Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-04-05
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TEE famine in Mississippi, which is fast
besOmiug = terrible reality, affords one
more reason for the perpetuity of the
Unioas and one more evidence that how
ever much the people Of the South and
North may be estranged BY the uuhcly
msshiua,ions of demsgogues, they are not
and cannot be divided at heart. Our COM
mon history binds US whole together.
We are people whose very existence
grew ont of unity Of purpose and action.
We have grown powerful, almost invinri-
BILE, because We have been united. 1--we had
adopted 4 COnfederacy instead of Union,
what would We have been now? In pOipt
Of government but little better than the
petty Wrangiins States Of South Ameries.
II any better at all It would have resulted
from the Inherent qualities of the Anglo
Saxon race, and from that only. But We
should have been distracted BY petty jcaI-
ousies, chickering's and quarrsIs, without
any unity Of action or strength. and would
probably long ere this have become the
prey Of the powerful maratime nations of
EuroPe.f Now they are chuckling over
the prospect that We are soon through our
own folly To be reduced to this teplorable
condition. Unity was the grand crOwning
conception of the old American Statesmen
and the great secret of all our success.
As We set out to say, we, rs a people,
are not only united by oil the teachings of
our history, and the udmonitions of the
fathers of the Republic, but by all the per-
meatiuE currents Of sympathy, friendship,
eOusauguinity, and common interests
Parents in the North have children in the
South. and riee Versa. Brothers aud sis
tiers in one section have sisters and broth
ers in the other, while the tender ties of
love, friendship, and pleasant intercourse,
Pervnde the country everywhere alike, re-
cOgnizing neither geographical nor sec
tional lines or divisions. Can We make
deadly enemies of parents and children,
brothers and sisters, or friends who habit
aally and cordially esteem one another, by
merely drawing an imaginary line between
them2 II il not possible. 1t is not in the
nature Of humanity. But interest is more
powerful stiIl than intercourse, with the ma
iority of makiud-eminenlly so with this
shreWd mOney-making American people.
II Southern revolution were to be con-
summated, We believe it would be over
turned, in time, by the influence of trade
alone. The traffic in exchaugabIe COM
mOdities between the North and South is
too great ever to permit an imaginary line
~ fySsl
intercourse is mutually too profitable TO
suter any Such restrictions for a great
length of lime. The Father of Waters
must be a free highway for commerce be-
tween the Northern and Southern States.
The NOrthen people must have cotton and
sagas and rice. They will n.ver End
no convenient place to buy, as OF their
Southern neighbOrs. The Southern peo-
pie mnst have grain, potatoes, beef and
bacon, and nowhere else can they purchase
them as eheaPly or conveniently, as Of their
Northern brothers. We say they Hnst
have these substautials of life, for they
cannot raise supply themselves, and
especially in some unlocked for dispense
ton Of Providence, as in the case Of Mis-
sissipPi, their necessities are still greater.
We do not see how either section can cut
loose entirely from the other. To attempt
it is folly. They caauot do it and will not;
for whatever may be the action of dema-
Eogues, whatever powers they may usurp,
whatever edietS or DEGREES they may issue,
Oll government in this cOautry, whether
provisional or permanent, must adapt itself
70 the interests and wants of the people
who sustain it, just as the she'll Sdapts
itself to the growth of the oyster, aud not
the oyster to the she'll a continuance OF
trade aud traffic will. IN spite Of every
thing, he carried on between North aud
South, as heretofore, and all intercourse
of this kind must be friendly. The inter-
esss then, of both sections, will require
that there shall be no restriction, as there
always is between foreign States, aud 50
we shall end in time that international com.
meree is one of our strongest bonds of
union,
TuE Charleston Mercury, it will be seen
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