Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-12-12
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INDIANAPOLIS, DECEMBER 7. 1850.
The Presidents Message---The Compromise
Measures and Indiana Constitutional Conven-

The Presidents Message---Fhe Compromise
Measures and Indiana Constitutional COnven-
tiOn.
Il viii be recoected by the readers of the State SEN
tnel that last summer, took high National ground
in relation to the great Compromise measures then be-
fore Congress. Our ncghbor of the Indiana Journal
for nonaction. In plain English, he did not wish
asetement Of the agitatng question of slavery, Mr.
CLAWS basis He still hung on with dying grasp,
the miserable Wing policy of blowing hot and blowing
cold this question:; and this, great extent, is
still his position. The leaders of the Wing party in
Indiana with very few exceptions still for agita
tion, of which will have say at the close
Of this article We have always stood on the high
ground Of nonnterventon ground now and heretofore
fully endorsed by President Fillmore, and in his late
message.
Here is our platform, from the pen Of the lamented
sas Wright, and re-enacted in 1914, and also the
Baltimore Convention that nominated General Cass
1913. Read it:
f'ResoIUed, That Congress has power, under the
Constitution. interfere with control the domestic
institutions Of the several States and that such States
the sole and proper judges OF every thing appertan
ing to their affairs not prohibited by the Consu-
ton that all efforts of the Ahotioniss others made
to induce Congress TO interfere with the question of
slavery take incipen steps in relation thereto are
calculated TO lead the alarming and dangerous
consequences. and that all such efforts have nev-
liable tendency diminish the happiness Of the people,
and endanger the stability and Permanency of the
Union, and ought to he counenanced by any friend
of political institutions"
We have no room for extended comments. The mes
sage of President Fillmore which we have already pub
lshed has but poor paragraph that gives the editor
Of the Indiana Journal much consolation Old fashioned
whiggery sticks little the tariff question: and
the Journal editor seizes hold Of it drowning
would catch at a straw. The President, however, con-
demns high tariff
Our readers need not be alarmed. We have idea
Of gloriyng the Presidents message The Wings have
the Offices under this administration and it their duty
to puff their President.
The President, breaking away from the higher law
Wings, who would trample the Constitution in the dust,
holds the following language in his message,
which again publish for the benefit of readers
Speaking of the Fugitive Slave Law, he says:
The CONSTITUTION has made the duty Of the President
TO take that the laws he faithfully executed. In
government like ours in which all laws are passed by
majority of the Representatives of the people, and these
Representatives chosen for snch short periods that
any injurious obnoxious law very be repeal
ed, IL would appear unlikely that any great number
should be Ound ready resist the execution oil the laws
But It be borne mind that the country extensive
that there may be local interests preudces rendering
law Odious in part, which IS not in another. and
passions, BY their magnatons, may be induced mad
" resist such laws as they disapproye Such per-
should recolect that without law there be
practical liberty, that when law ramped under foot
tyranny rules whether appears in the form Of mill
tarv despotsm Of popular olence The law is the
only protection Of the weak and tie only efficient
restraint upon the strong. When lmpartially and
faithfully administered none are below its protec-
tion and none above its control. You, gentlemen,
and the country, may be assured, that 10 the ut
most Of my ability and the of the power vested
4 - H. -,
that the laws be faithfully executed In the discharge
OF this duty, soemnly imposed upon by the Consti
tuition and by my oath Of Office, shall shrink from
responsibility and shall endeavor to events they
may arise with rnness as well as prudence and dscre
ti0n
In relation to the compromise measures, a whole,
he uses the following languages
II was hardly to be expected that the series Of
passed your last session, with view Of having
the sectional difficulties which had sprung from the
slavery and territorial questions should have
realized their benefcent purpose All national
in the OF compromise, must necessarily be
unwecome persons Of extreme opinions; and though
without such concessions our Constitution could
have been framed and be permanently sustained
vet we have seen them made the subject Of bitter con-
trovefsy in both sections Of the Republic
II required many months Of discussion and deberaen
70 secure the concurrence OF majority OF Congress in
their favor Il would be strange il they had been
ceved with immediate appreciation by people and States
preudiced and heated BY the excited controversies Of
their representatives. believe those measures to have
been required by the circumstances and condition Of the
country. believe they necessary to allay asperi-
ties and anmostes that rapidly alternating one Sec
Of the country from the other and destroying those
the Constitution They were adopted in the spirit OF
concliafton-
believe that great majority of our fellow citizens
sympathize in that spirit and that purpose, and IN the
main approve and prepared IN all respects to sustain
those snactments.