The North-Carolina standard., 1850-01-02
BEAUTTEs OF THE MESSAGE.

BEAUTIES OF THE MESSAGE.
The Prssident's Messags, which we publish to-day,
sets ont with the statement that = sixty years have
elapsed since the establishmentof his government-
bit Of information, BY the way, which is certainly
new, and for which the country ought to be very
grateful It then states that swe are at peace with
all the nations Of the world, and that the people Of
this country, though visited during the past year
"with the ravages of dreadful pestence,' are now
'generally healthy" The Message alsosays "while
enjoying the blessings of amicable intercourse with
foreign nations, have not been insensble to the
distractions and which have prevailed in other
quarter. Of tie ,coH." What and where those 6 other
quarters of the world are, which not occupied
by foreign nations," the President has not conde-
scended to inform as.
We are glad to hear that our &c foreign relations !"
are not only " amicable,'' but friendly. This is
good sign. It shows that Gen. Taylor is a man Of
peace"
The handsomest truism, however, in this message
is the statement by the President that he has au-
thority to dictate" measures to Congress- He says
also that the President cannot rghtally control the
decision of Congress any subject Of legislation,
until that decision shall have been officially submt-
ted to him for approval" True, every word of it !;
but who denies it! No one: but can it be possible
that Gen. Taylor with the adherence he uniformly
expressed for the veto power before his election now
enterains the idea of controlling Congress any
subject in any event! We think not, especially as
he declares in the outset of his Message, that upon
Congress will emnently depend the future mainten-
of system Of free government, and the trans
mission of it, unimpared, to posterity." Congress,
it is clear, is to be every thing and every body the
people, who used to have some voice in the matter,
are merely to look and things well done. Gen.
Taylor does not say that members of Congress are
elected by the people, that the people themselves
I" "declared independence" in '76; therefore these
points are still in doubt. We await information in
this regard with some impatience, but with every
disposition, at the same time, to award the fullest
credit to Gen. Taylor, to any other gentleman, who
may be so fortunate as to make discoveries and an
nounce facts in connection with these mooed ques-
tons.
There is another beauty in this document which we
had liked to have overlooked. In the copy "prnted
at the Office of the Republic" and sent to us by
number of members, is the following sentence:
1--WE are at peace with all the world, and seek to
maintain cherished relations of amity suih the rest
Of mankind"
The above passage published, just as it is, by
the two organs, the Republic and the Intelligen-
Ger, and we find the same thing in the New York
Tribune. The Union states that before that paper
containing the Message went to press, the Editors
were requested by persons in the confidence of the
Administration to correct this ' error" which re-
quest was of course complied with. We have copied
from the Union, and hence the rest of mankind
has been " unavoidably crowded out"; but if any
person is curious to the passage as is, in the
document printed at the Republic Office, let him turn
to it and examine it for himself. We hope, for the
credit of the country, that this passage will not find
its way to a foreign land.
What Gen. Taylor meant by the rest of mankind
after including all the world, shall never know.
He may have intended allude to Nantucket, as it
is a common expression to say, " all the world and
the balance of Nantucket but then why did he fail
to say so in so many words! If that was his mean
ing, he might have said this, for instance: We are
at peace with all the world, with the exception of
Nantucket, which is the balance Of the world, which
seeks to maintain our cherished relations of amty
with the world ITSELF with which we are at peace,
which includes Nantucket as we'll as the world.
That, according to our humble way of thinking,
would have "met the crisis " at all points; and be-
sides, with such an array of sohchs (peculiar favor
ties, by the way, with the old Generally the passage
would have been absolutely unattackable.