The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-12-05
it down on paper. or parchment, as na-
tional boundary.

tional boundary.
WHAT SECESSION suRRENDERs.
The fact OF scparationif it comes, gives
up on the part of the seeding sections.
the fugitive slave clause. along with 9TH
or constitutional obligations, upon the
section seeded from, while ! should ex-
pect no treaty stipulation would ever be
made to take its place
HTRE GREAT BODY OF 1nE REPUBLIC"
But there is another difficulty. The
great interior region bounded east by the
Alleghanies, north by the British Domin-
ions. west by the Rocky Mountains. and
south by the line along which the cultiv-
alton Of corn and cotton meets, and which
includes part OF Virgina, part Of Tsnncs.
see, all Of Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas,
Iowa, Minnesota, and the territories of
Dacotah, Nebraska and part Of Colorado
have above ten millions of people, and
will have fifty millions within fifty years
If not prevented by any Folisica! folly or
mistake. II contains more than one.
third Of the country owned by the revolt.
ed States certainly, more ttrsn one mil
lion of surface miles, one-hali as popnlous
as Massachusetts aready In. 1t would
have more than seyenty-hve millions Of
people. A glance at the map shows that
territorially speaking it is the great body
OF the Republic. The other parts are but
marginal borders to it. The magnificent
region siopibg west from the Rocky
Mountains to the Pacific being the deep
est and also the richest undeveloped re-
sources in the production of provisions,
grains. grasses, and all which proceeds
from them.
GREAT INTERIOR REGION.
This great interior region is naturally
one of the most important IN the world.
Bscertain from the sta tisties The small pro-
portion of the region which has as yet
hoeh 5bsoueht into cultivation, and also
tire large and rapidly increasing amount
Of its products, and we shall be overwhel
med with the magnitude Of the prospect
presented. And yet this region has no
sea coast and touches no ocean anywhere.
ITS NATURAL OUTLETS
AS part of ono nation, lis people now
may find and may forever find their way
to Europe By New York, to South Amer,
lea and Africa by New Orleans, aud to
Asia by San Francisco. But seperate
our common country into nations, as de-
signed by the present rebellion, and every
man in this great interior region is there
by cut off from one or more of these out
lets, not perhaps by physical barrier,
but by embarrassing and onerous trade
regulations, and this is true wherever a.
dividing or boundary line may be fixed
Place it between the Bow free and slave
country, or place it south of Kentucky,
or north of Ohio, aud still the truth re
mains that none south of it can trade to
any port or place south of it, except upon
terms dictated by Government foreign
to them. These outlets East, West, and
South, are indispensable to the we'll be-
ing of the people inhabiting, and TO in
habit this vast interior region.
Which of the three may be the best is
no proper question. All are better than
either, and all of right belong to that
people and their successors forever
True to themselves, they will not a~k
where line Of separation shall be, but
will vow rather, that there shall be no
such line.
A COMMON INTEREST.
Nor are the marginal regions less inter-
ested in these communications to and
through them to the great outside world
They do and each one Of them must have
access to their Egypt of the West without
paying toll at the crossing of our national
boundary.
souRcEs OF oUR NATIONAL EXISTENCE
Our national life springs not from our
permanent past, not from the LANDS we
inhabit, not from our national homestead
There is NO possible swcrving of this bu,
would multiply aud inshgate evils
among us. In all its application and at.
titudes it demands union, and abhors sep
aration. Ia fact it would ere long force
reunion however much OF blood and trea-
sure the separation might have COST
Our strife pertains to ourselves, to the pas
sing generations Of men aud it cannot
| without convulsion be hushed forever,
with the passing Of one generation.
! AMENDMENTS TO THx CONSTITUTION.
With this view I recommend the fol-
lowing resolution and articles ameudatory
to the Constitution of the United States
Resolred, BY the Senate and House u
Representatives of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled, two
thirds Of both Houses concurring, that
the following articles be proposed to the
legislatures or conventions of the several
States as amendments to the Constitution
of the United States, all, or any of which
articles when ratified by three-four,hs OF