Of course such cheap and bulky articles could not bear railroad transportation. and yet they constituted almost the only comnmeree between the cottongrowing States and the nonmanufacturing Northwest. Such was the condition of the South under free trade. Meanwhile a limited tide of immigration flowed into the Northern States. and as the low rates of duties precluded the possibility of suecessfully establishing diversified manufactures on a scale sufficient to afford them employment. the immigrants sought the graingrowing regions. populated new lands. increased the already excessive production of grain and provisions. organized new States. and by their demand for admission to the Union as such disturbed the traditional balance of power between slavery and freedom in the Senate. The condition of the country at that time may be compared to a broad warp set for cloth into which no woof had been woven. aud which by reason of its great width was rent apart at the middle. and. sir. such must ever be the feeble and dangerous condition of our cou ntry while we make our domestic exchanges in a foreign laud. and confiue the labors of our people to the few and simple industries involved in tie production of raw materials. If we would be one people. prosperous. contented. and thoroughly united. we must weave the parts of the country together.
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