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the present MONTH, when t. weights fJr this
State will be commenced, and without delay
, IDEALLY adjusted.
Judging from the m ech AMIGA, execution Of ll,c
measure u! length, and the extreme accuracy
which is sought to be attained in its finish, We
mar anticipate that these copie. Of tie United
States standards for Maryland, will in all re-
spects be equal 10 the original, ana i'll DO
credit to the agent and The State. From the
manner in which the agent has, so far, execnt-
ed his trust, it gives ne pleasure to say that he
is, in my judgment, empently qualified to per
Iorr the duty for which he has been select I'd.
A protest has been received from Rhode Is
land against tie interference Of Congress with
the Internal Government and Constitution OF
that State, concerning slave representation in
| Congress, the annex atIun OF E,Nas, the rsp0di.
alton Of the State dcbIs,or either assumption by
the General Government. Thee several cor
munications will be submitted 10 your conside-
IA ton
The threats OF diss luton OF tie Uniln, al
tered in several OF these proceedings ave, An W
alt gother misplaced, it intended to in1n' nce
yonf Judgments on great question of prb'iG,
policy We have many instances in the SisfU-
ny Of the connry, when Language, cqoalIS in-
temperate, was used as 10 measures which arc
now universally approved Of Such inp1litie.
and und'snifed pr ceedings, did no, then deter
they will not ROW intimidate, tho:e who have
IN charge the most important question Of The
day.
The purchase of Louisiana, although loudly
| denounced at the time, and declared TO be q
sufficient cause for dissolution of the Union,
Is now regarded by almost every man whose
| pipionS aye entitled O respect, as a measure OF
irfaite advantage to the Union, and Conie5rinS
lasting honor on the admins tration o! that truly
great man, under whose auspices it was accom-
! pishcd. 1t is worth white, at this day, to ad-
| We to the history at he tinies when the ply
OF anneXDg Louisiana was under discussion--
| We thete fitness another Of hose il n9Herabe
instances OF which all history is fall, whereiu
| the passions, prcIndices, pers NAL rivalries
of those who direct the destnes II S es,blmd
the jodgment to he clearest proofs, that they
are resisting measures OF the most Alutary ten
denotes for the peop'e whose cor fidence they
enjoy, and whose interests it is their duty To
promote. Who, at this day, would consent 10
have the mil ms Of human beings who are to
make their homes on the broad lands drained by
that great river, the Mlssis 'ipp, and its iribn-
taries, dependent upon treaty stipuialons with
! a ign power for the privilege of passing with
the productions Of those fertile fields out to the
markets of the worldf Yet 'orty years go,
wise men, patriotic meo, even whole statess
threatened to dissolve the Union unless the
policy of snnexing Louisiana was abandoned,
with as mpch earnestness as they now resort TO
the same means Of intimidation against the pre-
posed introduction Of Texas into the CCDfederS-
CIV. There was stronger apology then than
there is now Tor doubling the policy OF enlarg-
ing our boundaries. The power OF amid e v
eminent like ours, acting mainly upon the
opinions, and but little, for political purposes,
upon the persons OF its citisens, had not then
been illustrated Elk 2erence and theory now
combine TO demonstrate, that the confines OF our
Coniederacy OF X pubcs may be placed at any
distance from the centre that is not too remote
for those temporarily entrusted with the mar
agement, or personally interested in the Legis
lative, Executive, or Jud cal department 8, TO
resort conveniently to the at of the General
Government. Tested by this principle, the ex-
IRENE southern or western boundary of Texas
is a much more convenient confne for the Con-
federacy now than were the northern eounda-
ries of Maine or Wisconsin at the ad pton Of
the FEEDER al Constitution. In the mode Of tre
Yelling sixty years ago, there were in a thou
sand mi es, more impedimeDts to be overcoms
by the traveller than are presented at this day,
in distance of three thousand miles, when the.
power of steam propes the boat over the suris
OF our lakes and rivers, and drives the car along
our rail roads, at the rate OF twenty miles an
hour. We live in an age of progress.
And we owe it TO ourselves, and our pos,eri-
ty, not TO impede, from unworthy motives, that
advance to perfection in the science Of Govern
ment, as in every other science, which daily
| experience proves to be attaInah'e. What force
of imas ination could depict the meries to-
which the people oil the old world have been
subjected, under received opinions as to Gov
eminent, inculrated by their selfish and ambi-
tious rulers. For many ages England, with a
territorial surface less than that of Virg iDia,
was divided into no less than seven paltry Gov
ernments, kept asunder, that their feeble Hep
tarchs might each have his court, his army, and
his civil list. For much longer period Eng
land, Scotland and Ireland separated, were en-
gagged in perpetual border wars, sweeping a.
way their population, preventing the progress
of civilization, and INJECTING an untold amoan.
Of human misery. In fact, every page oil the
history OF Europe contains admonitions agairs st
the introduction, on the ~ orth American CONT
nent, of the systems OF Government established
there. In modern Europe there are, exclusive
of Great Britain, eighteen Qra.i Republics,
Principaliiies, Kingdoms, other forms Of
Goveroment. The area over which these Gov
ernments have Jurisdiction, exclusive Of Russia,
Sweeden and Norway, is not so extensive az
that portion OF our own country lying east Of
the Rocky Mountains. 1t does not much tx-
coed one million TIN ee hundTed thousand square
Mills. The experiment which we have sac
cessiully made, clearly demons rates that the
territory bounded in part by the Bospborus, the
Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the Ocean, IL
not SO great but that confediracy Of represe r
tative republics could with safety and eonyenia
ence have been organized within its boundar les,
The whole population does not exceed one
hundred and fifty millions. To contrast TIC
benefits and advantages OF this European sys-
tenn OF divided governments, with that which
proposes one confederacy OF free States ficnr
the northern confines of Mexico to the lakes, 1T
would be necessary to pass, in melancholy re-
view, the history Of the petty nal ions Of Eu,
rope tor many centuries, and TO make an esti-
mate Of the millions Of human lives sacrificed,
aud the amount Of treasure squandered in tho. e
never ending, ever beginning wars, which stain
the pages OF that history, for no other purpose
than the maintenance of national bounds ri $
that Should never have existed, or of dynasties