Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-12-14

may prescribe"
}. BY purchasing Cuba from
Spain at the cost of all the States,
with the moral certainty that the
slave-holding interest in the Union
would thus bc strengthened by ten or
twelve additional Members of Cong
rcss and as many Electoral Votes for
President.
4. By paying certain Cuban slave
traders the value fixed 10y them on tho
Amistad negroes, taken as slaves from
Africa to Cuba in clear violation Of
the laws of Nations and of Spain, who
liberated themselves as all laws give
them a perfect right to DO, and were
landed on our shores, whence they
were sent back to Africa, after our
Courts had decided that they could
not be legally given up to the Cuban
pirates who claimed them.
These measures Of Pro-Slavery ag-
grcssion are pressed upon Congress
by tbs SAME buchanan, who tells Us
III ihc same breath that all that is ask
cd OF Us is thai We let Slavery in tho
States alone, and mind our own busi-
ness, and that this will put an end to
Slavery agitation Bat We waste
words on such audacity Of imposture.
What the President says Of the
alleged Right Of Secession, and tho
incxpcdiency il not impOssibility of
Coercion, Is in the main forcibly and
well said. We commend it to gener-
al attention.
Our Foreign Relations, save with
Mexico, would seem to he in a salts
factory state and it is to be hoped
that the rccslaJ.isLment OF the LiOer-
als at The Ci,y OF Mcxico-now appa-
Ic4tiy immlncnt-wiil restore q good
understanding in that quarter. But
he wastes his breath IN urging the
Senate TO confirm the McLaue Trea-
ty. We have work enough at home,
without Undertaking to guarantee in
dependence and good government to
Mexico
Why is there no allusion to Peru.
VITA which country we would seem to
be on the brink OF war? Our Minis
ter has formally Withdrawn from Pc
ru; the Peruvian Charge has been
sent away from Washington; the re-
lations vi the two Governments could
hardly be worse in the absence of a
formal declaration Of war ; yet 10 al
IuSon is made 10 Peru in the Mess
age! Probably special communica.
tJa VIII DC maize 10 Congress at an
carly day. -
1t Is melancholy, at this day, TO
see good space wasted Oh a serious at
tempt 10 justify the Lecompton Ini-
quily, OF IL least the Presidents part
la 1t. lhc pretense that that swind!e
was "recosAlztc:' by the Republicans,
because 4 part OF them were induced
to voIe against the Slavery article
Submitted ior separate approval OF
rJcciion, Is too mOustrous. But no
.n..tcr. There is no danger that
any bod! Will, at this day, be won
oNerio Locompionism and the Pres.
Ident might as well have Iavishcd his
sOpAisEry In L catogy on Judas Iscarl.
ot or Benedict Arnold. There are
some things pretty generally under.
stood, aud "Lecompton' is one Of
them.
10 all, or nearly oil, that the
President says with regard TO tho
IaIIH. we render a hearty Amen.
I" would only add, Let there he no
more borrowing, but prompt and effi-
;itnt provision Tor paying. The An
Iuai- Expenditures have been hand
ome!y diminished OF late, though wo
ear that the public service has suffer-
ID III consequence. To reduce ex-
'endlturcs is well but to reduce
hem 10y stopping public works of
manifest utility and necessity, is not
10 well. Let Us have economy with.
'ut starving the public service, and a
Working balance in the Treasury
without further loans.
We thank the President for his
,ood word for the furnishing in Kan.
us. Ii he VIII 10 longer impede the
assage OF the Homestead bill, that
leasurc will alord them q very gen.
raj and sensible relief.
1t may be well to have all Mem.
ers of Congress elected on one day;
so, We suggest that the day fixed for
he Presidential Election is the prop
I one. To reject that, and require a
pcciu election for Congressman in
nc depth OF Winter, would hardly 10
IsIiltDic.
On the whole, though there is
ut small portion of the Message as
rihIcd that we can approve, we hear
.y thank the President for the four
o.umnS .hat, on revision, he omitted.
nc omission OF another like amount
ould have rendered it quite re-
Jec,aJlc document. We thank him,
.orcovcr, for the similar Messages
IAt he Will refrain from writing
the years TO come. And,
lOu-n ae can not commend the moral
which renders him una
c 10 see way any good citizen
oUld dciest siaye-huntiDg in Free
aIc>, We can heartily congratulate
IN on the fact that he is soon TO De