Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-12-12
The Presidents Message.

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ident Pierce, thank God has come! and
it is perhaps enough to say it is worthy
the man who subscribed it. Its assurance
and self graduation are almost sublime.
He has saved the Union; has been the
cause of the election Of Mr.. Buchanan,
and now he "dies contented." He is
drawing near the confines of political life,
and in the full glow of second childhood
he shoulders his crutch and fights his
battles Ger" He begins with the conf
dent assurance that this presidential cleo
ton has settled the question for the sec
tionalists, fanatics and wicked abolition
lists, that all their warfare against the
Union is overcome, and their counsels
killed by the election of Mr.. Buchanan
that from henceforth geographical parties
are dead, and then he devotes nearly one
half of his annual message to the killing
them off again. His entire policy, Or
rather his policy of carrying slavery into
Kansas by fire and sword, the people have
sanctioned and justified, and then he de-
votes page after page to justify it over
again. His message, or that part of it
relating to this matter is simply a rehash
of the cant and scandal which himself
and his party have thrown out against
the north for years geographical par
ties" ," disunion," &c. A sentence or two
demands a passing notice. He says -
Protected by the laws and usages of the
government they assail, associations have
been formed in some Of the States, of in
dividuals who, pretending TO seek only to
prevent the spread of the institution of
slavery into the present, or future incho-
ate States of the Union, are really in
famed with desire to change the domes-
tic institutions Of existing States"
Who does he mean? Is it Garrison
and the abolitionists? If so he bellies
them, for they make no such pretensions
as he ascribes. But does he mean the
supporters of Col. Fremont? There
can be no doubt that this is his meaning
And, really, he speaks of rather dan
gerous combination, rather a tall "socie-
ty." He must admit that~if they are
wicked those associations" are some
pumpkins" They have driven the bogus
democracy out of New England, horse
foot and Dragon" They have carried
the entire north with the exception O
Indiana, against the very policy which
Mr. Pierce plumes himself upon defend
ing. True, political huckstering ha,
cheated them out Of three other northern
States, electing the President by pluraIi.
ties, but the principles which " the people
have ratified are in the minority in all
the northern States, except Indiana
Indeed it may be truthfully said they
have not been contended for by ony par.
ty. Pierce has been cast overheard il
the canvass and Buchanan elected on tn,
very ground of the non-extension O
slavery, which we now learn was sinpIr
the doctrine of few societies in "som
of the States" Rather imposing " asso
Citations" these
But who told Franklin Pierce tina
these mighty associations of individuals
were infamed with a desire to chang
the domestic institutions of existin
States?" Col. Fremont said no sue
thing. The New York Herald said N
such thing. Mr.. Speaker Banks sal,
nothing of this kind, and it is not true.
Again the President, true to his soptb
ern instincts, accuses the north of the frs
breach of the Missouri Compromise. an,
alleges that it was repealed in Congress
only after it had been repudiated by tn
nation, and had become entirely inopera
tive and of no effect. 1t was thus re
pealed that the doings of Congress mieE
stand right on the record, to save appear
aneet just as dead dry limb is loppe