The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-12
NEW SERIES-NO. 40

NEW OLNlLO- 46U
in former ages. Steam, and telegraphs
and intelligence, have brought these to be
an advantageous combination for one uni
ted people.
THE FOLLY OF DIsUNION.
In the Inaugural Address briefly
pointed out the total inadequacy of dis
union as remedy for difficulties between
the people of the two sections. did so in
language which cannot improve, and
which, therefore, I beg to repeat
THE MATTER IN A NUTSHELL.
One section of our country believe slav-
while the other believe it to be wrong and
ought not to be extended. This is the on
ly substantial dispute. The fugitive slave
clause of the Constitution and the law for
the suppression of the African slave trade,
are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any
law can ever be in community where the
moral sense of the people imperfectly sup
port the law itself. The great body of the
people abide by the legal obligations in
both cases, and few break over each.
This, I 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 inn
| perfectly suppressed, would be ultimately
revived, without restriction to one section,
while fugitives now only partially surren-
dered, would not be surrendered at all to
the other.
THE
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 go out of the pres
ence and beyond the reach of each other,
but the different parts of our country can
not do this. They cannot but 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 aliens make
treaties easier than friends can make
Macs? Can treaties be more faithfully en-
forced between aliens than laws can among
friends Suppose you go to war, you can
not 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 a 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 little
more than one-third of its length are riv-
ers easy to be crossed, and populated, or
soon to be populated thickly, upon both
sides, while in 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 pa
per, or parchment, as national boundary.
WHAT SECESSION sURRENDERs.
The fact of separation, if it comes, gives
up, on the part Of the seeding section, the
fugitive slave clause, along with all other
constitutional obligations upon the section
seeded from, while l should expect no
treaty stipulations would ever be made to
take its place.
THE GREAT BODY OF THE REPUBLIC"
But there is another difficulty. The
great interior region bounded east by the
Alleghanies, north by the British Domin-
ions, west by the Rocky Mountains, and
south by the line along which the cultiva-
ton of corn and cotton meets, and which
includes part Of Virginia, part of Tennes-
see, all of Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Wis
consin, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa,
Minnesota, and the territories of Dacotah,
Nebraska, and a part of Colorado, have
about ten millions of people, and will have
fifty millions within fifty years, if not pre-
vented by any political folly or mistake.
1t contains more than one third of the
country owned by the revolted States,
certainly, more than one million of surface
miles, one-half as populous as Massachu-
setts already is. It would have more than
seventy-fve million of people. A glance
at the map shows that territorially speak
ing 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 un-
developed resources in the production of
provisions, grains, grasses, and all which
proceeds from them.
A GREAT INTERIOR REGION. IS
This great interior region is naturally
one of the most important ip the world.
Ascertain from the statistics the small pro-
portion Of the region which has as yet
been brought into cultivation, and also the
large and rapidly increasing amount of it's
products, and we shall be overwhelmed
with the magnitude of the prospect pre-
sented. And yet this region has no sea
coast and touches no ocean anywhere.
THE NATURAL OUTLETS.
As part Of one nation, it's people now
may find and may forever find their way
to Europe by New York, to South Anne
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