New Britain herald., 1919-02-22

matter of serious concern that any
 ground should have been furn1shed
 for characterzing parties by geo
 graphical inatiOns-Norlherh
 and Southern, Atlantic and western whence designing men may ehuea\
 or to excite a belief that there Is a
 real difference of local interests ana
 views One of the eXpedlents oi party
 to acquire influence Wlthln paFtlcuidr
 districts is to misrepresent the opll-
 ions and aims of other districts. ou
 cannot shield yourselves 100 lhucl
 against the jealousies and heart
 burnings which spring from these
 misrepresentations they tend to rem
 der alien to each other those who
 ought to be bound together bN fra
 ternal affection. The inhabitants ot
 our Western country have lately had
 a useful lesson on this head. They
 have seen in the negotiation py the
 Executive and in the unanimous raul
 fication by the Senate or the treaty
 with Spain and in the un1FefSal Sat
 isfaction at that event throuShouC
 the United States, decisive prooI
 how unfoundcd were the suSplclon9
 propag gated among them or a pollcy
 in the General Government ana m the
 Atlantic States Unfriendly 10 thelr lh-
 torests in regard to the MlsSlSSlPpl'
 They have been witnesses to the TOT
 nation of two treatles-lhat "lIH
 Great Britain and that with Spain
 which secure to them everything they
 could desire in respect to our foreign
 relations toward confirming thelf
 prosperity. Will it not be their wis
 dom to rely for the preservation Of
 these advantages on the union bE
 which they were procured? Will
 they not hcnceforth be deaf to those
 advisers, if such therc are, who
 would sever them from their breth-
 ren and connect them with aliens?
 To the efficacy and permanency of
 your union a government for the
 whole is indispensable. No alliances
 however strict, between the parts can
 be an adequate substitute. They must
 inevitably experience the infractlons
 and interruptions which all alliances
 in all times have experienced Sensl-
 ble of this momentous truth, you have
 improved upon your first essay by the
 adoption of a Constitution of the Governm ent better calculated than
 your former for an intimate union and for the efffca cious management of your common concerns. This Gov
 ernment, the offspring of our own i
 adopted upon full investigation and
 mature deHberation. completely free
 in it's principles, in the distribution
 of it's powers, uniting security with energy. and containing within itself
 q, provision for it's own amendment
 has a just claim to your confidence
 and your support. Respect for it's authority. compliance with its laws,
 acQuiesce 1Ce in it's measures, are dut-
 ics cnjoined 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 government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and au- thentic act of the whole people is sa- credIy obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government pre- supposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. All Instructions to the execution of the laws. all combinations and asso-
 ciations under whatever plausible
 chara cter, with the real design to di- , rect, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are de- structive of this fundamental princi- pie and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction; to give it an artificial and extra ordinary force; to put in the place of the delegated will Of the nation the will of a party, oft en a small but artful and enterprislng minority of the community and. ac- cording to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public l administra ton the mirror of the ill., oopcortoG and inc0nprDOuS projects 1 of faction rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans, di- gested by common counsels and mod flied by mutual interests.
 However com binations or associa- lions of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things to become potent engines
 by which cunning, ambitious, and un- principled men will be enabled to sl1bvert the power of the people, and to usllrp for themselves the relns of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted i them to unjust dominion.
 Toward the preservation Of your l Government and the permanencY of 1 your present happy state, it is requi- site not only that you steadily dis : countenance irregular opposltlOnS to i it's acknowledged authority, but also l that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon it's principles, how 1 ever spacious the preteXts. One meth ] cd of assault may be to effect in the i forms of the Constitution alterations | which will impair the energy of the ! system. aud thus to undermine what can not be directly OVerthroWn In ! all the changes to which you may be i invited remember that time and
 habit are at least as necessary to fix 1 the true character of governments as
 of other human institutions; that eX-