The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-05-07
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EVERETT.
Wellueted Lefate the Boaton
0Lnion @lllk, ShutsdaY,
H/htiz 9th, 1913.
fConcluded.
Can any man look at map Of the Union
and then seriously entertain the opinion
that the United States, brought, as have
jnst said, to the very verge Of . war. With
Great Britain, after diplomatic struggle Of
sixty years, for possession of q few acres Of
unsettled land on the banks of the Aroos-
took, are going to permit q foreign power to
intrench itself at the entrance Of Chesa.
peake Bay, and thence to stretch its bound
sry :westwardly. wherever il chooses to
draw the lines, ove- the hills, through the
central plains, across the Rocky Mountains,
to the setting sum- What foreign pow
er to hold the strait twelve miles wide, be-
tween Cape Charles and Cape Henry, sure,
at the first outbreak of border war with the
North, to admit some hostile foreign navy
into Chesapeake Bay. Is the route by
which Howe's army, in the Revolution,
moved from New York to the conquest of
so soon forgotten ? Many Of
yol have crossed the Susqueh,noah, the
noble river which enters that bay at its
head. Has it occurred to you, in connec-
ton with this recognition Of the Southern
Confederacy .s foreign power, to ask your.
selves where this noble river risess Not in
the State in which It enters the
bay. Not in Pennsylvania. whose central
valleys it clothes with beauty and abou.d-
ance but far up in the northeastern Sec
ton of Central New York. Many Boston.
ians frequent Sharon Spring, and while
thore they visit Cooperstown, the home Of
our great novelist, and Otsego Lake. Every
drop of water which flows from that lake to
the ocean enters it between Cape Charles
and Cape Henry. Cast another look on the
map, and see that mangnifcent Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, the grapdest piece of
upon the continent, and the no.
bic Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which
reaches the foot Of the mountains by its
side. Besides the almost boundless travel
and transportation from the West, 100000
so,,s ~ ,nl ,,vov< E-ovr A., ,,,:,oou rc r,,,,,
berland to tide-water the year before the
war by these two lines of communication
For eighty or ninety miles this magnia cent
railroad passes throu sh the sacred soil of
Virginia, and the first achievement Of the
seeding lords of the soil was to burn or
blow up the bridges, seize the locomotives
tear up the rails of the road, and break
down the dams of the canal, and thus cut
off the most important line of communion
ton between the Atlantic coast and the in.
terror. Nor was this merely for military
motives; the Richmond Press spoke of the
railroad as nuisance" because it compe.
ted with their own works of internal CON-
munication. Are Ohio and the other North
western States going to hold one of their
chief routes to the seaboard by this precar-
ious tenure? Again, look at the map and
consider the position Of Key West, Of the
Tortngas, and Of Fort Pickens. 1t was
truly stated by Lieutenant Maury, in an
official report, some years ago, that who
ever commands them controls the naviga-
tion of the Gull of Mexico. Are you going
to resign these dominant stations to the for.
eign State Of Florida, whose whole popula-
tion, white and black. does not equal that of
any of the counties of Suffolk, Middlesex,
Essex or Worcester puny State, which,
if the Confederacy is recognized, is not un-
likely ina few years to be recolonized by
spain, by the same process which has been
lately gone through at st. Domingo. What
is to prevent her. If this notable doctrine of
prevails. from leaving the South.
srn Confederacy IS she has left the United
States, and carrying Key West, the Tortu-
gas, and Pensacola, along with her : Look
inally at the map, and trace the course Of
he mighty stream that drains the central
,ssia Of the continent. Follow it from its j
,utiet In the Cult, up the main channel, to
he junction With the Ohio, and up that
beautiful river to the confluence of the Mon
'ngahela and the Allegheny, the one CON-
ng down from the north western corner OF
7jrginis, the other from the southwestern
orner Of New York; then up the Mississip-
i itself above the JUNCTION with the Ohio,
nth seven States on its banks, to the high
lnds which divide its waters from those
vhich fow into the Arctic Sea !; then up the |
iissouri to the inmost recesses of the Rocky |
fountains. forming, with . hundred tribu.
aries, each a large as the Hudson, the
randest system of internal water commune
alton on the face of the globe its banks |
coupled even now by twelve loyal States,
nd ten millions of fTesmen who own the
oil they till /; destined in the lapse Of an.
ther half century, to say the least, to dou-
lie their numbers aud their resourcer.-
lake this survey, then tell me who darss,
hat the United States, to whom, on the
ighest considerations Of natiqnsl apd inter.
rational policy, this imperial domain was
eded BY the first Napolson two generations
70, are going to give up it's portals to the
eepins of . foreign State, whose free pop
lation is less than 100000, and who, il