Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-12-12

8 and ought not to be extended. This
d the only substantial dispute. The fug
tive slave clause of the Constitutieu, an
$ the law for the suppression of the fol
j eign slave trade, are each as we'll ez
: forced. perhaps, as any law can ever be in
: community where the moral sense of th
; people imperfectly. supports the la
: itself. The great body of the peopl
!, abide by the dry legal obligation j
both eases, and few break over in each
! This, Il think, cannot be perfectly cured
II and itF would be worse in both cases al
] fes the separation Of the sections, thai
81 before. The foreign slave trade, noy
I fnaperfextly suppressed, would be sulti
y mattel reyived without RESTRICTION il
one sectionf while fugitive slaves, nov
sssrendefsd Wssia sile
fbe surrendered, at all By the other.
1 PHYSICALLY speaking, we canne
Separate. We cannot remove our4re,
lspecti9e sections from each other, nor
tbuild an impossible wall between them
j A husband and wife may be divorced
land go out of the presence and beyond
the reach of each other; hut the differ.
ent parts of onr1country caunos do this
They cannot but.remain face to face, and
intercourse, either amicable or hostile,
must continue between them. Is it pos.
Islble,s then, to make that intercourse
moro advantageous, or more satisfa ctory,
faffer separation than beforef Can aliens
/ make treaties easier than friends can
make .laws2 Can treaties be more faith.
fully enforced between aliens than laws
can among friends2 Suppose you 90
to war, You cannot fight always; and
when, after much loss on both sides, and
no gainson either, you cease fighting,
fthe identical old question as to terms Of
Intercourse are again upon you"
There is no line. straight OF Gro oked,
suita Die for national boundary, upon
which to divide. Trace through from
east to west, upon the line between the
tree and slave country, and we shall find
a little more than one third of its length
are rivers, easy to be crossed, and popu.
lated, or soon TO be populated, thiekly
upon both sides, while 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 itscomes, gives up, on
the part Of the seeding section, ths fu-
gitiye slave cause. along with all other.
constitutional obligations upon the sec
ton seeded from, whiie should ex
poet tho treaty stipulation. would ever be
made to take its place But there IS n
other difficulty he great interior
region, bounded cast BY thea lleehe-
MES, north By the Britissh dominfons.
west by the rocky Mountains, and south
by the line along which the culture OF
corn and cotton meets, and which in
eludes part Of Virginia, part of Tennes;
see, all Of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana.
Michigan, Wisconsin Illinois, Missouri,
Kansas. iowa, Minnesota, and the Ter.
ritories of Dakota, Nebraska, and part |
of Colorado, already has above ten mil
lions of people, and will have fifty. nrl-
lions within fifty years, if not prevented |
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. One half as populous as
massachusetts, already is, it would have
more than seventy five millions of peo-
pie. a glance at the map shows that,
territorially speaking, it is the great body
Of the republic. The other parts are I
but marginal borders to it, the magnif-
,ient region sloping west from the Rocky
Mountains to the Pacific, being the
deepest, and also the richest, in eunde.
'eloped resources. In the production
# provisions, grains. grasses. and. all
which proceed from them, this great in
erior region is naturally one of the
most important in the world. Ascer-
ain from the statistics the small. propor-
ion of the region which has as YET been
brought into cultivation. aud also the,
arge and rapidly increasing amount of
is products, and We shall be, over
fliclmed with the magnitude of the pros /,
ect presented. And yet this region /
as nc. sea-cost, touches no ocean any ,
here. As a part Of one nation, its s
eople now find, and may forever find, ty
heir way to Europe by New York, to IL
outh America and Africa by New Or i
cans, aud 10 Asia by San Francisco.-ta
'us separate our common country into j
wo nations, as designed by the present +
ebellion, and every man Of this great :
,terior region is thereby cut off from !
ONE one or moro OF, these outlets-not. l.
erhaps, by physical barrier, but by | +
EMBARRASSING and onerous trade regula- D
onS. - .,sss.... f. isss E
And this is true ,ohereuer a dividing la
!. boundary line may be fixed Place t
between the now free and slave coun- o
y, or place it south of Kentucky, or o
orth of Ohio, and still the truth re n
ains, that none south Off can trade p
} any port or place north Of it, and a
one northsof it can trade to any port "
: place south Of it, except upon terms ID
ctated, by a Government Iloreign to ip
lem.. These outlets, east, west and ~
'uth, are indispensable to tho well-be- L
g of the people inhabiting, md to in la
lbit, this vastinterior regioa IFAich ir
the three may be the best, is no l
'oper question. All are better than 81
tller; and all, of right. belong to that p
soPle, and to their successors forever. y