Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-01-28
The Mutual Relations Of the Essr and yr..,
From the Cincinnati Gazetts.1


when Comprehension ran high. twelve
months ago, one could not take up newsna-
per OF the Vallandigham stripe of politics or
converse with disciple Of that late agitator
aHu present refugee, without being enter
1 ,'lieu Win proposition to "Ieave New Enr.
taho OUT IN the cold" So persistentlv were
lac's perverted, and so constantly was the
| eIamor Kept up, that even sore men Who
were not reasonably sympathetic hoo, ~
| think with JEFF. Davis Northern Co,fsSora+oS
that in the event OF reconstruction IF the
Union, Its North eastern boundary sbor16 10
| materially contracted. A few glorious -
tories on the battlefield and the neaonf,I
trlumphs at the recent elections have GIVEN
such quletus to the scheme for new Al
vision OF the National territory, that we he.
Heye 1t Will never be revived. Yet, as New
England has been accused of almost every
onense under heaven, it is not uninteresting,
and may bev very profitable to learn the exact
| truth IN relation to some important facts
winch 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 OF
grandfathers, and not infreuuently thevth
serves passed their early DAYS east of the
Hudson.
according to the census of 1860, sec, 1856
natlVes OF New England were residents of
other States and Territories Massachusetts,
alone having sent forth l60,69 of these, TO-
o!S to Ohio; 9,S75 to Michigan; 3,44S to In.
diana; 1908 to Illinois; STE to Minneso-
ia; II, ll5 to Wisconsin; 6,2l4 to Iowa: and
LISP to Kansas Besides this population.
more than S50,00O,OOO of New England CAPT
tai Is invested in Western railroads, and pro
Dably an equal amount in Western lands
Inc generous contributions of her benevo-
lent citizens have been poured forth to the
support and relief of the infant educational
and rehglous 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 that 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
TOR 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, $685., 531 bushels of breadstuffs.
The six New England States buy each year
nearly 3,5OO,O00 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 $50, 100000.
1t is of this market that the Copperheads
few months since so earnestly implored the
West to rid itself. That the leaders of this
movement have for a 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 a 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.