Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-12-04
PREsIDENTs MESSAGE.
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the state OF the ;Gnlon 10 DO TINS Iuity lu-9
wolves exposition of all matters in the actual
condition of the country, domestic and foreign,
which essentially concern the general welfare
While performing his constitutional duty in
this respect the President docs not speak mere
w to express personal convictions, but as the
executive minister of the government enabled
by his position, ard called upon by his official
obligations, to scan with an impartial eye the
interests of the whole, and of every part of the
United States. 81
OF the condition of the domestic interests of
the Union, its agricultural, mines, manufactures
navigation, and commerce, 1t is necessary only
to say that the internal prosperity of the coun-
try. its continuous and steady. advancement in
wealth and population, and in private as well as
public well being, attest the wisdom of our in
stitntions, and the predominant spirit of inteli-
gcnce and patriotism, which, notwithstanding
occasional Irregularities of opinion or action re-
sultng from popular freedom, has distinguished
and characterized the people of America
In the brief interval between the termination
of the last and the commencement of the pres
ent session of Congress, the public mind has
been occupied with the care of selecting for an
other 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 admin
istration of the government, is, under our sys-
ten, committed to the States and the people. We
appeal to them, by their voice pronounced in the
forms of law, to call whomsoever they will to
the high post of Chief Magistrate.
And thus it is that the Senators represent the
respective States of the Union, and the members
of the House of Representatives the several con-
stituencies Of each State, so the President rep
resents the aggregate population of the United
States. Their election of HIM is the explicit and
solemn act of the sole sovereign authority ofthe
Union.
1t is impossible TO misapprehend the great
Il. a.
tlOn, the people of the United States have Sanc-
toned and announced.
They have asserted the constitutional equality
of each and all of the States of the Union as
States; they have affirmed the constitutional
equality of each and all of the citizens of the
United States us citizens, whatever their relig-
ion wherever their birth or their residence; they
have maintained the inviolability of the consti-
tntional rights of the different sections of the
Union; and they have proclaimed their devoted
and unaltcrable attachment to the Union and
TO the Constitution, as objects of interest supe-
rior TO all subjects Of local or sectional contro
versy, as the safeguard of the rights of all, as
the spirit and the essence of the liberty, peace,
and greatness of the Republic
In doing this, they have at the same time,
emPhahcally condemned the idea of organizing
III these United States mere geographical part
les; of marshalling in hostile array towards each
other the different parts of the country, North
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Schemes of this nature, fraught with incalcu-
liable mischief, and which the considerable sense
OF the people has rejected, could have had conn
tenance in no part of the country had they not
been disguised by suggestions plausible in APP
pearnnee, acting upon an excited state of the
public mind, induced by causes temporary in
their character andit is hoped transient in their
character.
Perfect liberty of association for political OBJ
jccts, and the widest scope ofdiscussion, arc the
received and ordinary conditions of government
in our country. Our institutions, framed in the
rity OF the people, do not forbid citizens either
individually or associated together to attack by
writing, speech, or any other methods short of
physical force, the Constitution and the very
existence .Si OF the Union. Under the shelter of
thiS great liberty, and protected by the laws
ana usageS of the Government, they assail as
soclatlons have been formed in some States of
individuals who pretend to prevent the spread
oil the institution of slavery into the present or
future inchoate States of the Union, are really
unnamed with desire to change the domestic
institutions of existing States To accomplish
their objects, they dictate themselves to the
odious task of dcpreciating the Government
organization, which stands in their way. and
OF eliminating, with indiscriminate inyec-
tive, not only the citizens of particular States.
with whose laws they find fault, but all others
of.their fellow citizens throughout the country
who do not participate with them in their rs.
teJhy p,,s sn1 Solstl.9tlIn framed and adop-
leges It has secured, and the blessings it has
she STEADY support and grateful re-
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promote, IS beyond their lawful authority; that
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