American Principles. a Review of Works of Fisher Ames
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When Burr and Blanncrhaffet were attempting a projeft of difunion, to be effefted by a divifion of the Weftern States, they circulated, in converfations and newf- papers, the fame excitements among them to jealoufy and envy againfl: their Atlantic fillers, as we find in thefe ex- tracts againft the Ilragglers of the forefts. They urged that the weftern people were opprefTed by the commercial ftates ; that we had made them our tributaries ; that they had paid a heavy load of taxes for our benefi...t ; that the produce oi their lands was applied to pay our debts ; that the national government was without energy, and that from all this muft follow within five, or even two years, thedif- Jolution of the Union. This language was as plaufibl^, and not more delufive than that held forth to our felfifh pafiions, in the " Dangers of American Liberty." By a partial and infidious reprefentation of things, nothing can be more eafy than to paint any one part of the Union, as under oppreffion from the reft — A juft reprefentation, which draws a candid balance of advantages and inconveniences, muft prove alike to every part, that the anchor of their falvation is union ; that the laft hopes of improvement in the condition of man, would perifh for ever in our divifion.
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