The Placer herald., 1857-08-15
The Future of the Union.

Some men apprehend danger to the Union
from the continual expansion of its area, (says
the Washington Union,) asserting that such
expansion will make the machinery of gov
ernment too complex and too cumbrous to
operate with safety and precision; and that
1t will destroy homogeneity ard beget con-
flict of sectional interests. Others-the ex-
treme sectionalists of the North-insist that
difference of social organization and institu.
tions must ultimately occasion a dissolution
of the Union, because, say they, this differ
ence of opinion causes hostile relations and
difference Of governmental policy. The OBJ
vious answer to the first objection is, that
our federal system, leaving to the separate
States much the larger share of the admins
tration of the affairs of law and government,
enables the federal government, when sys-
tematically conducted, to rule wisely and
efficiently almost any extent Of Territory.
Its chief business is to attend to our foreign
relations, leaving to the States the manage
nent OF domestic matters, and those lea
Gons are not necessarily more complex or
more difficult to arrange with large terri
tory than with a small one Indeed, great
and powerful nation commands BY its strennth
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ly, will have less difficulty in its intercourse
with other powers than smaller one.
Tho objection that expansion produces
conflict of interest is the reverse of true, for
1t necessarily begets variety of productions
and diversity of industrial pursuits, occasion
trade and intercourse between the most dis
tant sections and thus superinduces mutuali-
ty OF dependence and similarity of interests
Neighboring States, even naighboring coun-
ties, have little dealings or intercourse with
each other, because their productions and
pursuits ar, similar. Distant States become
absolutely dependent for the comforts and
necessaries of life on trade, which enables
them to interchange commodities. Missis-
sippi and Alabama do not trade with each
other. The similarity of their products
make them rivals, and large crop Of cotton
made in one State depresses the price Of
cotton raised in the other Yet they both
trade with the North ard have much inter-
course Their interests do not clash with
those OF New York and New England, but
coincide with them. Neighboring North
ern States are also rivals and have little oc
.casion for trade or intercourse. Distant Cali
fornia finds commerce and connection with
the Atlantic coast promotive Of her growth
and prosperity, and we of the East have not
found our far off sister a troublesome apPen
dage. But soon railroads and telegraphs
will annihilate distance, and then the last re-
naming objection to territorial enlargement
will be obliterated.
Besides, every year added to the age of our
country, compacts, strengthens, and hardens
our institutions, increases the love and vene-
ration of the people for those institutions,
and for that Union which can alone 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, dis
unionists will struggle in vain to dissolve our
Union, infidels hurl harmless missiles at our
churches and our religion, agrarians preach
In vain against the right of private property,
dissolute socialists leave untarnished the sane
tity and purity of the holy ordinance of mar
riage and ranting abolitionsts but lose their
time in attempts to excite servile iasurrec
ton. All the signs of the times augur long
and glorious flute for our common country
For present assurance, we have an admins
tration not only free from sectionalism, but
Hco IOu cVoiy IaiuC anu Suspicion VI SectlOn-
slism, deserving and enjoying the confidence,
respect and admiration not only of Amer-
cans, but of tie world. A people prudent
and sagacious enough, in stormy crisis, to
select and place in power the man best fitted
for the occasion, evinces equally their love of
the Union and their ability 10 prote( defend,
and conserve it. Esto perpetuo!
The ADMINISTRATION OF JAMES BUcH-
ANAN-The N. Y. Sun a non partzan paper
has the following on President Buchanaa's
Administration:
"The Buchanan Administration has been
lhree months in existence, and SO smooth
and harmoniously have all the operations
Of Government been conducted, that we al
most lose sight Of the fact that it is a new
Administration. It seems as ii the Gov
ernment had been under the same direc-
ton for As many years as it has been months.
Able and sxperienoed hsods guide and con
troll the machinery, and the country feels
stYonn oonfidnnoa in tha prudsncS and iudrA. |