Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-01-30
The Mutual Relations Of the East and West.

from the Iinclnnati BdLette.l
When Comprehension ran high, twelve
months ago. one could not take up a newsns-
per of the Vallandigham stripe of politics a.
converse with-a disciple of that late agitator
and present refugee, without being entar
tanned with proposition to leave New Enc.
land out in the cold" So persistently weTs
facts perverted, and so constantly was tbo
clamor kept up, that even some men who
were not REASONABLY sympathetic began ~
think with JEFF. Davis Northern Confederate
that in the event of reconstruction of the
Union, its North eastern boundary should ba
materially contracted. A few glorious vic
tories on the battlefield and the peacefrI
triumphs at the recent elections have given
such quietus to the scheme for new al
| vision of the National territory, that we no.
| lieye it will never be revived. Yet. as Nau
England has been accused of almost everv
offense under heaven, it is not uninterestino;
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 Yam.
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 1850, $50 93s
natives of New England we're residents of
other States and Territories, Massachusetts
alone having sent forth 16O, 692 of these. l6,.
| 3l3 to Ohio; 9,S73 to Michigan; 3,443 to In
diana; 1908 to Illinois; 3,7I9 to Minneso-
ia; 1915 to Wisconsin; 6,2l4 to Iowa and
1892 to Kansas. Besides this population
more than $4,000, 900 of New England capi,
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. thoupb
very great, are far from being exclusively of
the kinds enumerated above. Admitting az
these, it might still be asserted that the West
has now reached pitch of prosperity in which
it no longer needed such help. But New
England is essential to the West a. marker
for agricultural products. According to est.
mates drawn from the most reliable sources
and presented by Gov. Andrew, of Mass.
chusetts, in his recent message, that State
buys from the West annually, at the lowest
computation, $3.50, 53l bushels of breadstuffs
The six New England States buy each wear
nearly 100000 barrels of flour, and the
| whole consumption of Western products
within the year 1868, in the six New England
States, including -four, grain and animal food,
reached S50,O0O,O0O
1t is of this market that the Copperheads
a few months since so earnestly implored the
| West to lid itself. That the leaders of this
movement have for 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 filed with the same poison, none the
less deadly because disguised beneath a few
patriotic generalities. Western people can
judge of the honesty of men who not only
wish to disrupt sections of country bound 10
| gether by the ties of consequently and COM
mon national interest, but to rob their own
disciples of the opportunity to dispose of the
results of their labor.