Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-01-01
SYNOPSIS OF PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 81.
| The Presidents Message was read in the SEN
ate to-day. He states that he has delayed until
this time his annual communication to the two
Houses of Congress in consequence of the nom
organization of the House, but his conviction of
duty will not permit him to delay longer in Civ
ing to Congress information as TO the state of the
Union, and recommending such measures as he
judges necessary or cNpcdlent.
The President commences by giving the his
tory OF Central American affairs in particular.
lie refers I" the recent trouble i'll Kansas and
says her people must be protected in the cXcr-
else of their rights, without interference on the
part of the people of any State He commends
the subject to the carly attention Of Congress,
and culogiZes popular sovereignty. He gives
history of the formation of the Union, and eX-
plates on State Rights with particular reference
to Slavery and the Fugitive Slave Law; regards
agitation as dangerous to the durability of the
Union, and regrets to see States disregard their
| Constitutional obligations and refuse to obey
the law of Congress. lie denies that the South
has obtained an advantage over the North in the
administration of the federal government, and
proceeds to refer to the Ordinance of 1857, and
the acquisition Of Louisiana, to illustrate the
balance of power between Freedom and Slavery,
and comes down to the annexation of Texas, the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise etc, and ar
cues that the South has got more than be-
longs to her. lie gives an elaborate defense of
the principles of the Nebraska Bill and indig-
nantly denies that it was breach of faith.
lie states that grave questions were pending
from some foreign powers, the most important
of which is that with Great Britain, arising out
of the Nicaragua question. 1t was the under
standing of the United States, i'll making the
treaty, that all the present States of the former
Central American Republic would thcnccforth
enjoy complete independence, and that both con-
tracing powers engaged equally, and to the same
extent for the present and future, that if either
! then had any claim of right in Central America,
such claim was unreservedly relinQuished by
the StipulatiOns of the Convention, and no do
minion thereafter be existed in any part of Cen
| traI America NV Great Britain or the United
| States This Government consented to certain
restrictions in regard to a region of country
wherein we had specific and peculiar interests
only upon the conviction that like restrictions
were in some sense obiigatoay on Great Britain,
and without this understanding it would never
have been concluded bv us.
Great Britain 50 continues the convention as
to maintain unchanged all previous pretensions
over MisGuito coast. etc These pretcnsions are
| founded on the political relation between Great
Britain and the remnant of Indians on that coast
entered into at time when the whole country
was in the colonial possession of Spain. It can
not be controverted that bv public law in Eli
rope or America that 10 paSsable oct of such
Indians or their predecessors conld confor IN
Great Britain nv any political riohts II hon
ever became annarert that Great Rr;+o;r s+;,l
continued in exercise of Iarrn on,bor;t,. in oil
that mart of Central Amcrir, commonl, c.l,o5
the Misouito act and covering the cnt;rs lcnoth
of Nicaraoua and thc MORT of Cost, Rico T6ic
act of Great Britain being contrary to tho rights