Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1853-03-10

nc great OBJECTS or our pursuit as 4
people, are best to be attained by peace,
and are entirely consistent with the tran
guilty and interest of the rest of man
kind. 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 happi-
ness
If in the course of their growth we
should open new channels of trade, and
create additional facilities for friendly
intercourse, the benefits realized will be
equal and mutual OF the complicated
European systems of National policies we
have heretofore been independent; from
their wars and their tumults we have
been happily almost entirely exempt.
While they are confined to the Nations
which gave them existence, and within
their separate jurisdiction, they cannot
affect US, except as they appeal to our
sympathies in the cause of human free
dom and universal advancement But
the vast interests of commerce are com
mon to all mankind and the advantages
of trade and international intercourse
must always present a noble field for the
moral influence of a 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
belong TO US as a Nation are not alone to
be regarded but those which pertain to
every citizen in his individual capacity at
i hnp,a on1 broad ho ] l.,
maintained. SO long as he can see every
star III it's place on that ensign, without
wealth to purchase him prefermont,o or title
/ to secure place, it will be his privilege,
and must be acknowledged right to stand
unabashed even in the presence Of Prin-
/ ces, with a proud consciousness that he
is himself one of a nation of soyereigns
and that he cannot, in legitimate pur-
suits, wander so far from home that the
/ agent whom he shall leave behind, in the
/ place which | now occupy, will not see
4 that no rude hand Of power, or tyran-
/ meal passion is laid upon him with i'm
! punity. lie must realize that upon
/ every sea aud on every soil, where our en-
/ terprises may respectively seek the pro-
lection of our flag, American citizenship
is an inviolable panoply of American
| rights, and in this connection it can
hardly be necessary to reaffirm the princi-
! pie which should now be regarded as fun
damental, that the rights, security and
repose of this coufederacy reject the idea
of interference, or colonization on this
side of the ocean, by any foreign power
beyond present jurisdiction, as utterly in
admissible.
The opportunities of observation fur.
nished by brief experience as a soldier
I confirmed in my own mind the opinion
I 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
Illustrated the Importance, [ might well
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 discipline and instruction of
officers, not more distinguished for their
solid attainments, gallantry aud devotion
to the public service, than for unobtru-
sive bearing and high moral tone, the
Army, as organized, must be a neuclus
around which, in every time of need, the
strength Of your military power, ever the
sure bulwark of your defence is in the Ma
tional Militia which may be readily formed
into well disciplined and efficient organ
ization and the skill and self devotion of
the Navy, assure you that you may take
the performance of the past, as pledge
for the future, and may confidently expect
that the flag which has waved its unfair
nished folds over every sea, will float in
undiminished honor. But these. like ma
ny other subjects, viii be appropriately
brought up at future time, to the atten-
ton of the coordinate branches Of the
Government, to which shall always look
with profound respect, and with truthful
confidence, that they will accord to me
the aid and support which shall so much
need, and which their experience and wis
dom will readily suggest
In the administration Of our domestic
affairs you viii expect a devoted integri-
ty in the public service, and an observ-
ance Of rigid economy in all departments
50 marked, as never justly to be question
ed If this reasonable expectation be
not realized, and frankly confessed that one
Of your leading measures is doomed to dis
appointment, and that my effort in very
important particular must not result in
a humiliating failure Office can be prop
erly regarded only in the light of aids for
the accomplishment of these objects, and
as occupancy can confer no preroga
tive, or importunate desire for preferment
any claim, the public interest imperative
ly demands that they be considered with
sole reference to the duties to be perform
ed Good citizens may we'll claim the
protection of good laws and the be
nign influence of good government; but
claim for Office is what the people of a
Republic should never recognize No
reasonable man Of any party, will expect
his administration, to be so regardless of
its responsibility. and the obvious ele
ments of success, as to retain persons
known to be under the influence of polit-
ical hostility and partisan prejudice, in
positions which viii require not only Sc
we're ahDr but cordial 60 0DpratiOn Hay