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in the productions of the latter great ad- 
ditional refources*of maritime and com- 
mercial enterprifes, and precious materials 
of manufacturing induftry. The Soztd, 
= the fame imtercourfe, benefiting by the 
agency of the North, fees its agriculture 
grow, and.its commerce expand. Turn- 
ing partly into its ewa channels the fea- 
men of the Nortd, it finds its particular 
navigation invig igcrated ; and while it con= 
tributes in different ways toneurifh and in- 
creafe the general mafs of ¢he national na- 
vigation, it looks forward to the protec= 
tion of a maritime ftreeerh, te whieh itfelf 
is unequally adaptec-—The Eaft, i in a like 
intercourfe with the Weft, already finds, 
and in the progrellive improvement of in- 
terior communication by land and water, 
will more and more find, a valuable vent 
for the commodities which it brings from 
abroad, or manufactures at hone THe 
Weft derives from the Eaff fupplies reqzi- 
ce ro its growth and comfort—and what- 
is perhaps of fill greater confequence, It 
muft of neceflity owe Hie fre we enjoyment 
of indifpenfible outlets fo r its-own produc. 
tiens to the WEEN influence, and the fu- 
ture maritime frength of the Atlantic fide 
of the Uni an: dirc&ted by an indiffoluble 
community of intereft as-oxe nation.—Any 
ether tenure by which the We can hold 
chef effentia! advantages, w emer lait 
from its own feparate ftrength, or from a 
apoitate and unnatural conneétion with i 
foreign power, me be intrinfically pre- 
carious. 
While then every part of our country 
thus feels an immediate and particular in- 
treyeft in Union, all the parts combined 
cannot faii to find in the united mafs of 
means and efforts greater firength, greater 
refource, proportionably ‘greater fecurity 
from external danger, .a lefs frequent -in- 
terruption of their peace by foreign na- 
tions, and, what is of ineftimable value, 
they muft derive. from Union an exemp- 
tion from thefe broils and wars among 
themfelves, which fo frequently affiét 
peighboune, countries, not tied together 
by the fame governments which their own 
rivalthips alone would be fufficient to pro- 
duce, but which oppofite foreign alliaiices, 
attachments, and intrigues would ftimulate 
and embi Ser. elenee: likewife they avoid 
the necefliry of thofe overgrown Ds silitary 
Gablifaments, which ancer any form of 
government are inaufpicious to liberty, and 
which are to be regarded as particularly 
hoftile to Republican liberty ; in this fenfe 
itis that your union ought to be confidered 
ss a main prop of your liberty, and that 
the love of ric one ought to.endear to you ~ 
the prefervation of the ethers 
Thefe confiderations fpeak a perfuafive. 
language to every refecting and virtuous 
mind, ‘and exbihit the continuance of the . 
Union asa primary objeét of Patriotic de- 
fire.—Is there a doubt whether a common | 
government can embrace fo large a fyf= 
_tem ?—Let experience folve it: “To lifter 
to mere fpeculations in fuch a cafe were 
criminal. We are authorifed to hopé that © 
a proper Organization of the whole, with 
the auxiliary agéenév of governments for the 
refpeciive é fubdivifions, will afford a hap 
Hive to the Sei Tis well worth 
a fair and full experiment. With fuch 
powerful and obvious motives to Union, 
affecting all parts of our country, while 
experienté fhall not have dermonitratéd its 
pt eae oe theré will always be reafon 
o diftruft the patriotifm of thofe who in 
any quarter may endeaveur to weaken its 
bands. 
In contemplating the caufes which may_ 
difturb our Union, it occurs as matter of 
very ferious. concern, that any cround 
fhould have been furnithed. for charafter- 
ifing parties by Geographical diferimina- 
tions—WNorthern and Soutscrn— Atlante and 
Wefern; whence defigning men may en- 
deavour to excite a belief that there isa 
real difference of local imterefts and views. 
One of the expedients of party fo acquire 
influence within parti cular difiriéts, is to 
mifreprefent the opinions and aims of other 
difricts. You cannet thield vourfelves tes 
much ee the jea Spates and heart-burn- 
ings which {pri ing from thefe mifreprefen- - 
tations ; they tend to render alien to each 
other thofe who ought to be bound toge- 
ther by fra ternal affeétion. ‘The inhabi- 
tants of our weflern country have lately” 
had a ufeful leffon on this head ; they have 
feen, in the negociation by the Executive, ; 
andin: the unanimous ratification “by tHe 
Senate, of the treaty with Spain, and 
the univerfal fatikfa€tion at the event 
Pen the United Srates, a decifive 
proof how unfounded were the fufpicions 
propagated among them, of a policy in the 
Genera t-Governiment ana in the Atlantic 
States unfriendly to their interefts In re= 
‘gard to the Mifiititppis they have been 
witnefies to the formation of two treaties, 
that with Great Britain and. that with 
Spain, which fecure to them every thing 
they could defire, in refpeét to our forcign 
relations, towatds confirming their profpe- 
rity. Will iv not be their wifgom to rely 
for the prefervatien of thefe advantages on’ 
the Union by which they were procured | : 
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