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boundary threatened a hostile invasion of the State 

 of Maine, at a time when the waves of sectional 

 feeling ran fierce and high, the South was as ready 

 and as ardent in the determination to defend the 

 national honor, and the national domain, as any 

 other portion of the Union. So too, should any 

 attempt be made upon the integrity of the territory 

 of the South, or of the Pacific States, through our 

 defenceless condition in the mid- American waters, 

 and the Pacific Ocean, no one doubts that the great 

 heart of the North would respond at once, and 

 with enthusiasm, to the call of our common 

 country. 



The same intimate sympathy between the North 

 and the South exists in their material interests. Do 

 the seasons prove unpropitious, and the crops of the 

 South fail ; the North feels the common loss in every 

 pulsation of her commercial and fabrile industry. 

 Do the grains and meats of the North and West, 

 cease to come forward with their accustomed plenty ; 

 or do the ships of the East lie idly at the wharves ; 

 the South experiences the consequent languor in 

 every nerve. The glorious memories of our land, 

 too, are linked in sympathetic union ; Lexington and 

 Bunker Hill, Saratoga and Monmouth, Yorktown 

 and Fort Moultrie, New Orleans and Plattsburg, are 

 names equally dear to the North and to the South ; 



