Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-12-12
LincoIn's Message.

The message of Bomba Lincoln is published in full in the Memphis papers received by last nights mail. The telegraphic synopsis of it heretofore published is very confused and inn perfect It is remarkable document, not for whatit contains, but for what it omits. No re- ferenee is made to the capture of Mason and Slidel, no mention of any battle, and the time for the subjugaton of the South is not stated, as in his other message.
 What will strike every reader of the message is the air of cunning. which pervades the docu- ment from the first line to the last. There is 6 self satisfied air of shrawdness and smiling com pacepcy characteristic of it's author. It Is the product of small politician and pettifogger. There is no mark of statesmanShip; there are no broad and comprehensive views; not even dig nty of tone. It seems 10 have been written not for the 2ump Congress, but for many headed mob. It is difficult to believe that Lincoln really supposed it would operate to his advantage abroad, lor it's pretences are so shallow, its cum hing So prominent and its charlatanism so ap~ parent, that 1t will excite ridicule and disgust.
 Hesgravely recommends that Hayti anu Libe and that slaves be stolen or purchased and col onized. This is tab thrown to the whale of Exeter Hall and part of the abolition plan de- termined upon by himself and his cabinet.
 The spacious sophistry of the Ape is such poor stuff that it can only excite smile among the thinking men of Europe. h fact, the posi- tion5 h. takes are so manfes;ly absurd that he conyiacss the reader of the very opposite of his assertions, as where he endeavors to impress upon foreign governments that cotton and to- bacco can better be procured under the old union thaa directly from the independent Con- ftderate States. The people of Europe have long since found out that the North was merely go-be,meen CT factor, of Europe and the South. The latter was the producer of the raw material and consumer of the manufactures. Every dol lar made by the North was so much subtracted fro.u the South and from Europe. The more direct the trade the better for both parties, and 1t needs TIC political economist to show that where an article passes through third and fourth hands, with 8 per centage and commission to eachyal4 producer is injured because the pro duct is increased in price and less of it is sold and the consumer is taxed with the advance in price,.
 The message winds npwith 9 hypocritical ex- pression that liberty will be circumscrbed in the Confederate States, and with politco-sentI- mental twaldle about capital and labor. The eArontry of this part of the document is re marhable, especially when we remember that free speech is interdcted at the North, that in sight of the White House are prisons for women and children, that bastiles are full of political prisoners, and the government at the North is g pure despotism.
 We are satisfied that the message will do us inGniy9 good when 1t reaches Europe. It will deceive no one whose good opinion is worth re' ta;ning, and 1t will cause sensible men to view the author of the message and the people whom He governs with supreme contempt.