The national Republican., 1861-10-09
Wednesday, October 3. 1854,
ss- Rsadirs Matter on every pagc.~tla
rlIx BcRosn suAvs HrATE..

1t was frequently ald, IT '-'- 'C2 'I lu'
Southern Confederacy Of s5yap s,n'"a. Is cr'gi !
nally constituted, thai Wit lop'dati,O Of
ave millions 1t exceeded, 4 million 4nd Il
half, the population OF ii. -.aoL S'tr.s at,
The d6le of tie Dec!arsti., 10, iulspehIelrr
aud that 10 the other ..-D",,s # terrnJry
wealth. and resources, it compared favorahly
With the whole nation. T." commencement
of our separate eXistenC. B.. ,irG. That sort ol
statement is plansible. b. vii not bear any
very close examination.
For all purposes Of internal selt-governmeht
one million of iphabt ,nts viii! suffice as vel o.
.hre- millions and II hat, Of as five millions.
1t Il only iu external Citations that numbers
become important, as tue most tangible ele-
ment OF naticIN power and that sort of power
is no ab ti4 = a. md ~ mere matter Of senti.
ment end Pr lie, hut is q positive ard practical
good in plyLe.'i.g coGamerce a"d in securing
private property from the destruction Of invG-
sions il i. because Great Britain is strong
and powerful that London is the ric&esl, il not
the most populous, cy iu the world.
A., then, it is only in external relations that
numbers become important, 80 it is evident
thai il Is relative and not absolute numbers.
which are important 4 million of inhabitants
will suiice to make a nation respected by its
neighbnrs, il none of them have more, or 80
many. But ten millions will be inadequate,
in the immediate presence of ueighbors having
twice as many.
1t IL by attending to this point of relative
numbers. that ne see the falla;y OF assuming
that the original Southern Cohfederacy could
safely attempt q separg.e ~Eisrence, with I'VE
millions of people, because our ancestors at
tempted it and succeeded In it. With three mil
lion. ard half
Circumstances al.er eases. The population
of France has donbi;d. and that Of Great Brit
ain has more than doubled, since 1875, while
the power OF each to operate militarily on this
side OF the Atlantic has increased within
eighty years even more than their numbers
These are the only two transatlantic powers
having important relations with this continent.
A vastly more material circumstance is, that
although we had but three millions and half
of people, when we commenced our national
existence, we were from the first to use a COM
mon expression Of the day, the masters OF the
situation on this continent. We wcse the
greatest power in America, and, indeed, the
only independent one, all that remained of 1t
being then in the colonial condition. We were
0vershadoved by no more powerful neighbors,
and indeed, we scarcely had any neighbors.
II the actual relations whi;h wo occupied to
tie "raal NJ l.ank nd . We were etropg. and
yele rc O.; niGed, tourtcd lud feared as a
power, not 7nly rising, bat already greai. Il
this vital particulaI, tn Southern Confederacy
sla cd under altogether Wo-sa auspices. 1t
uad fire lnilion9 Of people, but IL had nlsc
neighbor on the North with weuty-eicAt mil
lions. and it Wa that fatal comparison v hi2h
dwarfed it into cOu.!tion Of weakL, 9 and
insecurity, dangerous as vel. IS hum,iiating
The llen wto planned this rebellion have
uot labored under any delusion themselves on
his point, whatever .allacics they nay have
attempted to impose temporarily urol otbers
They nave never Intended anything from the
nrss, out Coutode!Goy Of all TIE slave States,
pnd have known vel thai 10 nationality Tess
powerful than Lhhi tolld protec he interests
dependent upon il, AID especial tie irtclest
OF slavery, which IL I, ,oricusly . III, object
OF lle good viii Of L-aukind. ne Of these
leaders may not have desired g." inrne iiate
accession of the border slave States to their
Contederooy, and may have even preferred
that they should remain for 'oD5Or. in the
old Union, 10 embarrGss ! - rcsistng thGt
military coercion, which II -A'y thing the
rebels ever feared. But s, . 81 ! .atcr. Il ese
leaders Intended 10 haze Il. "order States,
and nothing less THAI thu. l., .i1fy the re-
quirements of either thc.r aThil'G or their
policy. They never des I'd T., dwarf them
selve- 10 a littl- rim o. '.- Gulf of Mexico,
bur [" sretch aCIVse rnt r.,n.iaent with the
Who're breadth Of rhr s'ryo ties. They haze
always cluded III i, o. qaper the Indian
tflitggy yes, Ot Arhausts md New Mexico
and h1Se done good deal 10 reduce those
=. ;..,-- ,2 possesston Their views have been
ptf,5s> c,o..sIy ,-4 from the start, Iarq and
tol.l ,.h, ,lyr
II IL hHin lhrae 81 peCts Uf the case that we
may saie'y arr 'e 1t the two conclusions. that
tle present 1heilion is Substantially defoa ed
by the re'' "a the old Union of Delaware,
Mary and N.rg mia, Kentucky, and Missouri
aud that. TIM progress Of causes permanently
detacling those States from the Gull region
pospones indefinitely th3 prob ,bility of any
new outbreak in that quar'ar 4 is among Nm,
poss bi,ile4 hat the U1lon m gtl, be br ken in
the m dd!l, into two neaDly equal parts, hlt no
bttie traction will ever go Oh, and hereby con.
demn its,lt to the mori6Catioss and hgz &,
of an obscure and feeble na iOuuiity
II the Cult politicians have Mt no b, er
able to drag these border States into their poi
icy, hey Will be less and less able to d. s>
hereafter 1t is the slavery interest, in thest
border States, which is the only lever Of inhu
ence which they have IN them, aud that inter
est heretofore slowly decnyiDg, has received {
shock, in this war which It cannot long ,nr
vive. Delaware Maryl nd Virginia, Ken