Year: 1862

which therefore beg to repeat:


"One section of our country believes
slavery is right and ought to be extended,
while the other believes it is wrong and
ought not to be extended. This is the
only substantial dispute. The fugitive
slave clause of the constitution, and tho
law for the suppression of the foreign
slave trade. are each as well enforced per.
haps. as any law can ever be in commu-
nifty where the moral sense of the people
imperfectly supports the law itself. The
great body of the people abide by the le-
gal obligations in both cases, and few
break over in each. This think cannot
be perfectly cured, and it woul be worse
in both cases after the separation of the
sections than before. The foreign slave
trade now imperfectly suppressed, would
be ultimately revived without restriction
in one section; while fugitive slaves,
now only partially surrendered, would
not be surrendered at all by the
other. Physically speaking, we can
not separate We cannot remove our re-
spective sections from each other, nor
build an impossible wall between them.
A husband and wife may be divorced and
90 out of the presence and beyond the
each of each other, but the different
parts of our country cannot do this.
They cannot but remain face to face, and
intercourse, either amicable or hostile,
must continue between them. Is it pos
sible, then, to make that intercourse more
advantageous or more satisfactory after
separation than before? Can aliens
make treaties more easily than friends
can make laws? Can treaties be more
faithfully enforced between aliens than
laws can among friends9 Suppose you
60 to war, you cannot fight always, and
when, after much loss on both sides and
no gain on either, you cease fighting, the
indcntical questions as to terms of inter-
course are again upon you"
THE DIFFICULTIES OF DIsuHIoS.


There is no line, straight or crooked,
suitable for national boundry, upon
which to divide. Trace through from
east to west upon the line between the
free and slave country, and we shall find
little more than one-third of its length
are rivers easy to be crossed, and popula-
ted thickly On both sides; while nearly
all of its remaining length are merly sur
vcyors' lines, over which people may
walk back and forth without any con-
ciousness of their presence. No part of
this line can be made any more difficult
to pass by writing it down on paper or
parchment as national boundry. The
fact Of separation, if it comes gives up,
on the part of the seeding section, the
fugitive slave clause. along with all other
constitutional obligations, upon the section
seeded from. while | should expect no
treaty stipulation would ever be made to
take its place. But there is another diff.
Guilty. The great interior region, boun-
ded east by the Alleghanies, north by the
British dominions, west by the Rocky
Mountains, and south by the line along
which the culture of corn and cotton
meets, and which includes part Of Vir-
giuia, part of Tennessee, and all of Ken
tuck, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan. Wiscon-
sin, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa,
Minnesota, and ohe territories Of Daco-
tab, Nebraska, and part of Colorado, has
above 100000 of people. and will
have fifty millions within fifty years. if
not prevented by any political folly or
mistake. 1t contains more than one mill.
ion of square miles. Once half as pop
ulous as Massachusetts already is, it
would have more than seventy-fv mill
ions of people. A glance at the map
shows that, territorially speaking, it is
the great body Of the republic. The
other parts are but marginal borders to
it, the magnificent region sloping west
from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific
being the deepest and also the richest in
undcveloped resources, in the production
of provisions, grains, grasses and all which
proceed from them.


This great interior region is naturally
one of the most important in the world.
Ascertain from the statistics the small
population of the region which has not
yet been brought into cultivation, and al
50 the large and Increasing amount of its
products. and VIC shall be overwhelmed
with the magnitude of the prospect pre-
sented and yet this region has no sea
coast, touches no ocean anywhere AS
part Of one nation, its people now find,
and may forever find, their way to Europe
By New York, to South America and Af-
RIGA by New Orleans, and to Asia by San
Francisco. But separate our common
country into two nations as designed by
the present rebellion, and every man Of
this great interior region is thereby cut
off from some one or more of these out
let's, not perhaps by physical barrier,
but by embarrassing aud onerous trade
regulations. And this is true wherever o