Constitution, namely:
! Article Every State wherein slavery now ex
lists, which shall abolish the same therein an.
time before the first Of January, A. ID. 19f
/ shall receive compensation in bonds from
United States, bearing interest at the rate Of
| for each slave shown TO have been therein 81
bonds to be delivered TO such State by instalme,
or one parcel, at the completion of the aboi
ment, according as the same shal have been ora
ual or at one time, and interest shall begin
run upon any such bonds from the proper tih
CT its delivery aforesaid. Afterwards, eny Stat
having received bonds as aforesaid, and afterwar
introducing slavery therein, shall refund to q,
United States the bonds SO received or the valu
thereof, and all interest paid
Article. All slaves who shall have enjoyed
actual freedom, by The chance of the war, at any
time before the end of the rebellion, shall be f
ever free but all owners Of such, who shall u
have been dsloyal,- shall be compensated
them at the same rates as is provided for Star
adopting the adjustment of slavery, but in SUD
a way that slaves shall not be twice accountes
for. ..r ....- .....
Article. Congress may appropriate money, c
otherwise provide for colonizng free coored per-
sons with their own consent, at any place or pla
ces within the United States.
beg indulgence to discuss these proposed ar
ticles at some length.
Without slavery the rebellion would ne
have existed, without slavery it could not contin,
Among the friends Of the Union there is a or
diversity of sentiment and policy in regaT
slavery and the African race amongst US.
would abolish it suddenly and without ct
sation. Some would remove the free
people from the United States and some
retain them with US, and there are yet 9th
nor deyersities because of the diversitit
waste much strength in struggles anon,
selves BY mutual concession we sho
monize and act together. This would bt
promise among the friends and not with tn
mics of the Union. These articles are inf
to embody plan Of such mutual concession
if the plan shall be adopted it is assumed
emancipation will fellow, at least in several Of
States. In the first article, the main points
FIRST the emancipation power, the length Of til.
for consummating it in years, and third The COZ
pensation. The emancipation viii be unsatisfa
iory to the advocates Of perpetual slavery, but Il
length of time should greatly mitigate their c
satisfaction. The time saves both races from
evils of sudden arrangement, while the most
these where habitual course Of thought viii,
disturbed BY the measure, will have passed
fore its ccnsummation. They will never see
another class will hail the prospect Of emai
finn but will daprpcafo fho lano-fb Of ffroe