Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-03-11

Va PcaCe anu aInIIy with all nations. l IN
tend that my administration shall leave no
blot on our fair record, and trust NAV safe
~ give the assurance that no act within the
legitimate scope of my constitutional control
Will be tolerated, on the part of any portion
OF our citizens, which cannot challenge a
ready Justification before the tribunal of the
civilized world. An administration would
be unworthy Of confidence at home, or res
Pect abroad, should it cease to be influenced
by the conviction that no apparent advantage
can be purchased at price SO dear as that Of
National wrong or dishonor.
1t is not your privilege as a nation to
speak of a distant past. The striking incl
dents Of your history, replete with instruc-
ton, and furnishing abundant grounds for
hopeful confidence, are comprised within a
period comparatively brief-but if your past
is limited, your future is boundless. Our OBJ
legations through the unexplored pathway Of
advancement will be limitless in duration,
hence sound and comprehensive doctrines
should embrace no less the distant future than
the urgent present. The great objects Of our
pursuit as people, are best to be attained
by peace, and are entirely consistent with
mankind. With the neighboring nations on
our continent, we should cultivate kindly and
fraternal relations. We can desire nothing
in regard to that SO much as to see them
consolidate their strength, and pursue the
path of prosperity and happiness.
If in the course Of their growth We should
open new channels of trade, and create adli-
tional facilities for friendly intercourse, the
benefits realized will be equal and mutual
Of the complicated European systems of Ma
tional politics, we have heretofore been indie
pendent; from their wars and their tumults
we have been happily almost entirely ex
empt.
While they are confined to tho nations
which gave them existence, and within their
separate jurisdiction, they cannot effect US,
except as they appeal to our sympathies in
the cause of human freedom and universal
advancement. But the vast interests of com
merce are common to all mankind and the
advantages Of trade and international inter
course must slways present noble field for
the moral influence Of great people.
With these views firmly and earnestly
carried out, we have a right to expect
and shall, under all circumstances, require
prompt reciprocity. The rights which be-
long to us as nation are not alone to be re-
garded; but those which pertain 20 every cit
izen in his individual capacity at home and
abroad, must be sacredly maintained SO
long as he can see every star in its place on
that ensign, without wealth to purchase for
him preferment, or title to secure for him
place, it will be his privilege and must be &C
knowledged right to stand unabashed even
In the presence of Princes, with a proud con-
seriousness that he is himself one of nation
of soveregns-and that he cannot, in legit-
mate pursuits, wander SO far from home that
the agent left behind, i'll the place which |
now occupy, will not see that no rude hand
of power, or tyranical passion is laid on him
with impunity. He must realize that upon
every sea, and on every soil, where our enter
prlses may respectively seek the protection Of
our flag, American. citizenship is an inyiolabIe
panoply of American rights, and in this con-
nection it can hardly be necessary to re-afIirm
the principle which should now be regarded
fundamental, that the rights, security and re-
pose of this contederacy, reject the idea Of
interference or colonization on this side Of
the ocean, by any foreign power beyond
present jurisdiction, as utterly inatlmissable.
The opportunities Of observation furnished
by brief experience as a soldier, confirmed
IN my own mind the opinion entertained and
acted upon by others, from the formation of
the government, that the maintenance Of
large standing armies in our country would
be not only dangerous but unnecessary-
They also illustrate the Importance, might
we'll say the absolute necessity of military,
civil and practical skill, furnished in such an
eminent degree by the institution which has
made your army what it is. Under the dis
clplne and instruction of officers, not more
distinguished for their solid attainInents, gal
lantry and devotion to the public service, than
for unobtrusiye bearing and high moral tone
the army as organized, must be neucleus
around which, in every time Of need, the
strength of your military power,--the sure
bulwark of your defence, lis in the Nation
al Militia, which may be readily formed into
well disciplined and efficient organization
and the skill and selfdeyotion Of the Navy
assure you that You may take the perform
Hnce of the past as pledge for the future and
may confidently expect that the flag which
has waved its untani>hcd folds over every
sea, will float in undimuished honor. But
these like many other subjects, will be appro-
prlately brought up at a future time to the
attention Of the coordinate branches of the
Government, to which | shall always look
with profound respect and with truthful con
tidence, that they will accord to Inc the aid
and support which l so much need, and
which their experience and wisdom will rea-
Oily suggest
In the administration Of our domestic at
fairs You will expect 4 devoted integrity in
the public service and au observance of rigid
economy in all departments so marked, as
never justly to be questioned If this rea-
sonable expectation he not realized, and
frankly confessed that one Of your Iealinc
measuris is doomed to disappointment, and
that my effort in a very important particular
must result in hum.liatine failure. Office
can be properly regarded only in the light
of aids for the accomplishment Of these OBJ
jects and as occupancy can confer no pre-