Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-12-05
Presidents Message.
GenHemen ofthn lSennte


mend to'the consideration of congress sucl
measures IS he may Judge necessary and ex
pedieRt but also that be shall give informa
ton as to the state Of the Union.
To do this fully involves exposition of al
matters in the actual condition of the coun
try, domestic or foreign, which essentially
concern the general welfare.
While performing this constitutional du
ty in this respect, the President does moi
speak merely to express personal conyic-
tons, but as the Executive Minister of the
Government Enabled BY bis position and
called upon by his official obligations tc
scan with an impartial eye the interests Of
the whole and every part of the United
States, of the condition of the domestic in
terests of the Union, its agriculture, mines,
manufactures, navigation and commerce, il
Is snecessary only to say that the internal
prosperity Of the country, its continuous and
steady advancement in wealth and popula-
ton and in private as we'll as public wei-be-
ing, attest the wisdom of our institutions
and the predominant spirit of intelligence
and patriotism, which notwithstanding &C.
casionai irregularities of opinion or action
resultingfrom poSalar freedoms has dislin-
guished and characterized the people of
America. feE5eE e-s:s F5sznsH Z So (
In the brief interval between the termi-
nation of the last and the commencement
Of the present session Of Congress, the pub
lie mind has been occupied with the care of
selecting for another constitutional term the
President and Vice-President of the United
States. The determination Of the persons
who are Of right or contingently 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
whomsoeEer they viii TO the high post of
Chief Magistrate. And thus it is that as
the Senators, represent the respective States
of the Union, and the members ofthe House
Of Representatives the several constituencies
Of each State, so the President represents
the aggregate population of the United
States. The election of him is the explicit
and solemn act of the sole sovereign author
ity of the Union.
1t is impossible to misapprehend the great
principles which by their recent political ac-
tion the people of the United States have
sanctioned an announced They have as
serted the constitutional equality of each and
all of the States of the Union. As States,
they have affirmed the constitutional equal
ity Of each and all of the citizens ofthe Uni
ted States, aseitizens whatever their religion,
wherever their birth or residence. They
have maintained the invisibility of the con-
stitutional rights of the different sections of
the Union, and they have proclaimed their
undivided and uaalterable attachment to
the Constitution and the Union as objects
Of interest superior to all subjects of local
or sectional controversy, as the safeguards of
the rights of all, as the spirit and essence of
the liberty, peace and greatness of the Re |
public. In doing this, they have at the
same time emphatically condemned the idea I
Of organizing in these United States more
geographical parties, of marshalling in hos
tile array towards Aach other the different {
parties of the country, North or South, East
Or West. !
Schemes of this nature fraught with in ,
,alculable mischief and which the consider
lte sense Of the people has rejected, could
nave had countenance in no part of the 7
country had they not been disguised by sug- G
yestions plausible in appearance. acting up a
N an excited state of the public mind in a
iuced by causes temporary in their charac- I
er and it is to be hoped transient in their i
perfect liberty of association for
'olitical objects and the widest scope of dis a
ussion are the received and ordinary con O
lition Of government in our country. t
Legislation has been recommendedBby
ne. Our institutions framed in the spirit o
f confidence in the intelligence and integ- t
ity Of the people, do not forbid citizens Ell S,
her individually or associated together to b
ttack by writing, speech, or any other meth tt
d short Of physical force the Constitution 81
nd the existence of the Union under the 81
helter of this great liberty, and protected 7
y the laws and usages of the government ct
hey asSail, Associations have been formed qI
q some ofithe States of individuals who, Ii
retendiDg to seek only to prevent the b.
pread Of the institution of slavery into tho di
resent or future States of this Union, are c.
sally infamed with a desire to change the 81
omestic institutions of existing States. o,
To accomplish their objects they dedicate m
to the odious task of depreciat- to
lg the good organization which stands in ac
heir way, and of eliminating with indis- ey
iminate invective, not only the citizens Of te
articular States with whose laws they find or
Iult, but all others Of their fellow citizens so
lroughout tho country who do not particii- of
ate with them in their assaults upon the m
constitution, framed and adopted BY our m
athers, and claiming for tho privileges it al
as secured, and the blessings it has con ia
rred, the steady support and grateful rev. of
renee of their children. W
They seek an object which they we'll
now to be revolutionary one. They are ri
srfectly aware that the change in the rela- ia
We condition OF the whito and black races, th
the slave-holding States which they to
Ould promote, is beyond their lawful au- 70
Iority; that to them it is a foreign object, ST
iat it cannot be effected by any peaceful th
of theirs, that for them and es
70 states of which they are citizens, the on of
path to its accomplishment is through he
lrni6g cities, and ravaged fields, and pc
augbtered populations, and all there is in
ost terrible in foreign, complicated with pl