The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-12-11
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Fellcw Citizens ofthe Senate,

president shall, from ume 70 TIME, hotoniy
recommend to the consideration of Con
gress such measures as lie may judge ne
cessary and expedient. but also that he
shall give information to them of the state
Of the Union. To do this fully involves
an exposition of all matters in the actual
condition ofthe country, domestic or for.
eign, which essentially concern the gene
raj welfare. While performing his con
stitutional duty in this respect, the Presi-
Gent does not speak merely TO express s
pers III convictions, but as the executive
minister of the government, enabled by
his position, and called upon by his otfi-
cal obligations, to scan with An impartial
eye the interests of the whole, and of ev-
! cry part of the Unitel States.
OF the condition of the domestic inter-
ests of the Union, its agriculture, mines,
manufactures, navigation, and commerce,
lit is necessary only TO say, that the IN
!ernal prosperity of the country, its con-
tinuous and steady advancement In wealth
and population. and in private as well as
public well being, ettest the wisdom OF
our institutions, and the predominant spl-
rit of intelligence and patriotism, which,
Notwithstanding occasional irregularities
of opinion or action resulting from popu-
lar freedom, has distinguished and cha
rae eiized the people of America. ..
In the brief interval between the ter
mination of the last and the CON mence-
ment Of the present session of Congress,
the public mind has been occupied with
the care of selecting, for another constitu-
tional term. the President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States.
The determination of the persons, who
are of right, or coniingently, to preside
over the administration OF the govern
ment, is, under our system, committed to
the States and the people. We appeal
to them, by their voice pronounced In
the forms of law, 10 call whomsoever
they will to the high post of Chief Magis
trate.
And thus it is that as the Senators rep
resenting the respective States of the
Union, and the members of the House of
| Representatives the several constituencies
of each State, so the President represents
the aggregate population Of the United
States. Their election of him is the ex-
| plicit and solemn act Of the sole sovereign
authority of the Union.
1t is impossible to misapprehend the
great principles, which, by their recen
poll teal action, the people Of the Uni'eo
States have anctioned and announced.
i They have asserted the constitutional
Equality of each and all of the States
4 of the Union as States they have affirm
ed the constitutional equality of each anc
all the citizens of the United States al
citizens, whatever their religion, wherev
er their birth or residence they have
maintained the inviolability of the constl
tutional rights of the different sections o
the Union and they have proclaimet
| their devoted and unalterable attachmen
to the Union and to the Constitution, a
objects ofinterest superior to all subject
of local OF sectional controversy, ss th
safeguard Of the rights of all, as the spiri
and the essence of the liberty, peace an
greatness of the Republic.
In doing this, they have, at the sam
: time, emphatically condemned the idea c
: organizing in these United States nler
geographical parties of marshalling i
hostile array towards each other the dli
terent parts of the country, North o
South, East or West.
f Schemes of this nature, fraught wit
e incalculable mischief, and which the cor
siderate sense of the people has rejected
could have had countenance in no part {
n the country, had they not been DISCUS e
# by suggestions plausible in appearance
), acting upon an exalted state of the put i
mind, induced by causes temporary
: their character. and it is to be hope
transient in their influence. il-
Perfect liberty of association for polit
cal objects, and the widest scope of di
=, cussion, are the, received and ordina,
\ conditions of governmental our countr.
Our Institutions, framed IN the spirit
: confidence in the intelligence and integr
ty of the people, do not forbid citizen
H. either individually or associated togethe
to attack, by writing, speech, or any OF
: er methods short Of physical, force, Il
:. Constitution and the very existence of Il
~ Union. Under the shelter of this gre
liberty, and protected by the laws al
sociations have been formed in some
the States, of individuals, who, preten
IS. ing to SCI k only to prevent the spread
the institution of slavery into the prese
Or future incboate States OF the Unio
10, are really inaamed with the desire.
change the domestic institutions of exi
= ing States. I, To accomplish their objec
they dedicate themselves to the odio
q task Of depreciating the government {
"A ganization which stands in their We
- and of calumniating, with indiscrimin;
! inyectiye, not only citizens of particu
States, with whose laws they find far
LE but all others of their fellow citize
i. throughout the country, who do not p
- ticipate with them in their assaults up
the Constitution, framed and adopted
The our fathers, and claiming for the pri
US leges it has. secured, and the blessings
- has conferred. the steady support a
grateful reverence of their children
the ~ T.o,,.1.!.:...-.~ m,
ind W. " q ~ 'oDit"'ionoiy Dit ono.
ex- are perfectly aware that the change
,ro- the relative condition of the white {
md black races in the jslaveholding Sta
SEQ "a whi ch they would promote, is beyt
M their lawful authority J; that to them
! 10 a foreign object; that it cannot be eff
by ed by any peaceful instrumentality
VII theirs; that for them, and the States
un. IN which they are citizens, the only patl
its accomplishment is through burn
{ cities, and ravaged fields, and slaugh