The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1862-12-09


continue between them. Is it possible
then to make that intercourse more ad,
yantageous or more satisfactory alter
separation, than before Can aliens make
treaties easier than friends can make
laws? Can treaties be more faithfully
enforced between aliens than laws can
among friends. Suppose you so to war,
you cannot fight always, and when after
much loss on both sides, and no gain on
either, you cease fighting, Identical old
questions as TO terms Of intercourse arc
again upon you. There is no line,
straight or crooked, suitable for nation,
al boundry 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-lhird
of its length, ere rivers easy to be cross
ed, or populated, or soon 10 be populated
thickly upon beth sides, while in nearly
all Its remaining length re merely sur
veyors lines, over which people mas
walk back and forth without any con.
sciousness of their presence. No part Of
this line can be made any more difficult
TO pass by writing it down on Haper, or
parchment as national boundary.
The fact fseparation, fit 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 | should ex-
pect no treaty stipulation would ever be
made 10 take lis place.
But there is another difficulty. Tie
great interior region bounded east BY The
Alleghanies, north by the British Do
minons, west By The Rocky Mountains,
and south by the line along which the
cultivation OF corn aud Gotten meets, and
which includes part of Virginia, part of
Tennessee, all of Kentucky, Ohio, Mich
igan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Kan
sas, Iowa, Minnesota and The territories
OF Dacotah, Nebraska, and part OF
Colorado, have at out ten millions Of peo-
pie, and viii have ffIy millions within
hity years, if not prevented by any po-
lltlcal folly or mistake 1t contains more
than one third OF the country owned by
tie revelted States-cerlainly. more than
one million Of suriacemiles. One lalf as
PoPulous as Massachusetts already is, it
would have rsore than seventy FIVE mill
ions Of people. 4 glance at the map
shows that territormly speaking il is the
great body of the Republic The other
parts are put marginal borders 10 it,
The magnificent region slouiyG, apI4f1t'
having the deepest and also the richest
undeveloped resources in the production
of provisions, grains, grasses, and all
which proceeds from them.
This great interior region is naturally
one OF the most important in the world.
Ascertain from the statistics lbe small
OF the region which has as
yet been brought into cultivation also
the large and rapidly increasin. amount
Of its products, and we shall be over
whelned with the magnitude Of the pros
pset presented and yet this region has
no sea coast, and touches no ocean any,
where.
As part OF one nation, It's people now
may find and may forever find their way
to Europe by New York, to South Amer
lea and Africa by New Oileans, and to
Asia by San Francisco. But separate
our common country into nations as de
signed by the present rebellion, and eve
ry man in this great Interior region is
thereby cut off from some one or more of
these outlets, not perhaps by physical
barrier, but by embarrassing and oner-
Gus trade regulations, aud this IS true
a dividing or boundary line
be fixed. Place il between the now free
and slave country, or place ii south of
Kentucky, or north Of Ohio. and still the
truth remains that none south OF il can
trade to any port or place north of it,
and none north Of it can trade 10 any
port or place south of it, except upon
terms dedicated by Government foreign
to them. The outlets East. West, and
South, are Indispensable 10 the WE'LL be-
lng Of the people inhabiting, and TO n-
habit this vast interior region.
Which of the three may be The best is
no proper question. All are better than
either, and all Of right belong 10 that
people and their successors forever. True
10 themselves, they VIII not ask where
line Of separation shall be, but will VOW
rather, that there shall be no such line.
Nor are the marginal regions less in
in these communications 10 and
through them to the great outside world.
They do and each one Of them must have
access TO their Egypt of the West, with
out paying toll at the crossing OF our ma
lional boundary
Our national life springs not from our
permanent past, not from the lands We
lnhabit, not from our national homestead.
There is no possible swerying of this,
but We would multiply and not lnstigato
evils among US. La all It's applications
and attitudes il demands union, aud alb
hors separation, Ia fact il would ere
long force reunion, however much Of
blood and treasure the separation might
have cost Our strife pertains 10 our
selves. 10 tho passing generations Of men.
and il cannot without cunvulsiou be hush
ed forever, with the passing Of ons gem
Grafton.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
With this view | recommend The fol
lowing resolution and articles amsudato.