Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-01-07

MR.. BUcHANAs's MESSAGE.

The annual message which Mr. Buchanan sent
yesterday to Congress is conceived in altogether
more subdued tone than either Of his previous
oyerawed aud disheartened by the energy with
which tho public disapproval Of his administration
has been exp, esseG. In his other Messages his
inventive faculties we're allowed some play in
devising plans for which be required the cooper
alton Of Congress, In the present Message he
mports himself in the manner Of cne who is
afraid 20 take upon himself any responsibility
be ventures upon no new recommendations, bat
contents himself with repeating such us be bad al
ready made, and the responsibility for which lie
cannot think Of escaping. We do not re"ollect to
have read any state payer Of any OF our Presi-
dents SO strongly impressed with this character Vi
limidity.
OF the affair at IIarpers Ferry he speaks in
;erins 30 general that persons OF diHereLt polit
cal views may give them different Interpretation
Ills remark, that those who maintain abstract
doctrines subveisve Of the constitution and the
Union, must not be surprised il their heated par
tisans advance one step further and attempt by Vi
oler &C to carry these doctrines into practical ef
feet" IL probably not intended for those who are
50 loud in their nenaces Of disunion if the pres
ent majority of the people of the United States
shall elevate to the Presidency, any man of their
choice but it may be fairly applied to those po-
iticiuns, as warning that ;hey beware lest their
followers imagining these threats to be uttered in
earnest may engage in some desperate act Of
treason which may draw after it u cOndign punish
ment. 1t is gratifying, howev>r, to perceive that
Mr.. b ichanan expects nothing but good irJm the
events at Llarper's Ferry. So do we ultimately
but do not perceive that the good is to be gain
ed exactly in the manner in which Mr.. Buchanan
seems TO expect. The discussion of the great
question Of the day has been made even more
spirited by these events the South, whatever
some may pretend, must see in them new proofs
of the mischels attendant upon slavery, aud the
North new reasons for excluding it from tho ter
rt0ries.
The other day Washington Hunt informed our
friends who attended the Union meeting in THE
city that the queition OF slavery in the territories
had been settled by the entire exclusion of slavery
from those parts of the Union Mr.. Buchanan
tells the story differently he affrms that the de-
cisiOn Of the Supreme Court of the United States
las settled the question by establishing slavery in
all the territories. The truth is, that Washius
ton Hunt and james Buchanan are both in the
wrong. The contest for the introduction Of
that mischief into the territories is going on yet
We do not allow that the bred Scott decision has
established any such legality Of slavery in the
territories, and, whatever Mr. Hunt may say, we
are in the very midst of the contest for excluding
it from Utah and New Mexico aud Arizona. A
mos! singular mistake is made by Mr.. Buchanan !
in this part Of his message. lie ahrms that even
in Kansas she right Of the master to his slave is
respected, and that nobody prcsumcs to interfere
with it.
We can enlghen Mr.. Buchanan on this sub.
jeci Nobody would venture to fog a slave in oil
Kansas, from the Missouri to the Rocky Mouu
tains. The hunters eilugitiye slaves ere compelled
to Leave the territory. The man they eslleG Old
Johnson, a missionary Of the Southern Methodist