The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-08-02
THE DAILY DISPATCH
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IN ,he midst Of the warning elements fna' ss'
,..slpa the whole sea Of public ssnsimeo' W."
.nr,y and foam. IL 10 encouraging 70 bear III
,s., ,here are some obstacles to dlssoiahon "n'SA
the wit and ingenuity Of tn enemies "m - 49,.
hard to remove Passion may rule 'ns n'"'' -,
then follows almost uniformly the s""e' seeo"s
,honsh.~ communities when they come 70 scs'
are governed by interest, not PASSION "nen o's
.o,.,o, became. the interest Of any section, then
I'm, M, ,fn then. the Union viii be dissolved.
no. .o,,s,,max hear It said that the Americans
ar. the chosen people Of modern times, and that
erovasncs therefore win not permit dissolution.
neon II We should admit the modest assump ton,
chs eonseouence would not follow, for God per-
y,t.ted bis own chosen people to be divided. and
ultimately scattered over the face Of the whole
s,r.h, Still II cannot be denied that the land We
tobab,t has been 90 contrived and arranged by
Him who made 1t, that it Is almost beyond the pow
q. of man to put us asunder. 1t has been justly
sud Of the great Mississippi Valley. by Mr.. Bates
: Missouri, that it IL one and indivisible, and
though passion may suggest transient causes Of
saarrel and folly may urge us into fraternal con-
sssts. still our portions connected. and our
permanent interests 50 interiaced and identified,
that we cannot afford to be other than mutual
friends and assistants The Mississippi river can
never be the dividing line between hostile pow
era 1t will blend the feelings Of the people upon
its banks in spite of themselves long it blends
their interests
]. cannot be doubted that nature has guaranteed
The suity of the Mississippi Valley. And in that
uai:y, more than in our Constitution, more than
IN our common blood, our pride in the past. and
crr hopes Of the future, is the best guarantee We
can have of the permanent unity of the American
Republic The grea. Mississippi Valley is the mas
sTve central trunk Of our whole eonfederaey, ex.
tending from the extreme North to the extreme
South, connecting the Northern and the Southern
borders, and making its iniunnee felt in every
town apd State on the Atlantic seaboard.
Whilst the Northern nullifyers threaten dissolu-
ON. and Northern Black Republicans pray to
Congress to grant them that BOOM gift which
Congress can no more bestow than it can cause
the rains of Heaven to fall, or our planetary sys
tenn TO seperate,-Northern money is flowing in
rivers to build additional railroad and canal COM
munieations with the vast valley of the Upper
Hlssissppi. =. Already New York has three or four
avenues of connection with the Upper Mississippi
through the great Lakes, and still her active en-
ergies end resources are tested to increase the
links which hold her to that mighty trunk, on
which all other parts Of the system depend for
nurture and security. Abolition!zed New England,
whilst she spouts disunion from her Legislative
halls, stretches forth both hands to grasp, with in
creased railroad connections, the sheet anchor Of
the Cnion.--the Mississippi valley. The Key
stone State has bound herself in like manner to
the fruitful and mighty West. Maryland has
seized with the iron grasp of her great Baltimore
and Ohio line, the rich country beyond the ALE
ghaniss. and Virginia is earnestly laboring to
reach the same common goal by her Covinston
and Southwestern railroads. Georgia and South
Carolina are graphing the Southwest with rail
road connections. In a word, the active energies
Of the whole business people of America are nul.
tiplyiug and perfecting the means of commercial
and social between East and
West and thus promoting intercourse and an iden-
ffhea,ion of interest between all sections of the
Onion.
Let the Black Republican agitators rave on
They have lungs of brass, but they cannot con-
tend against locomotives railroads, the Mississippi
rirs-. and the great valley which 1t drama