...of your prosperity; of that very Liberty which you so highly prize. . . . it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective & individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual & immoveable attachment to it....

...Augustine reminds me of President George Washington's farewell address: "It is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value...happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium...