The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-09-19

TO you. IL Is justly SO lot IL lS u
main pilIer in the ediice of your real
independence, the support of your tram
guilty at home, your peace abroad, of
your safety, of your prosperity, of that
very liberty which you so highly prize
But as it is. easy to foresee, that from
different causes and from different quar-
ters, such pains viii be taken, many
arti6ces will be employed, to weaken in
your minds the conviction of this truth
las this is point in your political for
tress against which the batteries of
! your external and internal enemies will
be most constantly and actively, though
often coversly and insidiously, directed
lit is of infinite moment that you
should properly estimate the immense
value of your national Union to, your
collective and individual happiness
that you should cherish cordial, habit
ual and immoYable attachment to tao
customing yourselves to think and speak
of it as the palladium of your political
safety and prosperity, watching for its
preservation with jealous anxiety, dis
countenancing whatever may suggest
even suspicion that can in any event be
abandoned, and Indignantly frowning
upon the first dawning of every attempt
to ALLEVIATE any portion of our country
from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred
ties which now link together the various
parts
!" For this you have every induce
ment of sympathy and interest. Citi-
zens by birth or choice, of common
country, that country has right to con-
centratc your affections The name Of
American, which belongs to you in your
national capacity, must always exalt the
just pride of patriotism, more than any
appellation derived from local discrimi-
nation. with slight shades of difference
you have the same religion, manners,
habits and political principles. You
have in common cause fought and tri-
umphed together; the Independence and
liberty you possess are the work of joint
efforts-of common dangers, sufferings
and success. szs IL,
But these considerations, however
powerfully they address themselves to
your sensibilities, are greatly outweigh
ed by those which apply. more immedi-
ately to your interests. Here every
portion of our country finds the most
commanding motives for carefully guard
ing and preserving the union of the
whole. s. -. 80.
8. The north, in an unrestrained inter-
course with the south, protected by the
equal laws of common government,
finds in the production of the latter,
great additional resources of maritime
and commercial enterprise and precious
manufacturing industry. The south, in
the same intercourse, benefting by the
same agency of the north, sees its agri-
culture grow and its commerce expand.
Turning partly into its own channels,
the seaman of the north, it finds its par
tieular navigation invigorated-and
while it contributes in different ways to
nourish and increase the general mass of
national navigation, it looks forward to
protection of maritime strength to
which, itself is unequally adapted. The
east, in like intercourse with the west,
already finds in the progressive improve
ment of interior communication, by land
and water, will more and more find val
liable vent for the commodities which it
brings from abroad, or manufactures at
home. The west derives from the east
supplies requisite to its comfort and
growth, and what is perhaps of still
greater consequence, it must of necessi-
ty owe the secure enjoyment of indis-
pensible outlets for its own productions,
to the weight, influence and future mar
itime strength of the Atlantic side of
the union, directed by an indissolubie
community of interest as one nation
Any other tenure by which the west can
hold this essential advantage, whether
derived from its own seperate strength,
or from an, unnatural connexion with any
foreign power, must be intrinsically pre-
carious.
While, then, every part of our
country thus feels an immediate an
particular interest in union, all theparts
combined cannot fail to find in the uni
ted mass of means and efforts, greater
strength, greater security from external
danger, a less frequent interruption of
their peace by foreign nations and
what is of inestimable value, they must
derive from union an exemption from
those broils and wars between them
selves, which SO frequently afiict neigh |
boring countries. not tied together by
the same government, which their own
rivalships alone would be sufficient to
produce; but which opposite foreign ALI
ances, attachment and intrigue would
stimulate and embitter. Hence, like
wise, they will also avoid the necessity
of those military establishments, which,
under any. form of government, are in
auspicious to liberty, and which are to7
beregarded as particularly hostile to
Fepublican liberty. In this sense it is,
then your union ought to be considered
as main prop Of your liberty, aud that
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