The Saint Paul globe., 1898-03-06

ment, are inauspicious to liberty and which
are to be regarded as particularly hostile to
republican liberty. In this sense 1t is that
your union ought to be considered as main
prop OF your liberty, and that the love Of
the one ought to endear to you the preser-
vation OF the other.
These considerations speak persuasive
language to every rejecting and virtuous
mind, and exhibit the continuance of the
union as primary object of patriotic de-
sire. is there doubt whether a common
government can embrace so large a sphere
Let experience solve 1t. To listen to mere
speculation in such case were criminal.
we are authorized to hope that proper
organization of the whole, with the auxil-
iary agency of governments for the respect
i've subdivisions will afford a happy issue
to the experiment. 1t is well worth a fair
and full experiment. With such powerful
and obvious motives to union affecting all
parts of our country, while experience shall
not nave demonstrated its impracticability,
there will always be reason 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 matter Of
serious concern that any ground should have
been furnished for characteriZing parties by
geographical Observation-Disclosures and
southern, Atlantic and Western-whence
designing men may endeavor to excite a
Dellef that there is real difference of local
interests and views. One of the expedients
of party to acquire influence within partcu-
lar districts Is to misrepresent the opinions
and aims of other districts. You cannot
shield yourselves too much against the
JealouSieS and heartburnings which spring
from these Misrepresentation; they tend
to render alien to each other those who
ought to be bound together by fraternal
a1ection. The inhabitants of our Western
country have lately had a useful lesson on
this head. They have seen in the negotia-
tion 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 a
decisive proof how unfounded were the
suspicious propagated among them of a
policy In the general government and in
the Atlantic states unfriendly to their in
terests In regard 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 ev
erything they could desire in respect to our
foreign relations toward confirming their
prosperity. Will 1t 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
advisers, If such there are who would sever
them from their brethren and connect them
with aliens?
To the efficacy and permanency of your
union a government for the whole is indis-
pensable No alliances, however strict, be-
tween the parts can be an adequate SUBJ
stitute They must inevitably experience
the infractions and Interruptions which all
alliances In all times have experienced.
Sensible of this momentous truth, you have
improved upon your first essay by the adop
ton of constitution of government better
calculated than your former for an intimate
union and for the effcacious management
of your common concerns. This government,
the offspring Of our own choice, uninflu-
enced and unawed adopted upon full in
vestgation and mature deliberation, COM
pletely free in it's principles in the distri-
button OF its powers, uniting security with
md Tot, ,,trrx rry;tI u, olf
vision for it's own amendment, has a just
claim to your confidence and your support.
Respect for its authority, compliance with
its laws acquiescence in Its measures are
duties enJoined by the fundamental maXims
of true liberty. The basis of our political
systems is the right of the people to make
and to alter their constitutions of govern
ment. But the constitution which at any
time exists till changed by an explicit and
authentic act of the whole people is sa-
credly obligatory upon all. The very idea
Of the power and the right of the people to
establish government presupposes the duty
of every individual to obey the established
government. 's
All Instructions to the execution of the
laws, all combinations and associations, un-
der whatever plausible character, with the
real design to direct, control, counteract,
or awe the regular deliberat.on and action
of the constituted authorities, are destruct-
i've of this fundamental principle and of
fatal tendency. They serve to organize fac
ton; to give it an artificial and eXtraordi-
nary force;. to put in the place of the
delegated will of the nation the will of
party, often a small but artful and enter
prising minority of the community, and,
according to the alternate triumphs OF
different parties, to make the public admin
istration the mirror of the ill-concerted and
incongrucus projects Of faction rather than
the organ Of consistent and wholesome
plans. digested by common counsels and
modified by mutual interests
However combinations or associations of
the above description may now and then
answer popular ends. they are likely in
the course of time and things 20 become
potent engines by which cunning ambi-
tious, and unprincipled men will be enabled