pump, is daily raising the water which the currents of cold air from
the mountains, or from the sea, precipitate in the form of genial
showers during the period of your growing crops; and the granite of
the mountains slowly, but steadily disintegrating, gives up its
fertilizing property to be scattered by unseen hands over plain and
over valley. With care and with skill in its use I can see no end to
the productiveness of that portion of your land which is fit for
cultivation.

Your crops, and your mode of tillage are different from that to which
I am accustomed, and the result is that each supplies a different
segment in the circle of man's wants. I am glad that it is so, that it
must necessarily be so. Glad, because it is an everlasting bond
between us; one which, whilst it binds, renders both doubly
prosperous. Blessed is our lot in this, that our fathers linked us
together, and established free trade between us. In the diversity of
climate, and of crops, there is an assurance that entire failure
cannot occur. If disaster and blight should fall upon one section, it
need not go to a foreign land in search of bread. Famine, gaunt
famine, with its skeleton step, can never pass our borders whilst the
free trade of the Union continues.

But difference in pursuits, in population, and domestic institutions,
have been made the basis of hostile agitation, and urged as a cause of
separation. To my mind the reverse would be the rational conclusion.
Each exchanging, the surplus of that which it can best produce for the
surplus of another which it most requires, the benefit must be mutual,
and the advantage common. Here is a commercial, a selfish bond to hold
us together. But I will stop here, because the current of my thought
is carrying me beyond the limit of topics proper to the occasion, and