New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-11
AMATRUR DIsUNION.

For public man, Gov. Letcher, Of Virginia,
is spgularly ignorant. In his recent Message, he
suggests that the present Union may be cut up
into -Four Confederacies We give the scheme
in his own language
81 consider II not only possible, bnt highly probable, that
when di,union shall come viii have four organizations In
dependent and distinct. The States and Territories on the
Pacific By Of their locality aud i,oston will form one
The New gland States with NewYok in consequence OF
their identity Of opinions the subject OF African Slavery and
hfr other .ca ideas Of Ike kind i constitute the second
Tie border Slave States with Pennylyanis New Jersey Mis-
ou and the North Western States and Territories viii form
the third The Ohio river great highway. owned BY Virginia
Furnishes bond Of union between several Of the-the
Mi,soui river, another great highway, bond oil union
between othrrsand, ths'e male up the Mississippi
that ea. valley will later form union with those
it'll they trade and whose interests are therefore com
mon For this organization, NewOeans would be Its chief
city II would be the exporting and importing city Tor the state
In existence and hoo which may be hereafter formed out
the immense unsettled territory which would possess be
sides the public lands oud Invite population, and their
sales would furnish the dey governmental expenses
ia pa,t nj least Kentucky and the North Western Territories
originally formed part Of the domain of Virginia This organ
1aon keep her united with what formerly belonged to her.
and constituted part OF her territory The Cotton states
would form fourth All these concderscies being thus
formed although Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas and
Mississippi might FIRST attach themselves to the Cotton
State organisation very short time would saPe before they
be their uterst to connect themselves ~ih ire
Border and North States. Their trade their interests
their business relations with those States and all upon the
waters Of the Mississippi and It. tributaries must necessarily be
united II Louisiana remained In alliance with the Cotton
State, great City OF New Orleans would have 20 compete
with Mobile and Charleston for the export aud import trade and
the most ,he could hope for would be third OF H. Such
snsnge, mt would be followed by struggle for key Of the
Gulf eusacoa and the third niEston would have IT, cost
what might and blood II would be too important
on acquisition the Cotton State Confedscy without
desperate struggle These my specuaOas to the results
that arc 10 follow dssoaon Of tho Union. These results
bad enourh but may be much 1t not given 70 Us TO
rysd the future. We may however speculate abost it,"
The cOmical side of these prepostsrous specula.
tons appears when we state the fact that the
States Of the Northwest are more decided and
united in their opposition to the extension OF
Slavery than even New. England. Among the most
incorporating Free-Soil cities in tho country
are Cleveland, Chicago, and Lawrence. Nor
is there any part Of the country which will more
strenuously and immovably resist disunion, re-
bellon and treason than these same North
Western States. Gov. Letcher should inform
himself before be invents his next plan for dis
posing of the fragments of the Union.