Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-06-08
The Future of the Union.

retain SO long as the opposition Is
party without principles.
The Future of the Union.
Some men apprchend danger to the
Union from the continual expansion Of
its area, (says the Washington Unon,)
asserting that such expansion will make
the machinery Of government, too
complex and too cumbrous to operate
with safety aud precision, and that it
will destroy homogcnity and beget
conflict Of sectional interests. Others
the extreme scctionaiists of the North
and the South-insist that difference
OF social organization and institutions
must ultimate y occasion dissolution
of the Union, because, they say, this
difference ofinstitutions occasions hos.
tile relations and difference OF govern
mental policy. The obvious answer to
the first objection is, that our federate
system, leaving to the separate States
much the large share Of the admins
tration Of the affairs of law and gov
eminent, enables the federal govern
mcnt when systematically conducted,
To rule wisely and efficiently almost any
extent of territory.-lts chief business
rs TO attend to our foreign relations,
leaving to the States the management
Of domestic matters, and those relations
are not necessarily more complex or
difficult to arrange with a large terri
tory than small one Indeed, great
and powerful nation commands by its
strength respect detcrs aggression,
and, if it act fairly, will have less diff
Guilty in its intercourse with other pow
e,s than "A small Que.
The objection that expansion produ
ces conflict Of interests in the reverse
of true, for it necessarily begets varie'
ty Of productions and diversity Of in
dustrial pursuits, occasions trade and
intercourse between the most distant
sections, and thus super induces mutu'
ally of dependence and similarity Of
interests. Neghborlng States, even
neighboring counties, have little deal
ings or intercourse with each other,
because their productions and their
pursuits are similar. Distant States
become absolutely dependant for the
comforts and nccessalics of life on
trade, which enables them to inter
change commodities. Mississippi and
Alabama do not trade with each other.
The similarity Of their products makes
them rivals, and n large crop Of cotton
made in the one State depresses the
price OF cotton raised in the other,
Yet they both trade with the North
and aavc much intercourse with her.
Their interests do not clash with those
of New York and New England, but
coincide with them. Neighboring
Northern States are likewise rivals, and
have little occasion for trade or inter
course. Distant California finds com
,ncrcc and connection with the Atlantic
coast promotive of her growth and
prosperity, and VIC of tho oaot have not
found our far off sister troublesome
appcndage. But soon railroads and
tclegraphs will annihllate distance, and
then the last remaining objection to
territorial enlargement will be obliter
atcd.
Besides, every year added to the age
OF our country compacts, strengthens,
aud hardcns our institutions. increases
the love and generation Of the people
for those institutions, and for that
Union which can aiono secure their
continuance. So long AS We grow and
prosper, so long as there is less of
poverty and more of happiness and
comfort among us than in any nation
under the sun, disunionists will strugs lie
in vain 10 dissolve our Union, infidcls
hurl harmless misscls at our churches
and our religion, agrarans preach IN
vain against the right of private prop
crtv. dissolute socialists leave unfair
nished the sanctity and the purity of
the holy ordinance of marriage, and
ranting aholitionists but lose their time
in attempts to excite servile insurrcc'
ton. All the signs Of the times augur
IA long and glorious future for our com
mon country. For present. assurances.
We have an administration not only free
from scctionalsm, but tree from every
faint and suspicion Of socialism, deser'
v'ng and enjoying the confidence, res
pect and admiration. not only of Amer
cans. but of the world. A people pru
dent and sagacions enough, in a
stormy crisis, to select and place in
power the man best fitted for the occa'
sion, evinces equally their love of the
Union and their ability to protect, de.
fcnd and conserve it. Esto perpetual :
Pennsylvania.
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