Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-06-10

city for the publick service. With what
ever anxiety the election may be regard
ed, the sentiments which are expressed,
) and the measures which may be pursued
J to effect the issue, will be of more event.
full moment. Republicans have no fears
: that the virtue of the people will, not be
eitectual to restrain, or to correct, the
abuses of brief official authority. They
have no threats against possible disap-
pointment in the canvass. Exercising
their privilege with intelligence, and dis
charging their duty independently as free
men, they will respectfully acquiesce in
any constitutional result. Those are not
of the class of politicians who would set
the value of the Union against the issue
OF ballot. They who would madly do,
this, know little of its cost. Theirs were
not the sacrifices at which it was purchas-
ed, nor theirs the blood with which it is
cemented. Better spirits formed, and,
thank Heaven, there are brave spirits, yet,
to defend it. The idle practice, upon
every occasion of discomfort or excite
ment, of threatening the dissolution of the
Union, should be Indignantly reproved.
The admonitory counsels of the Father of
his Country should be reiterated to the
ear, and to the heart, of every citizen Of
the Repnblick. The people, otherwise,
may not heed, because they will not see
the danger until that which is made fami-
liar in word, shall come to be endured in
yer ydeed.
And who are they who would sacrifice
this fair Inheritance of freedom, of civil
institutions, of personal society, and of
national happiness, to the fierce dominion
of party, or to the fancied advantages of a
pyedominating sectional power. Will the
hardy and VIGOROUS yeomanry of the
land, he~intelligent and enterprising arti-
sans, manufacturers, and mechanicks, in
the busy workshops of industry and in
vention, whose arms are nerved to labour,
and whose independence is in their con-
dition, be the only suferers1 Can the
salutary protection of a presiding General
Government be withdrawn from one por-
ton of the country, and the authorities of
local sovereignties be exercised, with more
benignant influences, in another Let
there be no such delusion. 1t is the very
extent of our territory, the variety of its
soil and products, and the diversity of
habits and pursuits among the people,
giving occasion for trade, exchange, and
intercourse, which create necessity for
union. The baleful consequencessof d.
vision will be confined to no section of
country. They will be visited, in para
lying jealousies, alike, upon the East and
upon the West. They will overwhelm
with appalling apprehensions the white pop
ulation ofthe South. There is no security
to liberty but in this bond of connection.
In mutually of interests and the obliga-
ton of common protection consist our only
strength-the prosperity, as much and as
truly, OF the parts as of the whole, of
each particular State, as of the entire Ma
ton. Let him, then, be accounted as an
enemy to his country, who would lightly
esteem the integrity of the Union false
to the people, who would arrest their ca
reer of glory by intoxicating sentiments, or
inducing to measures, which may tend to
its destruction.
The official PRONUNCIATION Of Conven-
ton, which has been entered into between
the Governments of the United States and
OF Great Britain, pursuant to an article in
the Treaty OF Client, respecting the set
tlement of our North Eastern boundary.
affords favourable prospect of the ulti-
mate amicable termination of controver-
sy which has seriously threatened to inn
pair the enjoyment Of the rights of this
and sister State, and to disturb the peace
of the Nation. Under the management
of the very able Commissioners who have
been appointed by the. General Govern
ment to vindicate our Just claims to the
Territory in dispute, we may confidently
rely that the interest which this Common
wealth has in the lands will be faithfully
protected. There probably will be no oc-
casion for any Legislative action, on our
part. That this question, however, may
be fully presented to your consideration,
such correspondence as have had on the
subject, with the documents which have
received, not before communicated to the
Legislature, will be laid before you. Upon
the suggestion of the Secretary of State
of the United States, have already caus-
ed an examination to be make in the
archieves of this Commonwealth, for such
ancient records and papers as were sup
posed TO be important to the maintenance
of our title, and have forwarded copies.
duly authenticated, for the use of the
Commissioners.
have to advise the Legislature, that
} vacancy has occurred in the Office of Ma
. Jor-General of the Seventh Division of
; Militia, by the resignation and honorable
discharge of Major-General John Whit
! ing, who, for many years, has sustained
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