The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1860-12-13
TnUWsDAN. DECEMBER i3. ts5o.
The presidcnl,a Mca.nse.


TIE synopsis Of the message, Which we
publish the FIRST page, presents nll the et-
scudal p nts contained in that documentand
TO the general reader viii, perhaps, be more
acceptable than the hing itself. Nomessnge
was ever received with such universal disfa-
vor from all quarters, as this last production
of the President. 1t satisfies no one; even the
very ones it labors to please il finds its most
bitter enemies. With reference to disunion
the President pus one leg over The fence and
then pulls il back, He tries The other leg
with the same result, and is finally left strad-
die with his legs touching ground on neither
side. Tho New York Tribune Us oft:
"1et us deyouly thank God that, for the
ensuing four years az least, the people of the
United States are relieved from the annual
visitation of long Presidential lecture where
in reason is insuled, humanity outraged, liz
tory ,raves,ied and common sense deipd, in
the oterest OF human slavery aud for the gtst-
ihcaton Of It's upholders. Whatever OWLS the
future may have in store for us, this one ut
least, is for season intermitted il MOI firev, r
put way
The man who in this day talks Of the oppo-
nents Of slavery as blind, bcsotted fanatics,
and represents the current agitation rs utterly
unprovoked and gratuilous, is simply di,ho.-
est. Mr.. Buchanan knows better. He knows
that the means whereby Texas was thrust
into our Union were emjucnuy calculated to
arouse any latent anti-slayery conviction that
slumbCrtd in lht breast OF our nou-s1vehod-
log ci,iEens lie knows that, when tne war
on Mex co was made to result in the ransler
of vast and tliny peopled regions from that
republic to our Union, IL was inevitable either
slavery should be excluded from those t,rri-
tories on that the people of The Uricd States
as "a whole aud not those of the south cXcu-
sively should take upon their souls the res.
possibility of extending "Che peculiar insli-
tuition" over a region half as large as l1trope
far larger than the United ates east o.
the Msss ippi. Mr.. Buchanan biusoIf y
pressly aili ms, and quotes IA, Sapreme Courl
rs his authority that every foot of federal
territory is necessarily slayeholdmg territory
that is, territory suhjec' to the law OF sl,-
very--irom the moment that it pas es under
the sway Of our Union. Ile knows lbot the
Kansas Nebraska hiDl was eXprassiyeIy ard
avowedly introduced 20 remove legal obslp-
ces To ihe diffusion of slavery, and that the
bill owed all It's Importance and general IN
tertst TO that fact. How is il possible, then,
for publjost with the eyes Of the world fol-
upon him, 90 say that a" The long continued
and intempel ate Interference Of Northern
people with the question Of sny,ry hHsSo@h'
ern states has at length produced It's natural
effects Is the Presidents brow brass
that it should not crimson with The conscious
ness that The whole world will know this TO
be lie Does he not know ljght we'll chat
the children in our public schools will pon
the finger of shame at the author of such as
sertions, who fingers on the brink Of the grave
to libel and traduce the most Intelligent an,
conscioucious portion of the people about t,
be relieve, d from the incumbus of his rule"
We also publish the message in the form o
an ezra, and We have no doubt but that
will receive a curelul reading.