Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-11-29
From Washington.
Especial Dispatch to the N. Y. Tr;bune-]I
10 III laa MONDAY, Nov. 10, 1860.


THE PRESIDENTS ANNUAL MESSAGE.
The President is engaged at the State
Department daily for several hours, and
has been for the fortnight past consulting
authorities in preparation of his annual
message Its main features, after areview
of the foreign policy during the last three
years. will be in reference to the present
attempts at disunion. Sc far from favor
ing these schemes, or being pledged to Sc
cession, as alleged by MIR. keitt and 9TH
ers, his whole argument will be directed to
overthrow any such assumption. and to cs-
taLIish, by historical facts, that the con-
tingency was not only never contemplated,
but was expressly forbidden by the con-
current declarations of the trainers of the
Constitution. and the interpretations ofthc
most eminent expoundcrs. MIR. Buchanan
has always held this theory. and. perhaps.
will take peculiar pleasure in announcing
it now under a sense Of public duty. and
for the purpose Of striking An effective
blow at the conspirators who have never
exhibited the least recognition of his SER
vices to the South, or any sense of COM
mon gratitude for the sacrifice. made by
the Administration during the Kansas con-
trovcrsy.
Both the Charleston anil Baltimore Con-
ventions ignored his Administration en-
tirely, and the South generally gave it the
cold shoulder in their State Conventions.
after having received peculiar marks Of
favor.
There is scarcely any doubt but his
message will be bitterly assailed 10y the
scccssionists. 1t will be sent to Congress
two days before the election for delegates to
the Convention in South Carolina, and,
doubtless form the principal topic oflis-
cussion when it shall meet on the 18th of
December. 1t will have been circulated
through the country long before the Con-
ventions of other States can be calle,l, and
must necessarily operate upon opinion in
emanating from one who is admitted to be
the champion of Southern rights.
A fierce controversy may be expected
in Congress when the message is delivered.
end public interest will be concentrated
here. thus drawing off attention from the
proceedings in South Carolina by a counter
irritant Of larger power. II will not be
Surprising to see tie Presidents doctrines
denounced by his recent defenders, and de-
Tended by his former opponents.
THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
Governor Letcher will urge upon the
Virginia Legislature. which he has sum-
moned for the 9Th of January, the policy
OF submitting propositions for an amend
mcnt of the Constitution. containing the
basis OF a new compromise between the
North anil South; and. alternatively Con-
vention Of Southern States to determine
their course ofaction in the present exigen
cy. AS the first is almost impracticable,
the latter will be most considered. That
plan furnishes the only mode by which
South Carolina can be extricated from her
predicament. for no doubt is entertained
| that her rash scheme would be voted down
in conference, by which she would be
bound to abide after consen;ing to enter it,
And she could hardly refuse to attend If
Virginia proposed General Convention.
Some plan will yet be devised to escape
the last resort now threatened. ftl0
! If South Carolina should proceed to the
extremity of voting herself out OF the Union
and send Commissioner here. as now
suggested, to arrange the terms of her with
drawal, no recognition would be extended
to him. 'siati -