New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-12-08
TIE PRESIDENT md ms MESSAGE.
From Or Own Corresront.n,


emmett. 1t is said, | believe truly, that the
lead pg men Of his party, including two or thre,
di-tineuished Senators, 70 whom Il" coatrn.. Of
this part of The Message We're made knoHa some
time ago earnf st! projected against il on the score
Of lmpolicy. They did not oeject :, nuc1 to he
terror Of the Wind cation Itself 10 the eSpcd enry
OF any siIJcotiop at ull They dr. AIDED, reasonably
and w'sely, that it would reopen the Kansas agits-
ton, snd that it would afford the Republicans 10
Congress an occasion for attacking the Admlnstra
ton. which was sure 70 be- Improved. They argued
10 Mr. BuchaDaD, that his Lecompton policy had
been carried through Congress at the lsst session
with the greatest difficulty, AID IN vrry equlsoca
form, while before the people its failure signal
and unmistakabe. In their judgment the prudent
course was To drop the matter, aud let i, he over.
Swallowed by other Issues, and, if possible, for
gotten.
TO these representations Mr. Buchanan replied
that be was determined 10 make his record Gle IT
before the people and in history. In this he has
certainly succeeded for 10 President has written
hnnsei down at greater length in tissue of trans
parent tallacies and historical msstatcmens.
There never wss better example Of sapPresSiO
r6ri, SuggestiO tGfSi.
On the question of Utah, it il RENAL ked that the
President has committed himself unreseryedly to
the view Of affairs in that Territory entertained
by Gov. Cumming IN direct opposition 70 the views
held by nearly all the other cisl and all the military
officers who have been scnt there. He differs also
in the tone of his remarks from the Secretary of
war; who, in his annual report has committed him
self almost az unreseryediy to the other side OF the
question. ] learn that since the Message was de-
lvered. certain prominent and influential Seniors
Of the Democratic party, have demonstrated with
the President in person against the view he has eX
pressed Of affairs III Utah, There is some pr0ba-
oillty that from the quarter to which allude, an
effort will be made 10 raise Committee OF 1nycst-
CATION into tire whole matter.
1t is an interesting subject OF speculation how
far that courageous, high. bred, manly Southern
gentlemen" Senstor Brown Of Mississippi, and
his frc.eating cOnederates will relish that part Of
the Message which stgmatizes the slave-trade and
80 tcndery lamCnts over the blighted hopes of
" benighted Africa" and piously and philsnthrop-
caly regrets that the inhuman traffic renders it
impossible that the light Of civilization and relg-
." ion can ever penetrate those dark abOdes." AS
Senator Brown declared in his recent speech at
IIozelburst that, in bis judgment, the free African
is "dwarfcd by disease, scrofulous from hunger,
"and barbarian and cnnnibal," while the same
animal "a a slave is blessed with sound health,
"a sleek skim and Christian Instruction. he can.
not logically set down Mr.. Buchanan for any
thing else than "a cOwardly, lOw-iung and
" sneaking Northern Abolltionst" for opposing the
save-trade that great missionary measure for pro-
viding these scroiulous barbarians and cannibsls
with sound health sleek skins and Christian n-
struciion. Senator Brown may argue, not without
some show of reason, that to transport barbarians
and caDnbala from benghted Africa too country
where they are sure to acquire a certain degree OF
civilization, some Christian instruction. such as It
IT, and in short all the manifold blessings Of patr
archal society in the South, ia no worse, pr-cti-
cally or ACKNOWLEDGMENT in fact may be held to
be much betteT--than to transport the cOmpara-
tiyey civilized Maryla land or Virginia negro to the
1ice swamps of South Carolina or the tOrrid fields
Of Lower Mississippi. In the case, YOU i'm
prove the condition of the cannibal, i'll the other,
you deteriOrate il.
Senator Brown, however may derive some con-
ISOLATION from the Presidents recommendation IN
favor Of an appropriation To be paid to the Spanish
Government Tor distribution among the claimants
in the Amstad case. II may be remarked, rs a
significant fact that this feature of the Message was
considered of such importance by the Adminlstra
ton side of the Senate that Immediately after that
body organized, and even before the Message was
read Mr. Mason Of Virginia mosed that the casco
the Amistad be made special order for Monday
next which motion commanded majority OF five
in the Senate, Mr.. Broderick being the only Demo
cratic Senator who voted with the Black Republic
cans. ibis readiness 10 supersedc all other tns
ness for the sake OF doing justice To the sase-trade
cannot fail to he highly gratifying to the advocates
Of that respectable traffic
The motive which the Democrats have for thus
pressing al appropriation to pay a claim which has
been repeatedly declared BY the Supreme Court to
have no yalidity-a point | commend TO tho con-
sideration of The Npe- York inns and other
Democratic journals, which attach so much sane
THY 10 the decisions of the Supreme Court--ls ex
planned in the Message itself With the usual
plantation aud provincial sHgacty of the statesmen
Of the South the Court et spain is expected to be
Modified by paying this paltry claim OF the Amis-
tad and IN consideration thereof surrendcring 10
The Yankee heretics the eNer-ialthfnl Island 0i
Cuba. There is about much likelihood that
Spain will sell Cuba 10 Mr.. Buchanan as that
Great Britain VIII sell Ireland TO J ,, Mitchell
and take it, pay in subscriptions TO The Southern
Citi.cn If the Spanish Government could BE-
brbed or bullioa into conserving to the bar.
GAIN il would be only at the cost OF putting
their own nccks into the halter. Cuba is the
Oldest az well as the most profitable foreign
possession of Spain, and will be- the last
stronghold that Spanish pride viii relinquish. Not
only does the Spanish Crown depend largely upon
Cuba for revenue, but the mercantile class of Spain
has an immense interest in maintaining lis connec-
ton with the colony-an interest with which no
government in Spain would dare 10 interfere.
The projects of the Message for protcct0rates
over Sonora Chihuahua ana the Isthmuses, are
in strict accordance with what | telegraphed TO
TIE TRIBUNE month ago. under date of Noyen-
Der ), about Mr. Buchanan's schemes OF territorial
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. His plan of extending our empire
10y first undertaking to protect and defend the adj
jscent countries, Is precisely that which was
adopted . C00 years ago by the Romans. and IN the
modern times by the British in India. | think, in
a majority of cases. the dominion of the Romans
out of Italy was extended at first under thu gulse
of a prOtectorate. The result of this seductive
policy will be in our as IN theirs aud that OF
Great Britain, an oyergrown, unwieldy empire