Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-06

III was not a northern member OF Congress, how
ever, who Intercepted Wise, but the notorious b.
f. Hallett, of Boston, who was then an avowed
anti-slavery man. Hallett told the story bimself.-
A. s. STANDARD
CoNGREss-THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Congress assembled on the Ist. inst, and the
first movement was the attempt of Whitfield to
secure his scat and of his friends thus to endorse
the Rufian rule in the Territory. The contest on
this question occupied the time of the House go
that the Presidents Message was not read the 6rst
day. The vote was decided adverse to Whitfelds
admission. But n reconsideration was ordered
and the day occupied in staving off a decision till
the arrival Of proslavery reinforceme Dts.
On Tuesday the Presidents Message was read.
The major part of it is made up Of special plead
ing of the weakest sort in justification of the pre-
slavery character Of his administration. We copy
that part Of the Message entire, to the exclusion
Of several articles we designed for insertion. The
receipts and expenditures of the government for
the past year are stated as follows:
During the last fiscal year the receipts from
customs were, for the first time. more than sixty
four million Of dollars, and from all sources, seventy
three million nine hundred and eighteen thousand
one hundred and forty one dollars; which, with
NV h'ibO w iihhA hE w NV 81 WI chiNt 1tOSt
made the total resources Of the year to amount to
ninetytwo million eight hundred and fifty thou-
sand one hundred and seventeen dollars. The sx-
penGitures, including three million dollars in ex-
ecution of the treaty with Mexico, and excluding
sums paid on account of the public debt, amounted
to sixty million one hundred and seventytwo
thousand four hundred and one dollars and, in
GLIDING the latter, to seyenty-two million nine
hundred and forty.eight thousand seven HUNDRED
and ninety-twO dollars, the payment on this ac-
/ apput hoIIpr nunnnntp1 n aulra t,ill;nD conan
hundred and sev9nty-six thousand three hundred
and ninety dollars.
On the 4th of March, 1853, the amount of the
public debt was s%ixty-nine million one hundred
and twenty-niue thousand nine hundred and
thirty-seven collars. There was a su~ bsequent in
crease of two million seven hundred and Fifty
thousand dollars for the debt of T~exas-makinsa
total Of seventy-one million eight hundred and
seventy-nine thousand nine hundred and thirty
seven dollars. OF this the sum of forty-f7e mill
lou five hundred ard twenty-five thousand three
hundred and nineteen dollars, including premium,
has been discharged, reducing the debt to thirty
million seven hundred and thrty-soven thousand
one hundred and twenty-nine dollars all which
might be paid within q year without embarrassing
the public service, being not yet due, and only re-
deemable at the, option of the holder, cannot be
pressed to payment by the government.
The President proceeds with the yindication Of
his administration as follows:
Perfect liberty Of association for political OBJ
Iiects, and the widest scope of discussion are the
received and ordinary conditions of ent
j in our country. Our institutions, framed in tho
e spirit of confidence in the intelligence and integ-
, rity of the people, do not forbid citizens either
individually or associated together, to attack by
writing, speech or any other methods short of
7 physica! force, the Constitution and the very ex-
e istence of the Union. Under the shelter OF this
. great liberty, and protected by the laws. ard
! usages of the government they assail, associations
'" have been formed, in some of the States, of indi-
II viduals. who, pretending to seek only to prevent
the spread Of the institution Of slavery into tho
r. present or future inchoate States of the Union, are
really infamed with desire to change the domestic
" institutions of existing States. To accomplish
their objects, they dedicate themselves TO the
odious task Of depreciating the government organ.
Y i2ation which stands in their way, and Of calum-
mating, with indiscriminate invective, not only the
citizens OF particular States, with whose laws they
l. find fault, but all others of their fellOw-citizens
,e throughout the country, VINO do not participate
with them in their assaults upon the Constitution,
framed and adopted by cur fathers, and claiming
II for the privileges it has secured, and the blessings
it has conferred, the steady support and grateful
Is reverence of their children. They seek an object
- which they well know to be a revolutionary one,
They are perfectly aware that the change in the
relative condition of the white and black races In
re the slaveholdingS States, which they would promote
s. is beyond their lawful authority that to them il
n a foreign object that it cannot be effected by any
y, peaceful fundamentally of theirs that for them,
and the States of which they are citizens, the only
in path to its accomplishment is through burning
cities, and ravaged fields, and slaughtered popula
II tons, and all there is most terrible in foreign, com
=" plicated with civil and servile war and that thu
u first step in the attem pt is the forcible disruption
he of n country embracing in its broad bosom
81 degree OF liberty, and an amount OF individual
Of and public prosperity, to which there is no parable
in history, and substituting in its place hcstih
governments driven at once and inevitably int
he mutual devastation and fratricical carnage, trans
id forming the now peaceful and felicitous brother
hood into n vast permanent cap of armed men lk,
the rival mOnarchies of Europe and Asia. Wei
knowing that such, and such only, are the mean
IT. and the consequences OF their plans and purposes
n they endeavor to prepare the people of the Unite'
States for civil war by doing everything in thei
power to deprive the Constitution and the laws o
y, moral authority, and to undermine the fabric o
the Union by appeals to passion and %sectiona
prejudice, by indoctrinating its people with recif
rocal hatred, and by educating them 20 stand fac
to face as enemies, rather than shoulder to shoul
der as friends.
1t is by the agency of such unwarrantable in
reference, foreign and domestic, that the minds Q
many, otherwise good citizens, have been so in
no famed into the passionate condemnation OF tn
domestic institutions of the southern States, as q
length to pass insensibly to almost equally passion
nh ate hostility towards their fsllow-citizens of thos
tie. States, and thus finally to fall into temporary fe
W, lowship with the avOwed and active enemies {
be the Constitution. Ardently attached to liberty /
ed the abstract, they do not stop to consider practica
les ly how the object they would attain can be accom-
he plished, nor to reflect that, even if the evil wer
u.s. as great as they deem it, they have no remedy I
he apply, and that it can be only aggravated by the
of violence and unconstitutional. action. A question
ny which is one of the most difficult of all the prof.
it lens of social institution, political economy an
tic craftsmanship, they treat with unreasoning ipten
pa perace Of thought and language. Extremes beg
lie, extremes. Violent attack from the North finds i
its inevitable consequence in tho growth of a spir
ate of angry defiance at the South. Thus in the pr
he gross Of events we had reached that consumm'
ali ton, which the voice Of the people has nov