ty; 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 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 together; 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
themselves 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, 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 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