Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-12-11

/ perhaps, ns any law can be in n community
whore the moral sense Of the people i'm.
| perfectly supports the law itself. The great
body Of the people abide by the legal obi.
gntlons in both cases, and few break over
in each. This, think cannot be perfectly
cured, and 1t would be worse iu both cases
after the separation Of the sections than
before.
The foreign slave trade now imperfect
ly suppressed would be ultimately revived
without restriction in one section, while
fugiiiyes, now only partially surrendered.
would not be surrendered at all by the
Others. Physically speaking we can not
separate, We cannot remove our respective
sections from each other nor build an i'm.
passnblc wall between them. a husband
and wife may be divorced nn1 90 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 10 face,
and intercourse, either amcabe or hostile.
must continue between them. Is il posi-.
bic then TO make that intercourse more
advantageous or more satisfactory after
separation than bcforel Can aliens make
treaties. easier than friends can make laws
Can treaties be more faithfully enforced
between aleus than laws among friends =
Suppose you 90 20 war, you cannot fight
always; and when, after much loss on both
sides and no gain on either you cease fight
ing the identical old questions, as TO terms
Of intercourse, are again upon you. There
is no line straight or crooked suitable for
a national boundry upon which to divide.
Trace through from east 10 west upon
the line between the free and slave county
and We shall find n little more than one
third Of its length are rivers easy to be
crossed and populated, or soon to be popu-
lated thckly upon both sides, while nearly
all It's remaining length are merely survey.
ors' lines, over which people may walk back
and forth without any consciousness Of their
presence. No part Of this line can be made
more difficult TO pass by writing it down
on paper or parchment as national bound
AIRY. The fact of separation, if it comes, give:
up on the part of the seeding section
the fugitive slave clause along with othel
constitutional oligations upon the section
seeded, from which / should expect nc
treaty stipulation would ever be made to
take its place. But there is another diff
cnl,y. The great interior region bounded
on the east by the Aleghauies, north
by the British Dominions, west by the
Rocky Mountains, and south by the line
along which the cultivation Of corn and cot,
ton meets, and which includes part Of Nir-
ginia, part of Tennessee, all of Kentucky
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Hi
mole, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota
and the territories of Decotah, Nebraska
and part of Colorado, already has above
ten million Of people, and will have fifty
million within fifty years, if not prevented
by any political folly or nj take. 1t con
tains more than one-third of the country
owned by the United States, certainly
more than one million of square miles.
One half as popu'ous as Massachusetts
already is, it would have more than seven.
tyfive million Of people. a glance at the
map shows that, territoralIy speaking, il
is the great body of the Republic. The
other parts are but marginal boders to it
The magnificent region sIopng west IRON
+ the rocky MOUNTAINS 10 '"e I"clnc' Ue
ing the deepest ana also INC 'i'i'S' III W 'h'
"nue'e!oPeu resources III 'Ne l"ouuI!o' f:oi
VI l'o''S'c"s s,a'"s' SHTIeS' GU. "'; "ieu
proceeds from mem ln.s s,e"' 'n'e''o'
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; '"'t 'n '"g woIIu, n '; Aseer'"'n .'@'i H. '"'
a;an ,.L;oh hos ~ 'o, hl,o,il L.anaht ;o,o o,I
1iyat;on and also the LARGE and ranillv in.
croos;ng omonnt Of lis nroduc,s. and we
sholl he overwhelmed with tbe MAGNITUDE
of ,ho n,osnoc, n,esen,od and vet his re.
oion has no sea coast. touches no ocean
onywha,o As mart Of one nation. its peo.
nIe now find and NAV forever find. their
wov "a Tnrona hv Nav Work, TO South
Amor;co and hnico Ly New Orleans, and
- As;a hv San Frorcisco Rut sanuote
onr com,non country into two nations as
da.;annd hr ,bo nrossr, rebe,lion and every
,nan IN III ardat ;r,o,ior reoion is en-,
"g f from soma ora or more oft6ese outlets
No., narhons hy rbvsic,l barrier Lnt bv
"ni omhdrrossino and onerous trade repula.
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