The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-12-06
rHr PRECIPITATION OF SEPT. on.


recall your attention to what may be called
compensated emancipation. A nation may be
said to consist of its territory, its people and
its laws. The territory is the only part which
is of certain durability. "One generation
passeth away and another cometh, but the
earth abideth forever" It is of the fret inn
portance to duly consider and estimate this
ever enduring part.
THE UNION ONE AND INsEPARABLE.
That portion Of the earth's surface which is
owned and inhabited by the people of the
United States is we'll adapted to the home of
one national family. It is not we'll adapted
for two or more. Its vast extent and its vari-
ETY. Of climate and productions are of advan.
tage in the age ofAour people, Whatever they
might have been in former ages. Steam and
telegraph and intelligence, have brought these
to be an advantageous combination for one
united people.
THE FOLLY OF DIsUNIoN.
In the Inaugural Address briefly pointed
out the total inadequaey of disunion as q rem
edy for difficulties between the people of the
two sections. did so in language which
cannot improve and which, therefore, l beg
to repeat.
THE MATTER IN A NUTSHELL
One section of our country believe slavery
is right and ought to be extended, while the
other believes it to be wrong and ought not
to be extended. This is the only substantial
dispute. The fugitive slave clause of the con-
stitution and the law, for the suppression Of
the African slave trade. are each as we'll en-
forced, perhaps. as any law can ever be in q
community where the moral sense of the peo-
pie imperfectly support the law itself. The
great body of the people abide by the legal
Sol okL r. y
each. This think cannot be perfectly cured,
and it would be worse in both instances after
the separation of the sections thai before
The foreign slave trade, now imperfectly sup
pressed, would be ultimately, revived with
out restriction in one section. while fugitives
now only partially surrendered, would not be
surrendered at all in the other. 10
THE PHYSICAL ARGUMENT AGAINST DIsuNION.
Physically speaking, we cannot separate,
we cannot remove our respective sections
from each other, nor build an impossible wall
between them. A husband and wife may be
divorced and 60 out of the presence and be-
yond the reach of each other. But the differ
ent parts of out country cannot do this. They
cannot but remain, face to face, and inter
course, either amicable or hostile, must con.
tinue between them. Is it possible then to
make that intercourse more advantageous or
more satisfactory after separation than before
Gan aliens make treaties easier than friends can
Jake laacs9 Can treaties be more faithfully
enforced between aliens than laws can among
friends Suppose you 60 to war, you cannot
fight always, and when after much loss on both
sides, and no gain on either, you cease fight
ing, and the identical old questions as to in
tercourse are upon you.o There is no line,
straight or crooked, suitable for national
upon which to divide. Trace through
from east 20 west, upon line between the
free and slave country, and we shall find lit
tie more than one third of its length are rivers
easy to be crossed, and populated, or soon to
be populated thickly, on both sides, while
nearly all its remaining 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 parchment, as national
boundary. 0f+.....s ..-a .s.,,
WHAT SECESSION sURRENDERs. or
The fact of separation if it comes, gives up
on the part of the seeding section, the iug-
tive slave clause, along with all other consti-
tutlonal Obligations, upon the section seeded
FROM while l should expect no treaty stipula-
ton would ever be made to take its place. Il
''THE GREAT BODY OF THE REPUBLIC"
But there lie another difficulty The great in.
terror region bounded east by the Alleghanies,
north by the British Dominions, west by the
Rocky Mountains. and south by the line along
which the cultivation of corn and cotton meets,
and which includes part of Virginia, part of
Tennessee, all Of Keatucky, Ohio, Michigan,
Wisconsin, illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa,
Minnesota, and the territories of Dacotah, Ne
braska, and a part of Colorado, have above ten
millions OF people, and will have fifty millions
within fifty years, If not prevented by any DO
lltical folly or mistake. It contains more than
one third OF the country owned by the revolted
States-certainly. more than one million of sur
face miles. One half aspopuious as Massachu
sets already is, it would have more than sew
enty-five 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 sloping west from the Rocky Mountains
to the Pacific being the deepest and also the
richest undeveloped resources in the production
OF provisions, grains, grasses, and all which pro.
ceeds from them. vlt afg 80 .,s,;,f,,'
80 A GREAT INTERIOR REGION. u e
This great interior region is naturally one OF
the most important in the world. Ascertain
from the statistics the small proportion of the
walton, and also the large and rapidly increasing
amount OF it's products, and we shall be over
whelmed with the magnitude of the prospect
presented, And yet this region has no sea coast
and touches no ocean anywhere.
isa ITS NATURAL OUTLETS.
As part of one nation, its people now may 6ud
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 country into nations,
as designed by the present rebellion, and every
man in this great interior region is thereby cut
of from some one or more Of these outlets, not
perhaps by physical barrier, but by embarrass.
ing and onerous trade regulations And this is
true wherever dividing or boundary line may
be fixed. Place it between the now free and
slave country, or place it south of Kentucky, or
north of Ohio, and still the truth remains that
none south Of it can trade to any port or place
north of it, except upon terms dictated by q
Government foreign to them. These outlets
East, West, and South, are indispensable to the
well being Of the people inhabiting, and to in
habit this vast interior region. (, 2s~ ''st's p
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 snc