The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-12-04

cannot be perfectly cured and it would
be worse in both instances after the
separation of the sections than before.
The foreign slave trade, now imper-
fectly suppressed, would be, ultimately
reviewed without restriction in one Sec
ton, while fugitives now only partially
surrendered would not be surrendered
at all to the other.
Physically speaking, we cannot sep
arate, we cannot remove our respective
sections from each other, nor build an
impossible wall between them. A
husband 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
| it possible then to make that inter-
course more advantageous or more sat.
isfactory after separation than before.
Can aliens make treaties easier than
friends can make laws? Can treaties
be more faithfully 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, and no gain on either,
you cease fighting the Identical old
questions as to terms of intercourse
are again upon you. There is no line,
straight or crooked, suitable for ma
tional boundary upon which to devide
Trace through from East to West, up
on 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 to BIO populated thickly, upon
both sides, while in nearly all its re-
naming length are merely surveyors
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 to pass
by writing it down on paper, or parch-
ment, as a national boundary.
The fact of separation if it comes,
gives up on the part of the seeding
section, the fugitive slaee clause, along
with all other constitutional obligations,
upon the section seeded from, while
should expect no treaty stipulation
would ever be made to take its place.
But :here is another difficulty The
great interior region bounded east by
the Alleghanies, north by the British
Dominions, west by the Rocky Noun.
tains, and south by the line along which
the cultivation of corn and cotton
meets, and which includes part of Vir.
ginia, part of Tennessee, all of Ken.
tucky, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, H.
linois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, MINES.
ota, and the territories of Dacotah,
Nebraska and part of Colorado have
above ten millions of people, and will
have fifty millions within fifty years il
not prevented by any political folly OIL
mistake. 1t contains more than one
: third of the country owned by the re
voltcd Satisfactorily, more than
one million of surface miles, one-hali
| as populous as Massachusetts already
is. Itwould have more than seventy
five millions of people. A glance a,
the map shows that territorially speak
: ing it is the great body Of the Repu6
) lic The other parts are but margina
borders to it. The magnificent region
! sloping west from the Rocky Noun
tains to the Pacific being the deepest
and also the richest undeveloped re-
sources in the production of provisions
grain, grasses, and all which proceed.
i from them.
This great interior region is natural
ly one of the most important in thu
| world, ascertain from the statistics tn,
small proportion of the region which
has as yet been brought into cultiva
5 ton, and also the large and rapidly in
. creasing amount of its products, ant
t we shall be overwhelmed with the mag
nitude of the prospect presented
And yet this region has no sea coas
5 and touches no ocean anywhere.
As part of one nation, its people now
may find and may forever find thei
way to Europe by New York, to Soutl
America and Africa by New Orleans
: and to Asia by San Francisco. Blu
separate our common country into ma
tons, as designed by the present rebel
t lion, and every man in this great inter
: Tor region is thereby cut off from som,
: one or more of these outlets, not per
haps by physical barrier, but by en-
5 barrasing and onerous trade regulations
: and this is true wherever dividing o
boundary line may be fixed. Place it be
tween the now free and slaue country, O
place it south of Kentucky, or north o
: Ohio, and still the truth remains that non
south of it can trade to any port or plac
! north of it, and none north of it can trad
! to any port or place south of it, excep
upon terms dictated by Government fol
eign to them. These outlets East, Yves
J and South, are indispensable to the well
being of the people inhabiting, and to in
: habit this vast interior region.
Which of the three may be the best
!, no proper question. All are better tina
; either, and all of right belong to that pee
pie and their successors forever. Ture
themselves, they will not ask where lin
9 of separation shall be, but will VOW rath
e er, that there shall be no such line.
), Nor are the marginal regions less inter
u ested in these communications to an
o through them to the great outside world
= They do and each one of them must hav
u access to their Egypt of the West withou
> paying toll at the crossing of our nation;
:, boundary