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and, what is perhaps of still greater 
consequence, it must of necessity 
owe the secure enjoyment of indis- 
pensable outlets for its own pro- 
dnétions: to the weight, influence, 
and the future maritime strength 
of the Atlantic side of the union, 
dire&ted by an indissoluble commu- 
nity of interest as one nation. Any 
other tenure by which the west 
cam hold this essential advantage, 
whether derived from its own sepa- 
rate strength, or from an apostate 
and‘ unnaturai connexion with any 
foreign power, must be intrinsical- 
ly precar ‘ous. 
While every part of our country 
feels an immediate and particular 
jaterest in union, all the parts cgin- 
bined cannot fail to find, in the 
united mass of means and efforts, 
greater strength, greaier resource, 
proportionab'y greater segurity from 
external danger, a less frequent in- 
terruption of the:r peace by foreign 
nations, and what 1g of ines!imable 
value! they must derive from union 
ao exemption from those broils and 
wars between themselves, which 
so frequently affict neighbouring 
eountries, not tied together by the 
same government ; “which their 
own rivalghips alone would be suf- 
ficient to produce, but which op- 
posite foreign a }iunces, attach. © 
fnents and intrigues, would stimu- 
Jate and embitter. Hence, like- 
twise, they will avaid the necessity 
of those overgrown estabvishments, 
which, under any form of govern- 
Ment, are inauspicious to liberry, 
and which are to be regarded as 
pa cticularly hostile ‘to republican 
liberty 5 in this sense it js that your 
union ought to be considered as a 
main prop of your liberty, and that 
the love of the one onght to endear 
to you the preservation of the other. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
These considerations speak a per= 
guasive language to every reflect. 
ing and virtuous mind, and exhibits 
the coutinuance of the union as a 
primary object of patriotic desire, 
Is there a doubt whether a common 
government can embrace so large 
a sphere? Let experence solve it. 
To listen to mere spe ylations in 
such a case were criminal. We are 
authorized to hope that a proper 
organ'zation of the whole, with 
the auxiliary agency of govern. 
ments for the respective subdivi- 
sions, will afford a happy issue to 
the experiment. 
a fair and fuil experiment. With 
such powertal and obvious motives 
to union, affecting all parts of our 
country, while experience shall not: 
have demonstrated its impra‘ticabi- 
lity, there will always be reason to 
dstrust the patriotism of those, 
who in any quarter may endeavour 
to weaken its bands. 
In contemp'iting the causes 
which may disturb our union, it 
occurs as a matter of serious con- 
cern, that any 2 »round should have 
been furnished ioe characterising 
purties by geographical discrimina~ 
tions, northern and sou hern, At. 
lantic and western; whence design- 
ing men may eddeavibur to excite a 
bellef that there is a rea! difference 
of local interests and views. One 
of the expedients of party to acs 
quire influence, within particular 
distri€ts, 18 to misrepresent the 
opnions and aims of other districts. 
You cannot shield yourselves too 
much against the j alousies and 
heari-' vuraings which spring from 
the © misrepresentations ; they tend 
to render alien to cach other 
“those who ought to be bound to. 
gether by fraternal affetion. The 
inhabitants of our. western country 
have 
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