Washington telegraph. [volume] (Washington, Ark.) 1839-1871, 1862-12-31


furnished with copy of President Lin
coins Message to the U. S. Congress.
We have not room for its publication,
although, considering the natural curl
osity of the public, to know the views,
and, as far as possible, anticipate the
plans of the man Cor Cabinet, rather,
now seeking to destroy US, and abso-
lutely welding the powers of the North,
we would like to do So 1t has appeared
in some of the Eastern papers, and in the
last issue of our neighbor, the "South-
western" and may be procured by any
one sufficiently anxious to take little
trouble for the purpose. We can only
remark upon some of its most promine Mt
features.
The document is well written, and
will be considered able, by most of the
Northern people. Considered as an at
tempt TO reconcile all the jarring and
conflicting elements at the North, and to
unite them-by mutual compromise
upon the Presidents scheme of distant
AT d gradual emancipation, it shows tact
and ingenuity. 1t is evidently directed
to the Northern people alone, aud betrays.
on the part of the President an anxious
solicltude TO prop his filling fortunes at
home. He forgets. in that anxiety. or
loses, that arrogant hautenr, and iusolent
abuse OF the South, SO popular with all
parties at the North, in the beginning of
she war. The tone of his MESSAGE is
cecent, to an astonishing degree, when
We consider Its source, and compare it
with his own previous proclamations, aud
the speeches of the leaders of his party,
In Congress. We must suppose Lincoln
to be acquainted with tie state of feeling
at the North aud We take his message
as a proof of declining confidence In
thell power to subjugate the South. The
day has passed when members of Con-.
gress propose to overrun Virginia with ii
regiment and when The Chicago Trib-
uue can be consider s.nar: in claiming
excl lsively fer the Northwest, the honor
and the frolic of subIuing the rebels. Ii
that policy had MT been quite knocked
out Of them, by their stern experience of
Southern earGestIesS, aud Southern val.
or, he would have pandered to it yet. IL.
avoids the subject of the War as much as
possible. He says nothing alb Jut the &C,
tive operations. lie makes no more
ninety day promises. He writes as Que
would write, who, considering the South
absolutely lost, dare ut avow it to his
people; but, whilst pretending to prose-
cute tie War, for the purpose Of con-
quest, Is really IL ost Concerned 10 False
ISSUES, and make capital at hvne, To So
cure nInScif from political destruc. lut,.
when tile inevitable event may come.
lie 9,g gus TO teel 50 he appetite .ur the
" humUic PIE" which he sees must e
ealeu sooner or later, BY him aud his
sort; aud he Is arranging to do it with
all lhe dl5nlty whieh circumstances NAV
admit. has talk Is OF ending tn. war.
but no longer W any short, sharp,
and decisive" method. That is PLAYED
out. lie produces has scheme OF eman-
cIpatou, the pniaI OF oil when is t,
smooth the troubled waters. He nu
tuOi, aud secretly knows that it will have
no moro cttsct upon the Sou II, tnau his
famous rr1cl 'inatlou; but II accepted by
the NorLi, 1t may, perhaps. save one Or
WU Ut the border States u the old Union.
sentiment IN support OF tie Il .nlnlstra-
don Ia tne pursuance vi NV scheme,
atioid IL escape from popular Indly-
nation.
Without more preface, We present his
schene OF CO npensIted euaucI patton lie
proposes to CUugfess the fullusllg am.ud.
meuts to the Constitution
" Resolved by the Senate aud House of
Representatives vi the U'ited States of
America, Ill Congress a ,sem ble1-(two
thirds VI o jtIl ii uses cnncurriug, THAT
the following articles be proposed to the
legislatures Cor Conventions of the sew
era States, as amendments to the Cousti,
tuition of the United States, all or any
Ut which articles, when ratified by three
fourths of the Legislatures, Cor Couvsp-
tlOus,l to be valid, as part or parts of the
sad Constitution, viz
" Article -. Every State wherein
slavery now exists. which shall abolish
The same therein, at any time or times,
before the first day of January in The
year Of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred, shall receive com pensation from
the United States, az follows. TO wit:
"The President o. the Uuited st ties
shall deliver to every such State, bonds
OF the UuIted States, bearing interest at
the rate OF - per cent per annun q, to
an amount equal to the aggregate sum
OF -, for each slave shown t 4, have
been therein by the eighth census of the
United States, said bonds to be delivered
to sIch States, by instruments, or in one
parcel, at the completion of the abolish
Ihent, accordingly as the same shall have
al II