Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-01-13
The London Times on the Message of
President Pierce.

From tile Times December 90.
Year after year, as the President of the United
States addresses tie vast community which hus
elected him their temporary Chef he seems 10 have
the glnndeSt opportunity that fall 10 the lot oil
ruler or statesmen. Sc, at least it has been for
some Years. and under circumstances that, with
small interruption, have lasted, and seem likely 10
last, for some time. II is the uniform task of the
President to tell his fellow citizens, whnt, indeed,
they all know, Tor even lleir children are taught
1.-THE almost Unlimited capacity OF their CONT
nent, their plpulutIOn, Their commerce, lhe!r rev.
enue, their constitution, their national enterprise
and skill, and whatever else may contribute 10
great Empire. The facts are so potent, the con-
lTaSI with The States OF The Old W OTld obvious,
and the prospect so inSplrtlng, that the simplest
language becOules grand under so mighty a theme.
Mighty, indeed, it IS for all those material purpo
Ses hat constitute the chef labor of statesmen III
this material sphere. "OurS,' says the President,
| in the Message which has just arrived, sis InoSt,
| If rot absolutely, the solitary Power of ChIIslen
dom having surplus revenue drawn immediately
| from imnOStS on commeICe." While that the
state of American finance. the population OF the
United States, we are told, is doubling every quar-
Ter of century, and there is little reason to doubt
that il will long continue IN that ratio. As much
| as ten million acres are every year brought into
market, and addeL 10 the area of enterprise. To
crown ALL the disputes that have hitherto threat
ened the peace and integrity OF the Union haze
| lately given way to reasonable compromise; and
the President assures u.s. though on this point the
wish may be iatl or 10 Tue thought, that the people
| of the Republic have entered into ga league
| OF unity and mutual confidence and SuppoTt."-
The StateS have increased from tMEteen 10 thirty
! Que; embryo States are rising ia the newly ac-
uuired Territories; roads and postal communities
tons are projected no longer from city to city but
from ocean 10 ocean; aud the only difficulty Is that
of meeting the inst ard simplest demcmdso OF pros
porous and increasing people. The one admitted
| uTu wbRck IN tlS picture OF almost prettrnatuTal
prosperity aud growth is the peSIlIence which has
rayaged the chief Southern city in the Union. The
President jiSpOSrS of this on the very threshold oil
his Message with tue Suitable comment, that sit
is well that consciousness OF rapid advancement
and increasing strength be habltual.y associated
with an abiding sense OF dependence upon him
who holds i'll HIS hands the deslinies of men and OIL
| HaIiouS.'' Happy indeed the ruler who las no
other dark cloud in the sky, no other flaw in the
system, other devastating sore IN the common
wealth to point TO, and who may congratulate his
fellow citizens that whatever their troubles, they
are in the HANDS Ofthe Almighty and not OF m4n!
| The finance Of the Union IL that particular Tea
ture of this prosperity which will be most apple
cIated by the deeply indebted ard heavily buIuened
States If the Ola World; ''rhe revenue of the
country, says the President, "levied almost lnSen
Slbly to the taxpayer, goes on from year 10 year,
increasing beyond either the interests the pros
pectIve wants Of the Government How lncredi+
bic this must sound, will not say the shores
OF the BoSphOTuS, or ia the efsle kIngdomS OF the
lberan Peninsula, but IN any one of our European
empires! Yet tits fully borne out by the figures
in The case AT Mid summer last year there was
a balance OF more than fourteen million dollars in
The Treasury; and as the revenue of the ensuing
year was over SIXTY one mil i6nSs @hlle The expen
dltuIe was only between thfee and ioIy 1fout
mill .ons last Mid-summer the surplus exceeded
thirty-two millions. What was 10 be done with this
fabulous abundaRce3 twas areaI difficulty, III
Europe the fortunate Governments that came IN Ior
such windlall would immediately have SCI about
new chain of Eortresses, or feet Of war steam
ers the INVASION Of q neigh boring country. Hap
PLY for the United States, such are not the first