Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-12-17
Presidents Message.

of President Buchanan's Message, to the
exclusion of what would be to the gen.
eraI reader much more interesting mat
ter. We have no apology to make in
10 doing, for the message of President
4 document which should be spread out
before the whole people, and when it is
of respectable length the whole should
be given. But this is of painful length,
and we have too much commiseration for
our readers to aflict them with the whole
of II. making as it would full eighteen
columns of our paper.
The first subject that engages the at
4ept;on of the President is Kansas. In
this division he gives the usual amount of
MISREPRESENTATION, falsehood, and twisting
of facts to meet the necessities of his case.
we ask the particular attention of the
reader to this portion. He recognises
The validity OF the bogus legislature of
Kansas, and thinks had the people of
that territory yielded obedience to its
laws much of the unhappy discussions
which have arisen there would never
have occurred. The Topeka Constitu-
ton, which was the one adopted by the
actual settlers, he declares was a "revo-
lutionary," "disorganizing" instrument.
and he pays about the same compliment
10 all the acts of her people. The LIE
compton Constitution is his idea of per-
lection, and he complacently tells US that
the people of Kansas left "perfectly free
to form and regulate their domestic 1nsti-
tutions in their own way, subject only to
the Constitution of the United States y
have most happily disposed of the vexa-
tious questions that have harYassed them
since the organization of the territory
Those who have watched the course OF
the present administration in relation to
leaving the people perfectly free to
form and regulate their domestic institu-
ions in their own way will readily ap'
preciate the honesty of his past intentions
in this respect. In regard to his course
in forcing through the Lecompton inlqul
~, he says: I" In the course of my Ions
public life l have never performed an.
official act which, in the retrospect, ha
afforded me more heartfelt satisfaction.
If Mr. Buchanan is satisfied with thu
crushing verdict that was given by tn
people of Kansas against that constitu
ton, and the many still more whitening
Expressions of opinion upon it in the re
cent State and Congressional elections
he is more easily satisfied than most me-
would be under the like circumstances
But the President has pronounced til
Kansas agitation settled
q fnality," and we will not be so wicke
as to pursue a subject which he has agai
opened up to the people in three morta
columns of the Standard.
The President thinks we had better e;
tablish a protectorate over Mexico, 6
the citizens of that country are incapi
bic of self government, and by so doin
will serve to protect the infant territor
Of Arizona from the incursions of pred;
tory aud warlike bands Of Comanche
&c. If the seizure Of Sonora and Oh
huahua would serve as a protection
Arizona, where there was real DANCE
mot fancied-there would seem to
o moiety of good sense in the recomme
dation. But under the present and orc
nary circumstances, such an act wou
be deemed a gross violation of the la'
Of nations, and would justly bring up'
our nation the contempt of christendol
Our government has both the streng
and the will to defend all our poSsessio
Without outraging other nations. VIII
Mexico gets to be half as lawless towar
us, and overruns any portion OF our tt
ritory with as little show of reason
right as we have her and weaker repu
lies, and shall be guilty Of the same c
ormities our own government permi
we shall be in favor of an American pl
tectorate, and not till then. But there
black scat in the democratic "m'
tub" Kansas has gone by the board
dead to the purposes of slavery, kick
over by the overlooking of the Lecon
ton gun; no hope for the peculiar in;
tuition" there, and Nebraska shows c
dent free soil signs. Minnesota is fir
Oregon stretches her hand across
Rocky Mountains and shows US a f
constitution, and Utah will follow in
wake. The south must now look alb
for safe retreat, where slavery can t;
her last stand hence they turn WIS
eye on Mexico, hoping under the rlei
protection to our own territory to 70
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