The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-22
We believe this faithful summary Of the chief points
presented in the message Of the President Though brief

pr0seuteu W tuC hOS0eSS v
il is fearful
We are this message viii be read in the
and trying crisis in which the republic placed withgsat
interest by all classes. II needs no commsRdston II
speaks for itself Il fully up to the standard which
the occasion demanded and is ineysry respect what might
have been expected from who has long and carefully
surveyed the troubled sceue which, before the sommenpe
ent Of the late session OF Congress had involved our do
nestle aairs II the traitors in Kansas who had been
plotting treason against the peace and dignity Of the
nation were suddenly overtaken In their midnight
practices and bloody designs BY the first message Of
the President at the meeting Of Congress in December,
the unhoy combination Of the black republicans In that
body to destroy this Union win this OCCASION be
less COMPOUNDED at finding the wicked consequences o.
their conduct SO ably exposed the light OF midday Do
fore their whole country They will shrink from the
ray Of facts and they will shrink into utter feebene
still more, beneath the indignant grasp Of the people
That frat message ut the open Nc Of Congress- was blow
under which they staggered, and their hearts qualed
The conflict between them and the Executive, IL true
unequal On their part they had cooly, with he
cunning of the serpent crept into the confidence Of the
people, and with the unbushing and inflated erony Of
unexpected success determined to lay strong hand upon
he pillars of the Union, and crush its noble fabric
into ruins He, however, with nobler and lot
tier purpose, with the heart of patriot and the
wisdom of statesman, not deferred by the
cohorts of dark spirits, who howled around the con-
stution and feeling that not only the present hap
piness but future destiny Of this mighty people stake
in part upon his conduct put forth all his power with
signal and unsurpassed ability the republic They
failed He succeeded. Theirs was the shame Of guilt
His the honor and the triumph of virtue He stood by the
constitution They struggled to rample It in the dust
Their name began to be odious and snued in the
trs of the land But the people heard his voice and
hakened to his eounss He uttered the words Of sober
ness and truth The treason was rsbuked and the traitors
we're COMPOUNDED This last act Of theirs in the drama
was the rally of political desperation The actors
FIRST made drunk by unhoped-for power aud then
bered by the discovery OF their own Numbering imbe
city They suffered and acted under the sefcon-
viction of series of blunders-which simply because
they we're SO, they felt to be crimes and, like the
defeated Parthan in his fight and his reputation turned
to speed their poisoned shaft the vtas Of their country
Their act has been the immortality Of the patriot and the
President As their political picture has darkened in the
glare of light with the hdeous and mixed deformes Of
political offences before and unknown in his
tory, his foe and character have frightened in the fires
their own epitaph nations gratitude win write his,
aud as long as this Union shall endure, that postey
who enjoys it will honor and revere his name for
his patriotism his fortitude his forbearance and his
wisdom AS it then in the struggle of that first
session of this Congress, SO it is now in that which
has been convened The black republicans aud the Pres
dent stand in exact and like with each other
They on their part have been seeking and time viii dis
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the Union The President means to- and will preserve it.
II his messages them at that first session Of this Congress
triumphed in the opinion of the people, will that which
has now delivered triumph again. and be first in the
heart and first in the judgment of his country II is ap-
peal to the people which will be answered with long,
loud, and deep approval. ...4 ..s s3e -s@ a.a..
We have rapidly sketched this parallel between the
which already closed and those which
spened-betweeu that which right and the wrong;
and between that which is and is to bethe great sug
gle between treason on the one side and Union on the
other between the destruction Of the government and its
safety; between ruin and prosperity; between anarchy
and law between blood and peace
It is in this porenous aspect Of the that we have
adverted to the past of this Congress- and that for M
present. congratulate the country upon the message
which has just been delivered. s'aa at', a.@
we cannot close this article without one single other re-
mark The present Chief Magistrate viii retire from
power but witness without the deepest emotion
the great struggle which going on Each true pa
otic American heart Is the same whether in Maine
Massachusetts, in Tennessee Texas North South wbg
or democrat and in the hour in which we write 1t
inspired by the sympat les which feel ourselves
and while we witness the firm and unyielding efforts Of
the President cannot pass the occasion without cheer
lug him on in bis patriotic labor wesay that Amer
heart of which speak will say Well done thou
good and faithful servant The Union win yet be saved
and the starspangled banner trh air 1s stars will still
wave in every State and from the batemcnts Of every
fortress in the land ~ .s-.t
While write the House of Representatives is still In
session. The deep feeling and the fixed and intense ex.
element remind Of the days Of Mr. Madison, when be
bad to encounter the abuse and deracon of the bere
party hostility The official fortunes Of Mr. Pierce are a,
present. in part not unlike his, The conduct Of Mr..
Aadison's political enemies brought the country to the
crisis which developed bis virtues in such way as to
compel us to know that be had vixen tested the excel
ence Of executive wisdom and energy II Is thus that
has tended TO the peculiar honor Of the President in the
midst of the worst personal deracon that the safety Of
his country has been assaed and endangered and that
be has proved himself equal TO the great contest for the
preservation Of it's institutions.
The message Ia as follows. ..-
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