The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-06-27
The Future of The Union.

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The Future Of The Union.
Some men apprchcnd danger to the Union rron
the continual expansion of its area asserting that
such expansion will make the machinery of govern
mcnt loo complex and too cumbrous TO operate wit
safety and precision: and that il will destroy homo
gently and bcgct conflict of sectional interests.
Others the extreme scciionasts of The North and
the South-insst that difference of social organiza.
ton and institutions must ultimately occasion dis.
solution of the Union because, say they, this differ
encc Of institutions occasions hostile relations and
difference of governmental policy. The obvious
answer to the first objection is that or fedcralvc
system, leaving to the stpcr1.c Stat M: Il II" lar
gcst share of the administration Of the affairs OF law
and government, enables the federal government,
when Systematically conducted to rule wisely and
efficiently almost any extent Of territory. It's chief
business Is to attend to foreign relations leaving
to The States the management OF domestic matters,
and those relations are not necessarily more com
pick or difficult to arrange with large territory
than with small one. Indeed. great and power
full nation commands by is strength respect dc,crs
aggression, and if it act fairly, will have less DIM
Guilty in its intercourse with other powers than
small one.
The objection that expansion produces conflict of
interests is the of true for IL necessarily be.
gets variety of productions and diversity of indus.
trial pursuits occasions trade and intercourse be-
tween the most distant sections, and thus supcrin-
duces mutually of dependence and similarity of in
tercsta. NeighbOring States even ncshboring coul-
ties, have little dealings or intercourse with each
other, because their pursuits and their productions
are similar Distant States become absolutely de-
pendent for the comforts and ncccssarics of life on
trade, which enables them to interchange commodi-
ties. Mississippi and Alabama do not trade with
each other. The similarity Of their products makes
them rivals, and large crop of cotton made in the
one State dcprcsscs the price of cotton raised in the
other. Yet they both trade with the North, and
have much intercourse with her. Their interests do
not clash with those of New York and New England,
but coincide with them. Neghborng northern States
are likewise rivals, and have little occasion for trade
or intercourse. Distant California lnds commerce
and connection with the Atlantic coast promotivc of
her growth and prosperity and we of the East have
not found our faroit sister troublesome appcndagc.
But soon railroads and tclcgraphs will annhlatc
distance and then the last remaining objection to
territorial enlargement will be oblitcratcl.
If There was no slavery at the South, there would
be little occasion for unon for although her climate
and soil would be still adapted TO the growth of those
agricultural products 50 indispensable to the North
yet she would have no labor with which to raise
more than enough for home consumption no sur
i plus whercwith to purchase the merchandise and
manufactures or to employ the commerce of the
North. Trade and Intercourse would cease between
the sections; similarity of pursuits would engcndcr
rivalry and competition; hostility and hatred would
arise and dsunion wind up the drama Difference
of social institutions, added to difference of soil,
climate and productions the strongest bonds of
union; and thus, domestic slavery at the South and
territorial growth and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, instead of
bugbears to frighten us, become guarantees of con-
tinned peace and harmony-eXcept with lshmnlitish
iss of the North the common disurbers of the tran
guilty and good order OF society, at home and
abroad.
Besides, every year added to the age of our coun-
try compacts, strengthens, and hardcns our insitu-
TONS Increases the love and vcncution of the people
for those institutions, and for the Union which can
alone secure their continuance So long as we GROW
and prosper so long there is less of poverty and
more OF happiness and of comfort among us than in
any nation under the sum- dsunionsts will struggle
in vain to dissolve our Union, inGdcls hur harmless
missiles at our churches and our religion, agrarians
preach in vain against the right of private property,
dssolnte socialists leave untarnishcd the sanctty
and the purity of the holy ordinance of marriage,
and ranting abolitionsts but lose their time in at
tcmpts to excite seryile nsurrection Al! the signs
of the times augur long and glorious future for
our common country. For present assurance we
have an administration not only free from sectional
ism, but free from every faint and suspicion of Sec
tlonalism, deserving and enjoying the confidence,
of the world. A people prudent and sagacious
enough, in a stormy crisis, to select and place in
power the man best fitted for the occasion, eyincc
equally their love the Onion and their ability to
project, defend, and con crve it. F@ra p5F~,