The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-12-19
MESSAGE OF TEE PRESIDENT.

This document excludes much other mattcrpre.
pared for this No. Of our paper. Ne publish en-.
src that porioa oft relating to the great question
in tho late canvass, and We condcnsc all the re-
mining parts OF the Message that relates TO our
domestic or home policy together with a part of
ia statements on foreign affairs. Next week we
will furnish our readers with the conclusion.
It is due the Chief Magistrate that his report OF
tha state Of the country should be laid before his
Constituents. Mr. Pierce has been assailcd in pr.
vatcIand official character to an extent that has
proved he,latitudc Of American debate, without
proving much else. lie takes occasion tojustify
the Government and its Executive Officer in the
course that has been pursued, and every man,
~ha.ever may be his rrcjudices or opinions,
should read this defence. It is able and conclu-
sive. The men, whether from tue North or from
the South, who have begun and sustained war in
Kansas, will not admire the part of the Message
nwhich we now refer, because it vii be found
upon perusal, to be a complete vindication of the
principles Of the Nebraska Bill, as it is on unan,-
wcrlble reproof to those who have made the pass
ege Of that bill prctence for sectional agitation.
The Republican Press has not allowed the Mes.
sage to go before the country without loading it
down with comments Of an offensive character
comments re-hashed from the Tribune, the Her
aid and the Independent, and now grown 50 stale
ns to be nauseous to many who have awakened
since the election to the deception which mis-led
them. a REPUTATION Of any one eff the Presidents
positions either historicao logicalis not attempt
ed. but the lighter and more characteristic labor
of denunciation, began in 1854, can be prosecuted
by the smallest specimen of Editorial boohyism
that mounts the tripodo Agitation" The blow
ing 81 rsns-horns and the hootings of an nfuri-
eeed mob, VIC are told, overturned Jericho, but the
history that records this singular result, contains
many other wonders that have never been duplica-
ted. One great historic character DESTROYED his
eucmies with the Jaw-bone OF an Ass, but the eff.
fort to destroy the american confederacy, though
attempted by handycds of those claiming to be san.
nointeda and using the sampsonian weapon too
has signally failed. ~
Is The Message isstyled "Pettifogging Apology
fDr this infamous administration. Jeffcrson's de
fcuc Of his administration in its relation to French
Af1airs-Mr Madison's vindication Of the War
Policyofl6i2, Jackson,s humiliation Of the pam.
pered officials of the U. 8. Bank and Mr.. Polk :
justification of his country and of his administers
tinn'on the Texan policy and the Mexican war
were all denounced by INSCRIPTIONS ASSISTANTS OF
american interests, on this, and on the other side
ofthc Atlantic but the Union has marched stead.
iy on, and the same breed of politicians, who, to
Gay. are the contemncrs Of principles which they
darc not grapple with, the slanderers of statesmen
whom they can not defames are obliged to own
mat tho great men to whom we have alluded,
were spotlcss in character and almost faultess in
Judgment Mr.. Pierce, ten years hence will not
fccognisc himself in the fattering picture which
his present assailants will draw Of him. " y
The Administration of our Government eithe,
in its foreign or domestic affairs, has never rcceiy
ed the support of the Anti Democratic party, ex
cept when subsequent events prove it to have beer
palpably wrong. ff@L 5aa
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