The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-01-07

excited solicitude for its safety.
'The Constitution Of the United States was made
by the whole people, and no compact among men
was ever made with more deliberate solemnity.
Inviolable respect and obedience to that highest
law of the people, in all its consequences, is the
bounden duty of all. While il confirms all our
State institutions il untes US, for national pur-
poses, one people, one great Republic. II is in
that Union alone that We exist a nation, and
have our bond Of brotherhood. From it, from a
rich fountain, public prosperity has streamed over
our whole land, and from the bosom Of our great
National Republic spirit has gone forth through
out the world toqucken and raise up the oppressed,
to teach them lesson Of freedom, and by
pointing to our example, show them the way TO
self-government
| "The heart OF man must swell with conscious
pride at being the free citizen of such Republic.
"Dear as Kentucky is to US, she is not our whole
country. The Union, the whole Union, is our
country; and proud we justly Of the name
of Rentuekian, we have loftier and more far
| famed title-that of american ciizn-a name
| known and respected throughout the world, and
| which, wherever we may be, has power to protect
| us from the despotism of emperor king.
GAS party to the Constitution, Kentucky, in
terchangeably, with the other States pledged herself
to abide by and support that Constitution and the
Union which it established. If that pledge were her
only obligation, it ought invioable But the seal
of Washington stamped upon 1.-THE thousand glo-
rous recollections associated with its origin-the
benefits and blessings it has conferred-tlie grander
hopes it now inspires, have, day by day, increased
our attachment, until the mere of plighted
faith and allegiance is lost in proud grateful, and
affectionate devotion.
81 can entertain no appre hension for the fate of
such Union.
'tThe approach of any danger to it would be the
signal for raying to its defencethe first moment of
its peril would be the moment of its rescue per-
suadc myself that there will be found in Congress,
the exciting subject which has given rise to the
late agitation and alarm, ioise orbearancs, and
sOise patience, that will us from danger; and
that the very men who, in the heat and contention
of debate, have spoken most boldly the language of
defiance and menace to the Union, will not be
hindmost in making sacrifices for its preserva-
ton.
"The Union has further security, in the parental
care and guardianship of its present illustrious
Chief Magistrate; and, far above all other securi
ties, it has the allpowerful public opinion and af
! lection of the people.
"To Kentucky and the other western States in
the Valley of the Mississippi, the Union is indis
pensable to their commercial interests They
cupy the most fertile region Of the world, eloquent
ly described by celebrated foreigner as the most
magnificent abode that the Almighty ever prepared
as dwelling place for man. These States al
ready populous and productive are rapidly increas-
ing, and in no long time must become the most
populous and productive portion of the United
States. They are remote from the sea; and to en-
able them, with any advantage, to dispose of their
boundless productions and purchase their supplies
they will require the of all the channels and
avenues of commerce. and Of all the markets, ports,
and harbors, from Boston to New Orleans. Under
our present Union enjoy all these facilities, with
the further advantage of a maritime force capable
to protect, and actually protecting our commerce
in every part of the world.
''Disunion would deprive US, certainly, to some
| extent and most probably to great extent, of
| those advantages and of that protection. cannot
enlarge the subject A moments reflection
will show the ruinous consequences of disunion to
| the commerce of Kentucky and the other western
States. The most obvious considerations of inter-
est combine, therefore, with all that nobler and
| more generous, TO make the Union not only an OBJ
ject of attachment, but OF necessity to
kentucky is not insensible to the causes which
| have produced SO much sensibility and irritation
with her brethren of the southern States nor is she
without her sympathies with them. But she does
not permit herself to harbor thought against
the Union. She deprecates disunion the greatest
calamity; she can see remedy in it--nene, GER
tainly, for any grievance yet complained of or
to be apprehended.
Kentucky will stand by and abide by the Union
TO the last, and she will hope that the same kind
Providence that enabled fathers to make il will
enable TO preserve it. Our whole history has
taught consoling confidence in that Provi-
dence."
at becomes US, as people, to acknowledge, with
gratitude and thankfulness, themany signal proofs
we have received Of Divine goodness, and to invoke
the Great Ruler of events for continuation Of his
favor, humbly acknowledging that without his aid
the labors Of man are but vain"