Southern shield., 1850-01-05
The Presidents Message.

We furnish our readers with this highly interesting documentin an extra, in order to devote the usual space for general news in the paper. This Message is an excellent State paper; it is like every thing else that emanates from Gen, Taylor, brief, explicit, sensible, and to the point; it is no labored defence of this or that party, but an unvar- nished straightforward exposition of the con- diton of the country, with such recomme en- dations as the Executive thinks the exigen- cies of the times demand.
 That very able and dignifed journal, the National LnteNigemcer, thus speaks of the Message:
 Atlensth, after suspense of three weeks, the House of Representatives having suc- ceeded in choosing Presiding Officer, and thus removed the impeachment in the way of the public business, we are enabled to place before our readers the first annual commit nication of President Taylor to the two Houses of Congress, and, through them, to the People of the United States.
 The Message bears date on the 4th of the present month, being the day on which it was prepared to be sent to Congress. Had the extraordinary state of things which made its earlier transmission impossible been foreseen, or even deemed probable, the preparation of the Message would doubtless have been deferred, and its language, in one or two particulars, modified so as to adapt it to circumstances which have occurred since the date of it; such, for example, as the actual formation of Constitution of State Government by the People of Cali fornia, an event which is only referred to in the Message as being anticipated from information at the time in possession of the Executive.
 The Message has, however, lost none of its intrinsic value or interest by the delay of its transmission. There are, indeed, fea- lures which have been improved by it, as some fruits, the best of their kind, are mel lowed by keeping.
 The recaptulation of our relations with Foreign Powers is luminous and satisfactory In the passage which refers to the late and happily brief misunderstanding with the Government of France, we have evidence of the readiness with which amicable sen- timents will ever be reciprocated by this Government with any other upon a proper opening occurring for their renewed mani, festation. May many years, nay ages, pass without any occasion of serious controver- sy ever arising between the United States and the Republic of France. With Great Britain, also, and with all other Powers, it will be seen, our intercourse is on the most friendly footing.
 The recommendations of the Message are all of practical nature, and most of them of character highly suspicious, so far as they may be influential with Congress, to the great domestic interests of the country. What the President says upon the impor- tance and value of the Union is excellent beyond all praise of ours.
 In short, the Message gives to the Repub- lie assurance of an Administration high minded, honest, and in its aims solely di- rected to the public good. Being such, it may hope to find favor in the eyes of gen. 1lemen of all parties in Congress. But whatever be its reception there, we have nc sort of doubt that it will find hearty welcome at the homes and fresides of the mass of the People, of whom both Con gress and the President are but the breath of the noStrilS