Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-12-12
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
To tie Senate and House OF
Representatives. of the United States:

Representatives. of tie United States:
We have continued cause for expressing our
gratitude TO the Supreme Ruler of the Universe
for the benefits and blessings which our couil-
try under his kind Providence, has enjoyed du-
ring the past year. Notwithstanding the excl
ting scenes through hich we have passed, no.
thing has occurred TO disturb the general peace.
or TO derange the harmony of our political sys-
tem The great moral spectacle has been ex-
hibited of nation. approXimating in number to
20O00,000 of people, having performed the high
and important function of electing their Chief
Magistrate for the term of four years, without
the commission of any acts of violence, or the
manifestation of spirit OF INSTRUMENTATION to
the laws The great and inesiimabe right of
suffrage, has been exercised by all who were
invested with it, under the laws of the different
States, in a spirit dictated alone by desire. in
the selection Of the agent, to advance the inter-
ests Of the country, and to place beyond jeopar-
DIV the institutions under which it is our happi-
ness to live.
That the deepest interest has been manifest
ed by all our countrymen in the result of the
Election, is not less true, than highly creditable
to them. Vast multtudes have assembled, from
time to time, at various places, for the purpose
of canrassing the merits and pretensions OF
those who were presented for their suffrages !;
but no armed soldiery has been necessary to
restrain, within proper limits, the popular ZEAL
or to prevent violent outbreaks. A principle
much more controlling was found in the love of
order and obedience to the laws, which, with
mere individual exceptions, every where pos
sesses the American mind, and controls with
an influence far more powerful than hosts Of
armed men. We cannot dwell upon this pic
ture without recognizing in it that deep and de-
voted attachment on the part of the People. TO
the institutions under which we live, which pro-
claims their perpetuity. The great objection
which has always prevailed against the election,
by the People, of their Chief Executive Officer,
has been the apprehension of tumults and dis
orders, which might Involve IN ruin the entire
Government. A security against this is found
not only in the fact before alluded to, but in the
additional fact that. we live under Confedera-
cy embracing already twenty-six States no one
of which has power TO control the Election,
The popular vote in each State is taken at the
time appointed by the laws, and such vote Is
announced by its Electoral College, without
reference to the decision of the other States.-
The Right Of Suffrage, and the mode OF con-
ductng the Election, is regulated by the laws
OF each State and the election is distinctly fed
eratlve in all its prominent features. Thus If is
that unlike what might be the results under
consolidated system, riotous proceedings, should
they prevail, could only affect the elections in
single States, without disturbing to any danger
Gus extent, the tranquility of others. The great
experiment of political confederacy-each
member of which is supreme--as TO all matters
appertaining its local interests, and Its internal
peace and happiness--while by voluntary
compact with others, it confides to the united
power of all, the protection OF its citizens, III
i far n
with complete success The world has wit
messed its rapid growth in wealth and popula-
ton and under the guide and direction of su-
perntending Providence, the Developments OF
The past may be regarded but the shadowlng
forth of the mighty future. In the bright pros
poets of that future, we shall find, as patriots
and philanthropists, the highest inducements to
cultivate and cherish love of union, and to
frown down every measure or effort which may
be made to ALLEVIATE the States, or the People OF
the States, in sentiment and feeling, from eacn
other. A rigid and close adherence to the terms
of our political compact, and, above all, sa-
cred observance of the guarantees of the Constr
tuition, will preserve union on foundation
which cannot be shaken; while personal liberty
placed beyond hazard or jeopardy.
The guarantee of religious freedom, OF the
freedom of the press of the liberty OF speech, oil
the trial by jury, of the habeas corpus. and OF
the domestic institutions of each of the States,
leaving the private citizen in the full exercise OF
the high and ennobling attributes OF his nature,
and to each Stale the privilege, which can only
be ]udiciously exerted by itself, OF consulting
the means best calculated to advance Its own
happiness; these arethe great and important
guarantees of the Constitution, which the lovers
Of liberty must cherish, and the advocates oi
union must ever cultivate. Preserving these,
and avoiding all interpretations by forced con
struction, under the guse of an imagined expe-
diency. upon the Constitution, the influence OF
our political system is destined TO be as active
ly and as benefcially felt on the distant shores
of the Pacific, as il is now on those OF the At
lantic Ocean. The only formidable lmpedi-
ments in the way of its successful expansion
Qme and space) are so far III the progress OF
modification, by the improvements OF the age,
as to render no longer speculative the ability OF
Representatives from that remote region 10 come
up 10 the Capitol So that their constituents sAail
participate in all the benefits OF Federal legls-
lalion. Thus il is that, in the progress OF 'lne,
tue inestimable principles of civil liberty VIII
be enioyed bv millions vet unborn, and the great
benefits Of cur system of Government De ex-
tended 10 now distant and uninhabited regions
In view Of the vast wilderness yet to be re-
claimed, we NAV we'll invite the lover Of ffee-
dom. of every land, to lake up hls abode among
us, and assist US in the great work OF advancing
the standard of civilization, and giving wider
spread TO the arts and refinemenis OF cultivated