Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-02-28

try that country has right to concentrate your aec
tons. The name Of american, which belongs to you
your national capacity, always cxalt the just pd
patriotism, than any appellaon derived from 10
cal determinations With slight shades Of difference 20
have the same religion, manners habits and potca
principles. You have, in cause, fought an
riumphed together: the independence and liberty yo
possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts
of common dangers, sufferings, and successes
But these considerations, however powerfully they ad
dress themselves to your sensiblity greatly out
weighed by those which apply Immediately to you
interests here every portion of country finds the
commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserv
| ing the union of the whole.
| The North, in unrestrained intercourse with tn
South, protected by the equal laws of a Govern
men finds, IN the productions of the latter great add
hona resources of maritime and commercial enterprise
and precious materials Of manufacturing industry Thu
South, in the same intercourse benefng by the agency
of the NORTH its agriculture grow and its
expand Turning partly into its channels the
men of the NORTH it finds its particular navigation invgo
rated; and while it contributes in different ways t.
nourish and increase the general Of the nationa
navigation it looks forward to the protection of mari
time strength to which itself is unequaly adapted The
East in like intercourse with the Wes already finds and
in the progressive improvement interior communication
for the commodities which brings from abroad
manufactures at home The West derives from the East
supplies requisite to its growth and comfort and what is
perhaps or still greater consequences it Of necess
ty the enjoyment of Indispensable outlets for
its own productions to the weight influence, and the f-
ture maritime strength Of the Atlantic side of the Union
directed by ndssouble community of interest
nation Any other tenure by which the Vest hold
this essential advantage, whether derived from its
separate strength from aposate and unnatural
nexion with any foreign Power must be nrnsicay pre-
carious.
While, them every part of country thus feels an
immediate and particular interest in Union all the parties
combined cannot fail to nd in the united of
and efforts, greater strength greater resource proper
tonaby greater security from external danger less
quen interruption of their peace by foreign nations and
what is of inestmabe value they derive from Union
exemption from those brols and between them
selves which frequently afiict neghborng countries
not tied together by the Governments which their
rivashps alone would be sufficient produce but
which opposite foreign alliances, attachments and in
trigues would stimulate and embitter Hence, likewise
they win avoid the necessity of those overgrown military
establishments, which, under any form of Government
nauspcious to liberty and which be regarded
particularly hostile republican liberty In this
it is that your Union ought be considered as main
prop of your liberty and that the love of the ought
endear to you the preservation of the other.
These considerations speak persuasive language to
every rejecting and vrtuous mind and exhibit the
tnuance of the Union primary object of patriotic de-
sire. Is there doubt whether common Government
embrace large sphere Let experience solve it.
To listen to speculation in such were crim-
nal We authorized to hope that proper organiza-
ton of the whole, with the auxiliary agency of Govern
for the respective subdivisions will afford happy
issue to the experiment 1t is well worth fair and full
experiment With such powerful and obvious motives
union affecting all parts Of country while experience
shall not have demonstrated its impractcabty there
will always be to distust the patriotism of those
who in any quarter may endeayor to weaken its bands
In contemplating the causes which may disturb our
Union it occurs matter of serious concern that any
ground should have been furnished for characterzing
parties by geographical Observation-Disclosures and
.Southonc4rtantc and Western whence designing men
may endeavor to excite belief that there is real differ
of party acquire influence within particular districts
to msrepresent the opinions and aims Of other districts
You cannot shield yourselves too much against the eaou
sizes and heartburnings which spring from these msre-
presentations they tend render alien each other
those who ought be bound together by aterna aec
ton The inhabitants of Western country have lately
had useful lesson this head they have in the
negotiation by the Executive and in the unanimous ratif
cation 1.-THE Senate of the treaty with SPAIN and in the
universal satisfaction at that event throughout the United
States decisive proof how unfounded the suspicious
propagated among them of policy in the General Gov:
and in the Atlantic States unfriendly their
teress in regard to the Msssp; they have been wit
the formation of treaties that with Great
Britain and that with SPAIN which to them every
thing they could DESIRE in respect to foreign relations
towards confirming their prosperity Will it not be their
wisdom rely for the preservation of these advantages
the Union by which they procured viii they
not henceorh be deaf those advisers if such there are
who would them from their brethren and connect
them with aliens /?
To the efficacy and permanency Of your Union, Gov
eminent for the whole is indispensable No alliance
however strict between the parts be adequate sub
sttute they must inevitably experience the attractions
and interruptions which all alliances in all times have
perienced Sensible of this momentous truth, you have
improved upon your first essay, by the adoption of
stuton Of Government better calculated than your for
mer intimate union and for the ecacious manage
ment of your common concerns. This Government the
offspring of choice, uninfuenced and unawed
adopted upon full investigation and mature deberaon
completely free in its principles, in the distribution Of it's
powers, uniting security with energy, and containing
within itself provision for it's amendment, has
just claim your confidence and your support Respect
for its authority compliance with its laws acquescence
in its measures duties enoined by the fundamental
maxims of liberty The basis Of political sys-
tens is the right Of the people to make and TO alter their
constitutions Of Government but the constitution which