New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-19


may be possible, TO carry il into Mexico and through
out The Southern continent Had this been really 90,
separation would have been 30 very simple process
that 1t would long since have been accomplished.
That ia not 30 and that there exist obstacles to sep
araton 80 serious as almost TO forbid that it should
tako place either now or at any future time you will
"a believe, be satisfied after you shall have accom-.
panied me in brief examination into the divisions Of
the South OF Large, and Of the manner in which those
divisions manifest themselves within the bosom Of its
several States.
Tho great backbone of the Union Is found in the
ridge Of mountains which commences in Alabama, but
little distant from the Gulf Of Mexico, and extends
nOrthward wholly separating the people who iahabit
the low lands Of the Atlantic slope from those who
occupy such lands in the Mississippi Valley, aud Itself
constituting great fee-so wedge, with its attendant
free atmosphere created by Nature herself in the very
heart of Slavery and requiring bat slight increase Of
size and strength to enable those who now direct to
control the Southern policy and hus to bring the entire
South into perfect harmony with the North ond West,
aud with the world at large. That you may fully sat
isfy yourself on this head will now ask you to take
the map and pass your eye down the Allegheny RIDGE
fanked as it is by the Cumberland range on the west
and by that of the Blue Mountain the east, giving
in the very heart Of the South itself country larger
than al Great Britain IN which the finest of climates
is found in connection with land Astounding in coa
salt limestone iron ORE gold, and almost every other
material required for the development Of varied
industry and for occurring the attainment Of the highest
degree of agricultural wealth; and then to reflect
that il is region which must necessarily be occu-
pied by men who with their own hands till their
own lands and one in which Slavery can never by any
possibility have more than slight and transitory ex-
isence. That done, would ask you to determine
whether or not / am right in tie assertion that the
South s not only not the homogeneous body that you
have supposed it, but that clearly divided into three
separate portions two of which desire to in the
direction of perpetual Human Slavery, while the third
inherited between them is, by the force of circum-
stances, necessarily impeed toward Freedom. That
determined will ask You farther to say if the real
question now before us for decision is not plainly and
simply this: Shall the friends Of Civilization, North
ard South govern and direct the movements OF the
Union-or shall those Of the North now abandon those
of the South handing them over, bound hand and foot
to the control Of who in the maintenance and
extension Of Slavery tie only firm and permanent ba-
sis OF what they pleased to denomnate Free Gov
eminent That Is the question: aud that you VIII be
disposed give to it answer favorable to southern
claims am not yet disposed to believe.
Looking now within the States Themselves, we find
in Virginia ard Maryland two Of them in which the
free population Of the higher lands almost unan.
imous in their determination TO adhere 10 the bnlon
let the sacrce required be what il may. In the latter
Of these there are thiryeight counties, with total
population Of 30 000 Of whchbut 1000 belong 10 the
race that IL liable TO be bought and sold whereas in
the lower Part Of the Stae-that eastern portion In
which the raising Of negroes for market constitutes the
PRINCIPAL source OF revenue-there single counties
in which the slaves are almost as numerous. Here,
then, my dear Sir we find within the limits Of single
State two great bodies standing face to face with each
otherthe one slaye-breedng arstocracy that has 20
controlled the Government 10 subject the man
who owns himself, and nothing else 10 a taxation
thrice greater than that which is paid by the
master Of slave of similar powepr-the other a
Frcedom-loying Democracy that is determined upon
emancipation from aristocraGc tyranny that, rather
than submit 10 be dragged from Union in which they
SEQ tLois orly friends, they have just instituted and
have now in fall operation separate and distinct State
government. Admitting for moment that we are TO
follow your advice viii you tell what shall be done
with the Freedom-loying people of these two States
Shall we abandon them 10 the "tender mercies" OF
those under whose tyranny they have already much
suffered-those who now denounce every loyal S0th-
crn man AZ n traitor and Aboiticnist, and find in
such charges full excuse for the work Of robbery and
murder in which they ere everywhere so busily en-
gaged Thsty you would urge us to this Iosnnobelievc,
and vet such is the necessary tendency of the advice
you have Just now, through ne, given TO our people
West OF Virginia lies Kentucky, State that stands
second to none 10 the qualities OF lis SOIL or in the
character ii its population. At the moment at which
/ write it has, by majority wholly unprecedented,
elected new Legislature, thrsefourths OF whom
stand by the Federal Constitution and Union-doing
this in the teeth of Hercuean efforts on the part
of the cotton States to drag into the vortex of rebel
lion Such being her position, what, in the event OF
adopting your suggestions would you have ne 10
with her II Virginia be allowed TO 60, she, too,
must TO- for they must remain together whether in or
out of the present Union, Most we drice her from
connection which she loves or must we look quietly
on witnessing the invasion Of her soil, the burning Of
her towns, the destruction of her bridges and the
robbery and murder OF her loyal people by marauders
from the seeding States, closely resembling those
whose works in Western Virginia are here described
For cool and stTcctv IN robbery hsA and deuc-
lion OF property the career OF Gov Vine has no parallel IN
tate retreat he kept h guerss cons,auy securing aud
raadng he counties OF hsnsgha and 'eeSson selling 81 the
cattle and horses Of Union ne ard pretending buy them OF
the d.uuon men, bat paying any thing 10 enybody
Thsso cattle ard horses he 20 e East until there
yery few good IN the counties named Other
ties bu, little better He burned nearly every bridge ~ the
valley except the hne suspension bridge seos' rs M en- WhcA
he ordered 20 be cut down and nred Many honorable
aud worthy have been carried OF to Richmond Tor express
ing Union tentronts OF whom have largo families de-
pending on them sabstence. great amour. OF sahens
must be tho result The most violent OF the Secessonss hse
conc with Wises army and many Of their families are II di
and destitute condition. All hands are siek to death OF
Secession. IL has been terrible thing 60 them" 80.
Wheeling Inteligencer
The destruction Of Hampton, a town OF 900 houses,
n, IL NM Of thu Sate n ln keaning with Lle