Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-12-09
The Pre.ident,s fe...xe.

We give in our columns, to-day, the sec
ond annual message of President Liacolp.
IL was delivered on the 1st inst, aud tsle-
graphed West from Cleveland. on the 81.
Most of our readers. perhaps, have al
ready ?erused the document, but, nevefthe-
less. We give it at length as a part Of the
the hissory Of our country and the times.
that it may stand on the record for future
reference. 1t is not very long, and 10
written in the Presidents peculiar and or.
iginal style.
Az 9 state paper, It falls far short Of
those furnished by any of Mr.. Linculn's
predecessors. Indeed, in comparison to
the messages of most Of our Presidents. It 10
but school boy prOduction--wan,ing 10
al the charactsristics that constitute GEN
uine statemanship.
The message reveals nothing but what
was already Understood by the people
And. as Contemporary truthfully remarks,
its views on every question of impor, now
exciting the public mind are without
deapth or BREADTH and lie suge estions aud
recommendations for the most part in, rag
tieable aud absurd.
The Presidents principal theme is the
everlasting negro. He sdmits, in effect,
shat his negro c.lonixation scheme has
failed. With the exception of Hsyn and
Liberia he has not succeeded in finding
any country where his emancipsted slaves
will be received. Still. he does not sban-
dun bis compensated emancipation PLAN
lie is bound to have the slaves of loyal ci,i
Gems freed by purchase, and the slsves Of
rebels his proclamation Of last October Will
liberste after the frst Of Jspuary. Blu,
after the Prssidert gets all the four mil
liens Of negroes freed, We are ct Q loss 70
know how they are 10 be disposed OF. The
people of most Of the free States have de-
elsred that they shall not come amongst
them, while all foreign nations, excepting
the two isolated negro colonies mentioned,
have made it manifest that they will
not permit the President 10 send negroes
into their borders. What, then, is to be
done with them when the Presidents eman
cipaiion schemes shall have been carried
ousf Will he tax the people to naintain
them at public expenses. or will his of
ctsls force them upon t1e people of.s,efrss
States! This seems to DO the only alter
native.
No man can examine the acts Of the
President in reference to slavery or psruss
that portion of the message which treats
upon the question. without being struck
with the a5surdit3 of his positions. Mr..
Lincoln is unfortunate in his dealings with
the negro. So far. his rlans have proved
total failure, tending only to render more
complex the difficulties that h.ve brought
this land to its present dsplorsbls c,ndi
ton. By recommending convention t.
amend our national constitution in respect
to certain measures, he admits that in is
suing bis emancipation proclamation and
buying and freeing negroes at the expense
of the white people, he has usurped! .fesjsi
mate powers.
But it is-aot necessary to dwell longer on
the negro policy Of our Executive. It ID
too obsurd to stand constitutional tests or
criticism in any respect.
Upon the currency and banks. the mes.
sage, in our opinion, is equally lame. As
q SHANGHAI scheme. the President recon
mends our old exploded stump tail" sys-
tenn. This is in keeping with the balance
of his policy. and would only plunge US
into greater difficulties.
The President, 10 our estimation, misses
the mark in every respect His message
is calculated to do much mischief Would
that We bad man like jackson, Polk.
Pierce, or Buchanan, in the Presidential
chair. If we had, the Country would not
be In the condition it is now The mes
sage more than ever establishes the eo,vie-
ton in the breast of every Democrat that
the only hope of saving our country from
destruction. is the restoration of the Demo
cratic party to power.