Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-04-04

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yew Mexlcd u about 10 b admitted With
|sleve inA{itutions. Arizonia win follov. -
mtxico n.uk In few yeasbe conquered,
and the Scuthers, lords Of the most magnifi
cent domain IN the world, would control the
passage between the two oceans;
=. In short, II the Union lets South Caro-.
lima 60. there Is no saying what may go with
Il; II Is very well to speculate ON the return
of an erring sister, but experience shows
that secesslons when once made are not easily
recalled; t-
Inc Union Is valuable to us in a CONNER
cal poinf of view. In the hcrthwe raise
wheat, which does not grow in fhe South,
and our form OF civilization encourages man.
|uiactures. Every riYulet and coal mine, and
sSrest, gIyes power g jApel machinery, and
sne south u vast Market for our inanu-
factured articles. 9ov. Wise, Of Virginia,
q year ago, said that the North manufactured
all that was worn, and used and consumed
In the south, even to broom-handles and
cofhns. The very black badges Of treason
now worn at the South, we're manufactured
IN new York, and Northern guns, in the
hands OF Southern traitors, now menace US
with internecine war and death. Bellefon-
tame manufactures carriages for Texas. Now
II we divide the Union, Cincinnati will be
transferred to Natchez,. the spindles of New
England will travel to the waterfalls of the
Caroiinas..
The decline OF Charleston commerce is no
insignificant motive for secession, in the
hope that it will become the New York Of
the South, and New York will becomeDbut
q Charleston for the North. The Almighty
has made the Ohio, the Mississippi, the
Missouri to How from the North to the South
that we may transport our breadstuffs and
manufactures there. and that our steamers
may return laden with rice, and cotton, and
sugar. God made us for one nation, and
the Constitution but ratified his decree. -
There is no error in the record, and it can
never be reversed. We cannot cut the Mis-
ssissippi river in two, and permit one half to
be owned by foreign nation. The consti-
tuition was made to secure free trade among
the States: Divide the Union and duties
will be levied on all the products we send
south. The rebel Congress at Montgomery
have already levied duties on the articles we
ship into the secession confederacy. The
South now can not cut OH our commerce and
trade because it is free while we can retain
it by duties levied upon the products Of 9th
er nations But the Secession Confederacy
as an independent Nation can exchange her
cotton for the wheat Of Canada and the
manufactures OF England. The hostility
which would prompt division OF the Union
would induce her to cut on our northern
commerce: ~ :, 1i'Gi ie ~ ,
The Union gives us confidence, power and
respect at home and abroad. Three great
Nations occupy the Continent, Russia, Eng
land and the United States- ours the great
est amongst thaS fthers are an
significant. And what mas the Union done
for us? A few years ago we sent Commodore
Perry and man-of-war to Japan; Her ports
were closed to all nations: he was for
bldden TO enter. But he did enter and we
have Commercial Treaty with that vast
empire. It was not the man-of-war or the
guns that did this. 1t was the power OF our
name. t....i i-t. .tre .,,.t.,T n.
Two years ago we had war with foreign
nation, yet not one IN ahundered remembers
the fact. we made war on Paraguay-we
sent three steamboats, to conquer that nation
and to coerce treaty to pay our citizens
their money demands Three steamboats,
conquered Paraguay. No, no, it was not
the three steamboats,, it was the fact that
the United States simply said it must be SO.
It was the fact that 300 steamboats, could