The North-Carolina standard., 1850-01-02
TIE. pRES1nENT,s MESSAGE.

poiatment By the best friends Of the President. As
Stae paper, it is decidedly the weakest which over
smanatsd from an American Chief Magistrate. !ts
style 10 faulty, its statements confused, and its
doctrines are eminently dangerous.
II is not purpose to crtcise the labored aecta
ton Of simplicity which characterizes the message
nor at the present time examine its features
minately. That task can be better performed when
the accompanying documents have been laid before
the people. Our purpose is to enter our protest
against the whole character of the paper, as one
which an American representative, although he be
a Wing President, has no right to address to the
American people. Our government is not a monar-
chy and our Chief Magistrate is not monarch, but
to hold the same language in his message which the
Queen of England holds from her throne. He has
no right to assume lordly airs, and indicate that our
commercial and financial systems as they
and defective, and to say that they should be abol
ished or amended. without condescending to inform
his constituents in what their faults and defects
sist, or why they should be abolished or amended,
| or what principles should prevail in the new sys-
TEN which must be adopted if they are destroyed.
is the duty of the President of the United States
to render an account of his STEWARDSHIP P-to explain
fully to the people the operations of the government,
and to recommend to Congress such measures as he
may deem conducive to the public welfare. In dis
gre synopsis of the topics of newspaper discussion,
almost in the order in which those discussions
arose; and of those subjects Is his message
as explicit satisfactory the revelations of the
newspapers themselves. In truth, 1t may be said,
that no point has the message given any informa-
ton to the public, except that the President has at
length determined to throw off his no-partvism, and
further than the Wing party is willing to 60
in his subserviency to the doctrines of federalism.
The broad ground Of protection for projections sake
is urged upon the country. Knowing that the
duction of duties effected by the revenue bill of 1916
| has increased the revenues derived from customs,
Gen. Taylor has permitted his cabinet to induce him
to recommend increase of duties, and to endeavor
out the shadow of authority sustain him. that such
an increase would tend to enhance the public reven-
ues. AS if ashamed Of the patent fallacy and the
open duplicty which he was palming off upon the
people, Gen. Taylor copies the English monarch,
and refuses enter into the particulars of his
mercial theory, while he endorses the report of the
Secretary of the Treasury, who advocates restriction
to an extent which would destroy commerce and
annihate our exports, so that the whole agricultu
raj product of the Union should be fitted for consump
ton by the manufacturers of the United States. In
addition to this, the warehousing system, which has
operated SO favorably on commerce, and whose
benefits have been so extensively felt by our small
towns and small capitalists, is to be overthrown, and
Limitation restriction, which, going beyond all pre-:
cedent must not only swallow up the revenues of
the government, but fix upon enormous public
debt obliterate the boundaries Of our States, and
make them departments of consolidated empire and
stipendaries of a central government.
These the general features of the message, and
revolving as they they harmonize well with each
particular recommendation Of that paper. No satis-
factory explanation is given of the outrage on Eu-
ropean liberty perpetrated by the detention Of the
our country was placed by Mr.. Clayton's ridiculous
quarrel with the French minister; Of the con-
duct of the government touching the abduction of
Rey none of the war made upon our citizens assem-
bled at Round Island none of the unwarranted and
unconstitutional interference of the President, by
which an armed force was compelled to interfere in
the affairs of California and none of tho views of
the government in relation to the great question which
has agiatcd the country for the last two years. On
this question General Taylor has adhered strictly to
fear that he would reveal which section of the Union
has been duped and cheated in his election he has
shrunk from his rghtful responsibility and concealed
himself from the public view. These sins Of
omission; but they accompanied by sins of COM
mission which must induce every patriot to blush
for the first message Of Gen. Zachary Taylor. With
absurd declarations of universal philanthropy, the
treaty with Nicaragua negotiated by Mr.. Hise, which
conveyed to the United States the exclusive right to
charter a company construct an oceanic commune
cation from the mouth Of the San Juan de Nicaragua
to Realo. on the Pacific, has been suppressed, and
all information of its existence withheld from the
American people, while the fact Is communicated
that instructions have been issued for the negotiation
d construction C6n0l
across Nicaragua, for the joint use and under the
joint protection Of all the commercial nations of
Chrstendom. On this point the message plainly in
dcates that the administration has been shaken by
the fear Of Great Britain, and that the rights acquired
by the Hise treaty have been surrendered and aban-
doned in Difference to the unfounded pretensions of
England. Mr.. Hise's treaty gave to US important
advantages all other nations in the State of Nj
caragua-advantages which ought to have been main
tained even at the hazard of with the mistress
Of the seas, nasmuch they gave the control of
the projected communication between our Atlantic |
and Pacific coasts. But those advantages have been
surrendered and the fact that they were ever given
and withheld from the knowledge of the country. |
This manifest derelicon of duty is sought to be COW
cred up by ridiculous afectaton of philanthropy,
which cannot, when all the facts are drawn out BY
congressional inquiry, fail excite the disgust Of
the country, and the rdcule of the rest of mankind
But there is another sin Of commission in the mes
sage, which we cannot fail to notice, even in this
hasty review of its features, 1t is this deficit has
been occasoned, by the extravagance of this admin
stration of more than SIG 900, for the present
and next fiscal years. The message insinuates, and
the report Of the Secretary Of the Treasury asserts
expenses Of the Mexican war, and the purchase of
California and New Mexico" The fact is not so.
The deficit cannot be charged to the Mexican war. 1t
has been occasoned entirely by the present admins
traon, by ereeedng tie appropriations made By Con-
gress for tie current ezpenses Of tie government The
were foreseen by the last Congress, and they were
provided for along with the ordinary expenses of the
government. The revenues of the government were |
equal to those appropriations. But this admnistra-
ton has found it necessary, in its exsavagance, to
exceed the appropriations for the ordinary expenses
OF the government. 1t has found it necessary to
for other Parposes the money laid aside by congress-
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