Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-12-13

~ should be held responsible iot PlaS'"6 4i'' So 80
Office the duties of which he cannot from @
ness of mind and early associations comprehenp'
and IN wholly. incapable of tischorging. Had he
possessed any Just conceptions Of the nature OF our
government and the principles on which it rests
be could moi have spoken OF religion as matter OF
ss,Ol.Tation.n 1t pertains 10 the rights oil con,
science, and these, like mostofour other persona
liberties, lie buck of the constitution. The con
stitution does not give them existence, It's proper
function is 10 guaranty and defend them. Amerl'
cans are not debtors 10 goVernn ent Tor Their Oer
lies. but government is deblor 10 them Tor ats pow"
ers and pr.rogatiyes. This error OF the President
NAV seem slight, and yet it is not. ortls IN TINS
way, mainly, that the personal liberties OF thect
izen are impaired, and usurpations creep into gov
ernment md become established But we ought,
doubt moi, to make some allowance for President
pierce. in this particular. He is from New Hampi
shire,-and there, believe 1t is only oil iale' II
vel That the different religious determinations pos
sess equal rights
The President tells us that the Controversies
which have heretofore ugitated the country are
passing away with the causes which produced
ibem." &C., &c and so is every living thing anu
this great globe itself, If theolognns tell us true.
Rut To what controversies does his Excellency here
refer? Those of wing and democrat?-or those
Of slavery or anti-slavery meni II the former,
then what a good-natuTed set of fellows these
wings must be, thus to forget their wrongs when
rot even one lean lsnk Wing, OF starving BARN OF
one Of them, is allowed a place, at or within the
Capitol or within ten long miles oft II the latter
that is, ifitalludes TO the controversies between
the slavery and anti-slayery men-between the
compromise and anti compromise men-then what
are we 10 understand by the next sentence of the
Message, which reads thus: "This nslO League Of
amity and mutual confidence and support INTO
which The people Of the Republic have entered
happily affords iuducement and opportunity for the
adoption of more comprehensive and unembar-
raised line of policy" What repeat, does this
mean? Does it not mean that the Government
or somebody else, has entered INTO league OF GHt-
i'm and mutual confidence nth t!freEsOiLers."
trow it does mean this, if ii means unything-or
that league has been entered into with Whiss-
and every body knows this is not so. That we may
not 10 the President injustice, (and which we
would not do for the world, for we have liking
to this stick Of the democracy, and enjoy exceed
neIy, TO see the ireesoIlers of the North and the
hish-Blood. Of The South, ''eOhO0tirg '0gether,')
we give i'll fu l the two paragraphs, which we have
in part quoted:
The controversies which have agitated The coun-
try heretofore are passing away with the causes
which produced them and the ASSIGNS which they
have awakened; or, if any trace OF them remains
may reasonably be hoped that It Will only Oe
perceived in the jealous rivalry oil all good citizens
10 testify their respect loE the rights Of tie States
their devotion 10 the Union, and Their common
determination that each of the States, Its IN
situations, its welfare and domestic peace shall
he held alike secure under the sacred 9gS oil The
constitution.
This new league OF amity and of mutual conf
dence and support, into which the people OF the
republic have entered. happily, affords induce
ment and opportunity for the adoption oil more
comprehensive and unembarrassed line Ct PSncy
and action, TO the great material interests Oh he
country, whether regarded in themselves or Ill con-
nection with the powers u; the civilized world.
But as specimen of lucid composition and Of
important information, given TO Congress, we in
wife the attention of the serious reader TO the next
paragraph. 80
| The United States have continued gradually
and steadily to expand, through acquisitions OF
! territory, which, how much soevef some oil lheI
may have heen questioned, are now universally
seen and admitted 10 have been wise III policy
lust in character, and, NTH it, Of the human Tuee
1 in freedom, IN prosperity and in happiness. Tie
thirteen Suites have grown to be thiTty-one, viii
relations reaching to Europe on the one side' aho
on the other 10 tile distant realms of Asia. -.
In this passage, We suppose there is some omis-
sion III ptinting-out business is not with mere
! words-supply or mend it, however as we may
please, the whole clause is unwotthy of aplace III
Presidents Message. We quote it, to show
how solemnly, even President of twenty millions
of people can ryfe. He gravely tells us the cOun-
! try has expanded, Gas though it were possible to
| increase our territory aud not expand,) and thai
the good old thirteen. have grown into thirty-ont
States and actually, have relations with Europe
and Asia. v onderlul President and wonderful
information ttiisI But as the President boasts he
is s'rict constructionist, suppose he thought II
wes necessary to communicate this information, ii
order 10 comply with that provision of the constitu
tion, which says che shall give Congress lniormn-
ton Of the state of the Union &C." We are moi
done ''however' with this paragraph. He no douI
by 1t, intended to fatter the public appetite fo
more territory, and to suppress his own opinion
if he has one, as to the conStitutionalty of sucl
acquisitions. But more anon.
But MS finiSher, 10 all that is grave and sublime
in the Iabors of the Statesman, read the next para
graph, and then pause and take BREATH. From the
bottom of our souls did we Syimpathize with his
Excellency, in his agonies, under his "immense
responsibility But what happy thing are those
| ever memorable resolutions of 1898. "BlrSsed bt
the man who inyen,ed them" they afford such 8
ady relief to all over-burdened. exhausted ant
fainting Politicians and Magistrates. 5-.rtv.
Bull am OBTAINING the reader from this elegant
extract"
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