8686. UNION (The Federal), Western interests and.—
Our true interest will be best
promoted by making all the just claims of our
fellow citizens, wherever situated, our own;
by urging and enforcing them with the
weight of our whole influence; and by exercising
in * * *, every * * * instance,
a just government in their concerns, and
making common cause even where our separate
interest would seem opposed to theirs.
No other conduct can attach us together;
and on this attachment depends our happiness.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. i, 605.
Ford ed., iv, 263.
(P.
1786)
