Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-01-17

aud discarded those Of the Central and
Western States, remarkable political
revolution was the result.
EXTREMES WILL NOT PREVAIL.
1t has been assumed that this war will
end in the ascendancy of the views of one
Of the extremes of our country. Neither
will prevail for neither can command the
support Of the majority of the American
people. The great Central and Western
States, which have the largest share Of
the population and resources of our coun.
try, will not accept Of either class of pur.
poses. This is the significance of tho late
elections. Their determination is to de-
fcnd the rights of states and the rights of
individuals, and to restore our Union as it
was 1t will be restored by the Central
and Western States, both free and slave,
who are exempt from the VIOLENT passions
which bear control of the extremes. 1t is
a fact full of hope that the preiudices be.
tween northern and southern states are not
held on the line oil contact, but in the sec.
sions most remote from each other. and
separated by the great controlling regions
and resources of the country. Those of
the central slave states which rejected the
ordinance of secession, which sought to
remain in the Union, and which were driv.
en- OFT by contemptuous. .uncompromising
policy, must be brought back. The resto-
ration of the whole Union will then be
only the work of time, with such exertion
ofpower as can be put forth without need
lessly sacrificing the life and treasure of the
North in bloody and calamitous contest.
We must nor wear out the lives of our SOL
diers, nor exhaust the earnings of labor
by war for uncertain ends or to carry
out vague theories. The policy of subiu-
cation and determination means not only
the destruction of the lives and property
of the South, but also the waste of the
blood and treasure Of the North. The
exortion aud armed power must be accom-
panied by firm and concilatory policy,
to restore our Union with the least posi-
bic injury to both sections
TO make this Union New York gave
up vast end rightful political power in
the Senate. 1t has proved greater bless
ing that the most hopeful expected. TO
save it we have made great sacrifices of
blood and treasure. Is it not also worth
a sacrifice of passion! Shall we let it be
torn TO fragments without one conoiliatory
effort to preserve it
ADJUSTMENTS OF INTERESTS, &c.
Those at the North and the South who
have been laboring to break down our ma.
tional Constitution and Union, and to
make two confsderacics, overlook the fact
that in each Of those it would bo more
difficult TO adjust conflicting interests and
state representation than in our existing
Union. The vast extent of our country,
and its varied productions and pursuits,
have relieved antagonism between com.
mercial, manufacturing, andSSa sriculturing
interests They give to each great fields
for prosperous pursuits. If the produc-
ing states Of the West are cut of from the
markets of the South they will demand a
free trade policy which will open to them
the markets of the world aud even these
will not make good the loss. They will
not give up their peculiar advantages of
raising grain and cattle for the pursuits,
and the markets of the Eastern States and
Europe are not equal to western produc.
tlons. The past two years have shown
this. With an unusual European call for
breadstufs and provisions, with vast
consumption of these articles by our
American armies; there is great section
OF the West where tho prices do not pay
for their production. There is bankruptcy
and financial distress in the midst of abun-
dant harvests, and a waste of ungathored
grain at time of the largest expectation
of agricultural products known in the his.
tory of our country, Reducing the cost of
carrying these products will not euro this
trouble Opening the Mississippi, as
way to the markets of the world, will not
overcome this evil. The cotton raised on
the Mississippi is the joint product of the
provisions of the North and the labor of
the South. The people of tho West must
have the markets of the Southwestern
States to bring back their prosperity. They
must be reunited, politically, socially, and
commercially, to tho valley of the lower
Mississippi, Their grain and provisions
must be converted into cotton, and in this
form carried proftably y to the Eastern and
European ports. When they have thus
gained the returns for their labor, they will
once moro become the supporters Of our
commerce. To restore this great region
TO its former prosperity, and to regain for
ourselves its onrich;ng trade, the lower
valley of the Mississippi must be brought
back into the Union it must be broug ght
back, too, with all its elements of produc.
ton and wealth unimpaIred, with all the
advantages of local self government not
a devastated and ruined territory, under
blightpg, dehasing military control.
So closely are tho upper and the lower
valleys of the Mississippi bound together
by interests that when cotton is burned in
Louisiana, Indian corn is used as fuel in
Illinois. The ruin of the southern con-
sumer brings bankruptcy upon the north
ern producer. When the capacity of the
one to buy is annihilated, the ability of the
other to produce is weakened or destroyed.
This single instance, from many equally