The Big blue union. [volume] (Marysville, Kan.) 1862-1866, 1862-12-13

passip1e Yali between them. A husband
and wife may be divorced, and 90 on, Of
The presence and beyond the reach of each
other = bot the tho different parts Of onr
country cannot Go this. They cannot but
renain totfaeeJ and intercourse either
amlcable or hostile. must continue between
them. Is it-possible then, to make that
intercourse m ore advantageous of
more satisfactory after separation than be-
fore! Can aliens make treaties easier
than friends.ean make zlaws 2.z Can treat
les be more faithfully enforced among
aliens than laws 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
national boundary upon which to divide.
Trace through frem East to West, upon
the line between the free and slave coun-
try, and we shall find littb more than
one-third of its length are 4ivers to be
crossed, and populated, or soon to be popu.
lated thickIy upon both sides while in
nearly all Its remaining length, are merely
surveyors lines, over which people may
walk back and forth without any conscius-
ness OF their presence. No part of this line
can be made any more difficult to pass by
writing it down on paper or. parchment as
a national boundary. The fact Of ssepara-
tion, If i, comes, gives up on the part of
the seeding section the fugitive slaae
clause, along with all other constitution |
obligations upon the section seeded from :.
while should expect no treaty, stipula.
ton would ever be made to take its place..
But there is another difficulty: The
great interior region bounded east by the
Alleghenies, north by the British rdomin-
ions, west by the Rocky Mountains, and
south by the line along which the cultiva-
tion of corn and cotton meets, and which
includes part of Virginia, part of Tennes-
see, all of Kentucky, Obio,r Michigan,
Wisconsin, Illinois; Missouri, Kansas,
Iowa, Minnesota, and the Territories of
Dacotah. Nebraska, and part of Colora-
do-has above ten millions of people, and
will have fifty millions within fifty years if
not prevented by any political folly or
mistake. 1t contains moro than one. third
Of the country owned by the revolted
States,-certainly more than one million
of surface miles. One half as populous
as Massachusetts already is, it would have
more than seventy five millions of people.
A glance at the map shows that, terrific
rally speaking, it is the great body of the
Republic. The other parts are but mar
igina 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 undeveloped resources
in the production of provisions, grains,
and all wkich proceeds from them. This
great interior region is naturally one of the
mos, important in the world Ascertain
from the statistics the small proportion of
the region which has yet been brought
into cultivation, aud also the large and
rapidly increasing amount Of it's products
and we shall be overwhelmed with the
Of the prospects presented
and yet this region has no sea- coast
touches no ocean anywhere. AS part of
one nation, its people now may find and
may forever find, their way to Europe, by
New York TO South America and Africa
by New Orleans; and to Asia by San
Francisco. But separate our common
,ountry with nations, designed by tho
present rebellion, and every man in this
great interior region is thereby cut off
rom some one or more of these outlets
lot perhaps by physical barrier, but by
and onerous trade regula.
ions and this is true whether a'sdiyiding
IT boundary line may be fixed--place it
,eiween the now free and slave country,
" place i: south Of Kentucky, or north of
Ohio, and still the truth remains that none
outh of it can trade to any port or place
lorth of it. and none north oft can trade
o any port or place south of, it except on
erms dictated to a government foreign to
hem. The outlets East West and South,
re indispensable to the well being of the
eople inhabiting and to inhabitthis vast
lterior region. Which of the three may
e the best is no proper question. All are
etter than either, and all, of right. belong
} that people and their successors forev-
:. True to themselves, they will not ask
here line of separation shall ibe but,
i'll VOW rather that there shall be no such
ne. s,ias-,.o-,
Nor are the marginal regions less in
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