the connection between her fine harbor and water power, resulting from
the fact that the streams make their last leap into the sea, so that
the ship of commerce brought the staple to the manufacturing power.
This made you a commercial and manufacturing people. In the Southern
States great plains interpose between the last leaps of the streams
and the sea. Those plains most proximate to navigation, were the first
cultivated, and the sea bore their products to the most approachable
water power, there to be manufactured. This was the first cause of the
difference. Then your longer and more severe winters--your soil not as
favorable for agriculture, also contributed to make you a
manufacturing and commercial people.

After the controlling cause had passed away--after railroads had been
built--after the steam engine had become a motive power for a large
part of machinery, the characteristics originally stamped by natural
causes continued the diversity of pursuit. Is it fortunate or
otherwise? I say it is fortunate. Your interest is to remain a
manufacturing and ours to remain an agricultural people.

Your prosperity is to receive our staple and to manufacture it, and
ours to sell it to you and buy the manufactured goods. [Applause.]
This is an interweaving of interests, which makes us all the richer
and all the happier.

But this accursed agitation, this offensive, injurious intermeddling
with the affairs of other people, and this alone it is that will
promote a desire in the mind of any one to separate these great and
growing States. [Applause.]

The seeds of dissension may be sown by invidious reflections. Men may