Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25
THE FUTURE OF the UNION.

THE FUTURE OF THE UNION.
Some men a%pprehend danger to the
Union from the continual expansion Of
its area, (says the Washington Union,)
asserting that such expansion will make
the machinery of government too com
pick and too cumbrous to operate with
safety and precision; and that it viii
destroy homogeneity and beget conflict
of sectional interests. Others-the ex-
tremo sectionalists of the North-insist
that difference of social organization
and institutions must ultimately occa-
sion q dissolution of the Union, because,
say they, this difference of institutions
causes hostile relations of government
policy. The obvious answer to the first
objection is, that our federate system,
leaving to the separate States much the
larger share of administration OF the
affairs of law and government, enables
the federal government, when system
atically conducted, to rule wisely and
efficiently almost any extent of TERRITORY.
Its chief business is so attend to our
foreign relations, leaving to the States
the management of domestic matters,
and those relations are not necessarily
moro complex or more difficult to ar
range with q large territory than with a
small one. Indeed, a great and power
full nation. commands by its strength
respect, deters aggression, and, if it act
fairly, will have less difficulty in its in
tercourse with other powers than a
smaller one.
The objection that expansion produ-
ces conflict of interest is the reverse of
true, for it necessarily begets variety of
productions and diversity of industrial
pursuits, occasions trade and intercourse
between the most distant sections, and
thus ~superinduces mutually of Deepen
dence and similarity of interests. Neigh
boring States, even neighboring ooun-
ties, have little dealings or intercourse
with each other, because their produc-
tions und pursuits are similar. Distant
States become absolutely dependent for
the comforts and necessaries of life on
trade, which enables them to interchange
commodities. Mississippi and Alabama
do not trade with each other. The
similarity of their products make them
rivals, and a 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 have
much intercourse. Their interests do
not clash with those of New York and
New England, but coincide with them.
Neighboring Northern States are also
rivals. and have little occasion for trade
or intercourse. Distant California finds
commerce and connection with the At
lantic coast promotive of her growth and
prosperity, and we of the East have not
found our far off sister a troublesome
a~ppendage. But soon railroads and
t,legraps will ~annihilate distance, and
then the last remaining objection to
territorial enlargement will he obliter-
ated.
Besides, every year added to the age
of our country compacts, strengthens,
and hardens our institutions, increases
the love and veneration. of the people
for those institutions, and for that Union
which can alone secure their continu-
ance. 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 other nation under the
sun, disunionists will struggle in vain
TO Dissolve our Union, infdels hurl harm
less missiles at our churches and our
religion, agrarians preach in vain against
the right of private property, dissolute
socialists leave untarnishcd the sanetity
and the purity of the holy ordinance of
marriage, and ranting abolitionists but
lose their time in attempts to excite se:-
vile insurrection. All the signs of the
times augur a long and glorious future
for u common country. For present.
assurance, we have an administration
not only free from s~ectionalism, deserv-
ing and enjoying the confidence, respect,
and admiration not only of Americans,
but 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, e%vinces
equally their love of the Union and
their ability to protect, defend, and
conserve it.
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