The Empire County argus., 1855-01-06
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massacred with impunity The recurrence of such
scenes can only be prevented by teaching these
wild tribes tbe power of and their responsibility to
the United States. From the garrisons of our from
tier posts it is only possible to detach troops in
small bodies, and though these have on all occa-
sons displayed gallantry and stern devotion to
duty, which larger field would Lave comman-
ded universal admiration, they have usually suffer-
ed severely in these conflicts with superior num-
bers and have sometimes been entirely sacrificed
All the dsposable force of the army is already en-
ployed on this service, and is known to be wholly
inadequate to the protection which should be aor-
ded
The public mind of the country has been recent
ly shocked by savage atrocities committed upon
defenceless emigrants and border settlements, and
hardly less by the unnecessary destruction of valu
able lives where inadequate detachments of troops
have undertaken to furnish the needed aid. With
out increase of the military force they will be repe
tedt is to be feared on larger scale and with more
disastrous consequences. Congress am sure will
perceive that the plainest duties and responsible
ties of government are involved in this question,
and doubt not that prompt action may be conf
IDENTIFY anticipated when delay must be attended by
such fearful hazards.
The President entertains no very friendly feel
ings toward Railroad spectators, end the Pacific
Rail Road need expect but little aid at his hands.
Hear him:
"When we reflect that since the commencement
of the construction of railways in the United States,
stimulated as they have been by the large divdi-
dends realized from the earlier works over the great
thoroughfares, and from the most important points
of commerce and population, encouraged by State
legislation and pressed forward by the amazing
energy of private enterprise only seventeen thous-
and miles have been completed in all the States in
quarter of century when we see the crippled
condition of many works commenced and prosecu-
I l..
and safe calculations when we contemplate the
enormous absorption of capital withdrawn from the
ordinary channels of business the extravagant rates
of interest at this moment paid to continue opera
tions the bankruptcies not merely in money, but
in character and the inevitable effect upon fnan-
ces generally ;-can it be doubted that the tenden
CIV is to run to excess in this matter =! Is it wise
to augment this excess by encouraging hopes of
sudden wealth expected to flow from magnificent
schemes dependent upon the action of Congress
Does the spirit, which has produced such results
need to be stimulated or checked Is it not the
better rule to leave all these works to private en-
terprise, regulated, aud when expedient, aided by
the cooperation of States If constructed by pri-
vate capital the stmulant and the check go to-
gether and furnish salutary restraint against
speculative schemes and extravaganza. But it is
manifest that with the most effective guards, there
is danger of going too fast and too far.
For the present we give only one other extract,
as perhaps the best turned paragraph of the Mes
sage:
'Our forefathers of the thirteen United Colonies,
in acquiring their independence, and in founding
this republic of the United States of America have
devoved upon us, their defendants, the greatest
and the most noble trust ever committed to the
hands of man, imposing upon ALL and especially
such as the public will have invested for the time
being, with political functions. the most sacred OBJ
legations We have to maintain inviOlabe the great
doctrine of the inherent rights of popular self gor
ernment to reconcile the largest liberty of the in
divdual citizen, with complete security of the pub
lie order; to render cheerful obedience to the laws
of the land, to unite in enforcing their execution,
and to frown Indignantly all combinations to
resist them to harmonize a sincere and ardent de-
voton to the institutions of religious liberation to
preserve the right of all by causing each to respect
those of the other; to carry forward every social
improvement to the uttermost limit of human per-
fechbility, by the free action OF mind upon mind
not bv the Obtrusve intervention of misplaced
force to uphold the integrity and guard the limi-
tations of our organic law to preserve sacred from
all touches of usurpation, as the very palladium of
our political salvation, the reserved powers of the
several States and of the people; to cherish, with
loyal featy and devoted affection, this Union, as
the only sure foundation on which the hopes of
civil liberty rest; to administer government with
vigliant integrity and rigid economy to cultivate
peace and friendship with foreign nations and to
demand and exact equal justice from all but to
do wrong to none; to eshew intermeddling with
the national policy and the domestic repose of 9TH
er governments, and to repel it from our own ne
yer to shrink from when the rights and the
honor of the country call to arms, but to cult-
vate in preference the arts of peace seek enlarge
ment OF the rights of neutrality, and elevate and
liberalize the intercourse of nations; and by such
just and honorable means, and such only whilst
altng the condition of the republic to assure to it
the legitimate influence and the benign authority
ofa great example amongst all the powers of Chris
tendon.