The ftrst message of President Pierce to Congress has attracted
unusual notice, in America and England, for the sobriety of its langtige. Preposterous attempts had been made, in the United States,-tot up an expectation that it would almost declare open enmity to England, on such subjects as Cuba or Central America ; and our own political dilettanti have a standing idea of a Presi- dent'S.message as a prolix and ponderous magazine of measured thunder and deliberate lightning. The points of President Pierce's message are, the announcement of amicable negotiations in pro- gress to settle disputes with England, Spain, and other states ; of a relaxation in the tariff; of universal prosperity, and a great sur- plus revenue ; of increase to the army and navy ; of his own firm adhesion to the doctrine of State sovereignty, and his resolve to disconntenauce interference with a " domestic institution ; and generally -of the active regard to all matters abroad and' t home which was expected of him, with the emphatic but limited resolu- tion to check i` unauthorized " attempts on Cuba.
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