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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Felzoao-citizens of the Senate, and of the
House Of Representatives:
The Constitution requires that the Presi-
dent shall from time to time, not only re-
commend to the consideration of Congress
such measures as he may judge necessary
and expedient, but also that he shall give
information to them Of the state of the Union.
To do this fully involves exposition of all
matters in the actual condition of the coun-
try, domestic or forei gn, which essentially
concern the general welfare. While per-
forming his constitutional duty in this re-
spect, the President does not speak merely
to express personal canvictions, but as the
executive minister of the government, ena-
bled by his position, and called upon by his
official obligations, to scan with an impartial
eye the interests of the whole, and of every
part of the United States
Of the condition Of the domestic interests
of the Union, its agriculture, mines, manu-
factures, navigation, and commerce, it is
necessary only to say that the internal pros
perity of the country, its continuous and
steady advancement in wealth and popula-
ton, and in private as well as public we'll
being, attest the wisdom of our institutions,
and patriotism, which, Notwithstanding oc-
casional irregularities of opinion or action
resulting from popular freedom, has distin-
guishcd and characterized the people of
America.
In the brief interval between the termina-
tion of the last and the commencement of
the present session of Congress, the public
mind has been occupied with the care of Sc
lecting for another constitutional term, the
President and Vice President of the United
States.
The determination of the persons, who are
of risk.. -as- -eontingently, to preside over the
administration of the government, is, under
our system, committed to the States and the
people. We appeal to them, by their voice
pronounced in the forms of law, to call
whomsoever they will to the high post of
Chief Magistrate.
And thus it is that the Senators represent
the respective States of the Union. and the
meml,crs of the House of Representatives
the severa! constituencies Of each State, So
the President represents the aggregate pngH-
lation of the United States. Their election
Of him is the explicit and solemn act OF the
sole sovereign authority of the Union
1t is impossible to misapprehend the great
principles, which by their recent political
action, the people of the United States have
sanctioned and announced.
They have asserted the constitutional G.
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Union as States !; they have affirmed the con-
stitutional equality of each and all of the ci
tizens Of the United States as citizens, what
ever their religion, wherever their birth or
their residence they have maintained tho
inviolability of the constitutional rights OF
the different sections of the L on ); and they
have proclaimed their devoted and unater-
able attachment to the Union and to the Con-
stitution, as objects of interest superior
to all subjects of local or sectional contro-
versey, as the safeguard of the rights of all,
as the spirit and essence Of liberty, peace,
and greatness of the Republic.
In doing this, they have, at the same
time, emphatically condemned the idea of
organizing in these United States mere geo
graphical parties of marshalling in hostile
array towards each other the different par
ties of the country, North or East Or West.
Schemes of this nature. fraught with ,incal
culable mischief, and which the considerate
sense Of the people has rejected, could have
had countenance in no part of the country,
had they not been disguised by suggestions
plausible in appearance, acting upon an ex-
cited state of the public mind, induced by
causes temporary in their character, and it
is to be hoped transient in their influence.
Perfect liberty of association for political
objects and the widest scope of discussion
are the received and ordinary conditions of
government in our country. Our institu-
tions, framed in the spirit of influence in the
intelligence and integrity of the people, do
not forbid citizens, either Individually Or as
sociated together, to attack by writing,
speech, or any other methods short of ply
sical force, the constitution and the very
existence of the Union. Under the shelter
of this great liberty, and protected by the
laws and usages of the government they as
sail, associations have been formed in some
of the States of individuals who, pretending
to seek only to prevent the spread Of the in
stitution of slavery into the present or future
inchoate States of the Union, or really in
famed with desire to change the domestic