The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-12-11
MESSAGE.


70 tie Senate and House Of
Representatives. of the United States:
We have continued cause for expressing our
gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe
for the benefits which our country, under his
kind Providence, has enjoyed during the past
wear. Notwithstanding the exciting scenes thro'
which we have passed, nothing has occurred to
disturb the general peace, or to derange the har-
mony of our political system. The great mo
raj spectacle has been exhibited of a nation. APP
proximating in number to 2%0,000,000 of people,
having performed the high and important func-
ton of electing their Chief Magistrate for the
term of four years, without the commission OF
any acts of violence, or the manifestation OF q
spirit of insubordination to the laws, The great
and incstimable right of suffrage, has been eX-
/ ercised by all who were invested with it, under
the laws of the different States, in a spirit dicta-
ted alone by a desire, in the selection Of the
agent, to advance the interests of the country,
and to place beyond jeopardy the institutions
under which it is our happiness to live, That
the deepest interest has been manifested by al
our countrymen in the result of the election, is
not less true, than highly creditable to them
Vast multitudes have assembled, from time tC
time, at various places, for the purpose OF can
wasting the merits and pretensions OF those whc
were presented for their suffrages; but no AZ a
ed soldiery has been necessary to restrain th
in proper limits, the popular zeal, ortop ven
violent outbreaks. Aprinciple much more con
trolling was found in the love of order and ODE
dience to the laws, which, with mere individual
exceptions, every where possesses the Ameri
can mind, and controls with an influence fl
more powerful than hosts of armed men. w
cannot dwell upon the picture without recogni
zing in it TINT deep and devoted attachment OIL
the part of the People, to the institutions undeI
which we live, which prociaims their perpetuity
The great object which has always prevailed
against the election, by the People, of thei
Chief Executive officer, has been the apprehen
sion of tumuIts and disorders, which might in
volve in ruin the entire Government, A secu
curity against this, is found not only in tn
fact that, we live under a confederacy embra
cling already 26 States; no one Of which ha
power to control the election, The popula
vote in each State is taken at the time appoints
| by the laws, and such vote is announced by it
Electoral College, without reference to the de
cision Of the other States. The right Of suf
rage, and the mode Of conducting the election
is regulated by the laws of each Stnte; and Oh
election is distinctly federative in all its prom
ncnt features. Thus it is that, unlike wha
might Ne the results .undera consolidated sys
ten, riotous proceedings, should they prevail
could only affect the elections in single Statel
without disturbing, TO any dangerous exten
tho tranquility Of oilers. The crest exper
ment Of a political confederacy--eoch membC
Of which is supreme-as to oil matters appet
tanning to local interests, and It's internal peac
and happinesss-while bya voluntary compac
with others, it confides to the united power
all, the protection of it's citizens, in matters NJ
ldomestic-has been SO far crowned with con
plete success. The world has witnessed its II