New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-05

alone, and mind our own business, and that this
will put an end to Slavery agitation But we
waste words on such audacity Of imposture.
What the President says of the alleged
Right of Secession, and the inexpedency if not
impossibility Of Coercion, is in the main forcibly
and well said. We commend it to general at
tention.
Our Foreign Relations, sare with Mexico,
would seem to be in satisfactory state; and 1t
is to be hoped that the reastablishmcnt of the
Liberals at tho City Of MexcO-now apparently
mminent-will restore a good understanding IN
that quarter. But he wastes his breath in urg
ing the Senate to confirm the McLane Treaty.
We have work enough at home, without under
taking to guarantee independence and good gov
eminent to Mexico.
Why is there no ausion to Peru, with which
country we would seem to be on the brink OF
war; Our Minister has formally withdrawn
from Peru: the Peruvian Charge has been sent
away from Washington; the relations OF the TWO
Governments could hardly be worse IN the ao-
sence of formal declaration of war; yet no
aIusion is made to Peru in the Message Prob
ably special communication viii be made TO
Congress at an early day.
1t is melancholy, at this day, to see good
SPACE wasted on a serious attempt TO justify the
Lecompton Iniquty or at least the Presidents
part in it. The pretense that that swindle was
recognized" by the Republicans, because 0 part
of them were induced to vote against the Slavery
article submitted for separate approval or reJee-
ton is too monstrous. But no matter. There
is no danger that anybody will, at this day, be
won over to Lecomptonism; and the President
might as well have layished his sophistry in a
eulopy on Judas Iscariot or Benedict Arnold.
There are some things pretty generally under
stood, and "Lecompton is one of them.
To all, or nearly all, that the President says
with regard to the Tariff, we render hearty
Amen. We would only add, Let there be no
more borrowing but prompt and efficient proyis.
ion for paying. The Annual Expenditures have
been handsomely diminished of late, though we
fear that the public service has suffered in con-
sequence To reduce expenditures is well; but
to reduce them by stopping public works of man.
ifest utility and necessity, is not so well. Let
us have economy without starving the public Ser
vice, and a working balance in the Treasury
without further loans.
We thank the President for his good word for
the furnishing in Kansas. If he will no longer
impede the passage of the Homestead bill, that
measure will afford them very general and
sensible relief
1t may be well to have all Members of Con-
IL It'd Ia,y. T, thaf
the day fixed for the Presidential Election is the
proper one. TO reject that, and require
special election for Congressman in the depth OF
Winter would hardly be justifable.
ON the whole though there is but a small
portion of the Message as printed that we can
approve, we heartily thank the President for the
four columns that, on revision, he omitted. The
omission of another like amount would have rem
dered it quite a respectable document. We
thank him, moreover, for the similar Messages that
he will refrain from writing throughout the
years to come And, though we cannot commend
the moral insensbility which renders hun unable
to see why any good citizen should detest slave
hunting in Free States, we can heartily congratu-
late him on the fact that he is soon to be re-
ieyed from the cares of State, and we assure
him that in such relief the great body of the
people will heartily sympathise.