8653. UNION (The Federal), Attempts to disrupt.—[further continued].
The times do certainly
render it incumbent on all good citizens, attached
to the rights and honor of their country,
to bury in oblivion all internal differences,
and rally around the standard of their country
in opposition to the outrages of foreign
nations. All attempts to enfeeble and destroy
the exertions of the General Government, in
vindication of our national rights, or to
loosen the bands of union by alienating the
affections of the people, or opposing the authority
of the laws at so eventful a period,
merit the discountenance of all.—
To Governor Tompkins. Washington ed. viii, 153.
(1809)
