It Is
Surrounded On Three Sides By Free States Of The West, And Its Soil,
Let Us Hope, Must Become Free.
Kentucky I must leave as doubtful,
though I am inclined to believe that slavery will be abolished
there also.
Kentucky, at any rate, will never throw in its lot
with the Southern States. As to Tennessee, it seceded heart and
soul, and I fear that it must be accounted as Southern, although
the Northern army has now, in May, 1862, possessed itself of the
greater part of the State.
To the great West remains an enormous territory, of which, however,
the population is as yet but scanty; though perhaps no portion of
the world has increased so fast in population as have these Western
States. The list is as follows: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas to which I would add Missouri,
and probably the Western half of Virginia. We have then to account
for the two already admitted States on the Pacific, California and
Oregon, and also for the unadmitted Territories, Dacotah, Nebraska,
Washington, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada. I should be
refining too much for my present very general purpose, if I were to
attempt to marshal these huge but thinly-populated regions in
either rank. Of California and Oregon it may probably be said that
it is their ambition to form themselves into a separate division - a
division which may be called the farther West.
I know that all statistical statements are tedious, and I believe
that but few readers believe them.
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