tS THA Te P A.B EURASE f [295: 
your peace abroad; of ycursafety; common cause fought and triumph- 
ef your presperity; of that very: ed together; the independence and 
liberty which you so-highly prize. liberty you possess are the work of 
Bout as il is easy to fo.esee, that joint councils and joint efforts, of 
from different causes, and from common dangers, sufferings, arl 
different quarters, much pains wiil successes. 
be taken, many artifices employed, Eut these considerations, how. 
to weaken in your miid, ‘tie con- ever powerfully they address them. 
vition of this truth; as this is the selves to your sensibility ,,are great- 
point in your political fortress ly outweighed by those which ape 
against which the batteries of in- ply. more immediately to your inte- 
ternal and external enemies will be rest, Here every portion of our 
most constantly and actively (though country finds the most.commanding 
covertly and insidious\y) directed, motives for carefully guarding 
it % of infinite moment that you and preserving the union of the 
should properly estimate the im- whoie. 
mense value of your national union Vhe north, in an unrestrained 
to your collective and individual intetcourse with, the south, pro- 
happiness ; that you'should cherish tected by the equal laws of a com- 
a cordial, habitual, and immove-. mon government, finds in the prce 
able attachment to it, accustom- duttions of the latter, great addi- 
ing yoursclves to think and speak tional resources of maritime ard 
of it as of the palladium of.your commercial enterprise, and pr 
political safety and prosperity ; cious materials of manufacturing 
watching for its preservation with industry, The south, in the same 
jealous anxiety ; discountenancing intercourse,» benefiting * by the. 
whatever may sugg’St even asus- agency of the north, sees its agri-+ 
picion that it can in any event be cuiture grow and its commerce ex« 
abandoned: andind gnantly frown- pand; tyrning partly into its own 
ing upon;the first dawning of any channels the seamen of the north, 
attempt to alienate any portion of ‘it fiuds its particular navigation 
our country. from the rest, or to invigorated; and while it contri- 
enfeeble the sacred ties which now butes in different ways, to nourish 
link together its various parts. 
For this you have every induce. 
ment of sympathy and interest. Ci- 
tizens by birth or choice, of a com- 
mon country, that country has-a 
and increase ‘the general mass of 
the national navigation, it looks 
{crward to the protection of a 
maritime strength, to which 
itself is unequally. adapted. The 
right to concentrate your affeGtions, east, ina like intercourse- with the 
The name of American, which west, already, finds, and in the 
belongs to you, in your national progressive improvement of inte. 
Capacity, must always exalt the rior communication by land and 
just pride of patriotism more than water, will more and more find.a 
any appellation derived from local yaluable vent for. the commodities 
discriminations. With slight shades which it brings from abroad, or 
of difference, you have the yame manufaétures at home, The west 
religion, manners, habits, and po- derives,from the east supplies re. 
litical {principles. ; You have ina quisite to its growth and comfort ; 
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