Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-12-11
vl,c Presidents Message.

Thc Presidents Message.
The Presidents Message, which We pub |
lsh to-day, appears to he pcryadcd by Mr..
Lincoln's pccu aritics of mind, which has ap. /
parently become as dissipated by tho levity
ofhs life long conversation as other peoples |
minds become dissipa,ed and demoralizcd by
the various forms ofphysical intemperancc.
The views of the message on every question
discussed by it arc without depth or breadth,
and its suggc stions and recommendations are
Tor the most part imptacticable or absurd.
The President is evidently approaching
mouomania upon his pet doctrine of "com.
pensatcd emancipation" He sees no way of
getting lid Of rebellion except by the dcstruc
tion of 81 vcry; and in order to affect this he
proposes to tax the nation to purchase the
slaves. How amazingly the Presidents mind
has changed in less than couple OF years.
He is now evidently impressed with the magni
tudc OF the rebellion and that there is "somc
body hurt" and seems also to believe that
the Union clnnct again be restored by mere
force of arms. Had hc and his party bcliev
cd these truths when they were announced by
| the leading Democrats and Conservatives in
/ the Peace Convention the country might have
been spared all that we have suffered and are
still to suffer from bloody iratrcidtl war.
This compensated emancipation scheme is
his most elaborate subject. 1t is his cure for
the rebellion. BY it he contomplatcs the pur
chase by the National Treasury # all the ne
groes who Shall not be cmancipitcd by his
proclamation, which, he AYERS, will be put in
operation on the lst Of January. lie docs not
seem to comprehend that this scheme, as well
as all his other negro policies, was rel ccteh at
the recent popular elections, nor that he can.
not obtain the approval OF il by his own party
in Congress. And he does not comprehend
that the two races can never live together on
, the continent in any other relation than mas
. ter and servant. In short, he does not com
prchcnd the question at all, any more than he
: has comprehendcd the great question Of re
/ beIiOn from the beginning.
MI Lincoln is compelled to confess tha
the project which he has been cultivatng as
sidiously, Of negro colonization, has failed -
lie has not been able to find any country
which would consent to receive colonies 0
negroes, except Africa and llayti, and he ha'
not been able to find any negroes who would
consent to migrate to those negro paradises
The President ''rcgrcls" this, but hopes lol
more tractibility, by which '.ere long there
will be an augmented and considerable cmi-
grafton to those countries.' He does not
state how much of tho public money it has cost
to reach this lame and impotent conclusion
With a view to the development of the
mineral resources, as measure to '.improve
, the revenues" he recommends IL scientific eX
ploraton Of the Territories. Wchave already
had number of such explorations at an i'm
menSc cost, without II corresponding UGncnt
His financial scheme is one that must,
adopted, result in pecuniary disaster
a He proposes to abolish all the cXistin
; banks, and establish over the Whole countr,
the exploded Illinois wildcat system. TIN
recommendation comes OF the fact that Mr.
/ Lincoln is familiar with that system, as i
; stood before the explosion, and knows moth
ing OF any other.
He announces that the Secretary of the In
terror reports that the public lands hay ceas
ed to be u source Of revenue, Has he autici
patcd any other result OF tho bills o: the for
mcr session which he approved, giving ava.
, the public lands to whoSucvcr would tax
them? Ofcourse the publi- lands have ceas
ed TO be a source OF revenue, and Just at the
time, too, when every source oircvcnue should
have been preserved and husbinded
The intelligent reader will decide the mes
sage a very weak state paper. The great in
tcrcst the President takes in the welfare .
the negro, and the want Of zeal he cviuces il
securing the blessings Of constitutional lib
a crty to white men, for and 10y whom this Gov
3 crnmcnt was established, must meet with gen
clal disapprobation