The public mind of the country has been recently shocked by savage atrocities committed upon defenseless emigrants and border settlements, and hardly less by the unnecessary destruction of valuable lives where inadequate detachments of troops have undertaken to furnish the needed aid.
Pierce expresses concern over violent attacks on settlers and the loss of life due to insufficient military support.
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Our Government exists under a written compact between sovereign States, uniting for specific objects and with specific grants to their general agent.
Each solemnly bound itself to all the others neither to undertake nor permit any encroachment upon or intermeddling with another's reserved rights.
There is no condemnation which the voice of freedom will not pronounce upon us should we prove faithless to this great trust.
Our present attitude and past course give assurances, which should not be questioned, that our purposes are not aggressive nor threatening to the safety and welfare of other nations.
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