Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-12-05
NJ ESS AGE

FROM THE
ID EcIDENT OF THE UNITED STATE


time time not only to the consideration of
peden but also that give information to them of
the state of the Union To do this tuy Involves
or foreign which essentially the general welfare
While performing his duty in this respect the
tons but the executive minister of the ena
bled by his position and called upon by his oea so
and Of every part of the United States
OF the condition of the domestic interests OF the Unlon "
agriculture mines manufactures navigation and commerce
is necessary only say that the internal prosperity of the
and nonuation and in private as public wellbeng,
attest the wisdom of Institutions and the
spirit of intelligence and patriotism, which, notWltnsCanons
Occasional irregularities opinion action resulting from
popular freedom, has distinguished and characterized 'e
In the brief interval between the termination of the last
and the commencement of the present session OF CGngs
for another constitutional the President and Vice Pres
dent of the United States -, 1900.
tngeny preside the administration of the govern
ment under SYSTEM committed to the states ana
people appeal them by their voice pronounced IN the
forms of law to call whemsoever they will to the high post
And thus It is that as the represent the respective
States of the Unon the members of the House of Rep
the several constituencies of each state 50 the
Sates Their election Of him the explicit and solemn
of the sole sovereign authority OF the Union
which by their recent political action the people of the
United States have sanctioned and announced. -
and ali of the States Union States they have a
rmed the constitutional equality of each and all of the
gon whatever their BIRTH their residence they have
the invioabty of the rights OF
the different sections of the Union and they have
ed their devoted and unaerabe attachment to the Union
and the constitution, objects of interest superior to an
subjects sectional controversy the safeguard OF
the rights ALL the spirit and the essence OF the liberty
peace, and greatness of the Republic.
condemned the idea of organizing these United States
geographical parties of marhang IN hostile array
towards each other the different parts OF the country
or South East or West.
Schemes of thisnature raughtIwith incacuabe mischief
h h had ms no %
they been disguised by suggestions plausible in appear
ance acting upon excited state OF the public MIND lndu
oed temporary in their character and it is to be
hoped transient in their influence.
Perfect liberty of association for Political objects and the
scope discussion the received and ordinary
conditions of in country Our Institutions
tegrity people, forbid citizens either indivd
uay associated together attack by writing speech,
ton and the very existence the Union Under the shell
of this great liberty and protected by the laws and
usage of the they associations have been
formed in of the States of individuals who pretend
ing to seek only to prevent the spread OF the ITO OF
really infamed with desire to change the domestic
ct tai s odon as @
organization which stands in their and
citizens of particular States with whose laws they find fault
but all others of their throughout the coun
thy framed and adopted by our fathers and
claiming for the privileges has secured and the blessings
conferred steady support
of their children: They seek object which they well
know to be revolutionary They perfectly aware
. black races in the slaveholdng States which they would
promote beyond their lawful authority that to them it
foreign object; that cannot be effected by peaceful
nsruT enaty of theirs that for them, and the States
which they citizens the only path to its accomplishment
ed populations, and all there most terrible foreign
pcated with civil and serve and that the first step
n ing broad bosom degree of liberty, and amount
of individual and public prosperity TO- which there is nc
and inevitably mutual
and atrcda carnage transforming the peaceful
ike Of urope
Well knowing that SUCH and such only the and
to prepare the people U civil by doing
everything in their to deprive the Constitution ant
laws of moral authority and to undermine the fabric
the Union by appeals to passion and sectional
ucating stand face face enemies rather thar
20 shoulder to shoulder as friends.
al 1t is by the agency unwarrantabe interference
foreign and domestic that the minds of many, otherwise
good citizens have been nAamed into the passionate
States as at length pass nsensby to almost equally pas
sonato hostility towards their of those States
and thus finally fall into temporary fellowship with tn
- avowed active of the Constitution Ardent
attached to liberty in the abstract they do stop
at slider practically how the object they would attain
accomplished, to reflect that if the evil
great as they deem it, they have no remedy to apply an
constitutional action question, which of the mos
difficult of all the problems of social institution, poltiea
economy and craftsmanship they treat with unreasonn
1e incompetence of thought language Extremes bege
r. extremes Violent attack from the North finds its nevits
at the South Thus progress reached tia
which the voice of The people has point
of edy rebuked of the attempt of portion of the States
sectional organization and movement to usurp the contr
u of the government of the United States
confidently believe that the great body of those who
p considerably took this fatal STEP sincerely attached
the Constitution and the Union They would, upon DELHI
ration shrink with unaffected from any
of isunen civil But they have entered into pat
which leads nowhere unless be to civil and dsunio
which has other possible outlet They have
he ed thus that direction of the
stages eff their progress having consisted of series of seco
Diary issues each of which proessed to be confined with
and peaceful limits but which attempted ind
aggressivey against the constitutional rights of
,w one-half of the thrty-one States.
In the long series of acts of indirect aggression the fir
the strenuous agitation. by citizens of the NOrthe
States in Congress and of it, of the question of neg
m, emancipation in the Southern States.
The second step this path of evil consisted of
people of the northern States, and In several instances
their governments aimed to facilitate the escape of perso
service in tie southern States and prevent thu
of extadon when reclaimed according to law and virtue
express provisions of the Constitution To promote this
oD ect legislative enactment and other adopted
take away defeat rights which the Constitution solemn
guaranteed In order nufy the then existing act of Co
gress concerning the extradon of ugves from serv
tho enacted in States ferbadng their Office
under the severes penalties to participate in the execut
hat of act of Congress whatever In this that syst
of harmonious cooperation between the authorities of
United States and of the several States for the mantenal
of their common institutions which existed in the ca
years of the Republic, destroyed conflicts of jurisd
pee for the support of the Constitution and the vindi
ton of its power, authorize the appointment of
'nS charged with the execution of its acts key
the officers of the States the minister's respectively
and foreign governments of mutual hostility,
for than fellow magistrates of country, peaceful
subssng under the protection of one we'll constituted
and the attacks upon the Constitution this point did
lid to raise barriers for defence and security