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

! 1t is evident that considerations so
vast and SO varied, both in numbers and
in territorial extent, in habits and inter-
ests, couldly only be kept in national CO.
hes,on by the strictest fidelity to the prin-
ciples of the constitution, as understood
by those who have adhered to the most
restricted construction of the powers
granted by the people and the States
Interpreted and applied according tothose
principles, the great compact adapts itself
with healthy ease and freedom to an un-
limited extension of that benign system
of federative self government, of which
it is our glorious, and, l trust, immortal
charter. Let us then, with redoubled
vigilance, be on our guard against yield
ing to the temptation of the exercise of
doubtful powers, even under the pressure
of the motives of conceded temporary
advantage and apparent temporary expe-
diency.
The minimum of federal government,
compatible with the maintenance of ma
tional unity and efficient action in our re-
| latlons with the rest of the world, should
afford the rule and measure of construc-
ton of our powers under the general
classes of the constitution. A spirit of
strict Difference to the sovereign rights
and dignity of every State, rather than a
disposition to subordinate the States into
provincial relation to the central author
ity, should characterize all our exercise
of the respective powers temporarily YES
ted in us as sacred trust from the gene
erous confidence of our constituents.
In like manner, as manifestly indis-
pensable condition of the perpetuation of
the Union, and of the realization of that
: magnificent national future adverted to-,
does the duty become yearly stronger and
clearer upon US as citizens of the several
States to cultivate a fraternal and affec-
tionate spirit, language and conductin re-
f gard to other States, and in relation to the
varied inters, institutions and habits of
sentiment and opinion which may respec-
lively characterize them. Mutual for
bearance, respect, and non-interference,
in our personal action as citizens, and an
enlarged exercise of the most liberal prin-
ciples of comfy in the public dealings of
State with State, whether in legislation or
in the execution of the laws, are the means
to perpetrate that confidence and fraternity
| the decay of which mere political uion,
on so vast scale could not long survive.
In still another point of view is an i'm
portant practical duties suggested by this
consideration of the magnitude of dimen-
sions, to which our political system, with
its corresponding machinery of govern
ment, is so rapidly expanding. With in
creased vigilance does itrequire us to cul-
tivate the cardinal virtues of public fru-
I gality and official integrity and purity
Public affairs ought to be so conducted
that settled conviction shall prevade the
entire Union, that nothing short of the
highest tone and standard of public marks
every part of the administration and leg
islation of the general government
Thus will the federal system, whatever
expansion time and progress may give it,
continue more and more deeply rooted in
the love and confidence of the people,
That wise economy, which is as far re-
moved from parsimony as from corrupt
ing extravagance,-that single regard for
the public good, which will frown, upon
all attempts to approach the treasury with
insidious projects of private interest cloak
ed under public pretexts,-that sound fs-
cal administration, which in the legisla-
tive department., guards against the dan
gerous temptations incident to overhowing
revenue, and, in the executive, maintains
an unsleeping watchfulness against the
tendency of all national expenditure to
extravagance,-while they are admitted
elementary political duties, may, I trust,
be deemed as properly adverted to and
urged, in view of the more impressive
sense of that necessity, which is directly
suggested by the considerations now pre-
sented.
, Since the adjournment of Congress, the
+ Vice President of the United States has
passed from the scenes of earth, without
having entered upon the duties of the
station, to which he had been called by
the voice of his countrymen. Having
occupied, almost continuously, for more
than thirty years, seat in one or other Of
the two Houses of Congress, and having,
by his singular purity and wisdom, secu-
red unbounded confidence and universal
respect, his failing health was watched by
! the nation with painful solicitude. His
loss to the country, under all the circum-
| stances, has been justly regarded as ire
parable.
In compliance with the act of Congress
of March 2, 1858, the oath of office was
administered to him on the gath of thai
month, at Ariadne estate, near Matanzas,