from [different]* causes, and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth:

as this is the point in your [political] fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness ;-that you should cherish [t] a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment [to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to * various † towards it

enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.]*

For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens [by birth or choice of a common country],† that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation [+] derived from local discriminations.— With slight shades of difference, you have the same Religion, Manners, Habits, and political Principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed to

* that you should accustom yourselves to reverence it as the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity, adapting constantly your words and actions to that momentous idea; that you should watch for its preservation with jealous anxiety, discountenance whatever may suggest a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and frown upon the first dawning of any attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the several parts. of a common country by birth or choice

+ to be

gether. The Independence and Liberty. you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts-of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.

But these considerations, however powerfully they address themseves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your Interest. Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the Union of the whole.

The North in an [unrestrained]* intercourse with the South, protected by the equal Laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter [t] great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise-and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The South, in the same intercourse benefiting by the agency of the North, sees its agriculture grow and its commerce expand. Turning partly into its own channels the seamen of the North, it finds its particular * unfettered † many of the peculiar

navigation invigorated; - and while it contributes, in different ways, to nourish and increase the general mass of the national navigation, it looks forward to the protection of a maritime strength to which itself is unequally adapted. The East, in a like intercourse with the West, already finds, and in the progressive improvement of interior communications, by land and water, will more and more find, a valuable vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad, or manufactures at home. The West derives from the East supplies requisite to its growth and comfort, and what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions to the weight, influence, and the future maritime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest, as one Nation. [Any other]* tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, [whether derived]† † either

* The

from its own separate strength or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign Power, must be intrinsically precarious. [*]

[+]While [then] every part of our country thus [feels] ‡ an immediate and particular interest in Union, all the parts || [combined cannot fail to find] in the united mass of means and efforts [§] greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign Nations; and, [what is] ¶ of inestimable value! they must derive from Union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves, which [so frequently] ** afflict neighboring countries, not tied together by the same government; which their own rivalships alone would be sufficient to produce; but which oppo

* liable every moment to be disturbed by the fluctuating combinations of the primary interests of Europe, which must be expected to regulate the conduct of the Nations of which it is composed. † And † finds || of it

2 cannot fail to find which is an advantage

** inevitably