The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-07-04

will afford happy issue to the EXPERIMENT..
Jt is well worth fair and full experiment.
with such powerful and obvious motives
to union, affecting all parts of our country,
while experience shall not have demon
strated it's impracticability. there will al
,,vavs be reason to distrust the patriotism
az thsse,who, in any quarter, may endeavor
to weaken its bands.
81 IN contemplating the causes which
may disturb our union, it occurs as mat
far'of serious concern, that any ground
shnssld yhaye been furnished for char
sactorixing parties by geographical
d;scrimSp stions, N Northern and Southern,
Atlantic and Western; whence design
IND men may endeavor to excite belief
tE4S there is real difference of local
interests and views. One of the expe-
dients of party to acquire influence
within particular districts, is to misrep-
resent the opinions and aims OF other
districts. You cannot shield yourselves
too much against the jealousies and
heart burnirgs which spring from these
misrepresentations: they tend to render
alien to each other those who ought to
be bound together by fraternal affec-
Ff;on, The inhabitants of our Western
Eccac,ntry have lately had useful lesson
on this head: they have seen, in the
negotiation by the Executive, and in the
unanimous ratification by the Senate OF
the treaty with Spain, and in the univer-
sal satisfaction at the event throughout
the United States, a decisive proof how
unfounded were the suspicious propa-
gated among them of policy in the
General government and in the Atlantic
States, unfriendly to their interests in
regard to the Mississippi. They have
been witnesses to the formation OF two
treaties, that with Great Britain and
that with Spain, which secure to them
everything they could desire, in respect
to our foreign relations. towards con-
firming their prosperity. Will it not
| be- their wisdom to rely for the preser-
! yation of these advantages on the union
| by which they were procured! WI.
they not henceforth be deaf to those
advisers. if such there are, who would
sever them from their brethren. and
connect them with aliens?
.sTo the efficacy and permanency OF
your union, q government tor the whole
is indispensable. No alliances, how
ever strict, between the parts can be
an adequate substitute they must
inevitably experience the infractions
and interruptions which all alliances
in all times, have experienced. Sensi-
bic of this momentous truth you have
improved upon your first essay, by the
adoption of a constitution of govern
ment better calculated than you,
former for an intimaTe union, and fo1
the efficacious management OF your
common concer:s. This government
the offspring of. our own choice uninfiu
enced and unawed, adopted upon full
investigation and mature deliberation
completely free in it's principles, il
the distribution of it's powers uniting
security with energy, and containing
within itself a provision for its owl
amendment, has just claim To you
confidence and your support. Respec
for it's authority, compliance with it
laws, acquiescence in it's measures, arr
duties enioined by the Fundamental
maxims Of true liberty. The bias o
our political systems is the right of tn
people to make and to alter their con
, stitutions of government. But tn
. constitution which ut any time exists
until changed by an explicit and authen
tic act of the whole people, is sacredl.
obligatory upon all. The very idea o
r the power and the right of the peopl
: to establish government, presuppose
the duty of every individual to ODE
the established government.
"All distractions to the execution
=, the laws, all combinations and associa
: tions under whatever plausible charac
, ter, with the real design to direct, cor
. troll, counteract, or awe the regular dc
liberations and action of the constitute
authorities, are destructive of this fur
. damental principle, and of fatal ter
D dency. They serve to organize factor
!, TO give it an artificial and extraordinar
force, TO put in the place of the dele
> gated will of the nation the will OF party
e often small but artful and enterprisin
n minority of the community; and, az
: cording TO the alternate triumphs of di
: ferent parties, to make the public az
d ministration the mirror of the ill cor
q q certod and incongruous projects of fa'
u ton, rather than the organ of consi
= tent and wholesome plans digested b
~ common couppiIs and modified by mi