The Penn's Grove record., 1923-09-07

ural 70 that SolicItude, urC me, on an
occasion like the present, to oder to
your solemn contemplation, and to
recommend 70 Your frequent review,
some sentiments. which are the result
Of much reflection. of no inconsider-
able observation, and which appear to
ME all important to the permanency
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 a part
ing friend, which can possibly have no
personal motive to bias his counsel.
Nor al | forget, as an encouragement
to it, your indulgent reception of my
sentiments on q former and not dis
similar occasion.
interviewer as it Is the love of lib
erTy with every ligament of your
hearts, no recommendation of mine is
necessary to fortify or confirm the at
tachment.
The unity Of government, which
constitutes you one people, is also now
dear to you. 1t is justly so; for 1t is
a main pillar in the editice of your real
independence. the support of your
tranquility at home, your peace abroad;
OF Your safety; Of your prosperity; of
that very liberty which you SO highly
prize. But as il is easy to forsee, that
from different causes, and from diff
ferent 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 viii be most constantly and
actively Though often cOvertly and
insidiously) directed, 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 q cordial, habitual. and immov-
able 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;
discountenaneing whatever may sug-
gest even a suspicion that it can in
any event be abandoned; and indig-
nantly froWning upon the first dawn
ing Of every attempt to alien any por-
ton of u country from the rest, or
to enfeeble the sacred ties which now
link together the various parts.
Cor this you have every inducement
of sympathy and interest. Citizens by
birth or choice of a common country,
that country has a right to concen-
trate your affections. The name of
American, which belongs to you in
your national capacity, must always
eXalt the just pride of patriotism,
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 a
common cause, fought and %triumphed
together. The independence and lib
erty you possess are the work of joint
councils, and joint efforts, of common
dangers, sufferings and successes.
But these considerations, however
powerfully they address themselves to
your sensibility, are greatly outweigh
ed by those which apply more imme-
to your interest. Here every
portion of our country finds the most
commanding motives for carefully
guarding and preserving the union of
the whole.
"The North, in an unrestrained in
t~ercourse with the South, protected by
the equal laws of common govern
ment, finds in the production of the
latter, great additional resources of
maritime and commercial enterprise,
and precious materials of manufacture
industry. The South, in the same
intercourse benefting by the agency
Of the North, sees its agriculture grow,
and its commerce expand. Turning
into its own channels the sea
men of the North, it finds its particu-
ar navigation in%vigorated; and while
it contributes, in different ways to
nourish and increase the general mass
If the national navigation, it looks
forward to the protection of the mari
Tine strength, to which itself is un-
adapted.-The East, in a like
Intercourse with the West, already
inds, and in the progressive improve
nent of interior communications, by
and and water, will more and more
ind a valuable vent for the commodi-
les which it brings from abroad, or
manufactures at home.-The West de-
ives from the East supplies requisite
o its growth and comfort, and what
perhaps, of still greater onse
Iuence, it must Of necessity W the
;ecure enjoyment of indispensable out
cts of its own productions, to the
influence. and the future mari
ime strength of the Atlantic side of
he union, directed by an indissoluble
ommunity of interest, as One Nation.
Any other tenure by which the West
AN hold this essential ADVANTAGE,
yhether derived from its own separate
-trength, or from an apostate, and m
latural connection with any foreign
1ower, must be intrinsically pre-
arious.
"While then every part of the coun-
~ thus feels an immediate and par
interest in union, all the par
les combined cannot fail to find. in
he united mass of means and efforts,
-reater strength, greater resource,
,roportionahly greater security from
eternal danger, a less FREQUENT inter
upton Of their peace by foreign "a
ions; and, what is of inestimable
alue they must derive from union an
xemption from those hroils and wars
,etwean themselves. which 50 fre-