Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-02-22

bic QUILTS for its own productions to the weight
influence and the future maritime strength of the
Atlantic side Of tie Union. directed by an indis
soluble community OF interest as one nation ANY
other tenure by which the Wesf can hold this e.
sential advantage. whether derived from is osn
separate strength. or from 81 apostate and IN
natural connexon with any foreign power. must
be intrinsically precarious.
While. then. every part Of our country thus
feels an immediate and particular interest IN
Union, all The parts combined can not fad TO 6Rd
ia the united mass of means and efforts, greater
strength. greater resource, prOpOrtiOnably greater
security from external danger. less frequent IL
terruption of their peace by foreign nations and.
what is of inestimable value, they must derive
from Union an exemption from those brOils and
between themselves, which 20 frequently
afilict neighbOring countries not tied together by
the same government, which their own rival
ships alone would be sufficient 10 produce, but
which opposite foreign alliances, attachments
and intrgues would stimulate and embitter.
Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity OF
those overgrOwn military establishments. which,
under any form of government are inauspcious
10 liberty. and which are to be regarded par
ticularly hostile 10 Republican Liberty. Ia this
sense il Is, that your Union ought to be consid-
cred a. u main prop of your liberty. and that the
love Of the one ought 10 endear to you the preser
walton Of the other.
These considerations speak persuasive Ian
guage to every rejecting and yrtuous mind, and
exhibit the continuance Of the Union primary
object OF patriotic desire. Is there doubt
whether common government c.ln embrace so
large sphereY Let experience solve it. To
listen 10 mere speculation IN such a case were
criminal. We are authorized 10 hope, that a
proper organization of the whole, with the
Hilary agency of governments for the respective
subdivisions. will afford happy issue to the ex-
pertinent. 1t is we'll worth fair and full
pertinent. With such powerful and obvious mo-
tives TO Union. affecting all parts of our country.
while experience shall not have demonstrated its
impracticability there will always be reason to
dlstrust the patriotism of those, who in any quar-
ter may endeavor to weaken its bands
In contemplating the causes which may disturb
our Union. it occurs matter of serious concern,
that any ground should have been furnished for
characterzlng parties by Geographical discrimina
tious N0rfheTn and SOufhera, Atlantic and West
ern, whence designing men may endeayor to ex-
cite belief that there j. real difference of local
interests and views, of the expedients OF party
to acquire influence, within particular districts, is
10 mSrepresent the opinions and aims OF other
districts. You can not shield yourselves too
much against the iealouSies and heart burnings,
which spring from these Misrepresentation; they
tend to render alien to each other those, who
ought To be bound together by fraterna affection.
The Inhabitants of our Western country 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 universal sat
isaction at that event. thrOug bout tue United
States. decisive proof how unfounded we're the
suspicious propagated among them of policy in
the General Government and in the Atlantic
States uHiriendly 10 their interests in. regard to
the MIsSllSsipp; they have been witnesses to the
formation of two treaties that with Great Britain
and that with Spain, which secure to them every
thing they could desire in respect to our foreis
relations, towards confirming their prosperity
Will it not be their wisdom To rely for the preser-
walton of these advantages on the Union by which
they were procuredI Will they not henceforth
be deaf to those advisers, if such there are, who
would sever them from their brethren. and con-
meet them with aliens?
To the efficacy and permanency of your Union,
Government for the whole is Indispensable. No
alliance, however strict, between the parts can
be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably
experience the nfractions and interruptions which
/ all alliances in all times have experienced. Sen
sbe of this momentous truth, YOU have improved
upon your first essay, by the adoption of Con
stitution of Government better calculated than
your former for an intimate Union, and for the
etiicacious management of your common con
Germs. This government, the offspring of our own
choice, uninhuenced and unawed, adopted upon
full Investigation and mature deliberation. com
pletely free in its principles, in the distri
button Of its powers, uniting security with
energy, and containing within itself pro
vision for Its own amendment has lust
claim to your confidence and your support.
Respect for its authority, compliance with its
laws, acquiescence IN its measures are duties en-
al lp apf al af
The basis of our political systems is the right of
the people 20 make and To alter their Consttu-
tons OF Government. But the Constitution
which at any time exists, till changed by an ex-
plict and authentic act OF the whole people is
sacredly obligatory upon all. he very idea of
the power and the right OF the people to establish
Government pre- suppOses the duty of every indi-
vidual to obey the established Government.
All distractions TO the execution of the
laws. all combinations and associations, under
whatever plausible character, with the real de
sign To direct, control, counterfeit, or awe the
regular deliberaton and action of the constituted
authorities, are destructive of this fundamental
principle. and of fatal tendency. They serve to
organize faction. to give it an artificial and ex
traornary Force; to put, in the place of the del
egated will of the nation, the will of party,
often small but artlul and enterprsing minority
Oh the community; and. according to the alter
pu1lic administration the mirror of the i'll con
certeJ and incongruous projects of faction. rather
tnan the organ OF consistent and wholesome plans
digested 10y common counsels, and modified by
mutual interests.
However combinations or associations of the
above description NAV now and then answer pop
ular ends. they are likely, in the course of time
and things, To become potent engines. by which
cunning, ambitions and unprincipled men will be
enabled To- subyert the power of the people, and
To usurp for themselves the reins of government
destroying. afterwards, the very engines which
have lifted them 10 unjust dominion.
Toward the preservation OF your Government
and the permanency OF your present happy state
1t Is requisite not only that YOU steadily diScoun-
tenance irregular oppoStions to its acknowledges
authority. but also that you resist with care the
spirit OF innovation upon its principles, however
speeiJus the pretextS One method of assault
may be to effect, la the forms of the Consti
tuition, alterations, which Will impair the energy
OF the system. and thus to undermine what can
not be directly overthrown. In all the changes
To which YOU may be invited, remember that time
and habit are at least necessary TO fix the true
stiHlions that experience i the surest standard
by which 10 test the real tendency of the existing
constitution OF country; that facility in change,
upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion
exposes 10 perpetual change. from the endles,
variety OF hypothesis and opinion and remem
Der especially. that, for the efficient management
O. your common interests, IN = country So eXten
>iye a ours. government OF as much VlgOr a,