The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-01-07


bua1rsd and forty.two dollars. and Cd
fgross ,rece-ps $7.342, 1876, making !
excess OF expenditure Y G receipt
tof $2.626.S05; and that the cost Q
mail trtI sportstion during that yea
was S674,952 greater than the previou
Eyear. Much of the heavy expenditure
to which, the Treasury is thus subjected
eis to be as.ribed to the large quantity o
tprinted matter COZ veyed BY the mails
either franked, or liable to no postag,
by law, or to very low rates of rostagl
compared with that charged on letters
aud to the great cost Of mail service OF
railroads aud ocean steamers The suo
g~estions of the Postmaster General 81
the subject deserve the consideration d
Congress.
-, INTERIOR.
The report of the Secretary of tbs
Interior viii engage your attention, al
well for useful suggestions il contains
as for the Importance and interest o.
the subjects to which tLeF refer.
The aggregate amount of public land
Sid during the last fiscal year, located
with military scrip or land warrants, ia
ken up under grants for roads, aud Sc
lected as swamp landsfby states is tgen-
ty-four million five hundred and ffty-
seven thousand four hundred and nine
:cres, of which the portion sold was ff
teen million seven hundred and twenty.
nine Thousand Eve hundred and twenty.
four acres, yielding in receipts the sun
.of eleven million fonr hundred and eieh.
5ty-fve Thousand three hundred aud
eighty dollars. III the game period oil
tune, eight million seven bundled and
twenty-taree thousand eight hundred
and ffty-four acres have been surveyed;
but, in consideration of the quantity al
ready ruIject t. entry, no. additional
tracts have been brought into market.
The peculiar relst.on of the general
governments to the District of Columbia,
renders it proper to commend to your
care not only its material but also its
moral interests, including education,
more especially in those parts of the
District outside of the citiesof Wash
ington and Georgetown.
The commissioners appointed to re-
wise and modify the | VS. of the District
have made such progressin the perform
ance of their task, as to Insure the COM
pletion in the time specified by the act
of Congress.
Information has been recently receiy-
ed that the peace of the settlements in
the Territories of Oregon and Washing
ton is disturbed by hostilities on the
part of the Indians, with Indications Of
extensive combinations Of a hostile char.
acter among the tribes In that quarter,
the more serious in their possible effect
by reason of the undetermined foreign
interests existing in those territories, to
Jour attention has already been
especially invited. Efficient measures
have been taken, which, it is believed,
will restore quiet and afford protection
to our citizens. 1855
In the territory of Kansas there have
been acts prejddicialto good order, but
as yet nome have occurred under circum-
to justify the i~nterpesition of.
the federal executive. That could only.
be in case of ~obstructioa to federal law,
,rsof organized resistance to territorial
assuming the character of insured
lion, which, if it should occnr IL would
be my duty, promptly TO overcome and
iuppress. / cherish the hope, however,
that the occurrence of any such uato.
yard event will be prevented by the
s,nld sense of the people If the Terri.
who, by its organic law; possessing
he F5ght 60 Determine their own dR1nes
lie institutions, are entitled. while de-
,or. ing themselves peacefully, TO the
rec exercise of that right, aud msst be
protect d in the enjoyment of it, with
tut interference on the part of the citi-
of any of the States
The southern boundary line of this
.erritory has never been surveyed and
established. The rapidly extending set.
.lement in that region, aud the fact
hat the main route between Indepen-
lence, in the State of Missouri and
New Mexico, contiguous toethis line,
uggest the probability that embarrass.
questions of jurisdiction may conse-
arise. For these and other
sideratious, 1 commend the subject
!, your eariy attention.
CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY CT THE GOVERN
MENr.
I have thus passed in review the gen.
raj state of the Union, inclrdipg such
artieular concerns of the federal go.
ernment, whether of domestic or for
ign relations. as it appeared to me de-
and useful to bring to the spe-
ial notice of congress. Unlike the
reat States of Europe and Asia, and
iany of those of America, these United
,tates are wasting their strength nef
her in foreign war o domestic strife.
Whatever of discomfort or public dis
satisfaction exists, is attributable to the
npcrfectioDs of human nature, orzis IN,
ident to all goyernmentss however per
Get which human wisdom can devise.
Such subjects of political agitation,
5 occupy the public mind consist, to a
extent, of exaggeration of ineyi-
able evils, or over zeal in social im-
royement, or mere imagination of grie
ance, having but remote connection
18th any of the constitutional functions
duties of the federal government.-
o whatever extent these questions ex-
hit a tendency menacing to the stabil.,
y of the constitution, or the. integrity (,
the Union, and no farther, they de-
and the consideration of the executive j
ID require TO be presented by him to {
ongress. 1
Before the Thirteen Colonies became I
confederation of independent states,
were associated only by commune t
of transatlantic origin, by geograph- I
al position, and by the mutual tie of
mmon dependence on Great Britain. a
hen that tie was sundercd, they sev-e
ally assumed the powers and rights oft