Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-01-14
[HOag @Orning. yanuarg Il, 1881.

use OF more various and more liberal means.
and the display, If need be- of greater free.
Every one knows how plscable we rscves
are in controversies with Great Britain,
Franre, and SPAIN aud yet how exacting
we have been IN our intercourse with New
Gienada, Paraguay, and San Juan dc Near.
aqua.
Mr.. President, no on will dispute our fore.
tathtrs' maxim, that the common safety OF all
is the safety of each of the states. While
they remain united, the federal government
combines all the materials aud all the forces
OF the several states; organizes their defences
on one great principle; harmonizcs and as.
Stimulates them with one system; watches
over them with single eye, which it turns
IN all directions, and moves all agents under
the control of one executive head. A nation
SO constituted is safe against assault or even
Insult. oil .liH t&t fa4ett q 3tf III F5s
q War produces always speedy exhaustion
Of money, and a severe strain upon credit.
The treasures and credits OF small confedera-
cies would often prove inadequate. Those of
the union are always ample
h have thus far kept out of view the rela-
lions which must arise between The coniedera.
cies themselves They would be small and
inconsiderable nations bordering on each 9th
tr, and therefore, according to all poili
cal philosophy, natural enemies. In addition
" tiiC many lttHlicS WHICH each must make
with foreign powers, and the causes of war
which they would give by violating them.
each of the contcderacies must also maintain
treaties with all the others, and So be liable to
give them frequent offence. They would
necessarily have different interests resulting
from their establishment of different policies
OF revenue, OF mining, manufactures, and
navigation, immigration, and perhaps The slave
trade. Each would stipulate with foreign
nations for advantages peculiar to itself and
injurious to its rivals.
H. indeed, i were necessary that the Union
should be broken up, it would b.. in tile Inst
degree important that the new confederacies
TO be formed should be as nearly us possible
equal in strength and power. that mutual fear
and mutual respect might inspire them with
caution against mutual ofiense. But such
equality could not long he maintained one
contederacy would rise in the scale OF political
Importance, and the others would view it
thenceiDrward with envy and apprehension
Jealousies would bring on frequent and retail
atory wars, and all these wars, from the pecu-
liar circumstances of the confederac:es, would
have the nature and character of civil war
Dissolution, therefore, is, for the people Of this
country, perpetual civil war To mitigate it,
and obtain occasional rest, what else could
they accept but the system of adjusting the
balance of power which has obtained in sEll-
rope,in which the few strong nations dictate the
very terms on which all the others shall be con-
tent to live. When this hateful system should
fail at last, foreign nations would intervene,
now in favor of one and then in aid OF another;
and thus our country, having expelled MI Eu-
ropeaK powers from the continent, ould re-
lapse INFO an aggregated form OF its colonial
experience, and, like Italy, Turkey, India, and
China, become the theater of transatlantic in
tervention and rapacity.
Ii, however, we grant to the new confedera-
cies an exemption from complications among
each other and with foreign states, still there
is too much reason TO believe that not one of
Them could long retain a republican form of
government Universal suffrage and The alb
sence OF a standing army are essential to the
republican system. The world has yet to see
a single self sustaining state of that kind or
even any confederation of suci, states, except
our own. Canada leans on Great Brtan not
unwillingly, and Switzerland is g1aruntied BY
interested n,onarcliical states. Our own ex-
pertinent has thus far been successful; be.
cause, bs the continual addition of new states.
the influence Of each of the members of the
Union is constantly restrained and reduced
No one, of course, can foretell the way and
manner OF travel but history indicates with
unerring certainty the end which the several
coniederacies would reach. Lieentiousness
would render life intolerable; and they would
sooner or later purchase tranquility and DO
nestle safety by the surrender OF liberty, and
yield themselves up to the protection Of milf
tary despotisni.
Indulge me, sir in one or tive details under
this head First, it is only sixty days since
this disnnion movement begani already those