Smyrna times., 1862-12-11


rlsts-nothing would but their own imprac
teal notions, and herein we find create
reason to look with favor on the plan of tn
. President as a whole or modified, becaus
1t is the medium between the two extremes
In commencing this article we intended
. simply to quote the TASTY and radical views
y of the opponents Of the President, to show
It how different, and yet nearly they are alike
The first is from the Delacmeaa, which
: would not be itself did it not find fault
The message will be read and the most
Obtuse observer Of public affair must be
struck with the shortcomings of its author
S We are disappointed. We had thought,
we had hoped-that there was some com
5 mon sense in Mr.. Lincoln-that he had
some faculties by which he could discern.
from his elevated position, with the aid OF
the lights which it was possible for him to
draw around him, some practicable path by
which our country could be rescued from its
present lamentable condition But alas.
alas lie is so bewildered by the chaos he
has in part helped to create, or so bcsotted
with political prejudces that he cannot or
will not see, hear, move, or do anything but
propose impracticable theories.
The second extract is from the Delaware
Gazette which never found anything good
out OF, and always swears by the Democrat
ic party.
The trade or barter of negroes seems the
great burden of the Presidents song
While millions are half starved. the fitted
calf" would undoubted be slaughtered
should fat and greasy negro escape across
the Potomac and fall down at the feet
Massa Lincoln. What pititul humbuggery
is this
What nonsense it is to talk about bind
ing this people with bonds for thirty-seycn
years to buy these negroes Have not the
people declared at the ballot box within
month or two that they will never allow
themselves to be taxed for such purpose.
No man in his senses can deny this There |
IS not feature in the message which can
call forth the commendation of a truly-loy |
al COnstltutl0n-loving Union-recon>truction |
citizen OF any party, and, we must, there
fore, dismiss it with the advice to our
friends to read it, AMI see how lam.ntably |
deficient it is.
The last extract we make is from thu.
Commonwealth, an Abolition paper of Boston.
Now see how near alike they are
1t is said that once there was man who
thought that if he should run two miles he
could jump over mountain. When. afte.
his run, he reached the base of the mount
ain ne sat down to rest. We are reminded
ofthls individual BY the Presidents messapn
Taking a hundred days start he ncars the
base OF his mountain ; but it seems is very
tired, and sits down to rest. He mods.
never dld wlde-awakes usher in a more
heavy-eyed President. Here, evidently fal.
len asleep. he takes to dreaming Of the wear
1900! is it that desparing of the present
ne Is turning his attention to future saliva
ton! 1t will doubtless occur to MANY that
we have about as much as we can attend to |,
to deal with December 1862, without
undertaking the burthens the second ren-
Grafton from this. Possibly that generation
may have brains of its own to deal with its
own affairs
The President says that slavery is the
cause of the war the cause ofits continu-
ance that we can have no peace so long rs
1t exists. Then his proposition can only
amount to a proposition to continue the
war until the year 1900!
10 get any CLEAN ofhope from this mes
sage Is like trying to extract sunbcams from
cucrImhers so much is said to the point of
that which is nothing to the point but the
least Objectionable thing in it is that he in
dleates an intention to adhere to his procIa-
nation. Tie question, however, arises
II the President means to carry out his Edict
OF Freedom on the New Year what is all
this stuff about gradual emancipation
The guns of our navy and army and army
cover to-day one million slaves viii the
President on that day strike the fetters from
that million now in the reach of his arm
Let hlm attend to that, and, for Gods sake.
let the Twentieth Century alone? lie is
our President, not that Of postertv.
The New Articles for the Constitution
arc ludicrOuS, and one can hardly believe
that Orpheus &. Kerr did not have his poci-
ct telegraphed on the lines, and so manape
to insert several paragraphs. One of these
Articles gravely imports that after we have
got State free from slavery and the slaves
paid tor-if the State wants to re-establish
slavery, it may quietly do 80, only it must
pay us back our money!
The President must be hopelcssly igno-
rant If ne does not know that all but very
few emanciPationists in this country arc in
favor of striking at slavery directly and i'm
mediately that they believe that slavery
can be reached only by the war power.
which from its very nature acts upon an
exigency and that many emancipationists
favor compensation.
Election Contested.