The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-12-06

etriction in one section; while fugitive |
slaves, now only partially surrendered,
would not be surrendered at all by the
other.
physically speaking, we cannot sep |
arate. We cannot remove our respective l
sections from each other, nor build an
impossible wall between them. A hus-
band and wife may be divorced, and go
out Of the presence, and beyond the
reach Of each other; but the different
parts Of our country cannot do this.
They cannot but remain face TO face ;
and intercourse, either amicable or hos
tile, must continue between them. Is il
possible, then TO make that intercourse
more advantageous, or more satisfactory.
after separation than before Can aliens
make treaties easier than friends can
make laws 2 Can treaties be more faith
fully enforced between aliens, than laws
can among friends? Suppose you go TO
war, you cannot fight always; and
when, after much loss on both sides, aud
no cain on either. ynn ceaan Sighting, the
identical old questions, as 90 terms of
intercourse, are again upon you"
There is no line, straight or crooked,
which TO divide. Trace through, from
east 10 west, upon the line between the
free and slave country, and we shall find
little more than one-third Of its length
are rivers, easy TO be crossed, and
populated, or soon 10 be pOpula-
ted, thickly upon both sides while
nearly all its remaining length sre mere
" surveyo rs' lines, over which people
may walk back and forth without any
consciousness Of their presence. No
part OF this line can be made any more
difficult 20 pass, by writing it down on
paper, or parchment, as national boun-
dairy. The fact Of separation, if it
comes, gives up, on the part of the sece-
ding section, the fugitive slave clause,
along with all other constitutional obi
cations upon the section seeded from,
while should expect no treaty stipula-
ton would ever be made to take It's
place.
But there is another difficulty. The
great interior region, bounded east by
the Alleghanies, north by the British do
minions, west by the Rocky Mountains,
and south by the line along which the
culture of corn and cotton meets, and
which includes part of Virginia. part of
Tennessee, all of Kentucky, Ohio, Indi-
ana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, and the
Territories of Dacota, Nebraska, and
part of Colorado, already has above ten
millions of people, and will have fifty
millions within fifty years, if not pre-
vented by any political folly or mistake.
1t contains more than one third of the
country owned by the United States
certainly more than one million of square
miles. Once half as populous as Massa-
chusetts already is, it would have more
than seventy-five millions of people. A
glance at the map shows that, territori-
ally speaking, it is the great body of the
republic. The other parts are but mar
ginal borders TO it, the magnificent re-
gion sloping west from The Rocky Noun
tains TO the Pacific, being the deepest,
and also the richest, in undevclOped re-
sources. In the production Of provis-
ions, grains, grasses, and all which pro-
coed from Them this great interior re-
gion is naturally one Of the most i'm
portant in the world. Ascertain from
tine statistics the small proportion of the
region which has, as yet, been brought
into cultivation, and also the large and
rapidly increasing amount of its pro-
ducts, and we shall be overwhelmed with
the magnitude of the prospect. And YET
this region has no sea- coast, touches nc
ocean anywhere. AS part Of one nation
its people now find, and may forever
find, their way to Europe by New York
10 South America and Africa by New
Orleans; and to Asia by San Francisco
But separate our common country into
two nations, as designed by the presen
rebellion, and every man of this great in.
terror region is thereby cut off iron
some one or more of these outlets, not
perhaps, by physical barrier, but by
embarrassing and Onerous trade regula
tions.
And this is true, loheye1er a dividing
or boundary line, may be fixed, Placu
il between the now free and slave cOun
try, or place it south of Kentucky OF
north OF Ohio, and still the truth re
mains, that none south of it can trade {,
any port or place north Of it, and non,
north of il can trade 20 any port o.
place south of it, except upon terms die
tated by government foreign to them
These outlets, east, west and south, ar
indispensable to the well being of tn,
people inhabiling, and to inhabit thi
vast interior region. Which of the tire,
may be the best, is no proper question
All are better than either; and all, o
right belong to that people, and to thei
cessors forever. True TO themselves
they will not ask iOIere a line of separa
ton shall be, but will vow, rather, tina
there shall be no such line Nor are tn
marginal regions less interested in thcs
communications TO, and through them, 1
the great outside world. They, too, an,
each Of them, must have access TO thi
Egypt Of the West, without paying tol
at the crossing Of any national boun
dairy.
Our national strife springs not frou
our Dermanent Dart: not from the LAM