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THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. , ins The power...
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tmt ^ p to mise in and NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . pk Several articles and communications arc unavoidably post- * , _ poned until next week . WE No notice can be taken of anonymous coirespondence . + Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by tho name and address of tho writer ; not necessarily mi for publication , but as a K « ai-antee of Ms good faith . "We do not undertake to return rejected communications . IU - : . : jlT |(
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THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE . , ins The power of the United States resides In hn the intellectual , moral , and physical strength fre of the whole body of the people . In prop or- sti tion as they are well-informed , energetic , mt free , and conscientious , the G-overiiuient will wi be pure and direct , the community -will be Tt prosperous , the territory of civilization will fon extend , and the citizens of the United States tai vrill determine for themselves their own in- m < stitutioiis . They accepted the constitution va as it was proposed for them by Washington , to Jefferson , and their colleagues ; they sub- ex sequently corrected that constitution , and in < they have copied it in the constitution of new re states . 33 ut in all cases they have main- in , tained and applied , if not extended , the in original principles .. upon which the constitu- A tion rested . State after state has delibe- de rately and distinctly repeated those principles th each in its own enactments . Those who talk ti < about the possibility that the freedom , of pi America , as it was conceived by WAsnixG- lit ton and his coadjutors , may have declined in . with the lapse of time , forget these repeated w acts of organization and legislation on the e \ part of the Americans . sv ! One diflicult problem has proved to be too w great for settlement hitherto . AVhen the ei constitution was arranged , even the vigour b ] of Jefferson failed to master the one cliffi- la culty . It was a problem thrust upon the od colonies by England—thrust upon America y < indeed by the philanthropy of Las Casas . T England " imported Negro slaves into A me- c < rica , and loft her Southern colonies burdened an with a Black population . What should be a done with those infantile human beings ? was q tlie question that most perplexed the authors ti of the constitution . They could not settle d it . They procrastinated ; they evaded any ti interference with " the domestic institu- a tion , " and virtually left it to the individual X states and to the future . Since that time there have been various n attempts to settle the difficulty . When the £ Btate of Missouri was admitted into the a "Union , and the question arose whether some c loun & s Bhould not be put to the extension of i this inconvenient element , a line was drawn , < on the North of which Whito freedom should 1 1 ) 0 uncontaminated , while on tho South there , should be freedom for tho extension of the i Black population . It is quite clear that this 1 compromise was not based upon a strict logic ; for the very principle of the constitution was , that tho individual states should bo free to choose their own institutions , so long as they wero not incompatible with the constitution of the -whole republic . Now , the peculiar institution was ex facto admitted to be compatible with the constitution of the republic , nnd therefore no state could , previously to its existence , bo prohibited from adopting that inconvenient element , if it so free with fox va to ex re ing A this ti '" . ¦ ha in i e » wi ) ¦ ; of i . - 1 3 a s qu s to e y ' - il LS ie » 0 Df n I { tl f- 'O i ie ia ct u- bo ng n- he to he e- m \ so
mmmmtm ^^ mmmmmmm ^ mmmmtmmmmmtm ^ mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ^ m ^ leased . We need not go into all the motives th which induced a citizen of the United States of override the conditions of that compro- br , and to make the proposition of omitting ne the provisional constitution of Nebraska tri Kansas the restraint which had hitherto to imposed upon territories ; but such av the fact . We may question the motives sei that proceeding , but its strict accordance gi < logic is obvious . It leaves the terri- th tories and the states free to choose their fe ( institutions , in accordance with the fee fundamental statute of the whole Union ; a of freedom which we believe to be most strictly be conducive to tlie ultimate triumph of pure sh freedom in . every sense of the word . br There are always in the world , however , lai those who desire to attain the end frorn the ve beginning ; there are citizens of the an United States who have not the faith which etl have in the steady working of their own th institutions . They were animated with an impatience that Kansas should at once be Izi from the condemned element , and they sa strove to procure that freedom by certain ce means . Hence , a very extensive tampering to the free action of the inhabitants , ef There was a species of colonizing invasion U the very purpose of swamping the spon- bl taneous colonizers of the state . Another C movement was the consequence ; the conser- se tive protectors of slave extension replied fo the irregular invasion from the North by b ( travagantly oppressive laws : statutes totally G incompatible with the institutions of the al public , prohibiting discussion , and restrain- oi all freedom of action . The lamentable h < incidents of the contest are too well known , fa party in the Union called out for a sudden se declaration against Negro slavery ; people in n < Country joined in . the-, cry ; and " Aboli- d on'V was the sole remedy which , these im- o patient persons saw for the dead lock which e d ensued in Kansas . Liucldly , there are ii tlie Union , men who better understand the a working of their national institutions ; and c ven . some whojiave been most severely ceil- t < sured in this country have persevered steadily fi th the sole course that could extricate tl either Kansas or Congress from the em- c bxoglio . The first step'was to restore regu- o larity to the elections and public proceedings I the territory . This has been done : Go- o vernor Geaht * has established complete quiet , u The people of the territory will now be in a t condition to determine their own institutions ; p and if others choose to colonize the state in t regular way , there will bo the freedom and ^ iet for them to do so . The next step was t revise the legislation . This cannot be i done by riots in the streets or bloody con- < fiicts in the fields , but it can be done by firm adhesion to tho governing statute of the ' Union . " I confidently trust , " says President Pierce , in the message just delivered to Congress , " that now , when the peaceful condition of Kansas affords opportunity for culm reflection and wise legislation , either the legislative assembly of tho territory , or Congress , will see that no act shall remain on its statute-book violative of the provisions of the Constitution , or subversive of the great objects for which that was ordained and established , and will take all oilier necessary stops to assure to its _ inliabitimts tho enjoyment , without obstruction or abridgncnt , of nil the constitutional rights , privileges , and immunities of citizens of the United States , as contcmplated by tho organic lnw of tho territory . " To tho west of the United States strotch almost boundless lands . A portion of them partake of tho heated climate which belongs to the Southern states , and which is scarcely fit for "White labour . It is possible that the Black raco may extend into thoso regions ; but by far tlie larger portion of lands to the west ' becomo more changeable in climate , more liable to tho rigours of winter , more and more unfitted to tho physical constitution of the negro . They are peculiarly adapted to the of to g the fect fe of b b e the ized to ble f a of se of a of t . i t ) - i e c n e , ! it ( l ' ¦ J - h n rS V ie i ; ie e , < e , n to
mmmmmmmamtmmtmmmm : ¦ Anglo-American constitution . The march emigration to the west proceeds with more breadth and rapidity than has ever been witnessed in the history of tlie world . Immense tracts of country are from time to time added the list of states , where the Negro is not available as a servant ; he is worthless as a servant whenever the cold numbs his eneries ; and in these states he is repelled by natural repugnance of race . "With perfreedom secured by this firm action of the deral Government , by tliis natural increase thefree states , the Negro element inevitably ecomes more fractional , until ultimately it shall be reduced to a subject -which can be rought within , the control of deliberate legis- ; lation . In short , secure freedom for the development of the White element in the Union , that element must , by all the laws ^ of thnology , outgrow , overbear , and . extinguish Black element . In these few sentences we have but moralthat portion of President Pibboe ' s Message to Congress which reports the proceedings taken by Government in reference Kansas ; but the rest of the Message in effect bears upon the same subject . The Union continues in the enjoyment of amicarelations Avith all foreign powers ; the Central American questiop appears to be settled ; the proposition of General Pieece or an improvement in the maritime law has been respectfully received by the European Governments , " it is the Spanish colonies lone which b order on the Southern frontier the Union that persevere in irritating hostilities and intrigue . The Spaniards , in fact , appear to be incapable of organizing ttled government . As we well know , eminent citizens of the United States have distinctly declined to negotiate the cession Mexico , which has been offered to them en bloc , because it would be difficult to incorporate with the Anglo-American "Union fully developed foreign state-. But it is of course impossible that the -republic should tolerate perpetual interference with its peaceful movement , or permit intrigues to damage the enterprise of its citizens . It is the insecurity and irregularity of the politically disorganized state of Mexico and the other American colonies that invite the entrance men like Houston and Walkeb , ; and unless the Spaniards can at last be reduced o something like order and regularity in their proceedings , they must inevitably give Ayay to the march of Anglo-American colonization . What would that , however , be , but substituion of a race capable of sustaining free institutions for one which has proved its incapacity ? In no country of tho world do the same means exist for diffusing information as in the United States of America . An excellent school is opened for tlie children of every citizen , under a management which is the theme of admiration from every foreign visitor . A distribution of Congressional papers , in itself very useful , is but a ^ drop in tho ocean in comparison with the diffusion which books of all kinds—standard works as well as 'light' literature and newspaperssecured for the whole Union . The Americans have developed that system of printing and publishing at prices availablo for the million , to which England is coming by very bIow degrees . Tho consequenco is , that a . map shoving tho expanse of settled districts exhi bits the spread , not only of human beings in tho wilderness , but of actual intelligence , Tho map of tho Union ia tho map of a commmrity educated , informed , trained to confront difficulties , and to govern itself . It is impossible that tho progress of such a community should be arrested by the intrigues , the dogmas , or tho dictates of any foreign
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 20, 1856, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20121856/page/11/
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