The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1862-12-12
The Presidents Message.

We give up large portion of this
weeks PHO! to the Message of President
LISCoLN-not for anything wise, benef>
cial, or patriotic that it contains, bat to
Show our readers low the President is
troubled with "nigeer on the Drain" The
message commences with "Nigger,' and
ends with nigger,7 no, word for the
benefit Of the white people of the country,
who are now loaded down with heavy tax
es and a worthless currency, and fair
prospect Of a divided and ruined nation.
In the language Of the New York Express
-" The leading, principal, cardinal top;c
IN the Message, is The " Negro, "a word
carefully suppressed in the federal Consti
tuition, but as carefully elaborated upon
10y Mr., LINCOLN. What the Fathers OF
the Constitution hasita,ed to touch, Mr..
LINCoLN buries hmseif in, all over. Tie
great and pervadir 9 defect OF the Message
is the imaginary idea of the President
Mat this Jeder"E government ,0as created
to ID ab0ut everything, instead If lite o,
notiI'"g, and that tie chiefest object Of 1t,
creation waS to flee negroes. Hence, the
President Geyoies half of his Message to
this great idea-never, the business OF
THE NATION; but ever, before he and his
came into power, the business. when the
business of am body, of THE STATE.
What Catholicism, Roman, or Epis>
copal.- what MethodiSm or Bapiism,-
what Uhiversaism, or Cuitarlanism, -
what Judaism, or Mahomedanistn, are to
our Con>titution,--so the negro ought to
be, and was under the doemas of Wash.
ING1oN and FRA>KLIS,-a subjects FOR
differences of opinion, and for federation
The true theory Of our government is
that, as man can have any religion he
p.eases, or rone-so in the States, what
the men Of The States decide on, they can
have. in social, or socialisiic organization
negroes as slaves, or negroes as voters
negroes in amajgamation, or negroes
tu6D0ed as in Illinois. One State has
nothing to do with TIE social organization
Of another. If in Maine they choose to
live on ice water, that is no reason why
The hot, muddy Mississippi shall not be
drawn in Louisiana, Arkansas or Missouri
i in Massachusetts they choose to let the
women vote, that would tie no cause for
disunion in South Carolina, If in CaIifor
ma, they give equal suffrage 10 the Chi
ne>e, or in Minnesota to the Sioux. that
is no cause for rebellion in Vermont
Our Sunday is the Saturday Of the Jews,
the Friday Of the Mahonedans-Lut that
is no reason why We, Christians, should
have civil war, if there were among us.
a whole State Of Jews, or Mahomedans-
The Sunday of New Orleans is horror
10 Boston, and he Sunday of Boston is a
horror to New Orleans but that is no
reason why the two cities should fight
Dur Fathers ATTEMPTED to create a Gov
eminent of great liberation for all sorts
of differences in habits and customs
Mr.. LINCOLN is attempting to amalgamate
all climates, all hahils, as well as these diff
ferent social organizations, to confound
latitude and longitude-he ice and the
orange, the banana and the potato, the
negro aud the white man, of course must
fail. The longer he persists in it, the
longer the civil war must last-for be is
attempting 20 overthrow nature, and the
laws Of God, as well AS man"