Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-05
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Address
PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
By TELEeRAPn!
ieLlopL CItisenI cfMe Uaitea State5:-

EtitutiOn ut the United States to be faken
by the President before he enters on the
execution of his Office. do not consider
1t necessary, ut present, for me to discuss
those matters Of administration. about
which there is hu special anxiety or ex-
citement.
apprehension seems TO exist among the
people OF The Southern States, that, by tue
accession of Republican Administration.
their property and their peace and persons
al security are to be endangered. And.
there has never been any reasonable cause
for such apprehension. Indeed the most
ample evidence to tue contrary has allJthe
Willie existed, and been open to their in.
spectiOn. IL is found ia ueafiy aIlsthes
Publshed speeches Of him who nov ad-.
dresses-you. ast sFat5as7s I-ffa :.
do but quote from one Of those
speeches when l declare that have no
purpose, directly or Indirectly, to interfere
with tue institution of slavery in the States
where tt exists. believe | have no law.
ful right to do so aud / have no inclination
70 DO SO. Those who nominated aud eleo-
ted me, did 50 with the full knowled,,Tp
t1at bad made this aud many similar de-.
ciareitons, aud had never recanted them:
and more thau this, they placed ia the
platform, Tor my acceptance as a law to
themselves and to me, the clear aud em.
Phatc resolution WHICH now read.
ResotUea. That the maintenance inyio
late OF the rights of the States, and espe-
cialty the right of ehGh State, to orIer
and control its own domestic institutions
according to its own judgment exclusively
Is Essential 10 that balance of power, on
whieh the perfectiOn and endurance of ..ur
political fabric depends, and we denounce
the lawlcss invasion by an armed force of
the government Of any State or Territory,
no matter under what pretext, as amongst
the gravcst of crimes.
now reiterate these sentiments, and in
doing so, only press upon the public at
tentiOn tue most conclusive evidence of
which tue case is susceptible, that the
property, peace and security, OF no section
are 10 be in any wise endangered by the
now mingsvlministration. Iadd, now,
shat the n :tion which consistently
with the Co atiuu and the laws, eau be
given, will be cheerfuliy given to all the
States, when lawfully dema a ded; for what.
over cause, as cheerfully to one section as
30 another.
There Is much controversy about the de-
livering of fugitiYes from service or labor.
e'riausc I-nOw read, as plainly written
"a thc constitution as any otlier OF its pro-
Fisi"iis: 'NO person held to service or labor
~ "''S A't''ASs unuSI INC thWS lhereOf, and
escaping into smother, shall in consequences
amy law or regulation therein. lie dis
hhrsed from such service or labor. but
'hall be delivered up on claim OF the party
whom such service or labor mas be due;p
Is scarcely questioned but this provi.
lpn WAS intended by tbose who made IL
g the rHclaiming of what we call fugitive
ayes. and the Intention OF the law giver
theIaw; all members of Congress swear
cir support to the whole Constitution, 10
is provision as much as to any other, to
proposition, then, that slaves whose
ees come within tue terms Of this clause
ah ee delivered mp; their Odths arc
luminous. Now Ii they would make the
ort in guodtemper. could they not. With
qhriS equal unanimity, franc and pass
p 6y means Of whicE to keep good that
aRnimouS oath.
There is sTme difference of opinion as
whether the clause should Le enfOfcetlr
national or state authority, but surely
9at difference is not very material one.
The slave rs to be surrendered it can be
little consequence 70 hiuIor to Others by
hich authority it is done; and should any
pc, IN any case be content that his oath
All be uhkept, or a merely uusubstA ntial
r9ntroyersy as to how it shall be kept
kgain, in any law upon this subject, ought
et all the safeguards of liberty known in
Silized and humane Jurisprudence to be
Introduced, so that freeman may not in
~ case be surrendered rs u slave; and
rlight 1t not be as well, at the same time.
tq provide by law for the enforcement of
hat clause in the Constitution when,
narantecs that the citizens of each State
3h'll be entitled tn nll privileges and i'm.
nnitcs of citizens in the several States.
take the official oath to-day, with no
ennI reservations. and with NO. purpose
90 coustrue tue Constitution or laws by
ny hyPcrcritical rules, aud while do not
loose now to specify particular acts of
ongress as proper to be enforced, 4 do
aggrst that it will be much safer for all
pt in official aud private stations to con-
ern to and abide by alt these acts, which
and uurepealed, than TO violate any Of
emi trusting TO find IMMUNITY in having
em heldto be unconstitutional.
IL sseventy-two years since the first ia :,
guEattou OF a President under our ma
enal Constitution. During that period
cen different and greatly distinguished
iEenS have in succession administered
Executive brnSich of tue Government.
ley have conducted it through many
rils, aud generally with great suecess.
WITH nil this scope for precedent,
" enter upon the same task for the
uist Constitutional term OF four years,
der great and peculiar sditticulties.-
Federal Union, heretofore only me
eed, is now formi,lably ATTACKED
poid that in cOntemPlati0u of the uni.
fsal Law of the Constitution the Union
these States is pc petual. Perpetuity.
implied, 1t mot expressed, in the funda-
tnnl. law of all national governments.
= sate to assert that government prop
never has revision in its organic law
its own termination. We must con.
ue to exeeute all the express proviSiohs
our national COnstitntiou, aud the
,o ,o@ ~ ElIl endure forever, il being imPos