Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-04-27
MORNING LRADER.
Tao North-west-.-Its Groyvth, Prorress,
and Fwturo.


The North West has ceased 10 be merely tho
States comprehended under the ordinance of
l7S7 Ohio has ceased 10 be merelya Western
State, aud Cincinnati is no longer the city Of
the West, but has become the city of the center
Vet, Ohio and Cincinnati are still IN the North
West and will be until the great region 10
tween the Rocky Mountains aud the North Pa.
oific shall be known as such. At present, the
old North. West has simply enlarged It's borders.
Il has extended lie skirts beyond the Missis-
sppi il is gradually drawing towards the
Rocky Mountains, and the wilds Of Pembina
and the falls of the Missouri already begin n
loom up on the distant horizon. The territorial
extent Of this North Western center, as it really
is, is immense; its resources, whether iof agti-
culture, commerce, or manufacturer, equally
great, and ts destiny is apparently TO be equally
grand and comprehensive. Over the candy
plains Of the South, aud the fever districts OF
the Gulf (even If the system of negro slavery
had no adverse influence population will never
advance as rapidly as in the North. On the
rocky coast Of the North Atlantic, commeroe
may create great cities, and wealth may accu.
mulate, but population, in the interior, cannot
/ advance much furlher Il long since began "a
overflow, and continues its stream of migration
to tho North. West. The Northern Goths did
not overflow Europe, in more steady aud yolu.
minous stream, than do the people Of New
England, New York and Pennsylvania GIL I'd
the rich valleys Of the Ohio, the Mississippi,
the Kansas aud st. Peter For more than hall
century, q steady and uninterrupted current
OF migration, in our county, has flowed on
lines OF latitude, with the comparatively few ex.
ceptiOus made by doctors, lawyers, or traders
seeking their fortunes in Southern towns The
formers, mechanics and laborers neither like
fba %,
expensive luxury. Their fortunes must be made
by their own labor, applied to that rich land
which is open 90 their possession, and nerved
by that vigorous health which constant indus
try and cool breeze confer. In the same chan.
mel moves the great German column, which
accustomed TO domestic freedom for thousands
of years, loves not the gale tainted by slavery
The migrating masses tend now, az they have
done, constantly 10 the Northwest They
move on lines of latitude, establish the same
kind of civilization, build up towns, grow into
States, and accumulate wealth beyond any.
thing known in history. LABOR applied 10
the raw material being tie only source ofwealth
and self-direoted labor being far more pro.
ductive than forced labor, it follows necessari
! ly that these new States, filled up with free
and industrious people, must rapidly become
rioh, aud ontgrOw communities founded on a
iAANAAol VI bkitAbAh anu HNuuhNhlNt'
ness;---such unquestionably has been the fact
The Northwest has not merely grown in mum.
bers; il has grown in wealth just as much.-
Cincinnati, sixty years since a small and dirty
village, can buy more than one State in the
South, and has gone beyond New Orleans, to
which all eyes were long turned Os the great
city Of the Mississippi Valley 7
Ohio, which became State ffty-fYe years
ago, could to-day buy out eight States, half In
the South and half in the North. The eventual
result of this growth is to place the political
and moral power of the United Statea-in the
States north of the Ohio and the Missouri
Missouri will belong to the same subdivision
for, as Senator Atchison anticipated the iate OF
Missouri was decided in the contest for Kansas.
All north Of the Arkansas will belong to the
| great Gordon of States. which adopt Freedom az
the primary element of social organization, and
voluntary labor as the great means Of wealth.
Tho world has never seen these principles car
ried to tho same extent, or developed in In.
same rapid manner as they have been in th'
Northwestern States. Abrief review of thes,
States at tho present moment, will give tn,
reader an idea of their rapid and powerful ad
vance towards the control Of this country TAX
ing the sources Of the Ohio, and those of the st
| Peter as the boundaries, cast and west we have
| the fOlloWinV eNteut of territory