Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-07-12
Abraham Lincoln's Message.


We publish, to-day, the message of Lincoln
to the extra session of Congress, document,
the like of which never came from any de-
partment Of this government before. The long
statement about the affair of Fort Sumpter,
admits that he intended to bring on COLI
sion, for fear foreign nations might think him
weak, and acknowledge the independence of
the Confederate States. He thinks his first
call for $4,000 men was legal, we suppose,
because it was made under the pretext of de-
Tending the capitol. The other calls for three
years men, and also large additions to the re-
gular army and navy, whether legal or not,
were ventured on, believing that Congress
would ratify all his acts thus performing one
of the highest acts of sovereign power with
out authority. Has he broken the oath which
he requires the clerks to swear? Soon after,
he says, 'it was considered duty to author
ize the commanding general, in proper cases,
according to his discretion, to arrest and de-
tain, without the ordinary processes Of law,
such individuals as he might deem dangerous
to the public safety" He, who had no au-
thority, thinks it duty to authorize General
Scott, or any body else to imprison any citi-
zen he may deem dangerous. Why, Scott
might have taken Lincoln himself; but more
probably any citizen who was imbued with
the patriotic spirit of the revolution 1t was
this power and this pretext which have filed
the dungeons of Europe with the purest pa
triots, and deluged the scaffold with the best
blood of the world
''But man, proud man, dressed in little
brief authority,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep"
His statements about the Union, and the
respective rights and powers of the States and
General Government, are contradicted by the
whole history of the country, and are intend
ed to deceive those who have not made them
selves acquainted with the facts. He only
states as the Government, what the old mon
archy party wished to bring about when the
present constitution was formed. BUTT would
take too much space to examine this subject
fully.
His request to be furnished with 400, 900
men, and $500, 600 600 is about as cool piece
Of impudence as ever was witnessed. He,
King Abe Lincoln, wants only a tenth part of
the fighting men, and twenty-third part of
the taxable property of the North to enable
him to restore the Union, by conquering the
people of the South. AS he has called for
three years soldiers he thinks the war may
last as long, and then the debt at four hun
bred millions year, will be twelve hundred
million dollars, and the interest he will have
to pay, will be at least 10 per cent, which
will make one hundred and twenty million a
year. interest, and that, with the ordinary ex-
penses of the government of sixty million,
will be pretty heavy sum to be raised by
direct taxation for the custom house will not
5ied n eh.
sl.ipcoin saIs nothing about the wrongs of
the 3opih, o. t6cr redress be goes altogether
for then blood But lie does graciously say,
''after the rebellion shall have been suppress
ed, the Executive deems it proper to say, it
will be his purpose, then as ever, to be guided
by the Constitution and the laws; and that
he probably will have no different understand
ing of the power and duties of the Federal
Government, relating TO the rights of the
States and the people, under the Constitution,
than that expressed III the inaugural address d"
Thank you, Massa Abe, we hope it will not
probably change for the orse.