The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-02-05

improvement might go on as to include not classes
individuals only, but man himself in all the wide
relations Of his nature.
Let any one look abroad over this land-the mag
ni6cent dover which Freedom has bestowed upon
her chosen people-let him view the groundwork oil
society here firmly laid in the Anglo-Saxon granite !
let him regard the elements which enter into she Tor,
nation Of our composite architecture, wherein All
Europe is represented-each nation most advanced
in civilization being transferred hher by her immi-
grating sons-and let him ask himself II this maJes-
tic temple, with the heavens for its dome and hemi,
sphere for its foundation, is to be rent asunder ana
dismantled by any power less than OmniPoient'
Ii is absurd to talk of tit is wicked TO thihk Oh
il the idea is repugnant TO common sense, al Vari-
ance with the progress of society and cyiizatoh re-
PEELED by every consideration of common interest," py
every feeling of brotherhood disowned by the gio-
rious recollectons of the past ana destructive Vi o
cry promise held out by the future 49, -.
We have wrought into system the individuality
of European civilization; the separate States, WIN
their subordinate municipal and local organizations
denote it, We have also the grander idea, which
embraces and encloses the other-the idea OF COM
prehensveness--of the general-of the expansive
and this is indicated by the Federal Government So
ciey advances under the influence OF both II stands
on wide platform, not crcumscrbed by the limitas
tons of classes any artificial distinctions the cltl-
zen is recognized as man.
But there is one thing to be remembered by those
who talk about the value of the Union, and venture
to hint at its dissolution. When the old Articles oil
Confederation were found Intellectual and disorder
and distraction in because Of the impotency oil
the Continental Goyernment-what was done Was
the Union, such as then existed, dissolved No.
The powerless shadow of an imperfect Government
thrown aside and the present Constitution was
formed. Let it be supposed that State Rights ultra
lsts abolition monomaniacs, factous demagogues, or
any other class Of disorganzers shall succeed in pa
ralysing the action of the Government under the ex
isting Constitution-what them Let the result be
ascertaned by looking to own past history there
analoges to be found elsewhere The Union
will take care of itself-that much is certain
We have left out of view the more immediate prac-
teal considerations which constitute what may bes
called the material gaments that bind us together as
one people The progress of improvements by rail-
roads and canals by which State boundaries become
mere imaginary lines-the mutual interests which
created by the very diversity of pursuits and of
productions in the various quarters of the country
the natural bonds of union which great rivers and
lakes establish-these with the identity of language,
the ties of kindred blood, common spirit OF law,
customs and modes-are not TO be ruptured On the
other hand every effort that is made to do them vlo-
lence will tend to closer blending in order to the
more efiectual repulse of all such attempts.