Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-12
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The Bsce.ident's 'uessa

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the con sheraton of the Presidents annual mes.
sage, the question being on the motion that IT DO
referred TO the Committee Of the Whole on the
state Of the Union aud then printed.
Mr.. Barclay. Of Pennsylvania, remarked That
the message before tho House was Of character
SO extraordinary that, in his opinion. the mere
passage of the pending motion, il not criminal
would at least be eensurnble He would at all
times extend due courtesy to the President of
the United States and to his official communica-
ton, 10 Congress; but. in his Judgment, tho mos
sage under confederation constituted an excnp-
ton lie did not object to the document being
sent over the land, as It's only effect would be to
increase, If possible, the contempt against its
thor which already existed throughout the conn-
try; but he would not sanction the misreprcsenta-
tons it contained by sending 1T to the public
printer prefer,ing rather TINT il should be con
signed to one of the obscure and dusty vaults to
be found beneath the Capitol.
Elected with great unRnimiiy by tonfding
people. upon the most soh nm pledges ihni he
would frown down any attempt. IN or out of Con.
cress. 10 renew the excitement of the slavery
quesiion.th Chief Magistrate was scarcely warm
in his scat before the confidence that had been
rcposcd in him was violated, and he lurnchcd out
into tho boisterous ocean of agitation. Tho lead
ing measure of the Administration had been the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise and though
that not. and that alone, had been tho Cause Of
the great troubling of the waters. That unne-
cessary, reckless, and iniquitons measure struck
the Democratic party in the FREQ States with ter
ror. aud from the Arostook to The Mississippi the
voice of condemnation had been heard; which.
ven reaching the White House, had caused its
miserable incumbent to tremtle like convicted
criminal.
Mr.. b. then entered into n review of tho char
of tho Pre- SIpnt puninst tho Rpnnblicnn mr.
ty, which he declared were without any founda.
ton whatever Every man who would not bow
the knee to Baal WAS censured by the President,
and thus the progress Of tho Democratic party
had degenera,ed into tho veriest despotism.
Mr.. Sandidge, of Louisiana, then addressed the
House on the various questions growing out Of
the recent Presidential election. In reply to Mr..
Davis, of Maryland he charged TINT in The North
the Know ohngs had affiliated with the Re
publicans. rcmarkng that the half dozen mem
bers of that party who had acted with the South
Americans tho floor Of the House had all been
slaughtered at home. Thus had been demon
strated what the Democrats had said from the
beginning that that order was but scheme of
abolitionism to sweep the Northern and the South
ern States. II there were any in the South who
yet believed that that party was to do something
for tho preservation ofpence aud the good order
Of society, for the equality Of rights and the pu
rity Of the fount of our liberty, he would point
them TO the ruins and bloody walks of Louisville.
the mob rule in Baltimore. thu rule of violence
in New Orleans, and the destruction of conf.
denoe generally between man and man. If the
South did not believe that the members of the
order in the North CO operated with the Repub
lioans in their efforts to defeat Mr.. Buchanan he
would point them To tho elections for State oili-
GERS in Illinois and elsewhere, where, by the un-
ion of the two. Democrats were defeated and Re
publicans elected. In one short year the Know
Nothing order, OF course unintentionally, had
done more for the advancement of the Catholic
church than its ministers could have accomp
lshed in twenty years. lie avowed his belief
and confidence in the intelligence aud patriotism
of the people, and in their determination to stay
with strong hand the sectional wave which
threatened to enguph the freighted hopes of
every lover of the Union.
Mr.. Bingham, Of Ohio, then obtained the floor.
but yielded at the solicitation of
Mr.. Davidson, of Louisiana, who. remarking
that tomorrow was the anniversary of the battle
of New Orleans, moved that when the House adj
journ to day il adj 'urn to meet Friday next.
The motion was agreed to Yeas 100, nays %.