American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-12-23
The PRESIDENTS Message.


mendable, some important, but most of
them impracticable and inexpedient. Like
a yanduished tiger Mr.. Buchanan reviews
his Kansas attack, laboring valiantly to
convince the "peOpls" that be was right
and they. were wrong; thus justifying and
rsafirming his monstrous LecOmptOn pol
icy with all its glariug frauds. its truck
liugs to slavery. its bare-faced absurdities,
its deep dyed oatrages upon humanity and
God. Rejected and denounced by, the
people Of Kansas at every step, be appsals
to the states; overwhelmed and disgraced.
foiled, reiscted and insulted by the press
and electors Of his own State, he resorts to
theSpsttifogging scheme Of message to
convince his fsw remaining friends in the
face of all reason and common sense that
be was right.
Mr.. Buchanan may pettifcg I'LL dooms
day, and psititog in vain; be can never
convince the independent sovereigns OF the
North, South, East or West that right is
wrong or wrong right.
That the Constitution, while it carries no
other law, takes that constituting prop
erty in human beings into the territories;
that slavery is legalized BY the inherent
provisions Of the Constitution; that it re-
ouires positive law to establish freedom in
the territories; that Douglas, Broderiok
and others shall be perseeuted for having
the manhood io rssistthose whelps of ini-
,quityi that every honest Post Master shall
Be removed and superseded. by grovelhng
political ours, who will abandon tbeir, right
of thought for dollar and cent advantages
with thousand other absurdities equally
as fallacious, equally weak, equally to be
despised and useless to enumerate.
Mr.. Buchsnan recommends the imme'
diate purchase Of Cuba. Commercial ad'
vautages, he urges as an argument-tha
our intercourse with that island would be
somewhat facilitated by its purchase. :
That in pecuniary view we would b
benefited, no reasonable man will doubt
but, are these reasons in themselves spffi
oient to counterbailance the many and mo
nisnseus Objectionable great and insu
perable evils, social and political, that mus
inevitably result from its annexation :
These are questions that will seriousl
move the consideration Of every true ant
thinking man. Our nation and our in
terests are not made up exclusively Q
"dollars and cents" we have moral, 40
oial, intellectual and political destiny t
provide for. and these AS far transcend th
former as true happiness. prosperity an
stability transcend vain and giddy rae
in pursuit Of luxurious wealth.
Cuba, containing an area Of 54.ao
square miles, is situated at the mouth {
the Gulf Of Mexico. Her population
1858 was l,oo9. .06o, Of whom less tina
5000 are from the United States; Of thet
above 500, 900 are black, 10000 native
Of Spain, 900 Of the Canary Island
5000 of France, and one thusand of Ent
land. The Island has ever been rule
with an "iron rod;"' educatien, morals. r.
finement and religion are low, willie the
opposites run at full tide.
Slavery with all its corrupting concon
itants is forever fixed upon it. Its ten
perature is such (being on an average
degrees) as to make il impossible that or
other than slave labor could be successful
y prosecuted,
Are the people Of the United Stat
then. prepared to annex her under the
circumstances? Are they prepared to i
corporate this foreign unfreedomized Al
repulsive element into our governmen
Are they prepared to bestow ppoa the
ensgyats sPaniards and yascillating Freao
men, voice in the destiny Of our cou
try? Are they prepared to open anoth
stronghold for the slave power and extel
that greatest Of national evils for the sa
Of lucre or pecuniary gain? Letthe que
tious be calmly produced and the answe
be maturely weighed.
Our resources are already incalculabl
and, heed but developing. Wsare alres,
high In the scale Of all that constitute,
nations greatness. Let us preserve II
prseminenOe by every honorable means.
Cuba might assist in filing the cOft
IF our general government. but in dol
90, she would but enable the political leec
ss at the head Of government affairs
thrust their arms further into the pu
lie purse, to squander deeper and wid
the money strip ed from the yeomanry
the land: Let us not seek too ardehty
national wealth, lest ws would put
knife Ofluxurious corruptionih our veil
by which. our vitality may be poured {
in atouement for the crime. Let usratI
initiate Sparta in her poorer days W
liberty, than Sparta in her Persian luxr