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Show 440 INAUGURAL AND FARl£WELL ADDUESSES. be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in yonr mi11ds the conviction of this -truth ; as this is tl1c point in your political fortress against which the batteries of inicmal and external enemies will be most confidently and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed-it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the intmcnse value of your national union io your coJJcciive nnd individual happin ess; that you shonlcl cheri h a cordiul habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accnstomind yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jcalons anxiety; discountenancing \-rhaLevcr may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in auy event, bo 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 tics 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 bas a right to concentrate your affections. Tho name of Anw'rican, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patrioti. m, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, yon 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 arc the work of joint counsels and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings, and successes. nut these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest; hero every portion of our country finds the most commandino- mo- . b t1ves for carefully guarding and preserving the union of tho whole. INAUGURAL A:\'D .l!'AHKWELL Al>DTU~SSES . 44:1 Tho North, in an unrestr.:dn cd intercourse w: tlt the Suuth, protect ·d L>y the cqunl laws of n. cornmun g-?~<'rnn1ent, finuf\, in tho productions of the latter, great adclJtwnal resources of maritime and commercial enterprise, and prccions maLerials of mn.nufactnring industry. The 'oulh, in the same intercourse, l>onefitino- by the agency of the North, sees its ag·riculturo grow, a.nd iLs commerce xpand. 'Pun~ i n ~· pn.r~ly into iLs owu channels the seamen of tho North, 1t finds 1 tH pnrtienlar navigation iuvi~orato<l ;. and while it contributes, in different ways, to nonnsh and mcrc:-tsc the general mass of national navigation, it looks forwar<l lo tho protection of o. maritime strength to which it~cH' is un equally adapted. 'rhc Bnst, in Jike intcreonrsc with the 'Vest, alreaL1y finds, and in the progrc~s ivc improvement of in terior commuuication, uy ln,nd and water, will more and more find , a valuable vent for tho commodities which it brings from abroad, or mnnufactures at home. 'l'hc West derives from the ]Dust supplies requisite to its growth and c~mfort; and wha~ is perhaps of still greater eonscqnence, 1t must, of nc?csHlty, owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets fu r Its own productions, to the weight, inOucnce, and t~10 fut~1rc maxitime str no- th of the Atlantic side of the Un1on, un·cctod by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation. Any other ten nrc by which the West can hold this csccntial advantage, whether derived from its own scpm~ate s~rcngth, or from an apostate and unnatural connectiOn w1lh any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious. . While, then, every part of onr country thus feels an ~~~mediate and particular interest in union, all the parts comumcd cannot fail to find, in the unitetl mass of means and efforts, greater strength, gr nler re OUl'Ce, proportion:uly gre~tcr security from external danger, o. less frcqu~nt 11~tc rr~pt10 n of their peace by f'orci gn nations ; and what1s. of mcst1mablo value, they mnst derive fro111 union an exemptiOn from those broil~ aud wan; Letwccn themselves, which so frequcutly |