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Oh Nc ine mot remarkable FIXTURES, fays the
fonk its Journa of theI last annual mdeage Of
Prcstl~s'piFeais his attempted sclfexaltation
BY uSmpaaslI a4i4ring What lassbeen setAcd by!
The recent election, aud cnicavoring, by some
strange process of rhetorical alchemy. to deducc
from it an endorsement of the leading measures
Of his administration. Hc seems TO have forgot !
ten that the Cincinnati Conyention gaze him
quc,us anl dared not touch or affiliate with any
one connected with the Kansas Nebraska move.
mcnt. Tie very complacsntly closes hi eyes to
the lnqt lat, in leb2s~Frankiins Pierce was the
most paphlar man In the nation, but that now,
even in his own party. there are "nonc so poor as
10 10 Tim reverenc =" He does not seem to be
aware that the whole nation is waiting anxously
for thecolnpletion This term of Office well con-
WINGED that almost any change must be for the
better He has shut his ears against the souu,
Of wailing that is heard from one end of the Union
to the otler over the portions crisis to which it
has been hurried by The reckless experiments Of
the Pierce administration to manufacture hobby
on which they hoped to ride into continuance
of power: and with most fudicrous selfsuificicn.
cy IN this his last message to the Senate and House
of Representatives, and the people OF the United
States, he affects to consider that the election of
Buchanan by minority OF the popular vote is
an endorsement by the pcoplcoftln chief measures
Of his administration.
And yet there appears to be some sort of con-
I,
sadly needs exculpation In spite of his gatula-
tons tothe result Of the election he evidently
feels that his Kansas policy has been condemned,
that he has been weighed in the balance and found
wanting, and that tho people have charged to the
account of the administration all the distraction
of our public affairs and all the sectional hostility
which already immiaeutly threaten to sundei the
bonds of union that have hitherto emade and pre-
served Us as a nation"
He enters into q long and elaborate, but neither
lucid nor plausible, defence of the constitutional.
ty of the Kansas \ Nebraska humbug He ass umes
premises that are untrue in fact, and from them
with most singular display of non sequiturs ant
false reasoning, and the introduction Of historical
he undertakes to show that the repeat of the Mis
t souri, compromise aud the adoption of the Kansas
squatter sovereignty doctrine are constitutional
lie leaves his readers to infer that if they ar
constitutional they are therefore requisite, for, ii
the whole Of this rehash of what the Democratic
press throughout the South has said in defence 0
the KANSAS \ ebraSka bill, he has never once al
luded to the main issue, the bad policy ana ev
consequences Of the unnecessary disturbance G
4 the compromise measures and the passage of III
, Kansas Nebraska bill.
: We have not heretofore heard the constitution
atty Of this unfortunate measure seriously or GER
It orally questioned. The people had no need to g
so far as Investigation, into its constitutional
: ~ to had good and sufficient for its cor
dcmnation. The miserably. bad policy and depl
rable consequences of the act were enough to brin
upon it nnd its authors public execration witho,
reference pits consttutionalty or unconstitutol
It aity. Many acts may be done under the Constit,
ton that had much better be left unone and ever
constitutional act is not necessarily wise and sail
re tary. The President is evidently sorely trouble
- to find some shadow of excuse for this grea
IN giariny, and most lamcntable blunder of his a,
; ministration. He is in the attitude of Grimm
80 who has been tried convicted, and sentenced by
% july oil bis country and now seeks to present son
palliation or excuse for the offence for which
VI was erraigned
O. He has entirely mistaken the real issue or
ID has found it impossible to meet it face to fac
h, The question is not so much as to the constit
IN tionality of this now exploded and despsed Pier
en- administration hobby, but as to It's necessity
ID expedency, and with all his bad rhetoric al
!" worse logic, the President has been unable to G
" cuIpate himself from having at least connived
if not in reality aided in institutng most Sc
- Gus and dangerous disturbance of the public pea
y, which has inflicted fearful and perhaps dead
" blow upon the public welfare, and may yet pl
n duce the destruction of the whole fabric of t
at UHion Of these States.
We Viewed merely as a defence of the ccastitutio
re aty ofthis leading measure of his administrati
I'll without reference to the entire abstinence fro
any allusion to the impolicy or disastrous cons
r. quences of the Kansas matter, the greatly eab
he rated document under consideration is weak a
=, er insufficient. We shall take occasion to revi,
I'd and expose the false premises and wholly unten
:ir bic -guments by which it is therein attempt
cd to prove the unconstitutionaty Of the incorpor
ton of squatter sovereignty into our Territor
policy. & Is ..,slfar sa
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II may be gratifying to those OF our reade
lat who believe in spiritualism, to learn that tn
tn faith is not Of such modern origin as is gener;
No ly supposed, but was believed in and advoc