Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-02-23

metals of manufacturing industry. Thu
South, in the same intercourse, bene
fitting by the agency of the North, scc'
its agriculture grow, and its commerce
expand. Turning partly into its owl
channels the sealnen of the North, i
finds its particular navigation invigo
rated :: and while it contributes, in diff
ferci,t wavs, to nourisll and increase the
general mass of the national navigation
it looks forward to the protection of 6
maritime strength to which itself i,
uncoually adapted. The East, in like
intercourse with the West, already
finds, and III the progressive improve
mcntofintcrior communication, by land
and water, will more and more find, j.:
valuable vent for the commodities which
it brings from abroad, or manufacture.
at home. The West derives from the
East supplies requisite to its growth
and comfort; andwlat is perhaps ofstill
greater consequence, it must, of ncccs.
sity, owe the secure enjoyment of indis-
pensablc outlets for its own productions,
to the weight, influence, and the future
maritime strength of the Atlantic side
of the Union, directed by an indissolu-
bic community of interest as n nation.
ANY other tenure by Which the West
canholdthis essential advantage, whctll-
or derived from it's own separate
strength, or from an apostatc and I'M
natural connection with any foreign
power, must be intrinsically precarious.
While, then, every part OF our coun-
try thus feels an Immediate and partic-
ular interest in union, all the parts COM
bincd cannot fail to find, in the united
mass of means and efforts, greater
strength, greater resource, proportion
ably greater security from external dan
ger, a less frequent interruption OF their
peace by foreign nations; and what is
of incstimablc value, they must derive
from union an exemption from those
broils and wars between themselves,
which so frequently atllict nciglboring
countries, not tied together by the same
government; which their W rival
ships alone would be sufficient to pro-
duce, but which opposite foreign ALI
anccs, attachments and intri CUES, would
and imbittcr. Hence, like
they will avoid the necessity of
those ovcr-grown military establish
ments, which, under any form of GOV
crnmcit, arc inauspicious to liberty,
and which are to be regarded a. partic-
ularly hostile to republican liberty in
this sense it is that your union ought
to be considered as Il main prop of your
liberty, and that the love of the II
ought to cndcm to you the preservation
the other.
These considerations speak a pcrsua-
sivc language to every rejecting and
v%irtuous mind, and exhibit the comtin-
,lancc of the Union as a primary object
of patriotic desire. Is there Il doubt,
whether a common government AN
embrace so large a sphere? Let cXpc-
solve it. To listen to mere spec
in such a case, were criminal.
are authorized to hope that a proper
organization of the whole, with the aux
agency of governments for the
respective subdivisions, will afford Il
issue to the experiment. 1t is
we'll worth a fair and full experiment.
With such powerful and obvious mo-
tivcs to Union, affecting all parts of our
country, while experience shall not have
demonstrated its impracticability, there
will always he reason to distrust the
patriotism of those, who, in any quarter,
may cmdcavor to weaken its bands.
In contemplating the causes which
may disturb our Union, it occurs, as a
of serious concern, that any
ground should have been furnished for
characterizing parties by geographical
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and South
crn-Atlantic and Western: whence
designing mcn may cndcavor to excite
a belief that there is u real difference of
local interests and views. One of the
cxpedients of party to acquire influence
particular districts, is to misrcp-
the opinions and aims of other
districts. You cannot shicldyoursclves
too much against the .~icalousics and
hcart-burnings which spring from these
Interpretations: they tend to render
alien to each other those who ought to
be bound together by fraternal affection.
The inhabitants of our western country
have lately had a 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 universal salts
faction at that event throughout the
United States, a decisive proof how un-
were the suspicious propagatcd
among them, of a policy in the General
Government, and in the Atlantic States,