yed, 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 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
enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various
parts.

9. 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 America,
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.

10. 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