Show THE presidents MESSAGE the A r aai nal me Ws sc s c of the pres prea ant rit rot of the united L eted a 9 iw nv q ye trdy urd ird y to the to 11 s a fi congress it is 13 as fol foi avs lis oa 01 F id ro ou w N 0 of ine inc senate a 4 1 1 11 1 e house of the C ution tion ille tile w pre preside idelt it all liali ft it ni in time til to tir tit I 1 t c ly ky ro r commend recommend I 1 0 the c ide tation of L e si sich ch measures 3 lie he ir i i ie e nece I 1 abil lil lii expedient but I 1 aso eo th ish ill lii div i 11 0 o littion 11 ution to them of ile lie ie sta eta of 01 th ha i lo 10 do fully in j voves ilves i x 1 l on of ahl all 11 liters in 01 I 1 oo 00 idill dit 1 1 the llo cown coun arv r domestic ar cr i 1 rt i i which N lich bially fi illy conce conceio ii the general k hilel hile L ii 11 ig hm hiti c v 11 1 I I 1 bisret lis ils rei itile til s snot not hot spi k inere i IN to r P h ir i person pers onci i w chions h i as the be mi T ister isler of t trie if government eni eni j I 1 led I 1 lis ils r i position timi d ind lu called upon by his Afi fi cial ual at ons to s SL i with ith an impartial bye e th i vests of t 11 thole le and ot of every p ut of li united led aed sta s of it tl i 11 it i lon ion 0 if of t tj til lv t lon domestic lor interests of theun the uw i tb Ls i lines iines ines i emmam mani fac rac t tires j i I 1 igat jd d comm i it is necessary necessity necess try iry only say 5 d Y ill ili internal pi 0 0 f ibe ube he coun colin u v its vitious u tima lima and an s etly pidy IV a in na 1 1 alth th population it 11 I 1 il in private aa as well pat a i pub ell eil i 1 being abt bt the hie wisdom of our i i od 1 the p an 01 spit spit it ot of int itier inmei di it I 1 i i inch botu i 0 oc c i il 1 bitts of i or acin twit re j from froin p ilar liar 1 ir freedom hs to hsi isi i uis gid fid td charuk charak LI zed the 1 p ople of A meril D en i ili anth th i f interval b oween n the termination ten the I 1 all ali n i tile tiie cot f ii ement of the prest t sei i ot of congie 9 the public reind n nd has haa tn n 0 i I 1 with the care c ire of select aeki til mg a for lothe othe t s donai donal trin t nin rin in tile tiie le preal pre lent and V co pi ac I 1 c of er the urit L i i rd p 1 states the fhe n lation c tile tc persons persona v lio iio 10 ire of 11 oi i i preside oer over uit ute admin adain ti L I 1 if u gover lent rient is under 0 rss s s tw coi c i i tl t I 1 to the S its and the th people we VL api i to tl lym enn by th thon thur ir voi vol voice e pi loun ionn ed vi 11 the i irs s ol 01 law t to call cill lc er or they the vil nill vii to L L h h post QI cl chiel liner dla ala magista bisti i w and i j i it 3 that 13 13 ts t s ihu the senators he re clr i states of the tile union and ai d the ionadi cl ot tile tiie tie house honse of 0 the verai veral verai cf c each stat so the presedo r pi i P senta rents top ton tu arg i regate legate population t f the it t stater ater ahei atei a ter tei their then election oj oi him hun is is he elj and ind solem solemn i act of the sole boar sovi r n ai at L n rity y ct of the via UlA L ilo iio loll i lc it is jw i dihle lle tle ile to apprehend misapprehend wis uis great creat areat pr anci ricia which inch by their thew recent po political oli i kal hal aci ion lon in t I 1 1 oile olle of tb th united gratl sti 3 have bave hae natio i ati t dil ail d 1 annoni ed they rhey u e asserted asser isser ted I 1 bra b P constitution il I 1 equal y of P e h i id wd all of f he iho stites sues of ol 01 nir nio 1 nion is s stal tily ili it y have the t dhonal 1 lalit ecil oali cil and all till ot 01 the s ot of the I 1 kited t j i as catiz i q whatever their reli oti I 1 a 1 1 cr i their b h th or their residence reu ence enca cv ev h f untamed ae I 1 im n ot of the i ta 1 rights oi 1 I L lili erent trent s ali lih un uld aid eind thoy they b hi v e proclaimed thir th ir dp otei otel ed f it i alterable tich jeli jell ment to tile HIP union ind id to constitution as i abl ol 01 cis acts of Il terest arii irli 0 ill is s of local 1 0 cal cai or sectional i tro drw lav isy 13 the sa sat laret ird of the I 1 i lits tits of lias 11 us j int anu anoil tji til fc essence of the liberty cc a t gie ue atness ot the republic Ri public pece pege in ri di do 03 0 3 they have it at the saine tt time inie apha i i aliv 1 v the idea of oi of inezn g thes thea 1 i d states hiie 11 ie par IP les ies 0 01 ili ill i li alling sn it i lu hostile stile array towards edh 0 ie dlf dif differ ferel ci duts nuts ts ot of the country th I 1 i ih h east fast or I 1 tv wc 3 it t och ol 01 i this na i e fraught with twi b ibcal isabl i wis Lef ct and abich the cp coi si 1 td erate iise lise ilse i se f 0 people pe ipie his hib b ig rejected cou tl have llad t ad co ill i 1 I ii I 1 ce in fit no port p rt oi of the co int v had h id they cy n I 1 i agui 1 b bo i plausible I 1 1 i i ea i we ince e cly cil r r upon an c elitch cited strite strife nf F i ille tile e n reind ind induced lil duce b causes 11 1 their thir th ir cb ell t acter icer and I 1 i is 13 to be aped ed i ti i lint in ther ii fluence berf 1 b cy y of aa oc tation for political doets deets f j acta a 1 1 the llie widest wide ia scope of d scission i e th till i enele evele oNelo Vf cland and 0 comlite rs of 4 vern verp ern in lit our co i i F burins our ins itt itI it eions Lons ions i amed lamed 0 i ll 11 llie ilie P pint 0 confidence coi col h lence in tile tiie th intel n tel lioe J I 1 1 I tit ohp people do not oot i ot fori A 1 cit cot either in ivi 1 lally or a belh in tack by will hio HIE speech or any f ther thel I 1 linds la short of i ily ili physical liv fol fi e tile the asti P n and the i viv iv exi evi 3 ol 01 the eion elon L ion lon k mer dei me the shel she or of ishia this great liberty i d pr I 1 el c 1 by the laws aws and usages of the covertt they as ad I 1 associations hae have haen b en fr foi I 1 in some of th states of idis wals WL w rc ending tending to sek s only the spread of the institution P e slavery into no the present i f J t ore re in choite stites states of the union I 1 i ion are rea iila i lamed ined with desire to chan change e the i of the existing states states to ac wj 1 their objects they dedicate luease ves nes to 3 the odious s task tit tic of depreciating tae t ie gov gon ii i aint a it organ at on which stands lu in their na it it iid old of calum abing with indis britaina cri crl cr taina raina ili vii i active Lct nena neno ria only le the citizens of par ticul i states with whose laws they find fault tault b i aa d 1 others of their fellow citizens i brough brought ort out it the country who do not participate with mith with tirra thra in in their assaults upon the t tion ion ton fraund frAu jd and adopted by our fathers and claiming cl liming for forthe the privileges it has secured and the rh blessings it has conferred the steady sup port r ort and anil grateful reverence qt their childred childrers childr child eri erl ahey see an object which they well know to be one tiley are perfectly dwar 4 arg that the change r ili in the relative condition cf f the white and black races in the slave slav hold hoid ing in states which they would promote is be yond their lawful authority that to them it is a foreign object that it cannot ie be effected ly by any ul i s sn i i of ib b lre ire tbt than for or them and cind the at i s sor sot of win N bich lich h th thi y aye arc c citizens be the only p oh h to its ita is through li beining bei bel nino ning cities ibid iid ild lax fax lodged aged flim tiiu st and sla sia slaughtered populations and all there is is i s most moat terrible ili in foreign f ore n complicated com heated with cibil and servile war and that ae the first step in the ain aln dani danl I 1 cipf is 19 the he tor lurcie clde cide s apt ion inn of 0 irl iri ir in its us bi bicad id li io i a in 1 cro err ol 01 lilai ty and an aa ol 01 1 ani and public prosperity to which there thre is 13 no iio palal parallel lel iel in in history and substituting in in its place hostile governments ern ments driven at once and arld inevitably into mutual devastation and fratricidal carnace cain carn ake aee i tvs lva ila annii th ill ito nok nov p i ilic elic lic etc el i 1 tnt int i flo fio ii 01 nod i 1 io 0 a i vast 1 t liidi I iia ila reit relt ii t camp li vt erined nen like the rexal monarchies ot of europe and asia well knowin knowing that such bin sin hand and such only are the means and the tile consequences of their plans and purposes they endea endeavor or to prepare the people of the united states for civil v h if iii ili eely deiy c ely thin ili iii then poe po e to 41 1 iiii 1 IN t constitution and the lat lax laws s 0 ot mor i 1 1 A h lit fit ii tand and to undermine ine lne the fabric of tie cie tl I 1 iiron b by appeals to passion and sectional prejudice by indoctrinating its people with r n i hatred and by educating t them he in to stand face to face bemies aa emica emlea pe mies rather than sho tilder ilider to shoulder as friends it is by the agency of such un unwarrantable interference foreign and that the tb minds of many otherwise good citizens have been so inflamed into the passionate condemnation of the domestic institutions of the southern states as at length to pass insensibly to almost qually equally hostility towards their f below eli elj ow citizens of those spates states and thus foially to fall into fellowship i ith the avowed and active enemies of the constitution ardently attached to tj liberty in the abstract they do not stop t consider practically how the objects t they ey attain can be accomplished nor to reflect that e even v en if the e ell eli eil ia were ere as great as they deem it th they gy have no 0 r remedy e in edito to ap apply tily rily and avil that it can be oni only onis Y ag rava ted by t their air iio tio ilo violence lence leoce and unconstitutional tit ution al action A question which is oni one of the most difficult of all the problems of soci boci social al bisti ution i 1 tion lion political economy and statesmanship tiley treat with unreasoning unreason unreasoning in intemperance of thought thou thon glit and cind language extremes I 1 ierg emes beget ex violent attack from the narth north fields finds its consequence in the grow growth of a lle ile spirit irit of angry defiance at the south thug thus in the progress pro giess of events we vve had reached that cons i nation which the voice of the people has i os ow so pointedly rebuked of the at tempt attempt of a portion of the states by a sectional atlon aaion at ion lon and movement to ipp usurp the control of 0 tiie tile 1 e agn C i i ei eminent of the states ates I 1 ci i inbi inki itly believe that the great body of those sio klo ho i i n considerately took this fatal step stop are sli sti s 11 coris ceris corly attached to the constitution and the faion falon they would upon deliberation shrink sith mth unaffected horror horew from any con 3 act of disunion or civil war but put hey they hav have entered pifer piter ed into a path which leads nowhere unless it be to civil war and disunion and avld which abi li has nas HAS no other possible outlet they have proceeded thua thui far in that direction in ca conse 0 que coi cof col the successive staged stages of their progress ro havin having consist consisted td of a series of ary ss each of which professed to lie be con eon confined fi ned within constitutional and peaceful limits but 1 which attempted indirectly what few men abre were x v i illing hing to do dire directly etly thai that is to act ag gr ebely against the constitutional rights of 11 nearly early one half of the thirty one states in the ong series of acts of indirect aggression the he first was the strenuous agitation by citi ela els eia of the northern states in congress congress and out ont 01 t of it of the question of negro emancipation in the southern states the second stepin step in this path bahof of evil cm sied sled 0 of f acts oi of tile tiie people of the northern states and in iii several instances of their governments aimed to facilitate the escape of persons held heid to sli sll sen ice c e in in the southern states and to prevent the heir ir extradition when reclaimed d ing to law and in virtue of exi empress express press n s of filp flip constitution to promote e t legi e enactments 1 abts and other means were adopted to take away or defeat rights which the institution C i institution solemnly inor iner der to nullity the then existing act ef of can congress T as concerning the extradition of fugitives irom i om service laws were enacted in in many thany states for biddi their officers under the severest penalties olo to t participate ate in the execution of any act ait of C co iress i ress whatever ili in way that gys system ef fr harmonious 1 a r in 0 I 1 1 iou lou 9 C cooperation operation co o between the tirs ot of the united states and of the several severa tit for the maintenance of ef their comann i 11 which existed ii in the early years ears of the republic was destroyed conkli conflicts ts of jurisdiction came to be frequent and Krig congress ress found itself compelled for the the support of the constitution and the vindication or of its pow er to authorize the appointment of new officers char charged tred ired with the execution of its acts as if they and the officers of the states were the ministers respectively of foreign governments ern ments in a state of mutual hostility rather than fellow magistrates of a common country peacefully subsisting under the protection of one we well weli I 1 I 1 constituted union thus here also aggression t was wab followed by read reaction tion and the th att aft attacks acke upon constitution the at this point did but serve berve to raise up barriers for its defence f ence and security the third stage of this unhappy sectional controversy wab was in with the organization of territorial govern governments merits and the admission of new states into the union when met it was pro proposed postil to admit the state of maine by separation of territory from that of massachusetts and the state of missouri formed 0 of a portion of the territory ceded by france to the united states representatives in congress objected to the ad admission i of the latter unless with conditions sll sil silted sifted sti ted to particular views of public policy the imposition of a ton ion vv ss 9 s ress reas ress PJ b t at a t te tle ile e ajac nii nil rii iod lod ull I 1 th he qu qi suon huon weis wels t as SITS prest ii iii lif d 1 I of fili ini i ii laipoo the rei lle lie d i be he i territory ceded y france I 1 aliat hat al bioli was wais for the time disposed lis posed of by fhe thu adoption ot of a geographical line of limitation in ili thu ion iou it should not be fol fox forgotten fore foru gutten otten 1 I it t il 1 I 1 i I 1 11 II 1 ot bil hii 0 1 01 ll 11 1 1 I 1 1 I i coll a of the nod noa tars lars tar lar s i si sucic ucil acil to ce le L tt to th tha ulsted sa sales es alid tl that t accession v mis vis als accepted by the united I 1 states the latter elpi essiy essly engaged that th atthe the inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated if corp orated la the union of the united states 1 d 1 I A lini lin itil L 1 d s ii 1 is as lolie po 10 clie cilc lie a j c J he file pi pit cipar 3 of f the tle tib Fe I 1 feul leial coristin i tile the enjoy ident of all lle ile lie the rights ri ats ad adv aw di t 11 t i ii 11 i of citi zelp of the tile united M t ald and a d hi in the tile mean time they shall be mantici mant rna ina iii I 1 and rid tid protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty property and the th 4 n which ih y pro fel fei tha is i a to soy say I 1 1 I i I 1 mains maihs it in a tergit lial bial al condition ili i 3 i ii nt it 0 3 ale aie maintained main maln alid alij protected protect td cd I 1 ii th til J jn 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