The national Republican., 1861-10-15
Tuesday, October Is, 1861.
as- Reading Matter on every pase.-s
TIM SOUTH ERN CONF FGDERACY-HA.
TuRAL BOUNDARIES.

TuRAL BOUNDARIES.
In writing upon this subject few day.
since, we pointed ou the considerat ions which
rendered ii certain that the rebel leaders never
contemplated anything else than ConfederacS
embracing all the slave States. that no suct
Confederacy limited to the Gulf States AFFORDED
any sufficient guarantees Of secure nationaI.
ity. aad hat the contest for the border slave
States really includes tho whole subject in cou
irovcrsy. We have since seen an article in th.
Richmond Examiner, confirming these views a.
all points.
The Examiner says tha. the a atural boundary |
# the Southern Contederacy is the Missouri
ilver. the Ohio river, aud the northern line Of |
Northwestern Virginia and of Maryland. The
Etdminer says that a portion OF ,he country
south of this line has been lost to the Southern
Conftderacy, by the action Of its own inhabt-
ants, as in Missouri Kentucky, Western Vr
einia, and Maryl and, but is very little inclined
to respect the wishes OF the populations immc :
diately concerned, in comparison with the ne
cessity Of maintaining "naturdl boundary
The tcar,' says the Examiner, cannot be
lIosed until zoe shall have reconquered the South
ern territory ,ohich pas basely surrendered to The
invader Ly Southern traitors.'
And again
- 1t ia idle to think of peace until we shall
have reconquered the surrendered country
lying south Of the boundary we have defined.
Geographically, politically, and strategetically.
Kentucky is a part of the South, which she
cannot afford to surrender to Northern control
and jurisdiction. We cannot affJrd to have
imaginary boundary lines with the Yankees.
The line of Kentucky and Tennessee is too iu-
tangible to mark the separation between North
AMI South. Without bold. natural line If
separation, like the great Ohio river, the Dor
der population of the South would be as com
pletely demoralized, through all future time
as experience has proved it to have been du-
ring the events of the last five months.
The social systems and the domestic ilstitu-
tutions of the two COnfederacies, are too dis
similar and antagonistic to be divided by a
merely mathematical line. While the two
populations were associated under one political
Union. even then we had enough of the under
ground railroad We must establish our sepa-
ration by such distinct landmarks that that in.
stitution will have no further existence on this
continent.
I've have simply, therefore, to make up our
minds to conquer boundary by an adequate
force of men. Our generals in Missouri, In
Kentucky and in Western Virginia, should be
Iurusded witt armies ample in numbers t."
drive the enemy across the Missouri ard the
Ohio rivers. he South has a great stake in
accomplishing this expulsion during the present
season. TO allow the enemy to winter in our
country is to lose the support of the whole
population of the districts of country in which
ne will make his winter quarters In that
event, we should next season have not only
the enemy TO drive out, but the local popula
ton itself to conquer
1t Is obvious enough that the doctrine o.
" State rights" SO clamorously insisted upor
at other times is quite lost sight Of in this view
of the subject. Local populations " must bt
conquered" if they stand in the way Of ma
tural boundaries" and however much Mary
land, Kentucky. and Missouri may desire to
remain in the old Union they cannot be per
united to do 30 at the expense of the /" geograph
ical, political, and strdtegaical" necessities o.
the Southern Confederacy. This view, 80 fa
as Kentucky is concerned, is identical with tina
taken long since by the newspaper organs 0
secession at Memphis.
The upshot of the whole matter is, that tn
entire scheme of Southern Confederacy is de
teated by the firm and substantial and reiabl
retention of these border States (including Viz
gna) in the old Union. The cotton politician
of the Cult were willing enough and perhap
even preferred that these border States should
retain temporary, nominal, " armed neutral
ity,' connection with the old Union, to con
troll it's policy and ward off coercion, and will
the understanding that they should slide int
the Southern Confederacy as soon as 1t wa
we'll established.
But the final loss of those States is a resul
which they never contemplated, and which
SO fatal to their plans, that they are now re
sistiug it with absolute desperation, and as
question Of life and death. Tennessee cannC
remain out of the Union, unless she can dra
Kentucky out. And Virginia cannot renal
ont, unless she can drag Maryland out. Tn
scheme of secession must succeed as a whole
or fail as a whole. If the Southern Confed
eracy loses its natural boundary" on tn
North, it loses everything The battle 70
the border slave States Is thus the battle 70
the Union, and it is battle won for tb
Uulon, with the expulsion Of the cabal froI
Eastern Virginia and Western Kentucky
From Missouri they are already flying and i
Maryland they were never permitted to get
,oothOld.
Er- The Commissioners, heretofore appointe
ty the President, to the QLondon) Worlds Fai,