, 1855-01-27
piORrtr an0 DrmOirat.
J, W. WILEY, EDITOR.
"Truth crush'd to earth will rise again,
The eternal years Of God are hers
The Presidents NTessage.


BY the arrival of the mail we are placed
in possession Of file OF the San Francisco
Her0H, up to January 1st. The number
of Dec. 3lst contains the message of Presi-
dent Pierce, delivered at the opening Of
the present Congress. The document is a
high-toned and statesman-like production
rejecting the highest credit on the ability,
forecast and frmncSs of our Chief Execu-
tive. 1t would afford us great pleasure to
lay it before our readers entire, but the
burthcned state of our columns with legis-
latve reports, and other hurried legislative
printing, with an insufliciency of help for
that purpose, prevents its appearance in
full in our regular issue, or precludes the
possibility of laying it at present before
our readers in the shape of an extra. We
must, therefore, be content with brief al
lusion to the prominent points treated Of
giving a few extracts pertaining to matters
in which the people of our Territory, and
the coast generally, feel a peculiar interest
Opening with few observations as to
the events of the past year-the entire fail
urc of crops in many parts of the country
the unusual prevalence of disease, and
the unparalleled causualties and sacrifice
of human life by sea and land, the Presi-
dent in bold, fearless, dignifed, and ME-
ly expose Of the policy of the United
States government with regard to its past
course, and the neutral attitude assumed in
the present belligerant state of affairs ex-
isting between the three great powers of
Europe, gives the transatlantic govern
ments TO understand most distinctly, that
the United States cannot be drawn into
the meshes of an European war, for the
purpose Of assisting in the adjustment of
the balance of power on that continent,
and that the wise theory of our govern
ment, so early adopted, and SO steadily pur-
sued, of strictly avoiding all entangling al
liances, will be firmly persisted in amidst
the shocks of discortlant elements struc.
Cling for supremacy across the Atlantic,
and that we are disposed to fashion our
own domestic policy in the extension Of our
territorial limits, after our own ideas of
proprety, in pacific manner. without in
voking the aid or council of any foreign
government; that the United States can.
in no wise, assume the quarrel. and array
itself alongside of either power in the
struggle now going on in Europe. In this
connection. the President refers 10 the fact
that he has succeeded in securing from
some of the European powers the speciic
recognition Of the American doctrine. that
free ships make free eoods.r exccpt arti-
cles countraband of war 6c treaty
has ncrordin0lv been conclnded with Rms
sio emhro,;no that nrorosition and some
progress has bcen making in Prussia and
tbe two S;c;l;os 20 no ono and. ,bo n,b;ol,
Mt tho commencement Of tho nresort Euro.
mean war botb Groot Rritoir aud Eroroo
solemrlv announced their dotormino,ion for
tho nrcscnt NJ Ieast s,rie,Iv 10 ohsor,o-
Tho kino Of Prussia on,iroIy onnrovos Of
tho mooSuro Inn, nrono,os an 0ad;,ionoI ar
ticlo rrov;d;rr g., tha ronnno;a,;on 0s NJ;
voteeriro 70 which tbe President IN On
orrumont srrros,. ,hot olthorrb srch On
ort;c,o Cor obvior. roosons mich, ho
mucb desired NV nations having naval os-
,oblishmonts ,.roo in nronortior N ,hoir
foroinr oommaros. Inn, Tho, n !, woro
adopted as an international rule the COM
morco Of a nation bavino, comnorotirolv .
small naval force won,d bo verv mncb NJ
tho mercy of its enemy in casa Of war with
a no,;on ~ do.;dod naval srnor;or;,r