The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-12-15

Chincha island for it, and the Peruvian
authorities stationed there. Redress fo1
the outrages, committed by the latter, was
promptly demanded by our minister al
Lima. This subject is now under consid-
Grafton, and there is reason to believe that
Peru is disposed to offer adequate indem-
nifty to the aggrieved paties.
We are thus not only at peace with all
foreign countries, but in regard to politi-
cal affairs, are exempt from any cause OF
serious disquietude in domestic relations.
The controversies, which have agitated
the country heretofore, are passing away
with the cause which produced them and
the passions they had awakened; or, if
any trace of them remain, itmay be reas-
onably hoped that it will only be perceiv-
ed in the Jealous rivalry of all good citi-
zens to testify their respect for the rights
of the States, their devotion to the Union
and their common determination that
each one of the States, its institutions, its
welfare, and its domestic peace shall be
held alike secure under the sacred aegis
of the constitution.
This new league of amity and of mu-
tual confidence and support, into which
the people of the republic have entered,
happily affords inducement and opportu-
nifty for the adoption of comprehensive
and unembarrassed line of policy, and
action, as to the great meterial interests of
the country, whether regarded in them
selves or in connection with the powers of
the civilized world.
The United States have continued to
expand, though acquisitions of territory,
which, how much soever some of them
may have been questioned, are now uni
versally seen and admitted to have been
wise in policy, just in character, and a
great clement in the advancement of our
country, and, with it, Of the human race,
in freedom, in prosperity, and in happiness.
The thirteen States have grown to be
thirty one, with relations reaching to Eu-
on the on side, and one the other to the
distant realms of Asia.
| am deeply sensible Of the immense
responsibility which the present magni-
tude of the republic, and the diversity
and multiplicity of its interest, devolves on
me, the alleyiation of which, so far as re-
lates to the immediate conduct of the
public business is first, in my reliance on
the wisdom and patriotism of the two
Houses of Congress-; and, secondly, in
the directions afforded me by the princi-
pies of public polity, affirmed by our faith
ers of the epoch of 1898, sanctioned by
long experience, and consecrated anew by
the oerwhelming voice of the U. States.
Recurring to those principles, which
constitute the organic basis of union, we
perceive that, vast as are the functions
and the duties of the federal government,
vested in, Or entrusted to, its three great
departments, the legislative, executive,
and judicial, yet the substantive power,
the popular force, and the large capaci-
ties for social and meterial developement.
exist in the respective States, which, all
being of themselves well constituted re-
publics, as they proceeded, SO they alone
are capable of maintaining and perpetual
ing the American Union The federal
Government has its appropriate line of
action in the specific and limited powers
conferred on it by the constitution chiefly
as to those things in which the States ha, e
common interest in their relations to one
another, and to foreign governments;-
while the mass of interests which be-
long to cultivated men, ordinary business
of life, the springs of industry, all the
diversified personal and domestic affairs
of society, rest securely upon the general
reserved powers of the people of the sew
eral states. There is the effective dem
ocracy Of the nation, and there the vital
essence of its being and its greatness.
Of the practical consequences which
flow from the nature of the federal gov
ernment, the primary one is the duty of
administering with integrity and fidelity
the high trust reposed in it by the consti-
tuition, especially in the application of the
public funds, as drawn by taxation from
the people, and appropriated to specific
objects by Congress. Happily have no
occasion to suggest any radical changes
in the financial policy of the government
Ours is almost, if not absolutely, the soil
tary power of Christendom having sur
plus revenue, drawn Immediately from
lmposts on commerce, and therefore meas
ured by the spontaneous enterprise and
national prosperity of the country, with
such indirect relation to agriculture, man
ufactures, and the products of the earth
and seas, as to violate no constitutional
doctrine, and yet vigorously promote the
general welfare. Neither as to the re-
sources of the public treasure, nor as to
the manner of keeping and managing it,
does any grave controversy now prevail,
there being a general acQuiesence in the !