Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-04
The PresIdsnt's sIessage.

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= harsh word about the message. AppAr-
emily 1t is an estoppel to such words. All
coneede it TO be likethe President, himself
flank, just. plain anI practical. No man
who Gao read can. fail to understand the
President 10 man need to ruu to any
commentator to know what ths President
means by this and that remark It is all
Plain-aII fresh-all live, and better than
everything else, all sincere. patriotic and
conscientious.
The message cannot be commented upon
adversely from loyal stand point. There
is no failure in it to meet the great ques-
ton in issue-the question of the war, viz:
what is to be done in reference to the
slaves as connected with the progress of
our arms? The President lodges no phase
of this question, but meets it with his beat
ability and all that earnest open dealing
which is so pre-eminently his Characteristic.
1t is evident that he has no love for war
in his heaFt-that bis single purpose is to
accomplish the object of the war, viz: the
restoration OF the Uutou. He urges with
great ability bis emancipation views in
Congress. To be appreciated these views
must be read. They occupy just one half
of the entire message.
The Igumeut which the President address
sss to the people of the Miss. Valley Jour
selves as part of it,) is profoundly i'm
prsssivs. No thinking man will fail to be
interested in it. 1t is master argument
of dollars aud cents, aud depicts as truly
as uninspired language can, the future of
this great Valley if the Union ia divided.
Ofthe same character is his whole argu.
ment on he question of emancipation.
He discards any radical or morbid or i'm
practicable view OF 1t. He looks at it as it
addresses itself 10 thu great question of
white mems interests aud not white mems
humanitarianism In this view his sug-
gestlons are as novel as they are forcible
No man ever detached the question better
and ran down its whole length to more le-
Ultimate and striking conclusions.
The message is peculiarly the Presidents
own. Every line of it smacks OF his COM
mon sense aad his whole souled honesty OF
purpose. Whether any of rs or all of us
agree with tts Recommendation 10 the mat.
ter of emancipation, there is little question
to US that o.day the President sees farther
into its future than niuety-nine out of Il
hundred of those who have written SO
much more about 1t and thought SO much
less.
What We object to about the message is
not what it contains, but what it leaves
out. The President has not told the conn
try of the progress and prospects of the
war. He contents himself with hasty ref
erences to the reports accompanying his
message. This would do well enough il
life were not so short and reports so Volu-
minous. For the benefit of the cause
abroad, if not at home, We ought to have
bad synopsis of the points of interest
The London Times aud other hostile papers
abroad, will never publish the official war
details from the Secretary's budget, but
they would have been constrained to pub
lish Presidential summary. We regret
this strange omission, and think that an
important opportunity was lost to do good
both in Secessiondom and In Europe.