Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-01-27
The Mutual Relations of the East and IVES,
From the Cincinnati Gazett.1


When Copperheadism ran high, twelve
months ago, one could not take up newspa-
per OF the Vallandigham stripe of politics o,
converse with disciple of that late agitator
and present refugee, without being enter
tanned with proposition to " leave New Enc.
land out in the cold" So persiste1tly weTs
facts perverted, and so constantly was the
clamor kept up, that even some men who
were not REASONABLY sympathetic began Ia
think with JEFF. Davis Northern Confederate
that in the event of a reconstruction of the
Union, its North eastern boundary should be
materially contracted. A few glorious vic
tories on the battlefield and the peaceful
triumphs at the recent elections have given
such quietus to the scheme for new di-
vision of the National territory, that we be
ieve it will never be revived. Yet, as New
England has been accused of almost every
offense under heaven, it is not uninteresting
and may be very profitable to learn the exact
truth in relation to some important facts
which the Copperhead papers have been quite
careful TO avoid mentioning. Renegade Van
KEGS are said to be the hardest slave drivers,
and some of the bittereSt denouncerS of New
England have been men whose fathers or
grandfathers, and not infrequently they them
selves passed their early days east of the
Hudson.
According to the census of 1860, 800, $50
natives of New England were residents of
other States and Territories, Massachusetts,
alone having sent forth I6O,692 of these, l6,
313 to Ohio; e,s73 TO Michigan; 3,443 to In
diana; 1908 to Illinois; 3,719 to Minneso-
ia; 1918 to Wisconsin; 6,2l4 TO Iowa; and
l.2S2 to Kansas Besides this population,
more than $50, 200, 600 of New England CAPT
tai is invested in Western railroads, and pro
badly an equal amount in Western lands
The generous contributions of her benevo-
lent citizens have been poured forth to the
support and relief of the infant educational
and religious enterprises of the West, and
thus intellectually and materially has New
England verified, for the younger States, the
old adage, Light and the origin of nations
rise in the East" But these benefits, though
very great, are far from being exclusively of
the kinds enumerated above. Admitting all
these, it might still be asserted shat the West
has now reached pitch of prosperity in which
1t no longer needed such help. But New
England is essential to the West a. a market
for agricultural products. According to esti
mates drawn from the most reliable sources,
and presented by Gov. Andrew, of Massa-
chuSetts, IN his recent message, that State
buys from the West annually, at the lowest
computation, 1852 ,531 bushels of breadstuffs.
The six New England States buy each year
nearly 100000 barrels of flour, and the
whole consumption of Western products
within the year 1868, in the six New EnglaEl
States, including -four, grain and animal food,
reached S50,0Oo,0 900.
1t is Of this market that the Copperheads
a few months since so earnestly implored the
West to rid itself. That the leaders of this
movement have fer moment abandoned their
designs or changed their views there is not
the slightest evidence. Their defeat at the
polls and the misfortunes of their friends and
allies at Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Gettysburg
and Port Hudson have made them cautious,
but the columns Of their newspaper organs
are still filled with the same poison, none the
less deadly because disguised beneath d few
patriotic generalities. Western people can
judge of the honesty of men who not only
wish to disrupt sections of country bound to-
gether by the ties of consanguinity and com
mon national interest, but to rob their own
disciples of the opportunity to dispose of the
results of their labor