The daily union., 1856-12-20

its usefulness and % sap safety they mgh
indeed have corrected by the wholesome
reserved provided by the laws Of the several States
against asehood and defamation but public duties more
gent press on public servants and the Offenders
have therefore, been left find their punishment in the
public indignation.
should be fairly and fully made whether freedom OF discus
sion unaided by power s not suoient ior tns
itself in the true spirit constitution, with zeal and
rity and doing act which would be unwilling the whole
world should witness be written down BY falsehood and
defamation The experiment has tried you have wit
nesed fellow citizens have looked cool and
they saw the .rauns bsr pubs
onsrs and when the consultation called them 70 the
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Of man. who believes he may be intrusted with his own
affairs"
If Mr. jefferson had lived to day, he would have
found the asehood of the press his time bore but
very slight proportion TO the new system OF asehood In
which it indulges at this period.
There is another precedent will not read il, but
will refer it, Do all recolect that in his cee-
brated protest addressed to this body well as dispersed
throughout his annual messages at the same time Ad-
drew jackson referred TO the election OF 1882 as direct
endorsement of his conduct towards the Bank Of the Uni
ted States?
It may however be suggested that the present Chief
Magistrate not himself reelected, as Jefferson and
Jackson That distinction for the purposes OF this
gument amounts TO nothing. Those gentlemen have
themselves declared hereat the last session and at this
sessonthey bave declared throughout the country in
continuation OF the policy which this administration
has naugurated The question whether particular man
renominated by the democracy question with which
submit they have concern. 1t was 10 early times
favorite Of the democratic party that their Pres
dent should be elected for single term General jackson
prossed IT. and be violated that rule only in consdera
on of the peculiar circumstances which surrounded him
and the party in the year $780, do speak of the per-
sona relations of the present administration of Its choice
Of officers Of its conduct Of detail of the question whether
this might have been done better whether that should
have been left undone speak of the general principles
which have been prossed by the President and are pro-
essed, understand by the convention which nomna-
ted Mr. Buchanan and by Mr.. Buchanan himself
The senator from New Hampshire declared that the Pre
dent had authority under the constitution to discuss
these topics in executive message The President him
self answered that view in brief paragraph express
ed SO much better than could express it, that will trou-
Bile the Senate TO listen to it:
The constitution requires that the President shall from
time time, only recommend to the consideration Of
Congress such be Judge and
peent but also that he shall give information to them OF
the state of the Union To do this fully involves
foreign which essentially the general welfare
With that leave the President the ASSAULT which the
senator from New Hampshire made The senator from
Maine Mr FEssKSpKs charges the President with having
asserted that which he knew to be untrue he charges the
President with having uttered deliberate fsehood in
sertng that the people Of the North body claim for
Congress power to legislate the subject of slavery
ton. have already shown that in answering some OBJ
servations of my colleague but quote this paragraph in
order the matter at speaking OF
condition of this question the time when the compro-
mise adopted in September $780, the Pres
dent says:
"whle therefore, in general the people Of the northern
have time arrogated for the fede al
srnment power interfere directly with the domestic
condition of in the southern States bat the
trary all such intentions and have shrunk
from oonspcuous aation with pursue
anatca objects avowedy through the contemplated means
Of % st1ss q the .Sc win
citizens have suffered themselves 70 be drawn into
pertaining the set Of opinions and which subsidized
rapidly they whenit to be seen, As uniform
dd that they were insomp.te,s VIA the eomPac' Of the
The President has said In so many words that the body
Of the northern people arrogated for Congress any
such power The senator from Illinois Mr. TEpsEuLL
that the President falsely said that the supreme Court
of the United States had in long series of decisions de
clared that Congress had power to egsate upon the
subject of slavery in the Territories The President said
nothing of that sort The President did say Speaking,
benz remarked Of the state Of the Union at the time
OF the compromiss measures in ls3ol this
ain the progress of consutios. inquiry and reflection
It had length to be clear, congress
does not constitutional power TO impose restrictions
Of this char upon any future State OF the
Union. In long series Of decisions, the fullest argu
ment and after the most deliberate consder.on the su
preme Court OF the United States had finally determined
ths point every form under which the question could
arise whether a affecting public private ngb-n ques
servitude."
The President did say that in his opinion the eighth
section Of the act OF March 1890 which the senator call
the Missouri Compromise was null for unconstitutonay
but he did say that the Supreme Court had de
cided Is ii thing for President Of the United
States TO communicate Congress his opinion Of the
sttutonality unconstitutonay ofany measuref Why
the records which have full Of opinions expressed
by Presidents in the circumstances and certainly
President ever took upon himself that responsibility to
greater extent than Andrew Jackson.
The senator from Illinois not satisfied with that
He asserted that the Supreme Court bad decided exactly
otherwise and that assertion has been reiterated by the
senator from Vermont [Mr. CoLLAsER, and by my col
ton TO exact point these senators have finally settled
the Of the American Insurance Company Csnter
reported in Peters $50 1t is that rock they have
built their faith and IL II shall appear candid
inaon Of that case that does anything
which they have drawn from IT, then these
gentlemen must withdraw their opposition, and invent
crusade against the President and his political
supporter The assertion OF the senator from Illinois
that the court decided In that that In exercising urs
dcton the Territories Congress employed all the pow
of the federal and OF State government That NOT the
language OF the court has the court uttered
sion In relation to this subject What the case2 II
Ia easily stated weasel bad been driven ashore at Key
West In Fleda Territory and had been seized wreck
The was then brought before think syndic court
with FIVE jurors according 20 the Spanish law, They held
inquest the vessel and they condemned her
ic and ordered her be sold and the proceeds paid
the sslvor The OF the vessel when he left
the high had abandoned her the underwrterso
wit the American Insurance Company and these under
writers brought their action OF against the pur-
chaser at that sale claiming that there such legal
authority that this syndic court nnllity; THAI
IL had admiralty powers TO sit in Judgment of
wreck and that the whole Judicial proceeding void
The question TO the Supreme Court for determine
ton Mark you, SIR IL question OF admiralty juris-
dicon II the syndo court bad jurisdiction In admiralty
under the constitution, that end Of the under
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