The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1872-12-06
CONGRESS-.
The Presidents Message.

Vice President Colfax and Speaker
Blaine in their respective chairs.
In their prayers the Chaplains re-
ferred to the death of Mr.. Greeley in
feeling language.
The opening of the Message is
congratulatory upon :he peace and
prosperity which have prevailed in
the affairs of the country during the
passing year, and, upon the absence
of all apparent cause threaenting the
national peace in future. 1t then
speaks of the indemnity awarded by
the Geneva Arbitrators of SO, 5OO,-
900 in gold to be paid by Great
Britain to the U, States as fortu-
nate termination of our late war
troubles with that country. The
settlement of the San Juan question
terminates, also, fortunately, the
last question Of boundary between
the U. States and Great Britain,
save that now being determined by
Joint commission between the
Lake of the Woods and the Rocky
Mountains. With all the European
Nations friendly relations prevail.
The President speaks Of the Inter
national Statistical Congress and re"
commends an invitation for its next
meeting in the United States at the
centennial celebration to be held in
1876. He recommends also an APP
preparation of money and that two
naval vessels be employed to aid in
having this country properly repre-
scented at the international EXPOSE
ton to be held in Vienna.
All causes of complaint against
Mexico it is hoped will soon be re-
moved. Cuba continues disturbed
with no prospect of speedy rcsto-
ration Of order, all of which is
ascribed to the existence Of slavery
The Message speaks of our relations
with the South American Republics
with the "Heathen" Japanese anC
Chinese.
The money received into the
Treasury from all sources, during
the fiscal year ending June 80, "
amounts to. 1914, 106, 8G7.5G
Balance in Treas. June 30 II, .1O9, 1876, 1859
Including from unavailable. -...---.ls ,22S, 30
Total available cash, .--.$l740 42, 573.14
Which, after all disbursements af-
forded reduction on the public
debt of S9A9G0, 35454.
1t is urged that national cur
rency be provided Of unvarying
value with gold. The War and
Naval Department affairs and Post
Office operations, are discussed at
length. About the Ku Klux, the
President has this to say:
"Reckless and lawless men, | re-
greet to say, have associated them>
selves together in some localities to
deprive other citizens of their rights
guaranteed to them by the constitu'
ton of the United States, and to that
end have committed deeds OF blood
and violence but the prosecutions
and punishment of many of these
persons have tended greatly to the
repression of such disorders. dc
not doub: that a great many of the
people in all parts of the country
favor the full enjoyment by all class
es of persons ofthcse rights to which
they are entitled under the Copsti-
tuition and laws of the country, and |
invoke the aid and influence of all
good citizens to prevent organiza-
tions whose objects are, by unlawful
means, to interfere with these rights.
| look with confidence to the time
not far distant when the obvious ad-
vantages of good order and peace
will induce an abandonment of all
combinations prohibited by the acts
referred to. and when it will be I'M
necessary to carry on prosecutions or
inhict punishment to protect citizens
from the lawless doings of such COM
binations. APPLICATIONS have been
made to pardon persons convicted of
a violation of said acts upon the
ground that clemency in such cases
would tend to tranquilize the public
mind; and to test the virtue of that
policy, | am disposed, as far as my
sense of Justice will permit, to give
these applications a favorable con
sideration; but any action thereon is
not to be construed as indicating any
change in my determination to en-
force with rigor such acts so long as
the conspiracy and combinations
therein named disturb the peace of
the country. It's much to be re-
GREETED, and regretted by no one
more than myself, that necessity
has ever existed to execute the en-
forcement. No one can desire more
than | that the necessity of applying
it may never again be demanded"
The remainder of the Message is
taken up with brief illusions to the
Department of the Interior-the
Public Lands-Patents Pensions
the Census, which is completed