New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-03

The President in bis Message tells the People
what they have intended and what they have de-
cided in the recent Presidential Election. 1t seems
TO us that this is very unnecessary proceeding on
his part--worfe than carrying Goals to Newcastle
since the People may be presumed to know what
they have been about quite as well as he does.
And if it were true that the President, as Mr..
Pierce says, represents the aggregate population
"of the United States then he ought to be chosen
by direct vote of that population" aud not
through our arbitrary and complex machinery of
Electoral Colleges, whereby hundred voters in
South Carolina are allowed equal weight with
hundred and fifty in New-York or Ohio. Under
this machinery, President may be chosen in de-
6apce of q very large majority of the aggregate
.population of the United States; as We now see
Mr.. Buchal an the choice Of a han isOme majority
f the Electors, though he lacks many thousands OF
receiving majority of the votes Of the People.
By the choice Of this minority President, we are
told, the People have asserted the constitutional
EQUALITY Of all the States States and Of al the cit
liens as citizens, as we'll their unalterabe devo-
ton to the Union and the Constitution. In other
days, an organ of the American People, AMI espe-
cialiy Democratic organ, would have vaunted also
the devotion Of his msiituents to the Rights of
Man as Man; but Mr.. Pierce is wisely silent on
that head. The equality Of States and OF citizens,
be says, has been Northumberland the equally of
Men; the Constitution ana the Union have tri-
umphed; not the principles OF Eternal Justice, nor
of Human Freedom. "The rights of Human Ma
ture" for which our Revolutionary fathers declared
that they were brought into collision with the Brit
ish Crown, are not within the purview Of this Mes
sage; and the immortal assertion Of the Declaration
of Independence that 1--WE bold that all men are
"creat.d equal, and endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable rights, among which are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness, is sense
less farrago Of sedisious vcrbiaee-a mere coloca-
ton of "ghstering generaltirs," ccerling to Mr.
| Pierce. Surely his Message is as significant. in
IFS silence as in its assertions.
That the President has right and is bound to
lay before Congress all information essential %
their intelligent actin pubic affairs, is conceded.
But that lie may, through the form OF sta.ement
to Congress, assai large portion of the People as
disloyal to the Union furgetfa Of their constitu-
tiopal duties, and trsacherously hostile to their
fellow citizens is not clear The Presiden. accuses
the Republicans Of saying what they do not mean
and meaning whst they do not say-of " pretending
Ito seek only to prevent the spread of Slavery into
Territories" but really seeking some hing very
differ, nj. and of denouncng ali their ello citizens
who DO not unite with them in assaag the Con-
s.iuSon, &c. This is NO. the diction suited to q
grave public document-itis the slang of reckless
dsmagosue On the stump, IL degrades the Pre.-
Dental ,fce. and Will only serve to e1asperae those
whom it assals, pisrepresents and defames. No
man ever stood more self-condtmned than Franklin
PIERCE when after having hurled at the objects Of
his malevoent abuse all the foul charges he could
imagine, he finally accuses them OF unreasonins
intempersnce Of thought and language" In fact,