Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-12-14
The \. Y. Tribune reviews the Mes sage
after the following merciless fashion:

after the following merciless fashion:
" Let Us dcyoutly thank God that, for the ensu-
ing four years at least, the People of the United
State are relieved from the annual visitation Of
long Presidential lecture wherein Reason is in
suited, Humanityoutraged, History travestied and
Common Sense defed, in the interest of Human
Slavery and for the qualification Of its upholders.
Tho man who in this day talks of the opponents
Of Slavery blind, besotted fanatics, and repre-
sents the current agitation as utterly unprovoked
and gratuit0us, is simply dishonest. Mr.. Buchan-
an knows better. He knows that the means where
by Texas thrust into our Union eminent
ly calculated to arouse any latent Anti-Slavery
conviction that slumbered in the breast of our
non-slayholding citizens. lie knows that, when
th eWar Mexico was made to result in tho
transfer of vast and thinly peopled regions from
that republic to Union, it was inev liable eth
er that Slavery should be excluded from those
Territories that the People of the United States
a a WHOLE and not those of the South exclusive
ly, should take upon their souls the responsbili
ty Of extending 'the peculiar institution
region half so large as Europe-far larger than
the United States east Of the Mississippi. Mr..
Buchanan himself expressly afirms, and quotes
the Supreme Court his authority, that every
foot of Federal territory is necessarily slavehold
ing terrtory-that is territory subject to the law
Of slayery-from the moment that 1t passes under
the sway of our Union. Ho knows that the Kan
trOduced TO remove legal obstacles to the diffusion
Of Slavery, and that the bill owed all its impor-
tance and general interestto that fact. How is it
possible, then, for publcist, with tho eyes of
the world full upon him, to say that "The long
" continued and Incorporate interference Of the
Northern people with the question of Slavery in
the Southern States has at length produced its
natural effects - Is the Pres idents brow brass
that il should not crimson with the consciousness
that the whole world will know this to be a lie?
Does he not know right well that the children n
our public schools will point the finger of shame
at the author OF such assertions, who fingers on
the brink of the grave to libel and traduce the
most intelligent and conscientious portion Of the
people about TO be relieved from the incubus Of
his rule?
Mr.. Buchanan asserts that it would be "casy
"for the American people to settle the Slavery
"ques.ion for ever" and this simply by letting
the Slave States alone, and permitting them to
" manage their domestic institutions in their own
way" Yet in this very Message he proposes to
force Slavery down the throats Of the Northern
people, and compel them to take upon their con-
sciences the responsibility of justifyng protect
ing, and extending it, by five or six distinct and
important acts"
The Ir'juns further agrees with Mr.. Bu-
chanan on secession and coercion-Says amen
to the President S remarks on the Tariff
and thanks him for his word for the fam
ishing in Kansas and for the four columns,
which on revision be omitted from the mes
sage.
The Times is scarcely less severe than the
Tribune. Its article closes as follows:
1The Message, in our Judgment, is an incen-
diary document, and will tend still further to ex
asperate the sectional differences of the day. 1t
backs up the most extravagant of the demands
which have been made by the South,-indorses
their menace of Disunion if those demands are not
conceded,-and promises the seeding States that
the nower of the Federal Government shall not
be used for their coercion. The entire North
will be made doubly ind gnant by this fragrant
dereiction of duty on the part Of the executive OF
the Nation, while the Disunionists of the South
win be stimulated to fresh exertons IN the work OF
min unon which they have embarked. The coun-
49,, b.s "a struggle throu gh three months more of
this disgracefuI imbecility and disloyalty to the
Constitution"
The New York Herald, which loses no op-
portunity to plaster Mr.. Buchanan with
aattery, till he is fairly blind, is
so,;obtea with the calm, patriotic, consistent
ond Convincing views thereon, of this admirable
annn.I Message. The last from Mr.. Buchanan,
:; Is his best, good as its predecessors have been,
a,cb in its adaptation to the requirements OF the
the time.
The New York World is also well suited.
It says:
pesui.e the logical inconsistency between some