Year: 1860

President JackSOn,s Farewell Address.


General Jackson, following the example
Of Washington, at his retiring from the
Presidency, issued farewell address, which
was principally devoted to the danger of
disunion, and the presel walton of harmony
and good feeling between the different Sec
tiofs Of the country. His exclamation was:


Has the warning voice of Washington
been forgotten? or have designs already
been formed to sever the Union? Let it
not be supposed that I impute to all of
those who have taken an active part in these
unwise and improbable discussions, want
of patriotism or of public virtue. The hon
orable feelings of state pride and local at
tachments find place in the bosoms Of The
most enlightened and pure. But while
such men are conscious Of their own integ
rity and honesty of purpose, they ought
never to forget that the citizens of other
however mistaken they may be in their
views, the great body Of them are equally
honest and upright with themselves.


Mutual suspicious and reproaches may in
time create mutual hostility, and artful and
designing men will be always found who are
ready to foment these fatal divisions, and to
infame the natural jealousies of different
sections of the country! The history Of
the worlds full of such examples, and es-
pecially the history of republics.


What have you to gain by division and
disscnsion? Delude not yourselves with
the belief that breach, once made, may 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 oflegislation, will then be tried in fields
of battle, and determined by the sword
Neither should you deceive yourselves with
the hope that the first line of separation
would be the permanent one, and that moth
ing but harmony and concord would be
found in the new associations formed upon
the dissolution Of this Union. Local inter-
ests would still be found there, and unchas-
tened ambition. And if the recollection of
common dangers in which the people of
these United States stood side by side
against the common foe; the memory of
victories won by their united valor; the
prosperity and happiness they have enjoy
ed under the present Constitution; the
proud name they bear as citizens of this
great republic-if all these recollections and
proofs of common interest are not strong
enough to bind US together as one people,
what tie will hold united the new division
Of empire, when these bonds have been
broken and the Union discovered?


The first lines of operation would not last
for single generation; new fragments wo'd
be torn off, new leaders would spring up.
and this great and glorious republic would
soon be broken into multitude of petty
states, without commerce, without credit,
jealous to one another, armed for mutual
aggressions, loaded with taxes to pay ar
mics and leaders, seeking aid against each
other from foreign powers, insulted and
trampled upon by the nations of Europe,
until harrassed by conflicts, and humbled
and debased in spirit, they would be ready
to submit to the absolute dominion of any
military adventurer and surrender their lib
erty for the sake of repose"


"It is impossible to look on the conse-
quences that would inevitably follow the
destruction of this government, and not
feel indignant when we hear cold calcula-
tons about the value of the Unione and
have so constantly before us line ofscon-
duct so we'll calculated to weaken itS tieS r.;