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MYERS ant with her history can doabt where
Pennsy " Ania will be found.
Nor can doubt, when the day Of solemn Do
cision shall arrive. that the powerful North
western State.-taken cot Of the eide Of v Igin-
n, ~hose children are still widely didussd
AInoog their bold and snterprising population
bordering they do. on Pennsyfvania- Ken
lucky. and Missouri. IS veil a. ON Virginia. and
having common interest with IN. slayeholding
States occupying the banks Of tbe Mississippi
IN the use 81 that great Mediterranean channel
ct Intercourse and trade. will rally with those
States, cordially and frankly, 20 Union OF
e9nsl rights, oi Justieo. and fraternity.
When We turn our ewes again 10 the eastward.
we cannot doubt on what side will b. found the
imperial city, the centre Of American industry
and c0mmerce-in herself sovereign Power
with all her vast connected interests and Deepen
dencics. Ii 60 the internal questions now agi-
tating the State Of New Iork-mAny of them
deeply affecting the rights and interests of the
eity-be added the supreme one Of dissolution
Of the Union. itis not an improbable event, amid
the revolutions OF empire, that We shall Sc the
southern portion Of the State, eomprehending the
city, separated from the rest and formed into n
new and independent State. hrmly adhering 10
the Central States OF the C0nlederscy. slave
holding and mons laveholdng with those Of the
ALLEY OF the Mississippi.
have ever believed that IL unhsppily--owin.,
to the centrifugal and Earring tendencies some
times manifested BY the States At the extrcmi-
tee Of the Coufcderacy--our present glorions
Union should BE- broken up, the States occupy
ing the central belt OF the continent. from ocean
Go ocean, including those OF the Valley Of the
Mississippi. would still bold together. and keep
alive, with BETTING dignity aud power the an
cent name and proud traditions Of the United
States of America and perhaps. in the end win
back Ia thu fold those who might have tempora
rlly strayed from il.
At all events, i see no reason 10 despair Of
the early success Of the work 81 Cancellation in
Angurated by your proposition. 90 the entire eN
tent Of the States have enumerated. II prose
cuted in the right spirit and when HARMONY
and good understanding shall have been Cd
tablished among them the great Central Stats.
OF the CONFERENCE.-The rational motive car
be felt by few isolated StAies. whether ut the
North or the South. tO stand Aloof ia sullen con
tumacy or Improbable discontentl We have
lately seen suspicious indications that reflection,
such a. these. with rryiving spirit Of national
ny, arp making daily progress IN that quarter
81 the Conicderacy where the antagonist q
Southern institutions has been hitherto ID,
strongest and will not yet abandon the con
soligg hope that the present troubles of tbs
coua try, by bringing more clearly 10 light IN,
dangers which threaten Us, NAV end in PLACING
the Constitution and the Union Of our fathers
upon more solid and lasting foundations thar
oSCr. Most truly and faithfully your friend,
W. G. RIvES
( Hon. Aux. r. BOTSLER,
Member OF the House of Reps Washington