The Washington union., 1857-05-21
rHE FuTuRE ON rHE uNIoN

ihE fOiShL VT llI ONION.
Some men apprehend danger to the Union from the
continual expansion Of its area asserting that such
expansion will make the machinery of government
too complex and too cumbrous to operate with safe
ty and precision; and that it will destroy homoge-
neity and beget conflict Of sectional interests.
0thers-the extreme sectionalists of the North and
the South-insist that difference of social organiza-
ton and institutions must ultimately occasion dis
solution of the Union because say they, this differ
ence of institutions occasions hostile relations and
difference Of governmental policy. The obvious
to the first objection s that our federatiye
system, leaving to the separate States much the
larger 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 Its chief
business is to attend to our foreign relations leaving
to the States the management Of domestic matters
and those relations not necessarily more complex
difficult to arrange with alarge territory than with
small one. Indeed great and powerful nation
commands by it's strength respect deters aggression
and, if il act fairly, will have less difficulty in its in
tercourse with other powers than small one
The objection that expansion produces conflict of
interests is the of true for it necessarily be-
gets variety of productions and diversity of indus
trial pursuits occasions trade and intercourse be-
tween the most distant sections and thus superin-
duees mutuality of dependence and similarity of in
terests Neghboring States, even neighboring coun-
ties, have little dealings intercourse with each
other because their pursuits and their productions
are similar. Distant States become absolutely de-
pendent for the comforts and necessares of life on
trade, which enables them to interchange commodi-
ties. Mississippi and Alabama do not trade with
them rivals, and large crop of cotton made in the
State depresses 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. Neighboring northern States
likewise rivals, and have little occasion for trade
or intercourse Distant California finds commerce
and connexion with the Atlantic coast promotive of
her growth and prosperity, and of the East have
not found our faroff sister troublesome appendage
But railroads and telegraphs viii annihiate dis
tance and then the last remaining objection to terri
torial enlargement will be obliterated.
If there slavery at the South, there would
be little occasion for union for although her climate
and soil would be still adapted to the growth ofthose
agricultural products indispensable to the North,
yet she would have no labor with which to raise
more than enough for home consumption; no sur
plus wherewith 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 engender
rivalry and competition; hostility and hatred would
arise, and dsunon wind up the drama. Difference
Of social institutions added to difference of soil
climate, and productions are the strongest bonds Of
union and thus, domestic slavery at the South, and
territorial growth and aggrandizement, instead of
bugbears to frghten MS, become guarantees of con-
tinued peace and harmony-cxcept with Ishmaelitish
isras Of the North the common disturbers of the
tranquility and good order of society at home and
abroad
Besides, every year added to the age of coun-
try compacts, strengthens, and hardens our institu
tons increases the love and veneration of the peo
pie for those institutions and for that Union which
can alone secure their continuance. So long as we
grow and prosper SO long there is less of poverty
ana more Oh happiness ana OF comfort among uB
than in any nation under the sun, disunionists will
struggle in vain to dissolve our Union inidels hurl
harmless missiles at our churches and our religion
agrarians preach in vain against the right of private
property, dissoute socialists leave untarnished the
sanctity and the purity of the holy ordinance of mar
riage, and ranting aboitionsts but lose their time
attempts to excite serve insurrecton. All the signs
of the times augur long and glorious future for
common country For present assurance, we have
an administration not only free from sectionalsm but
free from every taint and suspicion Of sectonaism
deserving and enjoying the confidence, respect, and
admiration not only Of Americans, but of the world.
A people prudent and sagacious enough, in stormy
crisis, to selectand place npower the man best fitted
for the occasion, evince equally their love of the
Union and their ability to protect defend, and
serve it. Esto perpetual
FOR LIBERIA
The barque Caroline Stevens sailed from Baltimore
on Monday, and, after touching at Norfolk, will leave
direct for Liberia with full freight and 1S5 passen-