Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-12-12


clossed, ara populated or soon 10 be popu-
lated lhickly upon both sides; while nearly
all its remaining eugih are merely survey |
or's lines, over which people may walk |
back aud forth without any consciousness If
/ their presence. No part Of ibis line can be |
made any more difficult TO pass by writing
\ il down Ga paper or parchment as a nation
al boundary. The fact of separation, it it |
comes, gives up, on the part Of the seeed- |
ing section, the fugitive slave cause, along
with al other constitutional obligations. up
! ON the section seeded from, while should
xpecs no treaty stipulation wond ever be
made to take its place. But there is an
! other difficulty. The great interior region,
baunded east by the Alleghanies, north by
the British dominions, west by the Rocky
which the culture Of corn and cotton meets,
and whicA INCLUDES part Of Virginia, part
Of Tennessee, al of Kentucky, Ohio, fndi-
ana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri,
Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, and the terrific
ries Of DaeoIah, Nebraska, aud part of Col
orado has atove lo.90e,000 of people, and
wii haze ftty 9lliors within ffy years.
if not prevented by amy political folly or
mistake. II contains more than one-thrd
Of the country owned hy the United States,
! certainly more than one million of square
! miles. One hasf as popnlops as Massaehu-
sets already is, it would have more than
seventy-live millions Of people. X glance
at the map shows that, territorially speak
ing il is the great body of the republic.
& The other parts are but marginal borders
from the Rocky Mountains 10 the Pacific,
i being the deepest and also the richest in an
| developed resources in the production of
i provisions, grains, grasses and all which
/. proceed from them
This great interior region is naturally one
: ef the most important in the world. As
certain from the statistics the small popula-
ion Of the region which has not yet been
brought into cultivation, and also the large
spd rapidly decreasing amount Of its pro-
dacts, sad we shall be oyerwhelmcd with
the magnitude of the prospect presented
= and yet this region has no sea coast. touch
: Is 10 ocean anywhere. As part of one ma
I ton, It's people now find, and may forever
: find their way TO Europe by New York, tc
: South America and Africa by New Orleans
! and to Asia by San Francisco. But sepa.
rate our common country into two nations
" as designed by the present rebellion, ant
!. every man Of this great interior region il
- thereby cut off from some one or more 0
these outlets not perhaps by physical bar
:" rier, hnt by embarrassing and onerous trad
" regulations. And this is true wherever
" dividing or boundary liRe may be fixed
~ Place it between the free aud slave country
or place it eosth Of Kentucky or north 9
{" The Ohio, and still the truth remains tia
m none south Of it can trade to any port @
: place north Of it, and none north of il ca
trade to any port or place south Of it, E,
eept upon te,ms dictated by a governmer
90 foreign to tfen. These outlets, east, we.
- J and south, are indispensable to the well-be
- ing Of the people inhabiting and to inhab
this vast interior region. Which of tn
three may be the best, is no proper que'
" ton. A Il are better than either, and all
right belong to those people aud to the
successors forever. True to themselve
Ia they will not ask where line of separ,
sd' lion shall be- but viii VOW rather ;hat ther
no shall be no such line.
ny Nor are the marginal regions less inte,
we ested in these communications to an
'of through them to the outside world. The
4e toe,, and each of them, must have access
ny this Egypt Of the West, without paying to
ne at the crossing of any national boundar
n Our national strife springs not from our pc
-he manens past, not from the land we inhab
IN not from our nstional homestead. There
eh ne possible severing OF this; we wou
ha multiply asll not mitigate evils among U
&c All lis adaptations and aplitudes derAar
union and abhor separation. In fac
~ they would ere long force reunion, iowey,
ea much of blood and treasure the. separate
iu- might have cost. Our strife pertains
e'T ourselves, to the passing generations Of me
NE and IT cannot without convulsion be hush,
'o' forever with the passing generation.
coSsTITuT8oNALsANEN PROPOSE
In this view | recommend the adeptic
: of the following resolutions aad articl
=, amendatory to The constitution of the Uniis
= States:
j Resodasd, by the Senate and House
Representatives Of the United States
= America, in Congress assembled, iwo-tlir,
81. of both Houses .concurring, that the follow
I. ing articles be proposed to the Legislature
or conventions of the several states
amendments to the Constitution of ii
=, IInied States, all or any of which article
uheR rsiiGe1 by three9ourihs Of the sal
legislatures or conventions to be valid