Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-01-05
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.


PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
The people of the country OF all parties, VIII
doubtless approve the course OF the PRESIDENT IN
communicating his Message to tho Senate, though
the House of Representatives had not organized
He had duty to perform as well as Congress; and
If Inv no means followed, because the House negec-
ted to organize and place itself in readiness to
ceve communications from him, that he should post
pone, from month to month"; "giving to the Congress
information of the state of the Union, and recon-
mending to their consideration such measures as he
shall judge necessary and expedient."
The Message as our readers will observe, is devo-
ted TO Foreign Relations, to the Navy to the Army,
to the Postoffce, Treasury, and Interior Depart
nents to the Constitutional theory of the govern
ment and to the Constitutional relations of slavery.
In relation to Great Britain, and her claim over
the Mosquito country, the President Is clear, poht-
ed, and emphatic and feel sure that here, as
we'll as in regard to the recruitment question: he has
given utterance to both the feelings and the dclber.
ate Judgment of the American people.
Upon the great questions of the Constitutional
theory of the government and the Constitutional re-
laons of slavery the Message is all that could have
been expected or desired The President traces, as
with pencil of light, the history Of the formation
Of the Confedcracy, and sets forth with clearness
and truth the theory by which alone the Union can
be maintained, and rendered blessing to all sections
in the future as it has been in the past. 1t is not
necessary that We should make any extracts here
from the Message, but refer especially to those
portions of it which treat of the theory of the gov
eminent and the rights of the siaveholding States
He shows that sectional agitation is either angry,
idle and aimless" that it must result in disuniOn
and then what blasting rebuke does he give to
those fanatics of every name and hue, who are en-
gagged in assailing the South, and who declare by
their conduct that they prefer the supposed inter-
ests of the relatively few Africans in the United
States' to the welfare and happiness Of twenty-five
millions of Americans! The President also declares,
in connection with this subject, that {" it manly
and ingenious well patriotic and just to abro-
gate, directly and plainly the Missouri line-to re-
establish the Constitution as done in the Kan
sas Nebraska act leaving to the people of the Ter
ritories themselves to say whether they will have
slavery or no. And he also rebukes, by array of
ndspuable facts, the complaints of the freesoilers
and abolitionists this score. They have never
garded that line binding-they have sought, time
and again, to deprive that compromise Of moral
force-they have uniformly condemned it and voted
against it; and now, that it is repealed and the Con-
sitution itself put in operation in its stead they
make it the pretext for agitation and aggression and
urge its reenactment by sectional majority though
such legislation would inevitably end in the destruc
ton of the Union, and with it the best hopes of man.
Read the Message, and then hand it to your neigh
bors for perusal Franklin Pierce, Northern Dem
ocrat is true to the South because he is true to tile
Constitution. That is adj we ask
sY Hon. John NJ. Clayton in answer to a re-
uest to allow his name to go before the National
Convention Of the X. N. party as candidate for
Presidency, says he prefers his present position
sa U. 5. Senator, and declines being a candidate.
bird in the hand is worth two in the BUSH"
erhaps George Law would like to be the X. N.
hndidate; and if not George perhaps Sam Houston
Foud do. Houston has three friends in the Legis-
Rture of Texas. George Law has money, and could
lay expenses handsomely. Mr.. Fillmore is abroad,
nong those foreign influences" so much dcpreca-
ID by the K Ms. How would he do? He signed
fugi ive-slave law, after hauing been assured By
Attorney General, Nr. Crittenden, that 1t .oas
atitutional; he was slaughtered" by the
ey might test the strength Of plumes and buttons,
make what they could with Gen. Scott in court
the foreign vote he is good non-intervention
n in slavery, when the principle is in the COM
omise of 1850, but opposed to it, with many
her X. Ms, when Incorporated in the Nebraska
nsas act why not try him? If he could not
elected, he might at least weaken the Democrat.
candidate, and thus strengthen the Presidential
ket Of the abolition K. Ms and black Republicans.
would not that be something gained to those
lthen X. Ms, who know President Pierce. and
Buchanan and Judge Douglas to be sound on
slavery question, but who hate them and do
IN injustice, because they are Democrats?
81 The Boston Post calls attention to the K N.
sion Of the truth in the debate in the House Of
Presentatives on the 18th. Mr.. Smith, of Va,
that Mr.. Banks the African candidate for Speak
was not Know Nothing. Mr.. Damrel, of Mas
Pusetts, said Mr.. Smith was mistaken-that Mr..
KS had not withdrawn from the Order. ''Then,"
led Mr. Smith, II suppose Mr. Banks is still of
American party?" To this Mr. Marshall,
hern K. N, answered mo" Some one then
TASK Mr.. Banks himself but Mr.. Banks was
Now, who has equivocated ?-wbo has lied
is matter? This specimen of Know Nothing
americans stand by your colors" is the
cant heading in the "Twinkler" of this CITY
'eket for Mayor and Commissioners, wherein
- 'shnor German, OF the Age" figures as a
a'e IN the Western Ward Caught, at last!
"ot our ne'ghbor Know Nothing? -
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