Year: 1862

As long ago as 1887, the warrior statesman,
Andrew jackson, in his Farewell Address,
warned US against It, He quoted the warn
ings of Washington, and said:


The lessons contained in this invaluable
legacy of Washington to his countrymen,
should be cherished in the heart of every cit
izen to the latest generation, and perhaps at
no period of time could they be more usefully
remembered than at the present moment.
For when we look upon the scenes which are
passing around US, and dwell upon the pages
of his parting address, his paternal counsels
would seem to be not merely the offspring OF
wisdom and foresight, but the voice of proph
ecy, foretelling events, and warning us OF the
evil to come. The Federal
Constitution was then regarded by him as an
experiment. The trial has
been made. 1t succeeded beyond the proud
est hopes of those who framed it. Every
quarter of this widely extended nation has
felt its blessings, and shared in the general
amid this general prosperity and splendid sue
cess, the dangers of which he warned us, are
becoming every day more evident, and the
signs of evil are sufficiently apparent to AVA
ken the deepest anxiety in the bosom of the
patriot. We now behold systematic efforts
publicly made to sow the seeds of discord be-
tween different parts of the United States,
and TO place party divisions directly upon
geographical distinctions; TO excite the South
against the North, and the North against the
South, and to force into the controversy the
most delicate and excited topics, upon which
it is impossible that large portion of the
Union can ever speak without strong emo
tons. Appeals, too, are constantly made to
sectional interests, and the
possible dissolution of the Union has at length
become an ordinary and familiar subject of
discussion.


Has the warning voice of Washington
been forgotten. or have designs already been
formed to sever the nation!
Mutual suspicious and reproaches NAV in time
create mutual hostility; and artful and design
inc men will always be found. who are ready
TO foment these fatal divisions, and to infame
the natural iealousies of different sections of
the country Delude not YOUR
selves into the belief that breach once made
NAV be afterwards repaired. If the Union
is once severed. the line of separation will
grow wider and wider. and the controversies
which are now debated and settled in the
halls of legislation, viii be tried in the fields
of battle. and determined by the sword. .
. The Constitution cannot be main-
tanned, nor the Union preserved. In opposition
to public feeling. by the mere exertion of the
coercive powers confded to the General Gov
ernment. The foundations must be laid in
the affections of the people; in the security it
gives 10 life. liberty, character and property
in every quarter of the country; and in the
fraternal attachment which the citizens of the
several States bear to one another. as men,
bers of one political family mutually contrib
uting to promote the happiness OF each other.
Hence the citizens OF every State should
studiously avoid everything calculated to
wound the sensibility or offend the just pride
of the people of other States; and they should
frown upon any proceedings within their own
borders likely TO disturb the tranquility of
their political brethren in other portions OF
the Union. Each State has the
unquestionable right to regulate Its own IN
ternal concerns, according to its own pleasure.
And all efforts on the part of
the people OF other States 10 east odium on
their institutions, and all measures calculated
to disturb their rights of property, or to put
in jeopardy their peace and internal tranquil
ity. are in direct opposition 10 the spirit in
which the Union was founded. and must en-
danger It's safety. Motives of philanthropy
may be assigned for this unwarrantable inter
ference, and weak men may persuade them
selves for moment that they are laboring In
the cause Of humanity, and asserting the