The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-12-05

the part of the seeding section, the Flu.
gitiYe Slave clau Q along with all other
constitutional Obligations upon the sec-'
ton seeded from, while | should expect
no treaty stipulations 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 do
minions, 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, Indi-
ana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Mis-
scuri, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, and the
Territories of Dakota, Nebraska, and
part of Colorado, has about ten millions
of people, and will have fifty millions
within fifty years, if not prevented by
any political folly or mistake 1t con-
tains more than one-third of the country
owned by the United States, certainly,
more than one million of square miles.
If half as populous as Massachusetts al
ready is, it would have more than sew
enty-6ve millions of people. A glance
at the map shows that, territorially
speaking, it is the great body of the Re
public. The other parts are but mar
ginal borders to it, the magnificent
region slopipg west from the Rocky
| Mountains to the Pacific being the
deepest and also the richest in unde-
veloped resources. In the produc-
ton of provisions, grains, and 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 cultivation, and
also the large and rapidly increasing
amount of its products, and we shall be
overwhelmed with the magnitude of the
] prospect presented; and yet this region
! has no sea coast, touches no ocean any
where. As part of one nation, its peo-
pie now find, and may forever find, their
way to Europe by New York, to South
America and Africa by New Orleans,
: and to Asia by San Francisco But sep
arate our common country into two ma
tons, as designed by the present rebel
lion, and every man of this great interior
region is thereby cut off from some one
or more of these outlets, not, perhaps,
by physical barrier, but by embarrass-
ing and onerous trade regulations And
this is true wherever the dividing 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 oft 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 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 all of right belong to that
people and their. successors forever
True TO themselves, they will not ask
where a line of separation shall be, but
will VOW rather that there shall be no
such line. Nor are the marginalr regions
less interested in these communications
to and through them to the great outside
world They, too, and each Of them,
must have access to this Egypt of the
West, without paying toll at the crossing
of any national boundary. Our national
strife springs not from our permanent
part, not from the land we inhabit, not
from our national homestead. There is
no possible severing of this, but would
multiply, and not mitigate, evils among
us. In all its adaptations and aptitudes,
it demands 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 ourselves, to the passing gen
erations of men, and it can not, without
convulsion, be hushed forever with the
passing of one generation.
In this view, | recommend the adop-
ton of the following resolution and ar
ticles amendatory of the Constitution of
the United States:
Resolred, BY the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America, in Congress assembled, two
thirds of both Houses concurring, that the
following Articles be proposed to the Leg
islatures or Conventions of the several
States, as Amendments to the Constitu-
ton of the United States, all of which
Articles, when ratified by three-fourths of
the said Legislatures or Conventions, to
be valid as a part or parts of the said
I Constitution, viz:
ARTIcLE-Every State wherein Slavery
now exists, which shall abolish the same
therein at any time or times before the
first day of January, in 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 Gen.
sus of the United States, said bonds to
be delivered to such State by INSTALL
ments, or in one parcel, at the compile
ton of the adjustment, accordingly as
the same shall have been gradual or at
one time within such States; and inter
est shall begin to run upon any such
bond only from the proper time of its de-
livery as aforesaid and afterward Any
State having received bonds as aforesaid,
and afterward introducing or 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
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