New Britain herald., 1919-02-22
HINGTON'S PLEA FOR UNITY

government which
 a%olie people is also now
 1t is justly so, for it is
 lar in the edfice of your
 bendence, the support of
 y at home, your peace
 of your safety, of your pros
 Eli that very liberty which you
 aly prize. But as it is easy to
 aRe that from different causes and
 different quarters much pains
 abe taken, many artificeS em-
 Sed, to weaken in your minds the
 Eviction of this truth, as this is the Int in your political fortress against khich the batteries of internal and externaI enemies will he most con- $Sfantly and actively (thOugh often Nhovertly and insidously) directed, it is 1Nof infinite moment that you should ! properly estimate the immense value 1 of your national union to your collec- l tive and individual happiness; that l you should cherish cordial. habitU- al and immovable attachment to it; accustonas~g yourselves to think and l spsll- as of the palladium of
 Nlcal safety and prosperity;
 Mig for it's preservation with
 .us anxiety: discountenancing
 Gtever may suggest even a suspi- Ion that it can in any event be aban- doned, and indignantly frownng upon l the first dawnir of every attempt to l alienate any portion of our country 1 1 ties which now link together the vari- ous parts.
 For this you have every induce- m ent of sympathy and interest. Citi- | zels by birth or choice of comm on l country, that country has a right to 1 concentrate your affections. The l name Of American, which belongs to l you m your national capacity, must 1 always exaIt the just pride of patriot l ism more than any appelation de- l rived from lCcal discriminatiors With | slight shades of difference, you have l the same religion. manners, habits, and political principles. You have in l a common cause fought and triumph ed together. Ire independence and 1 librty you possess, are the work of l joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings, and sue | cesscs.
 l But these considerations, however l powerfully they address themselves to | your sensibility, are greatly out | weighed by those which apply more imm ediately to your interest. Here l every portion of our country finds 1 the most commanding motives for 1 carefully guarding and preserving l the union of the whole.
 The North. in an unrestrained in tercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common govern ] ment, finds the productions of the l latter great additional resources of maritime and comm ercial enterprise and precious materials of manUfac- turing industry. The South. in the same intercourse. benefiting by the same agency of the North, sees its a agriculture grow and it's commerce l expand. Turning partly into it's own ! channels the Seamen of the North. it ] finds it's particular navigation inVig- 1 orated; and while it contributes in ! different ways to nourish and increase 1 the general mass of the national nav igation, it looks forward to the pro- lection of a maritime strength to which itself is uneQually adapted. The East, in a like intercourse with the West alreadys finds and in the progressive improvement of interior communication by land and water will more and more find, a valuable vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad or manufactures at home The West derives from the East supplies requisite to it's growth and comfort, and what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of l necessity owe the secure cnjOym ent of l indispensable outlets for it's own pro- auctions to the weight, influence, and l the future maritime strength of the l Atlantic side of the Union. directed bv an indissoIuble community of in terest as one nation. Any other tenure by Which the West can hold this es- sential advantage, whether derived 1 from it's own separate strength Of from an apostate and unnatural con- necton with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.
 While, then, every part of our coun- l trv thus feels an immediate and par l ticular interest in union. all the parts combined can not fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from 1 external danger. a less frequent inter- ruption of their peace by foreign na- tions, and what is of inestimable value, they must derive from union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves which so fre- l uuently afflict neighbOring countries not tied together by the same gov 1 ernments, which their own rivalships alone would be sufficient to produce, but which opposite foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues would stimulate and imbitter. Hence, like wise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establish ments which, under any form Of gov