The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-03-21


include Maryland. Delaware, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania. New York and ali the New England
States.
3.-Al the States lying west of the boundaries
given above to the Rocky Mountains, including
all the tributaries of the Missouri and Mississippi
Rivers. This would include Mississippi. Louis
lana, Texas, Arkansas. Missouri, Tennessee, Ken
tucky and all the Northwest States.
THE Pacisc Republic, including all the
states or territories west of the Rocky Mountain.
1t Is more than probable that these three Iast
divisions would find some basis of Union. and
unite under one Republic. while the first would
become q small and distinct Republic, and the
principal seat of slavery. if it proved possible to
maintain it. But =, Gen. SCOTS predictions.
which, it will be observed, were given in October
TislrS Suggested ~ the Lamtnegt Danger lOr.atsr
%. 1860 or q Disruption Of the LHi0E By tie Sc
cessi0u gf one or more qf tie Southern States.
To save time the right Of secession may be- con-
cedei, and instantly balanced by the correative right,
on the part Of the Federal Government, against an
interior State or States. to re-estabiish by force, If
necessary. its former continuity OF territory. PA
ley's Moral ami Political Philosophy, last chapter
But break this glorious Union BY whatever line or
lines that political madness may contrive, and there
would be 10 hope Of re-uniting the fragments except
by the decoration and ~ie-potism Of the sword. To ef-
feet such result the intestine wars Of our Mexican
~ne'ghoorS would, IN comparison with ours, sink into
mere child's play.
i smaller evil would te TO allow the fragments of
the great Republic 10 form themselves into new Con-
feieracic>. probably four. All the lines Of demarcl-
ton between the new Union cannot be accurately
drawn IN advance. but many If them approximately
may. Thus, looking 10 natural boundaries and COM
mercial atluities. some Of the following front ers at
ter many wlyeriugs and conflicts. might perhaps be-
come acknowledged and fixed !. The Potomac r.
yer and the Chesapeake Il Y TO the Atlantic. - From
Maryland, along tie crest Of the Allegheny (perhaps
the Blue RIdge) range of mountains, to some point in
the coast Of Florida. 3. The line from, saw the head
Of the Potomac to the west or northwest. which it
will be most difficult 10 settle. 4. The crest Of the
Rocky Mountains.
The Southeast Confederacy would, in all human
probability, in less than five years after the rupture,
find itsel: bounded 10y the first and second lines iudi-
Gated above. the Atlantic, and the Gulf Of Mexico,
with its capital at, say Columbia, South Carolina.
The country between the second, third, and fourth
of those lines would, beyond Il doubt. in about the
same time, constitute another ContedeTacy, with its
capital ut probably, Alton or Quincy, Illinois. The
boundaries Of the Pacific Union are the most definite
of all. and the remaining States would constitute the
Northeast Confederacy. with its capital 1T Albany.
1t, at the first thought, will be considered strange
that seven Slaveholding States and parts of Virginia
and Florida should be placed (above) in a new Con-
federacy with Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, &c. But when
the overwhelming weight of the great Northwest is
taken III connection with the laws Of trade, cOntigui-
~ Of territory, and the comparative Indifference 20
freesoIl doctrines on the part Of Western Virginia,
Tennessee, and Missouri, it is evident that
but little if any coercion, beyond moral force, would
be nee led 10 embrace them and | have omitted the
Of the unwasted public lands which would
fall entire 10 this Coufeieracy-au appanage (well
husbanded) sufficient for many generations. As to
Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi, they will not
stand ont a month. Louisiana would coalesce with
1ut much solicitation, and Alabama, with West Flor
la, would be conquered the first winter from the alb
soiutc need # Pensacola for a naval depot.
If might presume to address the South and par
icullriy dear Nirginia-being - native here and to
he manor horn''-I would afFectjonately ask, will
lot your slaves be less secure and their labor less
under the new order Of things than under
he old Could you employ proftably two hundred
slaves in MI Nebraska, or five hundred in all New
Mexico The right, then, 10 take them thither would
&c a barren right. Aud is it not wise to
Rather bear the ills we have
Than fly To others tlat We know not of?
The Declaration OF independence proclaims and
the same maxim d" Prudence, indeed,
VII dictate that Governments long established should
rot be changed for ligh, and transient causes"
Aul Plley, too, lays down as a fundamental max
IN OF craftsmanship, "neyer TO pursue national
OUOr as distinct from national interest :" but al Is:
This rule acknowledges that it l. often necessary
o assert the honor OF q nation for the sake oft
The excitement that threatens Secession is caused
y the near prospect Of Il Republicans election to
he Presidency. From = sense of prOpriety, as a
older, | have taken 10 part in the pending canvass,
nj, as always heretofore, mean 10 stay away from
he polls. My sympathies, however. are with the
and Everett ticket. With Nh. Lincoln have
al no communication whatever. direct or indirect,
nd have no recollection Of ever having seen his per-
IN but cannot believe any unconstitutional violence, =
+ breach Of law, IL to he apprchended from his
ADMINISTRATION Of the Federal Government. t
From a knowledge Of our Southern population il Is
" solemn conviction that there il some danger of 7
II carly act Of Tashness preliminary to Secession. viz: =
ne seizure Of some Of the following posts Forts
lchson and -. Philip, in the Mississippi. below New d
.r.eans, both without garrisons Fort Morgan, be- /
" Mobile, without i garrison Forts Pickeus and :
lcltee, Pensacola harbor, with AN Insufficient gar p
son for one Fort Pulaski, below Savannah, with
At . garrison Forts Moultrie and Sumter, Charles
n harbor, the former with an insufficient garrison, ,
nj the latter without any and Font Monroe, Hamp- |
N Roads. without i sufficient garrison. In my q
Union. all these works should be Immediately so ]
lTrisoucd a to make any attempt 10 take them, by C
IrprI>e or comp &c main, ridiculous. .
With the army faithful TO its allegiance and the :
probably equally 50, and with 4 Federal TX
utive, for the next twelve months, Of frnnesS and :
Oierltiuu, which the country mas a right 10 expect -
-mDfcr0ttOH being an element OF power not less than :,
~mHcSS-there l. good reason 10 hope that the dan :,
,r Of Secession may be made to pass away without "
ie conflict Of arms, one execution, or one arrest for
eIsou.
In the mean time it is suggested that exports
oull remain n free IS NJ present all duties, how 4
er, collected, (out lie Of the Cities a. such re-
ipts would be needed 7 the national debt, inva- il
pensions, &c, and only articles coutrabInd Of war 3.
refused admittance. But even this refusal would
unnecessary, as the foregoing views eschew the ,
ea Of invading n seeding State Re
October ~, 1860. WINFIELD SCOTT.
In forts or on board ships-ofwar. The great aim and OBJ W
II tins plan was To- gain ume->7y eight OF ten mouths p
await expected measures uf Cancellation ON the part Of the J
rth, and the subsistence Of angry feelings in the opposite =,