The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-12-11
Lc. us BInd the states Together

The Cincinnati Enquirer, in q recent ar.
ticle entitled "The South and West" pre-
sents some valuable hints in reference to
tho business and commercial interests Of
these two important sections oil the co1fede.
rOcy. The suggestions there made, are val
liable, and may be regarded in political, os
well as commercial point OF view. A com.
Runily OF interest creates a community of
feeling and sentiment. Vast lines Of rail.
road reaching from the Western into the
Southern States, thus giving current and d.
rection to the commerce Of the West and
South, would also strengthen the bond Of
Union between the respective States, and
give power and permanency to the political
alliance between them. Two separate and
independent commonwealths lying side by
side, yet having no commercial Intercourse,
have not half the inducement to remain to.
gether in a confcdelacy, that is presented
where the business enterprises of each ere
dependent upon the other.
Commerce has been powerful q gent in
| the world TO civilzS and Christanize its in.
/ hubitants. Railroads, steamboats,, canals
telegraphs, spinning jannies, and thousand
other Improvements aud discoveries, have
wrought wonders not only in the business
bit in tbs moral, social, und political world
II, then, VIC would have our glorious Union
made perpetual, and the institutions of oul
fathers preserved, we should bind the State.
together by iron bands.
We have as yet, hardly begun TO learn the
resources of our country and the vast weultt
that lies in itS bosom. The Mississippi val
ley from the mouth to the source Of ths
solendid river, is mighty glrden with every
variety OF coil, climate and production, Gu
pnblo OF containing and supporting an EN-
piro Of people. Let this natural ch1nne
which God has made to unite these North
I. ern and Southern confederscies tegcthe b
improved, let railroads be constructed, lc
cities rise up along their lnes, letthe trnd
i, ftho No tn find an outlet ia the South, an
let the products of tho South find consump
ton in the North, until the existence of eac
locality becomes in u EeatuTe depente
upon the other, and there will no longer b.
any talk Of disunon end separation. Rail
road trains Laden with the substantial grain
OF the, Northwest, will not stop at Mascl
and DXon's line. Neither will cnrgoes o
sugar and cotton be unloaded at that point
but each will pass further on, binding an
interlacing these sections together until tn
iGea OF u separation is impossible.
Commerce end Freedom 90 hand in hand
Where the white sails Of ono are seen. tn
mid influence of the other is felt. Let cite
in the South and cities Of the North rise u
and take hold of hands, and an impcrtan
sep is taken towards carrying free institu
tions and sentiments into tho heart Of II
slaveholding communities. A single steam
boat plying between New Orleans and 81
Paul, with the necessary trade along and q
the termini Of its route, will accomplis
more for the substantial good Of the States
than dozen moral reform societies. a fe,
lines of railroad crossing from the South t
the North will achieve an infinitely create
triumph of free principles than all the pre-
fessed anti-slavery parties ever organize
since the formation Of the government.