Newbern weekly progress., 1860-12-11

nope, AMIDST the most fearful dlSc0uragn1eOtS
that this republic will not be blotted out from
the family record of nations.
| The Presidents representation of our foreign
relations are, on the whole, satisfactory, and
requires no special comment at our hands, We
have merely glanced hurriedly over that por
| ton of the message. If upon more careful
perusal, we find anything worthy Of exception
able notice, we will give it our attention.-Pet
| Erp7ess
THE PRESIDENTS MEssAGE.-We ask all
our readers, in perusing the Presidents Mes
sage, to remember that this is the last annual
message that Mr.. Buchanan will ever address
to the people of the United States-perhaps it
is the last one that will ever be delivered to
these United States. Let it also be remembered
that Mr.. Buchanan is a man venerable in age
of great experience in public affairs and that he
can have no other motive than the honorable
one of doing his duty and living in the grateful
memory of his countrymen 1t should also be
remembered that Mr.. Buchanan entered public
life forty years ago-that he was the associate
of McDufie, Andrew Stevenson, Joel R. Poin-
sett, and that neblest Roman of them all, Ma
thaniel Macon-that he has been familiar with
the workings OF our government ever since the
administration of Mr.. Monroe, and that he can
have no object but tie see the Union perpetual
ted, with the just rights of every citizen prop
erly respected and guarded. Whatever obiec-
ton any may urge against his message we in
sist, in Justice to him, to the exalted station he
occupies, and to the respect to which age and
experience are entitled, that these considera-
tiOns shall have their due weight
All the Presidents reasonings on the slavery
question-the frightful aspect Of the country
brought about by the ignorance fsnaticism and
moral treason of the ant-slaveryists-are in
the main, correct, and his general recommen-
dations in regard to settlement are perhaps
proper enough. But how shall they be ac-
complished, or how can members of Congress-
or even the delegates to national convention
called for this purpose, act upon the President S
suggestions and solve the existing difficulties !?
He says Liberty Bills or otherwise obstric-
tons to the Fugitive Slave Bill' must be re-
pealed, and a construction given Or an additiod
made to the Constitution that shall secure the
same protection to "slave property" that is
given to any other kind of property in the fed
eral Territories.
Precisely so--the South must have this, or
the Government will be, as it should be-
broken up for it is necessary to its prosperity,
and indeed its ultimate, if not present safety.
But the Constitution already does this. Even
the most benighted among them the "anti-
slaTeryites' admit tie former of these things
while the Supreme Court, by an almost unani-
nous decision, have decided the legality and
justice of the latter. The truth is, the difficult
ty lie: back of all this-in the perverted senti-
ment OF the North-that widespread ignorance
and misconception Of southern society, which
is rapidly impelling us into fearful conflict
and civil war-at the North, at all events-from,
which nothing under heaven can save US but
the reaction of northern sentiment.
Ii Mr.. Buchanan had done no other act dur
during his administration, his suggestion,
Of the way by which the Union can be
preserved and the Constitution perpetisated,
as it is and has always been understood hereto
FORE would enttle him to the grateful memory
of his countrymen. Whether his wise admoni-
tions will be needed by thenow dominant party
at the North remains to be seen. At all events
he has done his duty. and it rests with others to
bring back public opinion to- a just and proper
understanding of the Constitution, it has
been handed down to rs by the fathers of the
RcpubHc.-N. !. Day Book.
DoNT LIKE TME MIssAGE-The Black
Republican papers are in a state of fearful
excitement about Mr.. Buchanan's message.
HorAce Greeley:
Let ts lcvoutlr thank God that, for the en-
suing tour years at least the people of the Uni
ted states are relieved from tn annual vista
ton o. long Presidential lecture wherein r.a-
son ~ lnSut>s, humanity outraged, history
traycSicG and common sense detir /, in the i'll
tcrcst& Of human slavery and for the gratitica-
ton ot ii r9i1ol.lers. " natcvcr evils the flI-
t;.:c may have in store or us this enc at least,
j. .nI (, season irtclsuitttd, ii n,5t forever put
away.
The mar who in this Day talks Of the oppo-
HentS OF slavery as blind beSotted fanatics, and
represents tie current agitation as utterly un-
provoked and gratGitou$, is simply dishonest.
MI. Buchanan E.so5ry better.
i =
How is it possible, then, for publiciSt,
with the eyes Of the world fill upon him, to
say that. The long continued and ntem-
per,te interference Of the Northern people with
the Question Of SlaycrH IN LIE XOMthlrn .SfnteS