The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-12-06


advantageous combination for one united
people. 49,
THE FOLLY OF DIsUxIoN
In the Inaugueral Address I briefly
pointed out the total i.adequacy of disun
ion asa remedy for difficulties between
the people of the two sections. 1 did SC
in language which | cannot improve and
which, therefore, beg to repeat
THE NATTER IN A NUTSHELL.
One section of our country believe slave
nv 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 Constitutions and the law, for
the suppression of the African slave trade,
are each. as we'll enforced, perhaps as any
law can ever be in a community where the
moral sense of the people inperfectiy sup
port the law itself The great body Of the
people abide by the legal obligations in
both cases and a few break over EACH
This | think 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 i'm
perfectly suppressed, would be, ultimately,
reviewed without restriction in one section,
while fugitives now only partially surren
dered would not be surrendered at all to
the other -
THE PHYSICAL ARGUMENT AGAINST DIsUHIoN.
Physically sparkling, 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 go out of the pre-
sence and beyond the reach of each other
but the different pats of our country can
not do this They cannot remain face to
face. and intercourse either amicable or
hostile must continue between them. Is
it possible then TO make that intercourse
more advantageous or more satisfactory
after separation than before. Can Alliance
make treaties sasier than friends can make lars.
Can treaties be more faithfully enforced
between aliens than laws can among
friends. Suppose you go to war, you can
net fight always. and when after much loss
on both sides, and 40 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 crook ed
suitable for national boundary upon
which to divide. Trace through from East
to West, upon the line between the free
and slave country, and We shall find lit
tie more than one third Of its leagth are
rivers easy to be crossed, and populated.
ore soon to be populated thckly. upon
both sides, while ia nearly all it's remain
ing 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
1t down on paper, or parchment, as a
national boundary.
WHAT SECESSION SUREEEDEas
The fact of separation if il comes, gives
up on the part of the seeding section, the
fugitive slave clause along with all other
Obligations, upon the section
seeded from, while l should expect no
treaty stipulation would ever be made to
lake its place. -
THE GREAT CODY OF THE REPUBLIC
But there is another difficulty The
great interior region bounded east by the
north by the British Demi
Mons, west By the Rocky Mountains. and
'outh by the line along which the cultiva-
ion of corn and cotton meets, anu which
Includes part of Virginia, part Of Tennes-
Zee all of Kentucky. Ohio. Michi gan,
W i.consin, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa,
Minnesota and the territories of Decotah,
Nebraska and part of Colorado have
.bout ten millions of people, and will have
fifty millions within fifty years if not pre-
rented by any political folly or mistake
L contains more than oas third of the
country owned by the revolted States
more than one million of surface
niles one half as populous as Massachu-
etts already is | would have more than
han seventy FIVE millions of people. A
dance at the map shows that territoriaily
peakius it is The great body of the Republic.
The other parts are but marginal borders
o it, The magnificent region sloping west
rom the Hockey Mountains to the Pacific
,eing the deepest and also the richest
resources in the production
If provisions, grains, grasses, and all which
proceeds from them.
GREAT INTERIOR REGION.
This great interior region Is naturally one
# the most important in the world, ascer-
ain from the statistics the small proper
ion of the region which has as yet been
rought into cultivation. and also the
lrge and rapidly increasing amount of its
and we shall be overwhelmed
nth the magnitude Of the prospect pre-
ented And yet this region has no sea
cast and touches no ocean anywhere.
ITS NATURAL OUTLETS.
As part of one nation, its people now
,av find and may forever find their way
, Europe BY New York, to South America
nd Africa by New Orleans, and to Asia by
an Francisco But separate our common
ountry into nations, designed by the pres !
mt rebellion, and every man in this great |
1terior region is thereby cut of from some !
ne or more Of these outlets, not perhaps |
v physical barrier, but by embarrassing !
nd enerous trade regulations, and this is !
rue wherever a dividing or boundary line :
nay be fixed. Place it between the now !
rec and slave country, or place it south Of |
lentucky, or north of Ohio, and still the /
ruth remains that none south of it can
rade to any port or place north OF 1t, and /
one north eff it can trade to any port or
lace south of it, except upon terms dicta-
ed by Government foreign to them
hese outlets East, West. and South, are
to the well-bcing Of the peo-
lie Inhabiting, and to inhabit this vast
Interior region.
Which Of the three may be the best is
o proper question. All are better than
ither, and all of right belong to that peo-
lie and their successors forever. True to
themselves, they will not ask where a line
f separation shall be no such line.
A COMMON INTEREST.
Nor are the marginal regions less inter
sted in these communications to and
trough them to the great outside world.
hey do and each one of them must have
ccess to their Egypt of the West without
aging toll at the crossing of our national
SOURCES OF ouR NATIONAL EXIST nee
Our national lifo springs not from our
past, not from the lands we
,habit, not from our national homestead
here is no possible swerving OF this but
ould multiply and not instigrte evils
meng US. In all its applications and
lritudes it demands union and abhors
.paration. In fact it would ere long force
,union however wuch of blood and treass1