The name of American, 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 counsels, 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.
"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 same agency of the _north_, sees its agriculture grow, and its commerce expand.

Turning partly into its own channels 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_.