The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1861.

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19.

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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.
The North American, which touched at London-
derry yesterday, arrived here this morning.
The following Message from the President was
laid before the Senate on the 9th :
" To THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-

TIVES.
" At the opening of your present Session I called
your attention to the dangers which threatened the
existence of the Union. I expressed my opinion
freely concerning the original causes of these dan-
gers, and recommended such measures as I believed
would have the effect of tranquillising the country
—saving it from the peril in which it had been
needlessly and most unfortunately thrown.
" Those opinions and recommendations I do not
propose now to repeat. My own convictions upon
the whole subject remain unchanged. The fact
that a great calamity was impending over the
nation was, even at that time, acknowledged by
every intelligent citizen. It had already made
itself felt throughout the length and breadth of
the land. The necessary consequences of the alarm
thus produced were most deplorable. Imports fell
off with a rapidity never known before, except in
time of war, in the history of our foreign commerce.
The Treasury was unexpectedly left without means,
which it had reasonably counted upon, to meet the
public engagements. Trade was paralysed, manu-
factures stopped, the best public securities suddenly
sunk in the market, every species of property de-
preciated more or less, and thousands of poor men,
who depended upon their daily labour for their
daily bread, were turned out of employment.
" I deeply regret that I am not able to give you
any information upon the state of the Union which
is more satisfactory than what I was then obliged
to communicate. On the contrary, matters are still
worse at present than they then were. When
Congress met a strong hope pervaded the whole
public mind that some amicable adjustment of
the subject would be speedily made by the
representatives of the States, which might re-
store peace between the conflicting sec-
tions of the country. That hope has been
diminished by every hour of delay, and as the pros-
pect of a bloodless settlement fades away the public
distress becomes more and more aggravated. As
an evidence of this, it is only necessary to say the
Treasury notes authorised by the Act of the 17th
of December last were advertised according to law,
and that no responsible bidder offered to take any
considerable sum at par at a lower rate of interest
than 12 per cent.
From these facts it appears that in a Govern-
ment organised like ours, domestic strife, or even a
well-grounded fear of civil hostilities, is more de-
structive of our public and private interests than
the most formidable foreign war.

" In my annual message I expressed the convic-
tion, which I have long deliberately held, and
which recent reflection has only tended to deepen
and confirm, that no State has the right by its own
act to secede from the Union, or throw off its federal
obligations at pleasure. I declared my opinion that,
even if that right existed, and should be exercised
by any State of the confederacy, the executive de-
partment of this Government had no authority
under the constitution to recognise its validity by
acknowledging the independence of such State.
This left me no alternative, as the chief executive
officer under the Constitution of the limited States,
but to collect the public revenues and protect the
public property, so far as this might be practicable
under existing laws. This is still my purpose. My
province is to execute—not to make the laws. It be-
longs tb Congress exclusively to repeal, modify, or
enlarge their provisions to meet exigencies as they
may occur. I possess no dispensing power. I cer-
tainly had no right to make aggressive war upon
any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Con-
stitution has wisely withheld that power even from
Congress. But the right and the duty to use mili-
tary force defensively against those who resist the
Federal officers in the execution of their legal func-
tions and against those who assail the property of
t he Federal Government, is clear and undeniable.
But the dangerous and hostile attitude of the States
towards each other has already far transcended and
cast into the shade the ordinary executive duties
already provided for by law, and has assumed
such vast and alarming proportions as to place the
subject entirely above and beyond executive con-
trol. The fact cannot be disguised that we are in
the midst of a great revolution. Therefore I com-
mend the question to Congress, as the only human
tribunal under Providence possessing the power to
meet the existing emergency. To them exclusively
belongs the power to declare war or to authorise
the employment of military force in all cases con-
templated by the constitution, and they alone pos-
sess the power to remove all the grievances which
might lead to war, and to sepure peace and union
to this distracted country. On them, and on them
alone, rests the responsibility. The Union is a
Yother fathers for
their sacred d
etrs ipiespt,dl:nfttsb, yanodurn
erveverolduldioanna.yr
people
inherit so rich a legacy. It has rendered us pros-
perous in peace and triumphant in war. The
national flag has floated in glory over every sea,

and under its shadow American citizens have found
protection and respect in all lands beneath the
sun. If we descend to considerations of purely
material interest, when, in the history of all time,
has a confederacy been bound together by such
strong ties of mutual interest ? Each portion of it
is dependent upon all, and all upon eaeh portion for
prosperity and domestic security. Free trade
throughout the whole supplies the wants of one
portion from the productions of another, and
scatters wealth everywhere. The great planting
and farming States require the aid of the commer-
cial and navigating States to send their productions
to domestic and foreign markets, and furnish the
naval power to render their transportation secure
against all hostile attacks.
"Should the Union perish in the midst of the
fporreesteans tt e eoxfc i
thete m eunut vwe
res
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svueffea
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ne ad y had
g which sad
would
result from its destruction. The calamity would be
severe in every portion of the Union, and would be
quite as great, to say the least, in the Southern as
in the Northern States.

" The greatest aggravation of the evil, and that
which would place us in the most unfavourable
light both before the world and posterity, is, as I
am firmly convinced that the secession movement
has been chiefly based upon misapprehension at the
South of the sentiments of the majority in several
of the northern States. Let the question be an-
swered from the political assemblies to the ballot-
box, and the people themselves would speedily
redress the serious grievances which the South have
suffered. But, in heaven's name, let the trial be
made before we plunge into an armed conflict upon
the mere assumption that there is no other alterna-
tive. Time is a great conservative power. Let us
pause at the momentous point, and afford the peo-
ple, both of the North and South, an opportunity
for reflection. Would that South Carolina had been
convinced of this truth before her precipitate action.
I therefore appeal through you to the people of the
country to declare in their might that the Union
must and shall be preserved by all constitutional
means. I most earnestly recommend that you de-
vote y ourselves to the question, how this can be
accomplished in peace. All other questions, when
compared with this, sink into insignificance. The
present is no time for palliatives. Prompt action
is required. A delay in Congress to prescribe or
recommend a distinct and practical proposition for
conciliation may drive us to a point from which it
will be almost impossible to recede. A common
ground on which conciliation and harmony may be
produced is surely not unattainable. The proposi-
tion to compromise by letting the North have ex-
clusive control of the territory above a certain line,
and to give Southern institutions protection below
that line, ought to receive universal approbation.
In itself, indeed, it may not be entirely satisfactory,
but when the alternative is between reasonable con-
cession on both sides and destruction of the Union,
it is an imputation on the patriotism of Congress to
assert that its members will hesitate for a moment.
Even now the danger is upon us. iln several
States which have not yet seceded the forts, arse-
nals, and magazines of the United States have
been seized. This is by far the most serious
step which has been taken since the commence-
ment of the troubles. This public property has
long been left without garrisons and troops for its
protection, because no person doubted its security
under the flag of the country in any State of the
Union. Besides, our small army has scarcely been
sufficient to guard our remote frontiers against
Indian incursions. The seizure of this property,
from all appearances, has been purely aggressive,
and not in resistance to any attempt to coerce a
State or States to remain in the Union. At the
beginning of these unhappy troubles I determined
that no act of mine should increase the excitement
in either section of the country. If the political
conflict were to end in civil war, it was my deter-
mined purpose not to commence it, nor to furnish
an excuse for it by any act of the Government.
My opinion remains unchanged, that justice as well
as sound policy requires us still to seek a peaceful
solution of the questions at issue between the North
and the South. Entertaining this conviction, I
refrained even from sending reinforcements to Major
Anderson, who commanded the forts of Charleston
harbour, until an absolute necessity for doing so
should make itself apparent, lest it might be
regarded as a menace of military coercion, and thus
furnish a provocation, or at least a pretext, for an
outbreak on the part of South Carolina. No neces-
sity for these reinforcements seemed to exist. I
was assured by distinguishedupright gentlemen of
South Carolina that no attack on Major Anderson
dweas
rien
oft e nded, b
the State
ut that,
u t on
h o r
ethes,
a contrary, s
muchitas
iwast wtahse
mine, to avoid the fatal consequences which must
eventually follow a military collision. And here I
deem it proper to submit for your information
copies of a communication dated December 28,
1860, addressed to me by R. W. Barnwell, J. H.
Adams, and James L. Orr, Commissioners of South
Carolina, with the accompanying documents, and
copies of my answer thereto, dated December 31.
In further explanation of Major Anderson's
it
re-
moval from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, is
proper to state that after my answer to the South
Carolina Commissioners the War Department
received a letter from that gallant officer, dated
December 27, 1860, the day after his movement,
from which the following is an extract :
" I will add as my opinion that many things
convinced me that the authorities of the State
designed to proceed to a hostile act (evidently
referring to the orders, dated December 11, of the
late Secretary at War). Under this impression I
could not hesitate that it was my solemn duty to
move my command from a fort which we could not
probably have held longer than 48 or 60 hours to
this one, where my power of resistance is increased
to a very great degree.'
" It will be recollected that the concluding part
of the order was in the following words :
" ' The smallness of your force will not permit
you, perhaps, to occupy more than one of the three
forts; but an attack on or attempt to take posses-
sion of either one of them will be regarded as an
act of hostility, and you may then put your com-
mand into either of them which you may deem most
proper to increase its power of resistance. You are
also authorised to take similar defensive steps when-
ever you have tangible evidence of a design to
proceed to a hostile act.'
" It is said that serious apprehensions are to some
extent entertained, in which I do not share, that
the peace of this district may be disturbed before
the 4th of March next. In any event, it will be
my duty to preserve it, and this duty shall be per-
formed.

" In conclusion, it may be permitted to me to
remark that I have often warned my countrymen
of the dangers which now surround us. This may
be the last time I shall refer to the subject officially.
I feel that my duty has been faithfully, though it
may be imperfectly performed, and whatever the
result may be I shall carry to my grave the con-
sciousness that I at least meant well for my country.
"JAMES BUCHANAN.

" Washington City, Jan. 8."
A discussion ensued, Senator Davis, of Mississippi,
taking exception to the President's tone, defending
the South Carolina Commissioners, and moving that
their letter to the President should be read ; his
motion was carried by 36 to 13.
Mr. HOWARD (of Michigan) moved that the
message be referred to a special committee of five,
with instructions to inquire whether any executive
officers of the United States have been, or are now
treating or holding communication with any per-
son or persons for the transfer of forts and other
property ; whether any demand for their surrender
has been made, and by whom and what answer has
been given ; whether any officer or officers have en-
tered into any pledge not to send reinforcements
of troops to the harbour of Charleston, and if so,
when, where, by whom, and on what considera-
tions ; whether the custom-house, post-office, or
arsenal at Charleston have been seized, by whom
held in possession ; whether any revenue cutter
has been seized, and whether any efforts have been
made to recover it. The committee have power to
send for persons and papers, and report from time
to time such facts as may be required by the
national honour, &c.

Mr. HOUSTON (Ala.) raised the point that such
instructions were against the rules.

Mr. HOWARD (Md.) replied, and moved the pre.
vious question.

Mr. CRAWFORD (Ga.) said there was no cause for
excitement. They had passed beyond that point.
VOICES—There is no excitement ; we are calm.
Mr. CRAWFORD continued—Men should be calm,
and understand the line on which they are going.
He ineffectually sought to offer a substitute for the
resolution.
Mr. GARNET 'desired to have the President's
Message considered in the committee of the whole
on the state of the Union.
Mr. PHELPS (of Mo.) remarked that the Presi-
dent informed them that they were in the midst of
a revolution, inviting the adoption of such mea-
sures as 'may avert civil war. The President
appeals to Congress tvor mare an effort ortto to restore
toreTtee
fraternal relations