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trfcfca tVy v to to, sui i ' r bU, -afclM! iwcig to mmi r-fuWr rU. S P. : ; i ,4.-. PEESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Stoma s4 : fr llBlrea Thutaad Ildrd If lUtofa.eff V This last would be clear IntfcatiW was ir, oapiulpf Yia ofnolicv. and would better enable .the whenTertfctecfeJI. v i S adoept tle evacuation of .FertJfcG the Wl4d hosen. a ! S ruJ An or- larrtmaiohtY of the professed Union tQUDUCrU I1UUUUT mvv.... , . j- i o WFelUfW-CUiuitt of'iJie ScnaU' . :.,! . I Vi And Howie f Reprucnl&tivtt : I tf.ntS been convened on an txtiwrdi- 1 : Mrr occasion, a authorized ny tee von- , URlMOIIt JVUr Blicuuvu IS UlSli MMW w lany ordinary subject of legislation .v j At the beginning 'f the present Presi- dential term, four- month ago, the func tions of the Federal Government were found to be generally- suspended! within thefjeTeral Stater -&f '&uthdCKia,' Oeoreia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida, excepting those only of the Post Office Department. jji ; 'Within these States all the forts, arse' ,atf dockyards, custom housea and the lilfer'iucluiliu the moveable and station "arr Droperty an and about them, had been 'eii"efand held in open hostility vto this Government ; excepting only Forjte Pick eaaTaylor aid Jefferson, on and near, the Florida coast, and j Fort Sumter in ; Charleston haTbor, South Carolina.' iThe forts thai seized" had been put in improved condition, new ones had been 1 tAiilt, and armed forces had been organi- -ted- and were organizing, all avowedly SrUn . the ' same hostile . purpose. The fortlTemaining in possession of the Fedj - cral. Government in and near these States were either beseiged or menaced by war : )ike preparations, and especially . Fort jSamter.was ."nearly '. surrounded by well protected hostile batteries, with guns equal io jjnalitfy to the best of its own, ;-I and outnumbering the latter as, perhaps, f'lten to one. :- I 1 1 "" . 1. A disproportionate share of the Foder - 1 I Snm(r a n military derwaa afonce directed to, ds secvier the landing of the troops from the steam ship Brooklyn into Fort Pickens. This order could not go by land,' but must take the longer ana slower route oy .eeu,t The first return 'news from the order Was received just one week before the fall nf Fftrt Snmter. The news itself was; that' the officer commanding the Sa- bine, to which vessel foe troops had been: transferred' from the- Brooklyn, acting vpori some quasi --anmatfeeof 'tbolate Administration, and of the exbtence of which thepresent Administration, upt to the time of which the order was dis-j patched, had only too vague and unoeri tain rumors to fix attention, had refused! to land the troops. To now reinforce Fort Pickens, before a crisis could be reached at Furt Sumter, was impossible, rendered so by the near exhaustion of provisions in tiie latter named fort. In precaution against such a conjunc ture, the Government had, a few days. before, commenced nrcpating-an expcai tion as well adopted as might be, to re men. Almost immeuiaieiy Jiiier ine lau of Fort Sumter, many members of - that majority went over to the disunion mi nority, and with them adopted an ordi nance for withdra wing the State from the Union. 1 Whether this change waswrought by their great approval of the assault on Fort Sumter, or theirgreat rtsontmeut at the Gavernmetit tesistanre tdihaVssault, is not definitely known. ..; 1 ' AJthoagu-thet subraittect theordinanje for-ratification -in a vote ot tne people, u be taken on a day then somewhat more than a month distant, the Convention and the Legislature, which was also in ses sion at the same time and place, with leading men of the State not members of either, immediately commenced acting as if tie StateJwere already out of the Cu- 100- I ' ' t j : - ' i j ' They. pushed military preparations vigorously forward all over the State, they seized the United States armory at Kilmer's Ferrv. and the Navv-Yark at I V' re- Gosnort, near Norfolk; they received, per The nevroses only took the deaignatioii fai nunaHir iiiui iub wj uvsm v w . i. shall not be suspended unless when, in cases of rebellion rinvaaiin,4he public, safety may require, is equivalent to a pro Vision is f provision tha rochi jni lege may be suspended when, in. cases of rebellion or invasi inllit pttblw aafety does require it. i . 'j - It was decided that wehavencaie of rebellion, and that the publi$ tafstjt dues require the qualified suspension o the writ which was authorised to be made. Now. it is insisted that Congress and not ' the Executive is vested with this jpowr er. ". i- i.vf But the Constitution, itself, silent, as to which orwhd 1a ''Wexeeise.4a.e power; and as the provision was plainly made for a dangerous emergency, it cannot be believed Sie framers of the instrument intended that in every case danger should run its course until Congress thould be called together, j the very assembling of i whkh might have been prevented, as was intended in this case by the rebellion. No more extended argument is newpffer- nA mm ni rn if uAm A Ian rrf h mar ill e snau. oe any i " -f - - - r: - - sense 01 . the rtcrm I . iirounw u jot wrons to define it "a mjitLcal community ths nower and dsnovnes the set as the I rumum am iaw r k nAwm Mai iintlM M ! Government reUtivelT to the righif wf srestest oatrees vow Stats rirUu. Bui ADTyouas that Drecuelr - the asms set, in- T. r i.i l-?- n- th StmbM a.nd the nsriro under tl ouers irom um uua ik wvu ww vui . . . . . it . iK Msar. rUim to do. unless, in-) sUWUon, than that express m iuw i- , - . . . ...... ..Mr.,iM.i ii .luiirM nrMfni 1 deed, they mate the point max me sue, ft ." lTrTzAi. t'.Kl ,;ri- ,' the Government, that it mar be sdmiuis- ;: inn mi u V Utif V www - J - a. -.1 I noes in and by the. Declaration of Inds- Thuwiii the limited United Colonies were declared to be free Vnd independent States, but even then te object plain wu nnt to declare theif indenendence the eontrary. as their mioal pledge aad Ptans J?1 J their mutual action befbre, at Uie time, the rights of mtnortiTlhey are Tr ffsjSwSmlST show. The partisl to that power whdi ktbo sua siierwsrup, muuuuwj rt-titntihn and sneaks from the Mtsm- sIlftheorr2nal thirtcet m jno-anic "TLni Hwwoikihs ormfeaerawdears Wer? tnat f T ' . w iiiiw a in iinrii w sis i iitt ir'sii . the Union shall be pcrpftuai, M mosicon-; -----r. ! Tlie Cou.tituti.m provides,-ana" all Us Huu ... JT,7 7. r" 'Sttthave aeceptH the pwrurton, tltat haDH. South Carolina, i faor ot uisnn-, ' A . , . to believe "V ry owe tats iju'urppawiw iw i of Government." Bui if ft State In thu !nl -r4t!fna srrrwhn' lure the right to 'rhtim thin f their Oovernmuul, and the Qorernmesithas no right. towith hold ;or, neglect U. ? H i no.jeroelvei that In feiv'ng it thre u ay coercion. ooisq-ssAystkiagKitSriA-sy Here Fort Samter, which expedition was haps invited, into their State large bodies General. Whether there shall, be any legislation upon the subject, and if any what, is submitted entirely to the better judgment of Congress. The fQrtearance ot ;'v t , ; . i- ...I . i. ,vf trng wl h thmr wrlikp flnnomtments The tQrtearance ot intended to De uuimatciv usrn ur uuv, nr , ""j'" -----rr. ,. i , , , . j lTr ;I iwrtm,hiJ. TKtrnnVest ' from the so-called seceded States. They had en .so extraordin anticipated case for using it was how-?re j formally entered into a treaty of tempo-1 continued as to let some T : , .1 11 4 i u t.-i i rorv :ll5flnfP .o-onfirat on with the so-1 to shape their action as if senteo. anu n was reuicv4 m;cuu it i , . i A elusive Having never been (States either iu j substance of in name outside of the Un- j ion whence this mSfficaJUomuipatenoe of . State rights, asserting , claim xrf -pwer j haps, South Carolina, ion. There is much reason that the Union men are in the maiority lawfully to destroy thHTniol itelf! Much is said about tb sovereignity of the States, but the woid, even, is not m thA X'titimifll finstitut,on. nor. as is lo- wlthut apolitical sinenor?' tested Goverijment j by this, no one of our States except Tex- this 1 1 . 1 c . I . " J'T '. tU A.imiir tin. AJiirtlllir toreicn nations j r1? .."" Ci V . "P CongresB at Montgomery ; finally, they permitted the insurrcc- ward. As had been intended in this.contin t ...a .tlu i-oj,ilvoil tn nritifv the r J ' L. . . . . . . . i . ' fi u n- 4 4 l.rt Mnctairui I tn i Governor ofcSouUi Carolina tuatheinignt ; nonary , w i.ovwv expect an attempt would be made to pro- tneir capital ai i.icimiouu. vision the fort, and that if the attempt J The people 'oH irgmia have thus nllow ,hwld not be resisted, there would-be n'tf 'ed this great insurrection to make its effort to' throw in men, arms or ammuni- I: 4;nn UKriit fnThr' nnto.p. rvr in raze of al mustets ana nnes nu Bomeuow iouuu ..u rtrirtnth f.irt. This notice was Jtheir way into these States, and had been ; acwrjmri given, wheretipon the fort seised to be used against the Government: attacked and bombarded to its fall Accumulations of thepublic revenue ly-, without even awaiting the arrival of. the ing within them had been seized for the ri,T;si(ining neJition. same object; .The avy was scattered F: It ;8 thus s'en that the assault upon In distant seas, leaving but a very small aIvl the r0,vuctin-.)f F..rt Sumter was in part of it within tne immeaiate reacn or f n m mattcr nf .self-defence on th,e the Government. Officers of the Federal army and navy had! resigned in great numbers, and of, those, resigning a larg' part of the a-wailants. lhey well knew that the garrison in the fort could by up ildlitv commit ;iLrzrc!stonu Don them. proportion naa eaten up arms against me , . t, th w- exnrcsslv no- Joyexnment. ,-. , - . . . ..fi(ilI tl;at lhe vmjr0f bread to the few r Simultaneously, and m connection with , hriiXe nM hungry men of the garrison all this, the purpose to sever the Federal whi;h -jul(i m thatoccasion Union was openly avowed. In accordance . te , unles3 theni5clvc, by resisting with this Jrposean ordinance. had been ( , . . , . moref i? - adopted in each of these States, declaring these States respectively to be separaiud from the National TThTon. A formula for instituting a combined Government of these States had been promulgated, and this illegal organization, in the char acter of Confederate. States,; was already invpking recognition,-aid and interven tion from foreign powers, .v. v Finding this condition of things, and believing it to be an imperative duty up on'the incoming Executive o prevent, if Msiibl&. the consummation of such an attempt to destroy the Federal Union, a choice of means to that end became in dispensable. V '; This choice was made and declared in the inaugural address. The policy chos- en looked to the exhaustion ojF all peace ful measures before a resort to any stron- It sought only to' hold tl Thev kr.ow that this Govefnment ue- -trtrl t ktt tl gaririot: in th fort, nt to assail 'them, but meacly to maintain visi.Me p).sstsiioii, and thus to preserve the,-Union trn active and' immediate dis solution, trusting, as hereinbefore ststeJ, to time, discussion artd the ballot box for final adjustment: and they assailed and reduced the fort for precisely the reverse object to drive out the visible authority ofthe Federal Union, and thus force it to immediate dissolution. That this was their object, the Executive well under- .stood.' -i And having said to them in the inau gural address, "you ran have no confiift without being yourselves the .agrea-sors" he took iiains not nlv to keyp this dec- 1 laration ood, but also to keep, the ense nest within her borders, and this Govern ment has no choice left but to deal with it where it 'finds it. And it has the less regret, as the loyal citizens have, In due form, claimed its protection. Those loyal citizens this Government is bound to recognize and protects being Virgmians. In the Border. States, so called in fact, the Middle States there are those who favor a policy which they call an armed neutrality ; that is, the arming of those States to prevent. the Union fortes Dassinc one way, or the disunion the oth- er, over-their sou. This would be disunion completed. Figuratiyely,speaking, i. would be- the building ofah hnpaesablff wall ftkmg the line of seperation ; and yet, not quite, an imnassnble ine. for. under' the euise of neutrality, it, would tie tb Jiaivds of the Union men and freely pass supplies ffofn among them to theiusurre, tio. ists.M'hich it 'could not do as an open enemy. . At a stroke, it would take all the trouble off the hands of secession, except only: what procceda from Jhe external blockade. -a It would -do fortheDisumonists that wjiicrr, of all things, they most desire feed them well and give them disunion without a struggle of their own. It rec ognizes no fidelity to the Constitution no obligation to maintain tlie Union ; and while very many "who Lave favored it are doubtless loyal citizens, it it neveiy thclcss very injurious in. effect. Recurring; to the actiin ofthe Guvern-!-ment. it 'mar be stated that at first a call nnna i. . nun itiii iuii v iiiiiii iiit- . . . , . - u 5"'" i j" J . - ; try, as that the world s!uull not be a We 1 jmblw.t pW;ad property not alrea-l.y j ; mjsuu.derstuiKl it. By the affair at' v wasted from the G(,vernment; . surrounding cir- : irlet the revenues, W?" f r eu msram-es: that point Ws reach eh tinje, discussion and the ballot box. Thl ftnJ therebv the assailants ofthe .V -X P"1 nuance of the mads , a,vernnien, , tlic conflJct of aml t Government expervse to the very pc . n & ht or in eXpectahey pis who were resisting the Government,,' fe) rcturn t7lcir fireiTeM1T thle fcw in ana w gve n: ieuSr K.upi . th4 f,lP that harbor vears hefore free from the power of ingenious ssphis- was- wade for 7o,U()J militia, and rapully following mis a proclamation va? iuv.-i , for closing the ports of the insurrectioua- j rv districts bv proceedings in the nature i f a blockade. So far all was believed to be strictly legal. At this point, the insurrectionists an nounced their purpose to enter upou the practice of pri vateering. Uther calls were made tor volunteers to Jistnrbance to any ot the people or any , f i fc . "pVoteetion, and still ready sene three years unless'sooner dischatg might Constitutionally and justifiably do in such a case, everything was forborne Without which it was deemed possible to keep'the Government on foot. M On the 5th of March, the present in cumbent's first full day in office, a letter Xrom 'Major Andemin, commanding at . Fort Sumter, written on the 28th; of F to give that protection in whatever was lawful. - j; In thi act, discarding all els thfy 1 have forced upon the couutry the distinct j i-suc imtnedi-ate dissolnriod or Mopd.-l And this issue embraces more than tlio i fute of these United States. It presents j 'to the whole family of man the question ! is b ' whether 'a constitutional Republic or De i bey ed, and also for large additions to the regular Army and Navy. These measures, whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon under what appeared to be a popular demand and a public necessity, , trusting, as row, that Congress would readily ratify them. It believed that .nothing has been done of thev supposed our Is ational Un- nion was orobable. While this, on discovery gave the Exec utive some' concern, he is now happy to ?ay that thopovereignity and rights pf the United States are now everywhere practi cally respected by foreign powers, aind a, general sympathy with the country is manifested throughout the world. The reports of the secretaries of the Treasury, War and Navy will givp the information in detail demed necessary and convenient for voiir deliberation and - y action, while the Executive and Depart ments will stand ready to supply omis sions, or to communicate new- facts con sidered important for you to know. It is recommended that you give the legal means for making this contest nhort and decisive; that you place at the control of the Government fo the wjrk at 'cist 400,X)0 men and $40C,000, 000. That number of meu is about one tenth of those of proper ages within the regions where, apparently all are willing to engage; and the sum is less thna the twenty-third part of the money value own- d by the men who seem ready to devour the whole. A debt of six hundred millions of dol lars now is a less sum per head than was the debt of our revolution when we came out of that struggle; and the money value in the country now bears even a" greater proportion to what was then thanr does the population, surety each man teas as strooe a motive now to preserve our lib- ties as each had then to establish theui A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world than ten times the men and ten times the money. The evidence reaching us Irom the country leave no doubt that the material for the work is abundant, and that it needrs only the hand of legislation to give it legal sanction and the hand of the Executive to give it practical shape and efficiency, One of the greatest perplexities f the Government is to avoid receiving troops faster than it can provide for them. In a word, the people will save their Govern ment, if the Government itself will do its part only indiflereatly well. It might seem at first thought to be of little difference whether the prescnt move ment at the South be. called secession or rebellion. The movers, howeverj well understand the difference. At the begin-! express irto tne Union, by wfi?h.abtshscknwl evA the Constitution "of the United States, and the laws aftd treaties of the United States, made ii pursuance of the Constitution, to be foi her the supreme law of the land. The States have their status, in ( the Union, and they have'no other legal sta tus. If they break from this, they can only do so against lawjind by revolution. The Union, and not themselves, sepcrate ly, procured their independence and their liberty;, by eonquest or purchase tho Un ion gave each of therii' whatever of iade- peudence and Jiloi tv has. lbe Union is oldqr man any oi me states nnd in fact 1 ; created them as i 11 v idime denendent col- onies made the Unite and in turn , the Union threw; off iheirld'depeudence: fof them and made them tates, sudi as they are. Not one of them ever had a State Constitution independent of the Union. 01 course it is not? forgotten that ai in manyfc if not in every other one of the so called seceded States The contrary has noi been dem mstrated insnyoneofthern. It is ventured toiaffirm this of even Vir ginia and Tennessee ; for the result of an deetftoti held in military camps, where the bayonets are all on one side of the ques tion voted upon, oun scarcely t consid ered as demantratiiig popular sentiment. At such au ele Jtioa all that large class who are once for the Union and against cercion would bo coerced to vote rgainst the Union. - It may be afSnned, without extrava gatice, that the free iasdtutions we eit jpy have develope.1 t'e jtowers and im proved the oonditin of our whole neople beyond any example in the world Of this we now hare a striking anl impres sive illustration. So large an aru.y as the Government has now on foot was never before known without a soldier in it, but who had ta ken his plaee thereof his osn frecchoice. But m iro thab this, there are many sin gle raffiments whose meniberi", one' and another, p sses full practical knowledgo a- of all. the arw, scierices, proiessions, ana whatever eloe, whether useful or elegant, is known in the world And there is hih Uuicn may lawfully g" out of tVet'nwil, having doiie , it may alv dispmrtbe repubTicati form uf Government, so thai tn prevent its going out is'an Irtutspensjl blp means to the eid,vf maintaining ths guarantee mentiohel : and when, an. end is lawful and obligatory, the means hi dispensable to it are abo lawful and ol liator. .. . t It was with the. deepest regret that tnt Exscuti-o fouud the duty f employing the war lower in dofeuce of the, Uusm mcnt forced upon him. He could hui erfornT this duty, or surrender the tx utence of the Government -n .t No oomprtjmise by public sentiment , could in this case 1 a cure. Not that' ompcomtsea are not often -proper, but that no popular Ueveriuucnt can lonj sur vlve a marked precedent that thoe,why carry an election can only save' UtfS Oov" e rumen t from imiuxliatu destruction by giving ap the main point upon which the people gave the election. , Jb4JPkjttbmseiwsji luther servants, can safely Reverse their own del ilje rate decMons. r " As a private cititen, tho Kxecutlvs, could not have consented that thcue insii- course it is not? forgotten that the new States framed theirConstitutions . ' -J-t ' ...1. I I.i feted lltoM. .M Cngr,.s ! !L?&?Zl and perhaps a Court, almndantly enmpe tent to. administer uieoyernmeus iwou. Nor do I say this is not true also iu ths army of our late frled, miw adver' saries iu this contest. Cut if it is, s much better thcreamm why tl Governr ment which has cooferred such ben eats i; tiim Tin Wt tht he had no Si rirht to shrink, nor even to cwuntQlw ehawess of his own Ufa U whattnla 1 follow. ) t ? y U;ui In fdW 'viw of hlsgrsal rosponsiun. i .Mr. oniovAit tlx rTiiiftn. nffrerthe UCIVIO llinj-vuvviv vw V ' . I . .1.1 I l 11 less dependent upon, and prefatory to ou cxhu w, v u, Wm. . . ( . Vatnent. perform, your, ? itL:-- i kn tin. Whfever. in anv wiction. Oriv ! ' J ."r-ij Aiminff mrn liib uniun. , i r - - CnooesUohably ths States have the not bT bro: eU his duty. Yim w0J,;h, . Hiotetdmsl to yonr Wll JUOJinom, prriorinj jvur,, II siufHdy "htfpes (fiat yrtir vlewa SjsV- powers and -rights reserve t to thera in and by the National Constitution ; but among these aurely ire not 'included all conceivable powers'howeyer, misclieiv ous or destructive ; but at most, such on ly as were knhwn Vn ' thjs world at the time as governmental powers, aud cer tainly a power to destroy theGovernment tKise to abandon auoti a u iverowsnt, - I ku. mmZ would do well to eoosmer in aetersnce Wi ' - Jti.. kk. 1 J what principle It is that he do it ; what ! 'Vl ' ZSJZZ DCLlCr lit! 1 IV K Ml " 4 whether the substitute will give, or be intended to give, so much of gO Hl to the people. There arsorae foreshadow in gn on this subject. ' Our adversaries 1iat" adopted some declaration of independence' itself had never been known'as govern- j in wnicn, uniiKo tne goo .om pwm mental as a merely administratis pow-J by Jefferson, tbey omit the Afl er. This relative matteror national pow-. uieu iwww.w,u.i.. V " , A J I have adopted a temporary A ationat Con- t Cr ILllLi ULdLU) IIC.kavrr. I" T - . . . m 1-. . ... . . I . J ' A 1 . Mr speedy reftoratiua va tnem nu Constitation and the, hvws. .r,..k . s.ivu Alid having thus chosen onr oomrss . wT&oat'RMfe'srui with pure prpowf. let as renew Sr trust in bod, aind go for ward without fea- aud with manly hearts ABRAHAM" UNC0L5. July 4, 1850, -, - - -BS S mmmw- , Th Ptaec Psttil. Sfd'l.Amr V P" "jheol by Wash-I The following is 'a copvof Whatever concerns the whole- should ington, they omit -We the people " and I peace petition lately signed in Iff W ; he confided to the whole the General ; substitute -AVe the Deputies of the York HOtl for circulating which -I Government; while whatever concerns : ere'gn and Independent Mates. several gentlemen were arrested , only the State should beleft exclusively thisdehberste pressing out of view the-; f by ordcr 0he vulgar I to the State. This is all there isof origt ! rights of men and the authority-of the , K.'ithoriit.at W&U nal principle about it. Whether thea- pcop.e. " v .. ,f nter -'off raise ruaxyjmd received at-tho War, Depart. i WIlCl,,nr 51 consmuuona. .ucmiuuc or ue- , ..00 - -v . -rrii'ia- i-m.-.i . ... . : mjcrarv a jrovernment of the people bv 1 Congress. . j. the sflm Tor.lfl in or mnnotmmntain i S on after the first call for IUillta, ment n the 4th of March, was ;by that Department placed in his hands. This letter, ex presaed-the professional opinion ofthe writer that reinforcements could not be thrown into. that fort "vithin the j time for his relief, rendered necessary by ; the. JiinUed supply of provisions, "aud i with a view of holding possession of th i same,1 with a .force of less jthan 20.000,! ood land well! disciplined men. ' ,Thin ! opinion was eoscurred in by all the offi cers of his command, and their memoran da on the subject were made enclosures of Major Anderson's letter. , The wholeVas immediately laid before lieutenant Genearl cott, who at once incurred with General Anderson in ioidnr On reflection, however, he took f uU.time, consulting with officers both of tha Army and Navy, and at . the end of four days cams reluctantly but decidedly tdlhs same conclusion as before; . He al so stated at' thdsaine time tliajt no such ssiificient force was then at the omtnd of the Government, or could be raised and it ningthey knew they could never their treason to any respectable magni tude by any name which implies vuda tion of law. They knew their People possessed as much of moral sense, and as much of devotion to law and orders, and ... . f . t as much pride in and reverence iqr tne history and government of their common country, as anv other civilixed andipatn- tmnat f!nnstitTitioi. in defining the boun daries between the U'wo, has applied the principal with exact accuracy, is not to be questioned. We are all bound by that defining, without question. What is now coinbatted ii the position that se cession is consistent 4witb the Constitu tionis lawful and peaeefub It is not contended that there is any lw fur it- iind nothing should hftinl On the side of the Union it is a struggle i the North snbroit to tnen tnirgjQ for maintaining in the world that form ) tliev nro most Stolid donkeysi and substance of government, whose lead- j u'0 J,8 KxCELIXCY A B RAH AH ing object is to elevate the condition of 1 jASCQhS Presiiknto TflR U.MTEli men to lift artificial, we.ghts fnm, all s-ThcundewlgiWJd, citizen shoulders, to clear the paths of, laudable IV r 1, i. . i... pursuits for all; to afford all an unfetter- ) f New Tbrk, g lenre to PJW ell start and fair chance in the race 4 1 to you, most rcsceUull)r ftodctrH- life. Yielding partial and teraprary etlVV tho-lollomng couuraiioiij " l . 1 4 . nlui nf th- (iii(rnmni tttr . i ..t.. ..1 ltui. inst or absurd conseouences The nation purchased with money the nnimtrips out of which several of these leading obj whose ex happy to its territorial integritv against its own : was cotisideredVdiity to authorize the ; otic people. Thev knew they could make domestic foes. It jiresents the question whetherA discontented individuals,.-;' too few in numbers to control administration commanding general, in proper cases, ac cording to-his discretion, to suspend tne privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, or, according to organic-law in any case, can i m other words, to arrest and detain, witn ........ i.'.A : ii. I nut risnrt to thfl ordinarv processes and ease,, .or. -other pretence?, or arbitrarily j forms of law, such . individuals 'as he ; conceded was followed by perfectly logi- no advancement directly in the teeth of these strong and nosle sentiment?; accor-dine-lv thev commenced bv an insiJious debauching,. of the public mind. invented an injurious sophism, wh wuu.iut auy pvetence. break up their Government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask, is there in all Re- ublics this inherent and fatal weakness? lust a government of necessity be too strorig for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own exist ence? So viewing the issue,' no choice was left but to call out the war power 'of the Government, and so to resist force S might deem dangerous to the public safe ty. This authority has purposely been exercised, but very sparingly.; .. Nevertheless., the legality and rjropn- cal stens through all the incidents to the complete destruction of the Union. The j sophism itself is, that any State f the f Union may consistently witn tue Ration Thev ch, if States were formed. Is it just that tbey i apprec.aie uus. v J, shall go off without leave and without j that, while m this, the Governing' shoor refunding? The nation paid very large j of trial, large numbers oT those in the sums, in ths agg egate, I believe, nearly : army ana uaTj wW relieve rioriua wnn iuc umw, v i object of the Government for -. rcacjy to sustain tthd defend, their istciK-e we contend. . I am most KOvernmcntt and youi ns iU e& bve that the PfcnjlJ td.. tbov specify mcti t s i Is it just that she shall now be off , tnem. not one eomn,o 7-;;" ofttll lheiitittes, as U thout cosent,.or:wi noux maz any Z""" 111 TTb' Wl?; VOurinxuguraL The nation is now iu aeoi ior 1 urpit .- - 14ti.:0 rtnbl ' !. t..ri. 1 vamuinftl tr..o dAsnite the exams e of! "This courtc oujU appil.ea IO llie oenuvv -T --1 - . , ! ' .Aft. tl.f,,,L,tt nf Aitr seceding oiaice, . wuitvu , k, - . . resi. xo it jBO''w., - - -- A ... 7 . . . , : .1 n. 4kA mmtibincr NiatM ; is tne ontnimuuB uriuiitro wi ivuiuii trt mm KStu conTcniifii . , t va w m . , 1 Ptv nf what has been done under it are ! at Constitution, and therefore lawfully questioned, ad the attention of the coun- j and peacefully, withdraw from the Union try fcia been called to the proposition without the consent of the Union or of tnaX One WHO IS woru u l.i r.c umi j nil uuicr ouuc. the laws be faithfully executed should not himself violate them. Of course some consideration was giv- emnloved for its destruction hv fiuve tar'.l on to the question of power and proprie- its wreeefvation. i, tv before this matter was acted upon. j ' This call was made, and the response 1 The whole of the laws which wcrerequir of the country was most eratifvinz. siir- ! ed to be faithfully executed were being the little diseuise that the supposed , right is to be exereised only for justcauscr j themselves to be the sole judge of its jus- j tice,is too thin to merit any notice, j With j. rebellion thus sugar-coated, they have j been drugging the public mind of their ! section tor more tnan tuirty years, ana passing in unanimity and 'spirit the anost saname sxpectitloii; let none or-the resis tedand failing of execution in near- j until at length they have brought one hundred mUlioas, to reli of the aboriginal tribes. wi return money called the shall sro unpai pay the whole? 1 5 part ot tne prwm national debt was liontracted to pay the old debt of Texas, i Is it jnt that she shall leave and pa : no part of this her self. - Again, if one Sta may secede so may another: and when! nil haH have seceded none are left o pa ir the . debts. Is this quite just to cYeditiVt?. Did we notify Uiemofthis sagevitwof ours when we borrowed their moniy ?, false to the hand which had amperd many i . '!. E. J kl. r exhausted. ' 1 ! 1 cepiLeiaware, gave a regiment ummgn, Tii ft-rvoroiv miLitarv nomtoi view.this r reduced the diiy of the Administration ! f bfve been organiaedwithm somej tion ih;thVcass to the mere matter of geUiug otner? of SUtes by individual en- i tien Karl ;k;Kn Wrffkctlv clear that bv the rlnmafln TtPx'pssnrv to their execu totl the farcicld oretence of tatin UT3 J- S J - - - . 1 9 , soiiie single law, made in such ex- . tn them Our norolar Government v has often ! I UKU V .. . . . . ,1.1 T-rn. Tf w now recoTttize this doctrme,Dy Deen caiiea an c. . - 1 ' 1 allowing the seceders togo in peace. 1 TO-7 JS m . T mnmm t i"J iJi I ill rr lAimouiu ftdministerisr cf iwwne-s Jmuw:i th.o rarruo? , safely out . of the fort. 1 1 j "was relieved,' however, that so to abon dns that position under the cirrumstan-i terpnse, and reewved , into the Govern- that ment service. Of course the secede 1 ' gin It v Sutes, teo called, and to w hich Texas had ; verv 1 state th the law Governi t a ? " v. 4.i. m.,:n..m ..-tk.4;:t. 1 oecmomea atout tne time 01 tnemaucu- nMessity-iindev which it was done could ! rf,i,n. gTe-no troops to tne cause or me. V?Z:;:: f rZ& - The Border SUtes, so called, wei e not L7".!irrrT;u:rj!heintf for the Union, while in uth .T . j .i fa a n,.1 , as irgmia,- North Carolina, Tennes- ly one-third of the States. Must they be I good men to a willingness to take np arms against the tjovernmeni las oay after some assemblage of men havi enac- tbeir State out of the Union, whooould; have eme tefnderness of the citizen's liberty ; been brought to no such thing thedaybe- fore. This soph'sm derives much, perhaps the wnoie-or iu currency, irui inc a- tly. are all s sumption thaUtheir u some Omn potent; I l T 1- UU'J Nil I L 1 C WU V a 1 ..flk v mm i J w . Wir tn nieces lest that : -Suita. to each State- of our Federal Cn- construction of ours, they show that V W 4 : T - , i yiohlUHlJ t ictically it relieves more ot the than the innocent, should, to a PTtpnt. be violated? lo Question mire direct i but one to go unexecut A:rnt tn Baa what we cliose to go, or to extort term's upon wlilch they will promise lO Texnain. - . The seceders insist that but Constitu tion admits of scessipn " They havs- ts sumed to make a national QoostituUon of t heir own, in which necessity they .have either discarded or retained the right of secession, as they insfst it exists in ours. If thev have discaroe a 11, tncy wereoj admit" that on principle it ought not be wr ours, If ther hsve retained it by their own ttfrl to the latter a recognition abroad, i vXTial!;iim fact, it would be our national dc : struction consummated. '1 .This fould not " b allowed.4 v . ' ..' '-' , ' . Starvation7 was jxoti vet upon the garri ,soa, and ere it would bs reached Fort ricos-W'Sht be reinforced. see and Arkansas, the Union sentiment was very nearly repressed and eilenced.j xne course taxeu in v irgmia wu vuc most remarkable, perhaps the sads im portant. A conventioa elected by the people of that Start to consider this very question of disrupting the Federal Union one be Evenlin such a case would "no the offi ckd oath be broken if the Government should! be overthrown, when it was be lieved that disregarding the singje law ; wouiu jeou w presen re it r uut it was not believed that this question was pre sented.! It was hot believed that any law was violated. Thejproviaion of the Constitu ion that the privilege of the writ of habras corpus. o. i :.i taw mit.L MttA.isfrom .one ion. UOX otaie? nave uciuia ui'jn; nur i wui!icur, . .7 V . .. .. less power than- that reserved to thm in t another when they snail nna reiae w the Union by the Constitution, no one of istway of ltSetUingi4wr usow, m - . J 4 -I . x.atu fl.ATltK in Hfllll Sir sifslM"-- OI tue 1 UD anv oww Kiusu ""j-" -- them ever bavin e been a State out Union. The eriginat ones passed into the Union eTenibefore they cast of their British Colonial dependence, and the new ones came intojhe Lnion directly from ft conditTonf dependence, excepting Tex as; and even Texas in its temporary inde pendence was never designated as a Stmt s. its stieceWnfThaintertafl'ce'against a Tor- m'td&Ue internal attempt to OTertnrnw . ItM .now-forthein tb demonstrata to th world that those who fairly carry an W tion- can also suppress " a Tebellion. The ballots arw the rightful and peaceful suc cessors of bullets, and that when baJlols are fairly and const rrutionauy umuw head. thcr' rpoctly sutost the only reinaining boiioraUlfl poi- in the ; tion for yoa to tukp to prevent in horrors of civil war and prescrvi' tho rjnion,ta to adopt the policVo,' an immoliate Oeneral vnvcntidM ggested in seMir .a natioun1 .Stto refused to amend soldiers and common sailors. To the last t tje rjonstitation, or adjust A peace- man, so jar as anown, vuj nn,c fui gendration, it won d stand unao fully resisted the traitorous efforta of - ul ""FV, ' t i ;. ffi whose commands feat u hour be- tmoaaly condenincd heforc UQ fore they obeyed as absolute law. This itUed world. Earnestly deprcca is the patriotic Instinct of plain people, ting 'civil war amorf bretlireny w They understand, witbent an argument' f mplorO and beseech yon to adopt ' that destroyinz the government, which , tujs course, which von may -rjwC, as made Dy nasmngwo arcd is the real vuioq ot trie peoi, . Th- Stay . w Decided Wbk UKCQxaTiTCTioMlL.- It vriM be teB from the decision of . tha 5trf retae Court, now to aes&ioti io thia t tlty, which ire publish in Another coM nmn, that tbe Su Xaw passed l the Ute Special Session ot the Le islatare; haa been proooanccd b tion, and upon which no government can possibly endure. . . . ' . If all the States sot eaesbowl assert the power to drive that one out ef the Union, it is presumed he whole class of secelfrl politician? wc uW at once deny there can be no succesful appeal back.to ; the ,chost local tribtinal of the' ;j loeuiKiie u w - -i Rntctgh'Rtgixter. Supdeji pEATU.31ri. Sand)' Eato, of thia city, whijalvjn cori 1 Teraatioo and in bor usual health. dwppd dead jeitery-ifvjD. one child, and a hosUand Who tf ii the lit X. i C, .Xlegrroent, at York nnMil MCrot' to' baKo ueceeding elections. Am--will be a great Icsnea of peace, teaching men that what ther cannot take by" an election net pjELi ther can they take it by war, teaching all Oie tOUV OI DSIBZ in imnu-n w mmr. t' i. L. f. a. iii ininim nal The pnnctpli iitssit , of c.ndid man as to what i t he the course of toe Oovemment toward the Soulhera States after the rebellioa shall have ' been suppressed, ' the Executive deems it proper to asy. t "Z be kU jur: pot (kern, of etet, to be guidelb'j the Con- 1 - if. S A Ml
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