_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 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 parties combined can not 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 governments; which their own rivalships alone would be
sufficient to produce, but which, opposite foreign alliances,
attachments, and intrigues would stimulate and embitter. Hence,
likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military
establishments which, under any form of government, are
inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as
particularly hostile to Republican Liberty. In this sense it is,
that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your
liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the
preservation of the other.

"These considerations speak a persuasive language to every
reflecting and virtuous mind, and exhibit the continuance of the
UNION as a primary object of patriotic desire. Is there a doubt
whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let
experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case
were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization
of the whole, with the auxiliary agency of governments for the
respective subdivisions, will afford a happy issue of the
experiment. It is well worth a fair and fu