her has been interrupted. content with the positive benefits which their union produced， with the independence and safety from foreign aggression which it secured， these sagacious people respected the institutions of each other， however repugnant to their own principles and prejudices.
our confederacy， fellow-citizens， can only be preserved by the same forbearance. our citizens must be content with the exercise of the powers with which the constitution clothes them. the attempt of those of one state to control the domestic institutions of another can only result in feelings of distrust and jealousy， the certain harbingers of disunion， violence， and civil war， and the ultimate destruction of our free institutions. our confederacy is perfectly illustrated by the terms and principles governing a common copartnership there is a fund of power to be exercised under the direction of the joint councils of the allied members， but that which has been reserved by the individual members is intangible by the common government or the individual members composing it. to attempt it finds no support in the principles of our constitution.
it should be our constant and earnest endeavor mutually to cultivate a spirit of concord and harmony among the various parts of our confederacy. experience has abundantly taught us that the agitation by citizens of one part of the union of a subject not confided to the general government， but exclusively under the guardianship of the local
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