Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-07

friday forming. OeO, z. 1860
NJ have no letterIs from our Washing-
Ton cor espondent thIs @ofnIRg one on
Rtst, The other % dis s.ageSs They s.s
are both very readable,
ThS PFssidsln1ts !IsssaGes
The PRESIDENTS Message ss besp pretty
excessively road here IS elseWhena, and is
tbs subject Of much discussion. Most
people are 10 the condition OF the patriotic
WIEf6Ii, Who remarked day before yester-
dsy, ID the Senate, tbat the more he read
tie message The less he comprehepded it
That part Of the document relating 10 our
present. National troubles is not unlike the
fSmons expression in Taylop's message,
that ssWe n ore at peace with all the world
and the rest of mankind Mr.. Buchanan
makes il appear that The secession moxe-
msnt is not UNSTABLE, and while he de-
MOS the right, he endorses the menace of
disuniuR. and PROMISES the seeding States
that the power Of the Federal Government
cannot be used against them. He asks:
ta4as tho Consultation delegated TO Con-
CreSs the power to cOerce State into sub
mission which is attempting to withdraw,
or has actually Withdrawal, from the Con-
federacT2 If answered in the affirmative,
4 aamst Be or tie pl,lcieRe thai he poarer has
bsea eotltcrred upon C0ngresS 70 declare and
10 make spdr Gqais8t STATE. After much
serious reflection, have arrived ut the
conclusion that no such power has been
delegated TO Congress, or TO any other de-
paytmeat of the Federal Government.
War has nothing to do With it. 1t is a
question between the State and the Fed
eral Government of obedience to the Fed
eral Laws. As is remarked by an cx-
cbange before us, ait is the duty Of all
individuals to obey those laws, and the
State has no authority TO release them
from such obedience, because the Federal
Constitution, and the laws made in pursu-
ance thereof, are expressly declared by the
Constitution itself to be the supreme law
of the land-"anything in the Constitu-
ton or laws of any State tothe contrary
notwithstanding" The Government has
precisely the same power 10 enforce every
Law Of Gongresssin South Carolina, that it
has to enfore the Fugitive Slave law IN
Massachusetts,. Mr.. Buchanan does not
invoke the war making power in the one
case-why should be in the other"
The only question it seems to us is as to
thespolicy or the wisdom Of exercising the
power of coercion. The wisdom aud tile
patriotism of the country will be divided
upon this. hepower may be surrendered
but itcannot be denied
The Philadelphia american has review
of the message, from which VIC take the
following:
The argument which the President puts
forth in regard TO the right to resist con
stitutional election is sound, and his state
ment that the very position of the chief
executive renders him conservative is also
sound land inst. Approximations that Mr..
Lincoln will invade the rights of any Sec
ton areLnot justified BY his past history,
and on mere contingencyof such danger
it is most unwise to break up the Union and
to wreck the fortunes of the south first;ofall
The President says there is.no single uct of
Congress or law in existence impairing, in
the slightest degree, the rights of tho South
in their peculiar property. There is no
probability of the passage of such n law,
he says, andtwere. such a law enacted the
Supreme Court stands as a barrier. strong
enough TO overthrow any such legislation.
The! act of the Legislature of Kansas, Mr..
Buchanan declares, will be declared
nullity by the Supreme Court if ever test
ed. Even the State laws, If any such ex-
list, tending to obstruct the operation Of
the Fugitive Slave law, are equally harm
less before the Supreme Court. Mr. Blu
chanan does not presume that the incom-
ing President will violate his duty What
stronger argument can be made against the
Justice Of the present position Of the se-
cessionists than this2 It is satisfactory
aud complete. 1t is the truth, and we
thank Mr.. Buchanan for stating it, as it
was his duty to do.
Tax Presidents Message, if we may
credit the statements OF some of the cor
respondents at Washington, is not receiv-
cd with much favor by either Southern or
Northern members. Wecopy paragraph
or two from the correspondence of the n.
Y. Herqtd of yesterday:
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