STAITE PAPE RS. 
haye lately had an useful lesson on 
this head; they have seen, in the 
negotiation by the executive, and 
in the unanimous ratification by 
the senate of the treaty with Spain, 
and in the universal satisfaction at 
the event throughout the United 
States, a decisive proof how un- 
founded were the suspicions, pro- 
pogated among them of a policy 
in the generai government, and in 
the Atiantic states, unfriendly to 
their interes in in regard to the Mis- 
Sissippi:; they have beer witnesses 
to the peak of two treaties, 
that with-Great Britain, and that 
with Spain, which secure to them 
every thing they could desire, in 
respect to our foreign relations, 
towards confirmirg their prospe~ 
rity. Will ic not be their wisdom 
to rely for the preservation of these 
advantages on the union by which 
they were procured? Will they 
not henceforth be deat to those ad- 
visers, if such there are, who would 
sever them {rom their brethren, and 
conneét with aliens? 
To the efficacy and permanency 
of your union, a government for 
the whole is indispensable. No 
alliances, however strict, between 
the parties, can be an adequate sub. 
stitute; they must inevitably ex. 
perience the infractions and inter- 
ruptions which all alliances in all 
times have experienced, Sensible 
of this momentous truih you have 
improved upon your first essay, by 
the adoption of a constitution of 
government betier calculated than 
your tormer for an intimate union, 
and for the efficacious management 
of your common concerns. This 
government, the offspring of our 
Own choice, uninfluenced and un. 
awed, adopted upon full investiga. 
tion, and mature deliberation, com. 
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pletely free in its principles, in 
the distribution of its powers, 
uniting security with energy, and 
containing within itself a provision 
for its own amendment, has just 
claim cto ycur confidence and your 
Support. Respect for its authority, 
compliance with its laws, acquies~ 
cence in. its measures, are. duties 
enjoined by the tundamental max~ 
ims of true liberty, ‘Ihe basis of 
our political systems is the right of 
the people ro make and to alter thei 
constitutions of government ; but 
the constitution, which at any time 
exists, until changed py an explicig 
and authentic act of the whole 
‘people, is sacrediy oblizatory upon 
Peapiry P 
ail. The very idea of the power 
and the right of the people to esta- 
blish government, presupposes thg 
duty or every individual to obey 
the established government. 
Aii obstructions to che execution 
of the laws, ail combinations and 
associations, under whatever plau- 
sible chara¢ter, with the real de. 
sign to direct, controul, counieraét, 
or awe the regular de! iberation 
and action of the constituted autho. 
ritics, are destruCtive of this funda. 
mental principle, end of fatal ten. 
dency. ‘they serve to organize 
faétion, to give it an artificial and 
excraordinary force—to put in the 
place of the delegated will of the 
nation the will of a purty, often a 
smal] but ariful and enterprising 
minority of the community ; and, 
accord:ng to the alternate triumphs 
of different partics, to make the 
public administration the mirror of 
ihe 1i.cencerted and incongruoug 
proj: éts of faction, rather than the 
organ ot consistcut and wholesome 
plans, digested by common coun. 
cils, and modiiied by mutual in. 
terests, 
Howevee 
