【正文】 ve point, the laws of your own framing under it。and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow can not be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the National Constitution I make no remendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrument itself。certainly would if such right were a vital such is not our the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guaranties and prohibitions, in the Constitution that controversies never arise concerning no organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible fugitives from labor be surrendered by national or by State authority? The Constitution does not expressly Congress prohibit slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not expressly Congress protect slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not expressly questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must is no other alternative, for continuing the Government is acquiescence on one side or the a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them, for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy a year or two hence arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing there such perfect identity of interests among the States to pose a new union as to produce harmony only and prevent renewed secession?Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence of majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to is rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible。but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people hostility to the United States in any interior locality shall be so great and universal as to prevent petent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that the strict legal right may exist in the Government to enforce the exercise of these offices, the attempt to do so would be so irritating and so nearly impracticable withal that I deem it better to forego for the time the uses of such mails, unless repelled, will continue to be furnished in all parts of the far as possible the people everywhere shall have that sense of perfect security which is most favorable to calm thought and course here indicated will be followed unless current events and experience shall show a modification or change to be proper, and in every case and exigency my best discretion will be exercised, according to circumstances actually existing and with a view and a hope of a peaceful solution of the national troubles and the restoration of fraternal sympathies and there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events and are glad of any pretext to do it I will neither affirm nor deny。and while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand unrepealed than to violate any of them trusting to find impunity in having them held to be is seventytwo years since the first inauguration of a President under our National that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have in succession administered the executive branch of the have conducted it through many perils, and generally with great , with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years under great and peculiar disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument : If the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as acontract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate itbreak it, so to speakbut does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that in legal contemplation the Union is perpetual confirmed by the history of the Union Union is much older than the was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in was matured and continued by the Decl