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SYNOPTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| Essay, | Page | |
| I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION, | No. I. | 1 |
| II. "THE UTILITY OF THE UNION TO YOUR [the People of the State of New York] POLITICAL PROSPERITY," | II. | 6 |
| 1. introduction, | 6 | |
| 2. in its political relations with foreign nations, | III. | 12 |
| A. by securing it against dangers from foreign arms and influence, | 12 | |
| a. through a removal of the usual causes of just war, | 13 | |
| a. violations of compacts and treaties, | 13 | |
| A. by securing a more perfect administration of government, | 13 | |
| a. by the employment of better men than those employed in State governments, | 13 | |
| b. by an uniform interpretation of the provisions of those compacts and treaties, | 14 | |
| c. by avoiding the local temptation to bad faith to which a single State may yield, | 14 | |
| d. by avoiding local prejudices to which a single State may be subject, | 14 | |
| b. direct and unlawful violence, | 15 | |
| b. through the greater ability which it will afford to settle amicably those causes of just war, | 16 | |
| a. in the absence of local pride and prejudices, | 16 | |
| b. in the greater strength of the States when united, | 16 | |
| c. through its removal beyond the influence of unjust causes, | IV. | 17 |
| a. the superior power of neighboring nations, | 17 | |
| b. the jealousy of foreign powers from successful trade, | 18 | |
| B. by securing it from similar influences in the several States, if disunited, | V. | 22 |
| C. by preventing European alliances with rival States or confederacies, | 26 | |
| 3. in its political relations with the Peoples of other States, | VI. | 27 |
| A. by securing it from inter-State hostilities, | 27 | |
| a. the danger of hostilities arising between "independent, unconnected sovereignties," | 27 | |
| a. through love of power, | 28 | |
| b. through jealousy of power, | 28 | |
| c. through competitions of commerce, | 28 | |
| d. through individual passions and influences, | 28 |
