Many other considerations might here be adduced to prove, that without an entire conformity to the spirit of the union, we can not exist as an independent power.

It will be sufficient for my purpose to mention one or two, which seem to me of the greatest importance.

It is only in our united character that we are known as an empire, that our independence is acknowledged, that our power can be regarded, or our credit supported among foreign nations.

The treaties of the European powers with the United States of America, will have no validity on a dissolution of the union.

We shall be left nearly in a state of nature, or we may find, by our own unhappy experience, that there is a natural and necessary progression from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny; and that arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
"As to the second article, which respects the performance of public justice, congress have in their late address to the United States, almost exhausted the subject.