Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-12-05

be worse 10 both cases after the separation of
The sections. than before. The foreign slave
trade, now imperfectly suppressed, would be
ultimately revived without restriction in one
section, while fugitive slaves, now only parti-
ally surrendered, would not be surrendered at
all by the other
physically speaking, We caunot separate
We cannot remove our respective sections from
each other. Hor build an impassable wall be
tween them. 4 husband and vic may be di-
vorcrd, and 20 oul oi the presence. aud beToad
the reach of each other; but the different parts
Of our country cannot do Ibis They cannot
but reniain face 10 face; and intercourse, ei-
ther amicable or hostile, must continue be
tween them Is it possible, then, TO make that
intercourse more advantageous, or more sat
isfactory. etler separation than bjore? CdH
aliens NIKE treaties, easier than irieBds can
make laws? Car treaties be more faithfully
enforced between aliens, than laws eau among
frieud~? Suppose you go to war, you caunel
fsh; always; anl when, after much loss ON
bath sides, and no gain oa either, You cease
fighting the Identical Old Questions, as to
terms of intercourse, arc again upon you.
There IS no Inc, starlight or crooked. sniia-
bic for a ua;ioual boundary. upon which TO di-
vide. Trace through, from east 10 west. u pom
the line between the free and slave country
and we shall find a little more tkan one-lhird
OF its lengih are Iivcrs easy 10 be crossed and
populated, or suon To b. populated. lhickly
upon both >isies; while uearly ali is remain
ing lerglh, are merely Surveyors lines, over
l., |,
out any consciousness ol their presence No
part of his line can DC made any more diff
cult to pass, by writing it down on paper. or
parchment as 4 IA .tional boundary The
fact Of separation, if il comes, gikeS up on the
part of Ihe seeding SECTION, TIE fugitive
slave clause, along with all other constitution
Obligations upon the section sceedtd from,
While l should expect no treaty stipulation
would ever be made TO take lis place
But there is another difficulty. The
great interior region, bounded east bv the
Alleghanies, north by the British domin-
ions. west by the Rockey mountains, and
south by the line along which the culture
of corn and cotton meets, and which in
cludes part Of Virginia, part of Tennessee,
all OF Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michi-
gan, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa,
Minnesota, and the Territories of Dakota,
Nebraska, and part of Colorado, already
has above ten millions Of people, and will
have fifty million within fifty years, if not
prevented by the political folly or mis-
take. 1t contains more than one third of
the country owned by the United States
-certainly more than one million OF
square miles. Once half as populous as
Massachusetts, alIeady Is, it would have
more than seventy-ive millions Of people.
\ glance asthe map shows that, terrific
rally sp sakinc, the great body OF the
repGbhc. The other parts are but mar
ginal borders to it, the magnificent region
sloping west from the rockey mountains
to the Pacific, being the deepest and also
the richest, in undeveioped resources
In the production OF provisions, grasses,
grains, and all which proceed from them,
this great interior region Is naturally one
of the most important in the world. As
certain from the statistics the small pro-
portion Of the region which has, as yet,
been brought into cultivation, and also
the large and rapid increasing amount OF
| It's products, anG we shall be overwheim
presented. And yet this region has no
sea-cost, touches no ocean anywhere
As part of one nation, its people now find
aud may forever find, their way to Eu-
rope by New York, to South America
and Africa by New Orleans, and to Asia
by San Francisco. But seperate our com
mon country into two mations, as design
ed by the present rebellion, and every
man Of this great interior region is there
by cut off from some one or more Of these
ourlets, not, perhaps, by physical bar
rier, but by embarrassing 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 sonth 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, and none north of it,
can trade to any port OF place south of it,
except upon terms dictated by a govern
ment foreign to them These outlets
cast, west, and south, are Indispensable
to the well-being of the people inhabiting,
and to inhabit. 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 to that
people, and to their SUCCESSORS forever
True to them selves, they will not ask
where a line Of seperstion shall be, but
will VOW, rather, that there shall be no
such line Nor are the marginal regions
interested IN these communications to,
and from them, to the great outside world
They too, and each of them, must have
access to this Egypt of the West, with
out paying toll at the crossing of any ma
tional boundary.
Oar national strife springs not from onr
permanent part; not from tue land we in
habit; not from our national homestead.
There Is no possible severing of this, but
multiply, and not mitigate, evils among
us. In all its adaptations and aptitLdes,
it demands union, and abhors separation.
In fact, it would, ere long, force re. union
however much Of blood and treasure the
separation might have cost.
Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the
passing generations of men; and it can,
without convulsinn, be hushed forever
with the passing of one generation.
In this view, | recommended the adopt
ION oI Inc IoHoWlhS resolution ana articles
amendatory to the constitution Of the
United States:
''Resolse ed Jythe .Sendte and House Of
RepreSentatires Of tie United States OF
Amerjca IN Congress assembled, two thirds
OF both houses concurring,) That the loI
lowing articles be proposed to the legisla-
lures Cor conventions) of the several
States as amendments to the Constitution
o. the Utited States, all or ,any of which
articles when ratified by three-forths of
the said Legislature Cor conventions to be