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herself. For myself, I should feel as if either the days of the 

 American Union were numbered, or certainly as if her own 

 house were about to be left unto her desolate, if the time 

 should ever come when the wheat of Pennsylvania and 

 Maryland, and the pork of Ohio, and the beef and mutton 

 of New York and Vermont, and the yellow corn of Vir- 

 ginia, and the rice of the Carolinas, could find no ready 

 market for their sale, and no willing and watering mouths 

 for their consumption, in the old Bay State. I delight to 

 contemplate the various members of this vast republic, 

 like members of a common family, not all alike, but with 

 only such distinctions as become sisters ; not selfishly and 

 churlishly attempting to do every thing for themselves, or 

 to interfere with each other's vocation, but pursuing their 

 different destinies in a spirit of mutual kindness and mu- 

 tual reliance ; freely interchanging the products of their soil 

 and of their skill in time of peace, and firmly interposing 

 their united power for the common protection in time of 

 war ; bearing each other's burdens ; supplying each other's 

 wants ; remembering each other's weaknesses ; rejoicing in 

 each other's prosperity ; and all clustering with eager affec- 

 tion around the car of a common Liberty, — like the Hours 

 in the exquisite fresco of Guido around the chariot of the 

 Sun, — as it advances to scatter the shades of ignorance 

 and oppression, and to spread light and freedom and hap- 

 piness over the world I 



Gentlemen, I can offer no better prayer to Heaven, either 

 for human liberty or for human labor in all its branches, 

 than that this spectacle of concord and harmony among 

 the American States may be witnessed in still increasing 

 beauty and perfection, as long as the Sun or the Hours 

 shall roll on ! 



