Evening star., 1896-09-19

love of the one ought to endear to you the
preservation of the other.
These considerations speak persuasive
language to every rejecting and virtuous
mind. and exhibit the continuance OF the
union primary object OF patriotic de-
sire. Is there a doubt whether common
government can embrace so large sphere.
Let experience solve 1t. To listen to mere
speculation in such a case were criminal.
We are authorized to. hope that proper
organization of the whole. with the auxil-
iary agency of governments for the re-
spective subdivisions, will afford happy
issue to the experiment. 1t Is well worth
fair and full experiment. With such
powerful and obvious motives to union af-
fecting all parts of our country, while ex-
;erience shall not have demonstrated It's
impractica bility there will always be rea-
son to distrust the patriotism of those who
in any quarter may endeavor to weaken Its
bands.
In contemplating the causes which may
disturb our union, 1t occurs as a matter OF
serious concern that any ground should
have been furnished for character1zing
parties by geographical discrimination
northern and southern. Atlantic and west
ern-whence designing men may endeavor
to excite a belief that there is a real dif-
ference of local interest and views. One
of the expedients of party to acquire In
fiuence within particular districts Is to mis-
represent the opinions and aims of other
districts. You cannot shield yourselves too
much against the tealousies and heart
burnings which spring from these misrep-
resentations: they tend to render alien to
each other those who ought to be bound
together by fraternal affection. The in
habitants 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 satisfaction at that event
throughout the United States, decisive
proof how unfounded were the suspicious
rpropagated among them of a policy In the
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States unfriendly to their interests in re-
gard 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 toward confirming their prosper
ity. VIII it not be their wisdom to rely for
the preservation of these advantages on the
union by which they were procured? VIII
they not henceforth be deaf to those ad-
vsers. If such there are, who would sever
them from their brethren and connect
them with aliens?
union a government for the whole Is In
dispensable. No alliances. however strict.
between the parts can be an adequate sub
stitute. They must inevitably experience
the infractions and Interruptions which
all alliances in all times have expe-
riehced. Sensible of this momentous truth,
you have improved upon your first essay
by the adoption Of a Constitution OF gov
ernment better calculated than your former
for an intimate union and for the effica-
cious management of your common con-
Germs. This government, the offspring of
our own choice uninfiuenced and unawed,
adopted upon full investigation and mature
| deliberation. completely free In its princi-
| pies, in the distribution of its powers,
| uniting security with energy. and contain
ing within itself provision for its own
| amendment. has a just claim to- your conf
! dence and your support. Respect for Its
| authority, compliance with its laws, ac-
! Quiescence in it's measures, are duties en-
| Joined by the fundamental maxims of true
! liberty. The basis Of our political systems
is the right of the people to make. and tc
| alter their constitutions of government
| But the constitution which at any time ex-
| lists till changed by an explicit and authen-
| tic act of the whole people is sacredly OBJ
| ligatory upon all. The very idea of the
| power and the right Of the people to estab
lish government presupposes the duty oi
every individual to obey the established
| government. .'
| All Instructions to the execution Of the
| laws, all combinations and associations
under whatever plausible character. with
| the real design to direct. control. counter.
| act or awe the regular deliberation and &C
l tion Of the constituted authorities, are de-