New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-09

cent measures have been TAKEN which is believed will
restore quiet and afford protection to QUE citizens The
troubles in Kansas the President hopes will be ended
the sound Of the people of the Territory, who
It's organic lsw possessing the right to determine their
own domestic institutions entitled while deporting
themselves peacefully to the free exercise Of that right
and must be protected in the enjoyment Of without in
terference the part the citizens Of any Of the
The constitutional theory Of our government and the
constitutional relations Of slavery discussed With
regard to the latter subject the President clear and
emphatic that extract his language relative TO slavery
Il He says:
It has been matter painful regret to States con-
spcuous for their Wees in founding this Republic end
equally sharing its advantages disregard their constu
tiona obligations to It, Although conscious Of their In
ability to heal admitted and palpabe social evils OF their
and which ere completely within their jurisdicton
they engage the offensive and hopeless Undertaking Of
reforming the domestic institutions Of other States
wholly beyond their control and authority IA the vain
pursuit Of ends, by them entirely unattanabe, and
which they may not legally attempt to compass they
peril the very existence Of the constitution, and all the
Countless benefits which has conferred while the
Pile Of the Southern States conne their attention to their
own affairs not presuming oicisusy to intermeddle with
the social institutions Of the Northern States too many
Of the inhabitants of the latter permanently organ
ized in associations to nict injury the former by
wrongful acts which would be Of war as between
foreign powers and only fail to DO such in system be-
Gauss psrpetrsted under cover Of the Union
amposble TO present this subject truth and the
requires, without noticing the reiterated but
groundlss allegation that the South has persstenty as
serted claims and obtained advantages in the practical
Of the General Government to the preu
dice Of the North and which the latter has acquesced
That u.s. the States which either promote tolerate at
taoks on the rights Of and Of property in other
States to disguise their injustice pretend ina
gne and constantly that they whose constitutional
rights are thus systematically assaed themselves the
aggressors AT the present time this imputed aggression
resting it does in the vague declamatory charges
or misnterpetation Of the principles and facts Of the
political organization of the new Territories Of the Uni
ted States. j Il afiJ 5gq5 rs 5t4 e0t
The history Of slavery, Of the compacts and compro
misses which have attended it. are given in full, and the
course Of frantic ahotionsm severely reprehcnded Its
connection with the Territories of the Union is stated
and brief, but clear resume is given of the Kansas
troubles The message closes with the following straight
forward languages: LEY I W "A
II the friends Of the constitution to have another
struggle s enemies could not present acceptable
ISSUE than that of State, whose constitution clearly
embraces republican form Of government :, being ex-
cluded from the Union because its domestic institutions
not in all respects oomport with the ideas of what
wise and e1pedient entertained in other State
Fresh from groundes mputations Of breach Of faith
against others men will commence the agtaton Of this
new question with ndubable violation Of express COM
pact between the independent sovereign powers of the
United States and of the Republic Vi Texas well of
the older and equally solemn compacts which assure the
But deplorahleas would be such violation of compact
in itself snd IN all its direct consequences that Is the
very least OF the evils involved When sectional sgjta
tors shall have succeeded in forcing this ISSUE can
their Pretensiohs fail to be met by counter pretensons
Will not different States be compelled respectively meet
extremes with extremes And if either extremes carry
its point what is that forth but dissolution Of the
Union new Ssate formed from the territory of the
United States, be absolutely excluded from admission
therein that fact Of itself constitutes the disruption of
union between it and the other States But the process
Of dissolution could not stop there. Would not Sec
tional decision producing such result by majority Of
of
the oppressed and sggreved minority and place pres
ence Of each other two rreconeaby hostile eonfedera
tons Fl st L$2& S8& &t5{sl5|9-a e5 %t5 t@&
It is necessary to speak thus plainly of projects the
offspring Of that sectional agitation now prevailing in
some Of the States, which mpracticabe they
are unconstitutional and which, if they parsevered
in must and will end caamtousy 1t is either disunion
and civil or it is angry idle aimess disturbance
Of public peace and tranquility Dsunon for what If
the passionate rage of snaticism and partisan apt did
not force the fact upon attention. it would be difficult
believe that any considerable portion people this
snatics devotion to the supposed interests of the
relatively few Africans the United States as totally to
abandon and disregard he interests of the twenty-five
millions OF Americanso trample under foot the ipjunc-
tons Of moral and constitutional oblgation-and to en-
gage in plans of Vndictve hostility against those who
are associated with them in the enjoyment Of che
mon heritage Of our national Institutions. y
NOE is it hostility against their fellowctz of
section of the Union Alone The interests the honor the
duty the peace and the prosperity of the people Of all
sections equally involved imperied in this ques
lion. And are patriotic men in any part of the Union
prepared on such an ISSUE thus nady to invite all the
consequences of the forfeiture of their constitutional en-
gagemens? It is impossible The storm Of phrenzy and
faction must inevitably dash eelf in vain against the
unshaken rock Of the constitution. shsll never doubt
It, know that the Union Is stronger thousand times
than all the wild and chmerieal schemes of social change
which are generated after another in the unstable
minds of visionary sophsts and interested agtators
rely confidently on the patriotism Of the people, the
dignity and self respect Of the States the wisdom of
Congress- and above ALL the continued gracious favor
Of Almighty God to maintain against all enemies wheth
OF home or abroad the sanctty Of the Constitution and
the integrity of the Union. .tS''@ 4 i"="