New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-10
THE PREsHDRNT,s MESSAGE.

Mr.. Buchanan's Special Message, which the
days, was sent to CdRgfls e!geelng Tor several
mences by abiding to bis Annual Message in
December last, and to the explanations given in
| that document of the causes of the Pro-Slayery
| rebellion, and also to its recommendations Of
remedies for the disturbed state of the country,
which, absurd and offensive az they were, the
| President declares he still adheres to- though be
udiciOusly refrains from repeating them.
He states that the imports of the country have
! allen off since the beginning Of the rebellion
with a rapidity never before known in our his
DRY except in time Of war, and proceeds to
ketch an alarming picture of the consequent
distress of the laboring classes and the immense
losses sustained by capitalists. We need scarcely
say that the condition of things described by
| the President 20 far as his description applies to
the North, exists only in the heated imagnations
of the Southern rebels, who, according to the
latest accounts, are striving to find consolation
| for their own msfortunes in the suppostiOn that
the Free States are on the verge of bankruptcy
and starvation. The President has been misin-
formed, and his misstatement can only have the
effect TO strengthen the prevalent Southern delu-
sion.
Repeating bis former declaration that there is
10 such thing az the right of secession, and that
he must exert the military force at his command
to protect the property of the United State, the
President declares that We are in the midst of q
great revolution and that Congress alone is com
petent to deal with so serious crisis.
The most lamentable feature of the case he de-
cares TO be that the secession movement is based
on misapprebension of the motives and feelings of
the Northern States. To this msapprehension,
no man has contributed more than Mr.. Buchanan.
In all his Messages to Congress, since he entered
the Presidential Office he has deliberately and
most grossly misrepresented the opinions and de-
signs Of the patty now dominant in the Free
States, and there can be little doubt that to the
calumnes on the Republicans 50 widely and per-
severngIy disseminated by him and his political
associates at the South is to be mainly attributed
the frantic excitement now raging there.
Mr. Buchanan next very coolly remarks that
ga proposition to Compromise by letting the
" North have exclusive control of the Territory
" above u certain line, and to give Southern ill.,
" stitutions protection below that line, ought to
" receive universal appreciation" That is to say,
if the opponents of Slavery extension will utterly
reDOunce their principles give up all they have
been cOntending for during the pact fifteen years.
and acquiesce not only in the extension but in
the perpetual protection Of Slavery in all Terri
tory South of GO 80, everybody ought TO be sat.
isfed We have no doubt of it. But we fancy
that those who expect to see universal ac-
quiescence in an impudent proposition such as
this is are very likely to be disappointed
The President states, in conclusion, that vari-
Gus forts and arsenals belonging to the United |
States have been seized, and are now held by |
armed forces of the Seeding States. He |
makes also an attempt 70 justify his base neglect
10 furnish reGnforcements TO Maj. Anderson. His |
defense ia that +" distinguished, upright gentle |
men" assured him that South Carolina medtated |
no yioence-that, although she bad seeded from |
the Union, declared herself Independent, and
hoisted the Palmetto flag, she meant nothing by |
It. II does not seem to have occurred TO Mr. |