The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1862-12-06

national boundary. The fact of separation.
ii comes, gives up on the part of the sec
tional obligations upon the seeding section
the Fugitive Slave clause. along with all
other constitutional obligations upon the
section seeded from. while should expec,
j no treaty stipulation would ever be made TO
take its place.
! But there is another difficulty. The
great interior region bounded east by the
Alleghanies. 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, pant of Tennessee. all OF Kentucky
Ohio. Indiana. Michigan. Wisconsin, Hin
part Of Colorado. has about ten millions of
people. and viii have fifty millions within
fifty years, if no, prevented by any polite
al folly or mistake. IL contains more than
enc third of the country owned by the Uni
} ted States, certainlS. more than one million
of square miles. II halt as populous as
Massachusetts already is, it would have
more than seventy Eve millions of people.
glance at the map shows that, temporary
ly speaking. it is the great body of the Re-
public. The other parts are but marginal
borders 10 1t, the magnificent region slo-
ping west from the Rocky Mountains to
the Pacific being the deepest and also the
riches, in undeveloped resources. In the
productions OF provisions, grains, grasses,
and all which proceed from them, this great
interior region is naturally 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 cultiva-
ton, and also the large and rapidly increas
ing amount of its products. and We shall be
II 81, al L. oe h.,
prospect presented; and yet this region has
no sea-coast, touches no ocean anywhere
As part OF one nation, its people now find
their way 10 Europe by New York. to South
America and africa by New Orleans, and
to Asia by San Francisco. But separate
our common country into two nations, as
designed by the present rebellion, and every
man Of this great interior region is ,hereby
cut off from some one or more of these out
let's. not. perhaps. by PHYSICAL barrier, but
by embarrassing and onerous trade regula
tons. And this is true wherever the divi-
ding or boundary line may be fixed. Place
it between the 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 place north Of
it, and none north OF it can trade to any
port or place south of ii, except upon terms
dictated by Government. foreign to them.
These outlets, east west and south, are in
dspensable to the we'll being of the people
inbs5iting 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 ali of right belong to that
people and their successors forever. True
to themselves, they will notask where a line
of separation shall be. but will vow rather
there shall be no such line. Nor the
marginal regions less interested in these
communications to and through them to the
great outside world. They, too. and each I
Of them, must have access TO this Egypt of
the West. without paying toll At the cross
ing Of any national boundary. Our nation
al strife springs not from our permanent
part, not from the land We nhabit, not from
our national homestead. There is no posi-
bic severing of this. but would multiply, and
not mitigate, evils among US. In all its ad
aptations and ap,itudes, it demands union
abhors separation. In fact, 1t would ere
long force reunion, however much of blood
and treasure the separations to ourselves.
to the passing generations of men. and it
cannot, without convulsion, be hushed for !,
ever with the passing of one generation.
In this view, l recommend the adoption of
the following resolution and articles amend
atory Of the Constitution of the United
States:
Resolved, By the Senate and House
of Representatives Of the United States of
America. in Congress assembled. two thirds
of I or Houses concurrng. that the following
Articles be proposed to the Legislatures or
Conventions Of the several States, as amend
ments to the Constitution OF the U. States,
all of which articles. when ratified BY three
fourths of the said Legislatures or Conven-
tions, to be valid as a part or parts of said
Constitution, viz:
Article - Every State wherein Slavery
now exists. which shall abolish the same
therein at any time or times before the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hundred,
shall receive compensation from the United
States. as follows. 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 - for each slave shown to have been
therein by the Eighth Census Of the United
States; said bonds to be delivered to such
State by ins,alments, or in parcel, at
the completion of the adjustment, accor-
dinghy as the same shall have been gradual
or at one time within such State; and inter-
est shall begin to run upon any such bond
only from the proper time OF its delivery as
aforesaid and afterward. Any State having
received bonds as aforesaid. and afterward
introducing tolerating slavery therein.
shall refund to the United States the bonds
SO received. or the value thereof. and all the
interest paid thereon.
Article - All slaves who shall have en-
joyed actual freedom. by the chances Of he
war. at any time before the end of the re
bellion, shall be forever free; bat all owner.
Of such, who shall not have been disloyal
shall be compensated for them at the same
rates as is provided for States adopting abol- {
shment of slavery. but in such a way that
40 slave shall be twice accounted for. :.
A'hcle-Congress may appropriate mon
~ and otherwise provide for eolonizing free Z
,olored persons, with their own consent, At ,
my place or places without the United
States.