Glasgow weekly times., 1849-12-13
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.


Iions in reference 10 il from The Ma.
tional InteUigencer ofthe 23d ul,., will
be read with interest:
The first thing of consequence, after
The organization Of the Two Houses,
will OF course be the annual Message of
the President, unfolding to the Repre-.
sen,a,ives of the States and Of the Peo.
pie his views ofpublic affairs, with such
recommendations as he may, in the dis.
charge ofhis constitutional duty, think
fit to address them. This annual Ex.
position will be looked for with the
uore interest on the present occasion.
no, only from its anticipated disclosure
Of the actual state Of our Foreign Rela.
tions generally, bu, also as afi'ording to
The President the first opportunity,
under his own hand, TO do justice TO
his sown principles and purposes, as well
in the conduct of Foreign Affairs as in
regard TO the Domestic questions which
the Message may be expected to touch
upon. ....,...
What are to be the particular con-
tents of the Message we have no better
means of knowing than our readers,
and we shall not therefore pretend to
foretell. We may, however, safely
undertake to predict what the Message
will not be. l, will not consist, as the
Presidential Annual messages have of
late too often done, of strained efforts
at minuteness concerning matters Of
comparatively little importance, whilst
designs Of the gravest consequence to
the public peace and welfare are either
kept dark, or so treated as TO deceive
Congress and the People, not only as to
what the Presiden, holds in mental re-
servation, but as to those things which
he and his Cabinet are actually doing.
We shall have. in his account of the
posture of affairs with Foreign Powers,
no assertion of an extreme right with
one of them which our minister 10 tha,
Power is already instructed TO surren.
der; nor any cloaking, under cover of
friendly mission, of active prepara.
tons for bloody conflic, with another.
Nor, though we dare say that the Mes.
sage will be of greater length ,ha n the
President himself would wish, will it be
eked out with elaborate dissertations on
stale party topics, out Of place in such
State Paper, and stuffed into it as
though only TO show the logomachic
ability of the writer. OF the sugges-
tion on points of domestic policy which
the Message will contain. few days
more will pu. US all in possessions; and
in the mean time it may be inferred, by
those who recolect the character of the
Inaugural Address Of the President,
what their general tone will be. They
will be such as, in The details, men may
well differ about. bat such also, we feel
assured, as will be entitled, by their
honesty and sincerity, to fair consruc.
lion and respectful consideration.
The duties which will devolvs upon
Congress at this session will be more
comprehensive, and consequently more
arduous, owing to the increase of the
number and variety of objects oflegis.
lation-by the addition of half a cont.
nent to our territory-lhan they have
ever been before. Imagination itself
can hardly keep pace with them, and
any hasty attempt at enumeration of
them would necessarily be failure
Those of The highest consequence and
greatest urgency appear 10 be the po.
litical condition and wants of our new
and vast Territories west of the present
tier of frontier States; the improvement
of the national highways by land and
water; the revision Of the Tariff with
view TO revenue and incidentally 10 the
protection of home industry; provision
for the census of The United States re.
quired TO be taken within the coming
year; and the legislation, if any be re.
quired, for carrying into effect new or
deferred stipula'ions by Treaties. OF
the annual appropriations of money for
carrying on the different departments
Of the Governmen, we say nothing, be-
cause, although they necessarily require
much labor and deliberalon, they are
so Indispensable as, in point of fact as
well as necessity, to override all other
questions, and to secure their certain