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 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.

11. While, then, every part of our country thus feels an
immediate and particular interest in union, all the parties
combined cannot fail to find, in the united mass of means and
efforts, greater strength, greater resources, 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 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.

12. These considerations speak