Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-12-11

| terlor snggestlng modification Of the act il
favor of shoee engaged Ia the military and ma
val strvice Cf the United Stases. | daubt no
that Congress will oheerfully sdopt such 10 lea
cures as will, without essentially changing th,
general features of the syatem, reserve, 10 tb,
grestePt practicable extent It's benefits 70 thos,
who have left their homes 10 defente of tht
couutry In thls duous crisis.
| invite your attention to the views Of tb
Stcfet,ry OF War, 90 to the prorslety of rails
ipg, by Appropriate legislation, revenue from
the mineral lands of tho Uoised States.
| INDIAN AFFAIR.".
| The measures provided at " ur last session
for the removal of certain Indian tribes, hsv
beet carried into eject. Sundry treat'e hv
been negotiated, which will, ia due time, b
submitted for the con, ttutional action of tb
Senate. They contain stipulatione fer sxip
gushing the posseseive rights OF the Indiar
to large and valusble tracts of land. II /
probable that the fleets of these treaties vi
result In the establishment OF permanent friend
ly relations with such Of thoee tribes as hay
been brought into frequent and bloody coils
ions with our out lying settlements and em'
grants. Sound policy aud our imperative dui
to these wards of Government, demand OF
anxious and constsnt attention to their m
terial we,l-beiDg, TO ter progress 10 the ar
of civil zation, and, Sbove ell, to that NOR
training which, under the blessings Of Divir
Providence, will confer upon them the elevate
and sancifyipg irfaence of The hopes and col
olstiops OF the Cbrlttian faith.
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propriety Of remedying our ludian syster
SUBS, qaens events have satifiei me OF it's d
ceeeity. The details tet forth 10 the Report
the Secretary will evince the urgent need #
immediate legislative action.
l commend the benevolent institutions
tablished or patronizsd by the Government
this District, to your generous and fOsteIil
care.
THE SHIP CANAL.
The attention of Co gress, during the Ia
SET sion, was engaged, to some extent, with
proposition for enlargiug the water commune
tion between the Misslssippi River and Il
north eaatern seaboard, which proposition, ho'
ever, failed for the time. Since then, upon
call of the greatest respectability, Conve
ton has been held at Chicago uEol the san
eubisct, a summary of who're yieas is consa
ed in a memorial addle sed to the President q
Congress, and which now have the. horo,
lay before YOU. That this interest is one Whic
ero long, will force it's own way do not ente
tain doubt, while it Is submitted entirely
your Wisdom ss to what can be done now.
Augm euted interest is given to this aubject
the actpal commencement of work upon Il
Pc flo Railrosd. undsr auspices favorable to
rapid progress and completion. E0lMg
navigation becomes q pslpable need to IL
great road.
THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
transmit tle second snnual eport of Il
Commissioner of the Department of Agricu
ture, king your attention 10 the developmep
in that vital interest Of the patton.
THE RTBELLIoN AND EMANCIPATION.
When Congress assembled q year ego, t.
war hsd already lated resrlv twenty month
and there had been many cor lets. both on lsi
and sea, with varying results. The rebNlli'
had been pressed back into reduced limits;y
the tone of publ feeling aud opinion, at bon
aud abroad, was not satisfactory. With 9th
signs, the populas elections, then just past,i
dicsted unessinees among ourselves, whi
amid much that was cold and mepaciDg, q ,
kiudest words coming from Eoglsnd were u
tered In accents Of pity thai we we're too bli |
to surrender. Our comnePce was suffer-,
greatly by a few armed veseelP, built upon
furnished from foreign shores. and we we
threatened With such additions from the san ,
quarter as would sweep our trade from the 70
and raise our blockade. We bad failed to eli
from European Goverpments any thing hope1
upon the subject. The Emancipation PROCLAIM
tion which was Issued in September wss runpi,
it's assigned period 10 the beginning of tue NJ
year. A mouth later, the fosl prccl,matit
came, including the announcement that color,
men of suitable coIdition would be reoely,
into the war service. The policy of emanclp
tion and of the employment of black soldie
gave to the future new aspect, about Will
hopes, fesrs, aud doubts coutended In uncertaj
cor Of, according to our political system, as
matter of civil administration. The Gene
Government had no lawful power tfftt
emancipation In any State, aud for long tia
Il had been hoped that the rebellion could b
suppressed without resorting t. II SO q militia
measue Il was all the while deemed poss,
BILE that necessity fer it might come. and th
IL It should, the crisis of the contest wou
then be presented. 1t olme, as expected;
WAS followed by dark and doubtful day.
E ever months having been passed, we AZ
to take another review. The rec,
borders are pressed still further back, and
the complete opening Of the Mississippi river
the country dominated over by the rebellion
divided into distinct parts. Tennessee at
Arkansas have been go substantially cleared
the insurgents' control end Influence; and tb
10 each, aud owners of slaves. and o.
vocates Of slavery at the beginning of the r
bel ion, now declare openly for emancipation
their respective States. Of those States NJ
included in the Emancipation Proclamation
Maryland and Missouri, neither of which, yea,
ago, would tolerate any restraint upon the ex
tension Of slavery into their territories, onl
dispui now as 10 the best mode of removing
from within their oWn limits. OF tho,e wb
we're slaves at the beginning of the rebellion
fully one hundred thousand are row in tb
United States military service, about one hsi
of which number actually bear arms In th
rauke, thus giving the double advantage {
taking much labor from the iusurgent causf
and supplying the places which other wise nut
be filed with go many white men. So faro
tested, IL 10 difficult to Say they are not az got
soldiers as any. No servile insurrection, c,
tendency 10 violence or cruelty, has marked II,
measures of EN- Incipation and armpg th,
blacks. These measures have been much die |
,ussed IN foreign countries, and, contemporary
With such discussions, the tone OF public senti- |
nent there is much improved. The sime
measures have been folly discussed, supported,
ritcsed and denounced, and the result of the |
nDusl elections is highly encouraging to those
those special duty t is to bear the country