Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-12-09
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
This document was telegraphed to the Mil
waukee Sentinel on Wednesday afternoon and
night, and occupies over five columns of that
paper. Not receiving it until just as we were
ready to go to press, its publication entire in
our present number, was of course out Of the
question. We give, very briefly, the topics
of the message:
/. Our Diplomatic Relations are repre-
sentedto be in satisfactory condition gene
rally. The questions at issue with Great Bri-
tain, Austria, Cuba, and Peru, are in train
of adjustment, and will probably lead to no
serious difficulties.
/ 2. The business of the claim of citizens OF
Spain in the case of the schooner Amistad,
is urged upon Congress.
T. 3. An indirect allusion to the compromise,
the maintenance of which is though to be es-
sential to the peace and permanency of the
! Union.
4. TIE Financial policy Of tie Gopeyn-
ment.-No radical change suggested, but the
necessity of caution and integrity i'll the APP
preparation Of public funds, and in the man
agemcnt of our fiscal affairs, dweit upon at
length, and strongly urged.
3. Fiscal conditi0n.-Public revenue for
the fiscal year, ending June 80, 1853, s6l,-
337,574-exrenditures, $43,554, 1862. The
President recommends, first the application
of the surplus to the discharge of the public
debt, 50 far as it can be judiciously done, and
second, the general reduction of the revenue
to the standard Of public wants.
6. .1rmy and Napy--An increase of the
strength of both is recommended.
Z. Post Office observation-disclosures
between receipts and expenditure $2,042,-
032. The causes of the deficiency dwelt up
on, but no particular recommendation made.
3. Frauds Up0a the Pension Bureau
Numerous and fragrant. Defects of the law
dwelt upon, and changes called for.
9. Pubiic Lands-No change recommcn-
ded in the system Of disposal except such as
may favor actual settlers in the extension of
the presumption principle, DC Opposition
expressed to the general principle Of grants
Of land for improvement purposes.
10. y change in patent laws suggested.
II. The interests and wants OF the Dis
trict Of Columbia stated and urged.
II. Judiciat System-An enlargement and
modification recommended.
10. Opposition to the general principle Of
appropriations for works of local character,
Improvements of harbors, rivers, &c, clearly
stated. The President plants himself upon
the doctrines i'll this regard, Of President
Jackson's Maysville Road veto.
IA. Pacific Rail Road. It's importance
in national point Of view is fully conceded,
and the President declares himself disposed
to favor the granting Of aid by all Constitu-
tlonal means for the prosecution "of a road
which will unite by speedy transit the popu-
lation of the Atlantic and Pacific States."-
Nevertheless, the reader is left to infer that
he is not friendly to appropriations of money
or grants of land for this project. Such, at
least, is our inference, from haSty reading
Is. ~ column or SO of somewhat vague
generalization, about powers, and duties,-
constitutional rights of the states, the spirit of
compact, manifest destiny, dc. De. The &c.
LIBERATED compromise, though not in direct
terms is again referred to, as having "given
renewed vigor to our institutions, and restor-
ed a sense Of reposc and security to the pub
lie mind throughout the confederacy," which
"repose is to suffer no shock duriug my Off
cial term
The President makes brief allusion to
the death of Vice President King. He then
closes with an expression of unlimited conf
dcnce in the intelligence and patriotism Of
Congress, and intimates, if the same degree
of generous confidence" is extended to him,
they may have a harmonious and happy
time Of it generally.
EE- Our adamantine neighbor can see no
reason to suppose that the people of this ma
ton are about to rush to one side or the 9TH
er of the slavery question, and he rather pi-
ties the delusion of those who think they can
Adamant is rather slow tomovc or be moved
and we rather suspect our neighbor will be
the last to see facts, which to those who make
use ofthcir eyes, are already apparent Since
he has conducted a paper here he has deyo-
ted ten times the space to the discussion of
the slavery question that he has to any other
political measure and the same has been the
fact with all other political papers of the Tn
ion; the slavery question is the basis of the
platform Of the present democratic party, and
is the staple of ninety-nine hundredths Of the