The Saint Paul globe., 1898-03-06
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which appear to me all important to the
permaneRcy of your felicity as a people.
| These will be offered to you with the more
| freedom as you can only see In them the
disinterested warnings Of parting friend,
who can possibly have no personal motive
| to bias his counsel Nor can l forget as an
encouragement to 1t your indulgent recep--
| tion of my sentiments on a former and not
| dissimilar occasion.
interviewer as is the love of liberty with
every ligament of your hearts, no recon-
mendation of mine Is necessary to fortify
or confirm the attachment.
The unity of government which consti-
tutes you one people is also now dear to
| you. 1t is justly SO, far 1t is main pillar
! in the edifice Of your real Independence, the
! support of your tranquility at home, your
| peace abroad of your safety, of your pros
perity, Of that very liberty which you SO
| highly prize. But it is easy to foresee
that from different causes and from different
| quarters much pains will be taken, many
articles employed, to weaken in your
minds the conviction of this truth, as this
is the point in your political fortress against
which the batteries of internal and external
enemies will be most constantly and actively
Though often covertly and insidiously) df-
rected, it is of infinite moment that you
should properly estimate the immense value
OF your national union to your collective
and individual happiness; that you should
cherish cordial, habitual, and immovable
attachment to it; accustoming yourselves
to think and speak of it as of the palladium
of your political safety and prosperity;
! watching for its preservation with jealous
anxiety; discountenancing whatever may
suggest even suspicion that it can in
any event be abandoned, and Indignantly
frowning upon the first dawning of every at
tempt to ALLEVIATE any portion of our coun-
try from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred
ties which now link together the various
parts.
For this you have every inducement Of
sympathy and interest Citizens by birth
or choice of a common country, that coun-
try has right to concentrate your affec-
tions. The name of American which
belongs to you In your national capacity,
must always exalt the just pride of patriot
ism more than any appellation derived from
local determinations. With slight shades
of difference you have the same religion,
manners, habits, and political principles
You have in common cause fought and
triumphed together. The independence and
liberty you possess are the work of joint
councils and joint efforts, of common dan
gers. sufferings, and successes.
But these considerations. however power
fully they address themselves to your sensi-
bility, are greatly outweighed by those
which apply more Immediately to your in
terest. Here every portion Of your country
finds the most commanding motives for
carefully guarding and preserving the un-
ion Of the whole.
The North, in an unrestrained intercourse
with the South. protected by the equal laws
of common government, finds In the pro-
ductions CT the latter great additional re-
sources OF maritime and commercial enter
prise and precious materials of manufacture
ing industry. The South, In the same inter-
course. benefiting by the same agency of
the North, sees its agriculture grow and
its commerce expand. Turning partly into
its own channels the seamen of the North,
1t finds it's particular navigation invigor-
ated; and while it contributes in different
ways to nourish and increase the general
mass of the national navigation, it looks
forward to the protection of maritime
strength to which itself is unequally
adapted. The East, in Ike intercourse
with the West, already finds. and in the
progressive Improvement of interior COM
municatfons by land and water will more
and more find. valuable vent for the COM
modities which 1t brings from abroad or
manufactures at home The West derives
from the East supplies requisite to its
growth and comfort, and what is perhaps
of still greater consequence, 1t must of
necessity owe the secure enjoyment of in
dispensable outlets for its own productions
to the weight, influence, and the future
maritime strength of the Atlantic side of
the Union, directed by an indssoluble COM
munity of interest as one nation. Any other
tenure by which the West can hold this
essential advantage, whether derived from
its own separate strength or from an apos
tate and unnatural connection with any for
eign power, must be intrinsically precari-
Gus.
While, then every part of our country
thus feels an immediate and particular in
terest in union. all the parts combined cam
not fail to find in the united mass of means
and efforts greater strength greater
source, proportionably greater security from
external danger, a less frequent Interrupt
tion of their peace by foreign nations. and
what is of inestimable value, they must de-
rive from union an exemption from those
broils and wars between themselves which
so frequently affict neighboring countries
not tied together by the same governments
which their own rivalships alone would be
sufficient to produce, but which opposite
foreign alliances. attachments. and in
trigues would stimulate and imbitter.
Hence likewise, they will avoid the neces-
sity of those overgrown military establish
ments which, under any form of govern