The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-01-02

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The Hreskdrnt and tAc WfAmof PreRisns
m. co;s,,y h,s loo,sd forward ~ he ss.t Mes.
80 - T,,.r;,a,t rsvls, ,s;t he hone tbnt n
,..a,,lS a;srol ,s,an, 81 ,be ADMITS which have
,,rs;ts, i, ,a a Il, ,ks rssnerss or;n-
-, aa.,.; 1,,ss,;ons ,,;,.,,,s ;,,,Dor,.n, ~
a..h "a s,,s,,, ~ tho Irroo Nor ware we
,a;..nr,;,,sd IN sn,;ns that The Executive has in
~ ~, snnn,l Nfs.ssvs defined xyitb more ac-
..vacv ard nrac;s;ns than hitherto. the nature Of
tbe pol;t;cal measures he recommends and advo-
cs.es baf,ve The ,sonl4 of the United States. In
he canvass IL 1s4s we were treated to the senti-
mems n tbs hero az Bueua Vista. rather than to
r. o;n;ors hsld ~ Cen Tavlor. che candidate for
,Is P,ss;dsDr, ~, n & only IN the Message that
have with snv sort Of detiniteness or certainty
,,,bs, Ger T,vIor thinks about the Tariff, about
Legislation for the Territories and other questions
which divide parties and agitaie the country.
I'd Southern men. the most important question
for the last eighteen moaths has been the opinions
Of Gen. TAYLOR on the subject Of the Wilmot Pro-
viso. And IT, as Carlyle contends, chief attribute
Of the heroic character be talent for silence, the
President mas more claims than his warlike
achievements to place among the heroes of the
race Conjecture after conjecture has been haz-
arded by men Of all parties as to the course Gen.
Taylor would pursue in case the Wilmot Proviso
was passed by Congress. Some insisted that as
a Southern man and Shareholder the General must
necessarily be opposed to Wilmot Provisoism
which was nothing more than modified and dis
guised Abolitionism. Others-the friends of Gen
TAYLOR at the North and his enemies at the South
maintained that the present President was pledged
mt tn exercise the veto no,ver unless when Con.
gress acted with manifest haste and indiscretion.
But nobody could say with any certainty what
| the General s opinions were on the matter Though
the Message does not satisfy us on this subject,
vet its closing passages contain an intimation-
dark and vague i is true-which cannot fail to en-
/ courage the friends of Gen. TAYLOR at the South,
and the Southern people generally.
The last paragraph of the Message inculcates an
affection for the Union, and asserts that whate yer
dangers NAV threaten it the President will stand
by it and maintain it in its integrity to the full ex-
tent Of the obligations imposed, and the power
conferred on him by the Constitution. Taken by
ITSELF this passage might be considered as an init.
nation 10 Southern men who have spoken of dis.
solution. that their movements would be narrowly
| watched and efficiently circurnvented BY the Presi
dent of the United States. But when we connect
the last paragraph with the one which precedes il
we may arrive at the conclusion that Gen. Taylor
thinking the passage Of the Wilmot Proviso en-.
dangers the Union, will make use of his consti
sutonal veto prerogative to prevent the obno xou.
section from passing into the semblance of law.
i The paragraph before the last in the Message
treats Of the veto power and is an abstract of III,
4 arguments which have been urged against the USE
OF this Executive power. Now there is no fines:
in introducing this subject into the Message unles.
to define with more distinctness the peculiar eases
a which fhe President thinks may call for the exer