Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-12-10
The Presidents Message.

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Wednesday morning. It's extreme leng,
makes its appearance impossible in the Amei
lean this week 1t IS rather uncertain nov
whether it viii appear at all. as its length i
entirely disproportionate to its real value.
We proceed, therefore. to give some Of it
leading statements. with such comments 4
Its first reading suggests.
The President says nat We have muc,
reason Tor gratitude to God. for the improy
cd condition Of the country over that of tn
Tine @. the last meeting Of Congress. ii
then, in the 9TH line Of the message, pitchc
into the Kansas embro1lio, relating, for tn,
fourth or fifth time.a hi tory of the affairs il
that territory which is not in accordance VIII
the facts and which places him not very hisf
IN the roll of impartial historians Lik,
some old man with the imbeclitv Of age upor
him, he has told has story instead Of tr,u
story, so many times, that he may have beer
led to believe 1t true; while it is nothing but
distorted ,one-sided, unfair, {untruc in som.
particulars account OF transactions which
have entered largely into the history of oul
country. His whole statement is labored ef.
fort to relieve hinseltand his party ofthe stis
I'M resting upon them for their disreputable
conduct in Kansas matters. The President
it seems, is not 50 lost to all sense Of shame,
but what he can see that his whole proceed
ings require the largest amount of white
washing. He therefore, as often as the con-
stitution requires him 70 give information OF
the state Of the country, proceeds at once to
the use Of the Presidential rotary acting,
highly finished, and constantly needed white
wash brush. When this useful article is
once in motion, Woe 10 all offenders rs it
has a double action-that Of blackenlng op-
ponents AS well as painting in white its poll
teal friends
The hopeful aspect Of this matter is to be
found in the fact that the President rests so
uneasy under the heavy load which he has
taken upon himself. He marked out 4 course
to pursue in treating the troubles in Kansas,
which he has never been able to satisfy him
self or the country, is RICH. or UNSUITABLE.
he keeps making the attempt to smooth it
over; but to succeed, he has 70 misrepresent
the facts Of history, and the.eonduet of the
people of Kansas
He says, 1.-The Supreme Cosr, has decided
that all American citizens have an equal
right % take into the territories whatever is
held as property under the laws of any of the
states, and to hold such property there under
the guardianship of the federal constitution,
SO long as the territorial cor ition shall r.
main This is a well established position, -
he grarely informs Congress. If he had said
that It is the azic positi which the slave
. holders have compelled him and-the Supreme
Court to attempt to adopt, It would have
been giving information as 10 the position of
his party and the Court
The Illustration Of popular sovereignty in
the following sentence, is rich -
Left to manage and control its (Kansas)
own affairs in its own way, all resistance to
tic territorial Government established by Con-
gress, has been abandoned. Here, according
to the President, Congress imposes terrific
rial government, and YET the people manage
and control their own affairs. What an ab-
surdity in the use of language.
He glores in his position in favor of the
Leeompton Constitution and finds consola-
ton and satisfaction in review Of that posi-
ton. This is intended for Douglas and all
other recusants
lie laments that the attempt to force on
the people of Kansas, an odious, and an in
famous code of laws. "should have kindled
such flame of excitement throughout the
country" and calls the question involved
insignificant.
! King Geo. III, lamentei that the "insis-
nI6cant'' las be and his ministers thought J
question of taxation without representation,
should have kindled such fame as it did
Like him, the President has yet to learn by
/ tiiut tiN 4hiiiS tdft uU NIUUR.
He takes the ground that Kansas canno,
now get into the Union until she has a pop.
ulation sufficient to entitle her to one repre-
sentative. He was willing for her to come
in with sham constitution with forty thou.
sand inhabitants, but as she did not choose
to, she must remain outside until she ha.
400 inhabitants. This may be fair dealing
in President, but with ordinary persons il
would be nearly allied TO dishonesty.
He goes in for applying the provision il
all future territories, of requiring nhabi
tants sufficient to entitle them to represen
tation, before admission.
lie illustrates the subsisting relations o
the federal government to the territories, by
that Of parent and child and yet in som,
other portions of the message, he commit.
the blunder of saying, "the territories have
right to manage their own aniirs in theil
own way - thereby. il they are children
under age, recommending flial disobedience
In this paragraph, he gives the embryo gov
ernors, senator's and members Of Congress,
little fatherly advice. They ought not t,
be permitted to rush into the Union" &c
Popular sovereignty again.
Again he says: "they (the people of tn
territory,) ought not to be diverted from use
ful employments to engage in exciting poll
teal contests How kind in the Presiden
to exemplify his popular sovereignty princi
pies 50 often. How long before he will b
giving the same advice to the citizens Of
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