The President's Message

In ai) extra accoinpanying our last week't) odition, vveguvo our readers tlie ímirlh animal message of President Buchakax. As allhavti doubtleas road itera this aud fo.rmwd a delibérate opioop oí its mjrit-i r demerita, it iá ly neeAMory íbp t.s tu enter upon extended coinment. Wo iré free to say, however, that whü not much disappoiuted in it, wu are not sutisfied with its portions an I argumenta. It filis short of meeting tho eniorgoncy. The President, for instance, tells ns in one breath tbat no State has a right to secede, and ia tho nest h:;t thcre s no ! power given to the Executive or to Congross to prevent secession'; thus virtnally snying to South Oarolttia, you have no right to seeede, but secede and ! the General Governmeat is powerless to lay a slraw io your vvay. It is without doubt truo that Uongress or the Federal GovwnmoQt cannot compel a Statu to eloet oflSeeivi, to be repre.sented in Congres?, or to keep up a Státe gorenmient; but t is on abaurdity to say that it B not the duty oí the General Government to enforce all the laws of Congress in each and very State, deripito tho threats of seeession. Had President Bocbanan expresscd this víhw, it would have had a restraininy efïect, rather than given countanance to the seeession movenient. There is no euoh thing a secession. No one Swte can go cut of this Union without t'io consent of the others, and disunion must bo accomplisiied by meana awful to contémplate. It is not to bo wonderei at that the Preaident'a views have failed to Batisfy anybody in Congress or out. Agnin, we dissent from the Presi dent's deolai-ation lh.it s;láVoryJg068 into thu Territorios under tho conalitntiön, and that tho Territorial govemments are powerlesa to restrain or prohibit it. This argument is ill-tiraod and not calculated to produce grood. TJpoD these poiüts alone do we dosire to expresa our dissent ut present, and upon these tsl;ill refrain froin longthv ouinment. The advancement of sueh TT0W8 by the President bas complicated the existing difliculties, a fact wbich we seiiou:-ly regret, but for Lioh ho a alone responsiblo.