Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-12-14
The Cincinnati Commercial and the
Message. - - : AZ

Inc Cincinnati Commercial Of the 4th com
ments at some length on the Message of the
federal President. SIT is- not great State
paper" says that Journal. "As for its style,
enough Is said when we observe that Mr..
Lincoln certainly wrote 1t himself" Which
means that the Message is decidedly Lincoln
Ian. Giving Mr.. Lincoln the credit of being.
"honest." the Commercial AIDA, aft IL clear
that he brings to the aid of the country no
such thing as first rate executive ability
and that there are not wanting evidences Of
that singular combination of straight for
ward, Indifferent obstinacy and almos. tim
orous indecision which marks his character"
Upon the every point concerning which
distinctly pronounced policy Is demanded By
the popular will and the national emergency,
be Is most obscure" Neither does the Com,
merciaI like the style in which che foreign re-
lations of the United States az discussed. It
wanted something of "more elevated tome"
It is not particularly struck with the recon-
mendation for the construction Of railroad
to East Tennessee, but regards 1t as 'curi-
ous;" nevertheless. It believes railroad In
that direction would be good thing" and,
If 1t were actually constructed, 'Cinciunati
would be willing to celebrate, as usual in
such cases." and. we presume, would not OBJ
jet to entertaining brace or more of legis.
latures. But, the Commercial, with something
of the satiritsl In its tone, suggests that
'there is already road between Louisville
and Nashville" aud asks, would It not be
we'll to open 1t before building anothert I"
That question was very we'll put in. We
should like to hear "Old Abe's" response to
it. If the thousands of men he has on the
line of that ROAD cannot open 1t, there Is lit
tie probability that he will ever get men
enough together to construct one to East
Tennessee.
The policy of the President with respect
to colouizing the free negroes, ia upset with
side blow, though the Commercial does think
it would be ''poeiic justice" to South Carroll
ma, "if her sacred soil should become peopled
by liberated slaves" After stating the re-
marks of the Message respecting the negro
question, the Commercial says:
This is all RICH 81 far as It goes, hut it
does not 60 far enough; and the most intelli
| gent people OF the cuuntIy will probably be
| of the opinion that in he Presidents anxiety
| not to be hasty. be has been 100 tlow. A di
rect recommendation at q m but prudent
| policy &c be pursued towards the slaves OF
rebels, where our srmirs prevail over the
| insurgents, uld have been timely, and re.
/ ceiyiDg the weight due the conceded modera-
| ton and patriotism of the Executive, would
| have been useful in tempering the radicalism
| that will be displayed in Congress, as we'll as
| in relieving our military leaders 81 embar-
easements that are constantly becoming more
| perplexing, and which must lead to the
| gravest complications. In brief, the Presi-
dent has eyaded The rugged issue, and leaves
the everlasting slavery question still adrift
| in the terrible rapids CT he civil war, with
the roar of political Niagara nigh.
The omi sion TO discuss the domestic con-
| troy, rsy" out CT which the war has sprung,
| and the quaint Lincolnian phraseology with
| which he takes leave of that subject, are
| charming.
Agais, the Commercial says:
The review of the progress of the war is
| not felicitous, and some of the statements
made are not distinguished for exact accord
| ance with The facts. The Information that
missouri is comparatively quiet" will be
news to the unhappy people of that State.
w e NnO III luis pOTtiOu Vi tus McSsdSo hcrti-
mo3y that carroborates the assurance We
some time ago had from good authority, that
| the President is too busy in discharging the
| duties of his Office to read the newspapers.
Few readers will suppress smile at the sort
of reference that is made to the retirement
of General Scott and the appointment OF
| Gen. Mcclellan as general TO- chief of the az :
my. The p ofOund paragraph. In which we
| are treated to discussion of the proposition
that some bad general Is be- ter than two good
ones" is especially entertaining. The inten-
tion probably was to make a very discreet
notice of the eviswhich had been endured when
Gems Scott and Mcclellan were both in COM
mand, but it would be cruelty as well as in
consistent with the remark about "two good
| generals" to draw the inference that the
President congratulates himself upon having
only Zone bad general" 10 Mcclellan. In
fact. Seward ought 10 have revised that para
graph.
From the above, it is apparent that the
Commercial does not entertain an exalted opin.
ion of either Mr.. Lincoln or his Message.