Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-12-13

ond paragraph OF that paper, | now respect
fully recall your attention to what may be
called "Compensated Emancipation.
A nation may be said to consist Of its teri.
tory its people and its laws. The territory
is the only part which is of certain durabil-
ity. "One generation passeth away, and
another generation cVmeth but the earth
abideth for ever"
1t is of the first Importance to duly consid.
er and estimate this ever enduring part.
That portion of the earth,s surface which
is owned and inhabited by the people of the
United States is well adapted to be the home
of one natioual family, and it is not we'll
adapted for two or more. Its vast exttnt
and its variety of climate aud productions
are of advantage in this age for one people
whatever they might have been in former
ages.
Steam, telegraphs and intelligence have
brought these to be an advantageous COM
bGation for one united people In the in
augura address briefly pointed out the
total iuadequacy Of Daunion as a remedy
for the differences between the people of the
two sections. | did so in language which
! cannot improve, and which, therefore, l
beg to repeat -
"One section Of our country belives that
slvory is'right and ought to be extended;
while the other believes it is tcrong, and
ought not to be extended. This is the only
substantial dispute. The fugitive slave
clause of the Constitution and the law for
the suppression of tho foreign sluve trade,
are each as well enforced perhaps as anvlaws
can ever be 10 community where the moral
sense of the people iinperfectly supports
the law itself. The great body Of the pee-
pie abide by the dry legal obligation in both
cases, and a few break over in each This
| think cannot be perfectly cured, anb it
would be worse u both cases after the sep.
aration in the sections than before. The
foLeign slavetrade nov imperfectly suppress
ed, would be ultimately revived without re.
striction in one section while fugitive slaves.
now only partially surrendered, would not be
surrendered at all by the other. Physically
speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot
remove our respective sections from each
other, nor build impossible walls between
them. A husband and wife may be divorc-
ed and go ont oftho presence and beyond
the reach ofeach other, but the different
parts of our country cannot do this. They
cannot but remain faco to face and inter
course-either amicable or hostilc-must con-
tnue between them. Is it possible, then, to
make that intercourse more ad yantageous or
aliens make treaties easier than friends can
make Laws? Can treaties be more faith.
fully enforced between aliens than laws can
amoug friends, Suppose you go to war.
You caunot ght always, and when, after
much loss on both sides, and no gain on
either, you cease fighting, the identical old
question as to terms of intercourse are
again upon you.
DIFFICULTIES OF SEPARATION.
There is no line, straight or crooked,
suitable for national boundery, 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 populated,
or soon to be populated, thickly upon
both sides, while nearly all its remaining
length are merely surveyors lines, 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 difficult to pass by wri-
ting it down upon paper or parchment as
a national boundry.
The fact Of separation, il it comes,
gives up, on the part Of the seeding Sec
ton, the fugitive slave clause along with
all other Constitutional obligations upon
the sections seeded from, wbile L should
expect no treaty stipulation would ever
be made to take its place. But there is
another difficulty. The great interior re-
gion, bounded east By the Allsghenies,
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 Ken
lucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wiscon.
sin, Illinois,, NJ ssouri, Kansas, Iowa,
Minnesota, and the Territories of Daco.
tah, Nebraska and part Of Colorado, al.
ready has above ten millions of people,
and will have fifty millions within fifty
years, if not prevented by any political
folly or mistake. 1t contains more than
one third of the country owned by the
United States, certainly more than one
million of square miles. Once half as
populous as Massachusetts, already is, it
would have more than seventy five mill
ions of people. A glance at the map
shows that, terrtorially speaking, it is
the great body of the republic. The 9th
er parts arc but marginal borders to it,
the magnificent region sloping west from
the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific being
the deepest, and also the richest in unde-
veoped resources,
In the production 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 ofthe region which has as yet
been brought into cultivation, and also the
large aud rapidly increasing amount of
its products, and we shall be overwhelmed
with the magnitude of the prospect pre-
sented, And yet this region has no sea.
coast-touches no ocean anywhere. As
part Of one nation its people 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
Fransisco but separate our common
country into two nations, as designed by
the present Rebellion, and every man of