The New York herald., 1862-12-16


interfering in tho commerce OF those islands.
1t has been said that have "mechancs' in this
country The Conscrpt act, however, has worked won
ders in this respect. Shoem ,kers, tanners, copper
smiths, blacksmiths, machinists wagonmakers, mil
wrights and carpenters ere multiplying rapidly.
The Charleston Mercury Says
We have had great aporeGenslons concerning Mobile
General forncys health bad and we fear much labor
has be,n thrown away.
Mystery still envelopes the design Of tho Yankees who
lately left Hilton Head In the fleet We think tn, whole
surplus Yankee o-ce in this department has beeu
cooperate in the last and most overwhelming effort Of
the enery TO capture Richmond.
The Charleston Courier very properly asks
How lons shall endure aud allow the operation and
effects OF the Consular certificates, which neutral in
everything except screening spectators, extoroners
and skks, who after voting and exercising the rights
OF American izenshp have discovered at the hour of
dange' that they had other allegiance Should not
notice be given that the functions Of all consus holding
exequatur from Lincoln, any President of the United
States will be gnized by any Confederate autho
rtyY This subject demands the earliest attention Ol Con-
Rress spon to rcassemblc. #@
Gen. Foser's designed to cooperate with the
Yankee force at ScoS In demonstration against Rich
ond either by direct advance upon Petersburg by
Attempting to saze our railroad communication at Well
don. III. uss
The Daily Missisapman OF December csays:-
Abncr Jackson q prominent citizen OF Knoxville Tenn
has been arrested for treason He openly him
self Union man. and refuses to give any pledge OF loyalty
70 the Concderats government.
twenty-five iederals captured near cofeevilie yescr
Grand Junction to Holly Springs and tho telegraph is
working
Thousand strong crosslng the river. They burned
portion OF the town Of Water Valley. Mccullough the
Arkansas oyhawker was killed in the fight at Coheevlle
The Richmond Eraminsr says
The preparations tho United States T. subugate the
South are now truly gigantic. In the Fast, West and
North ou land aud water everywhere, and ali sides
afar the movements OF the federal armies and fleets nd
cato zeal, hope fanaticsm, desperate avidty
shat should baiish from every Sonthcrncrs mind all
thought Of NJ early pe ce ard nerve every loyal Southern
hand for battle In which there will be no quarter.
Northern Virginia Is again overrun: Richmond, Pocrs
burg, Weldon, Charleston and Mobile are cucc more
thrcaene, Texas undeended. lies helpless and blcodag
In the power OF the enemy Forces are being prepared
The communication between tho West ard Richmond is
mcnscci = Chattanooga ard Xnoxvie, and the Mssis
ration rs son as the 10 ds come.
from tue Richmond Eysi:incr. Dec 81
LIECoLN's MESSAGE
Lincoln, in regard 10 :he general scheme OF emancpa
tion. Which almost tho whole oil his Message is appro
pra.cd. ut least TIE praise due TO
This scheme whether as stated in the beginning in his
proposition Congress aud elaborated in his interview
with the srdcr State Congressmen whether taken in
the Gres gvoa Ia the Message, has, perhaps
little 10 anything that ever came from official
peases Lincoln, doubtless: az he turps IL
in his ma he orgets the alarms OF the crisis, and feels
that he sa'vins problems ant winning fame IT Is puss
paying ci;n = b.i!.
lis 9cl,mat!on wilhgo into cect the 1st Of Jaaua
Tar lac give IL elect. OF course his grand
s cidc c present maiadies VIII then 'all through,
~tompeusGcd cnancipatioE will have been superseded
ey the irocamion OF universal and uncondcn'! cmai.
ciation. that Liucolns flau for saving the Union
rests u.u tue adoption or his proposed constitutional
amendments by ;wo thirds OF both houses OF his Con
gross and upon their ratification by every State ii his
domius and by OF ho States OF our cofcderacy
all DO bctwocn hc present time aud the lst o
January ucxt jest three weeks ana Two days by the ca
lsudar.
clher House VIII probably ador, the proposed amend
mems b. any vote, any time. much less by two
vote asd without debate There is 10 probability
in the world that majority o. Iincons States would
ray them much less possible, thai all Of hgni would
tttg ulDsuraity single
Confederate STATE would listen to tho proposition at
all much moro II possible that seven Of them would
ad,pt It.
between this aud January ncxt, Is another circumstance
folly that aids to stamp the whuc scheme with rela
bio stupidity II looks indeed more like "a little joke
than serious proposition.
which bcsc. the adoption o. tho p!n but the plan itself
s not less absurd proposes 70 restore the Union upon
States s, be ndc 70 agree with those Of the present
Uned Staes II pus the ypkc Of despotism upon US ~
,dcrcsiir matters In our own way, but rcquircs
'ccunrin hcm to tho VIII o. the Yankees Ihs s simple
o. purcnsc aier sins oy Va. attempts at force as viii
find Confederate honor equal 70 Confederate vaor. lie
may hs're Z eut T. his he does pau
sib.. cnorshthat he would money by thus buying
Instead ct rurcrinx ts The argument may be fcrc
Bile INC With ais own people bat he should know, aud he
ysna know that COpfedcratss be bought Our
.libs.lic and inderendencc arc not on sale.
Bat wm condition u Is " which Lincoln would reduce
bs ais ran II wonld turn loose among population
which, wi,',cut suhordnaiiou would be our ruin The
African aud Caucasian cannot live together terms
OF e:aty without motia ruin II could and would
mot 5s orr rcd here Our very enemies the
se,sr, In the state where President Lincoln his
home The iisrcss Il negro 10 not allowed Tue laws
rcrs,l him 1pd no shelter and no homo there Tih
sinc sentiment pb aims cvcryw bere Ia our cncmys
try kleratcd, but chiefly on condition that
Shey be r,inaways from their homes and duty.
In The contemplated by Lincoln the freed negroes
wcn!d mol be allowed 10 80 North. Lincoln expressly
tells hH people they always determine that question
tot ihcms Ives. hoy have determined II. Even now
something Ike panic with symptoms OF riot y visible,
because " the stolen negroes who have been carried thco
fr1ir ir:cs*ity
Iacon indeed In his sipan says something about de-
porting tho blacks to spmc other country bW alarmed at
shc pDsition which Yankecdom would make TO tho pro-
position. he carefully explains that II means nothing.
The of Congress, that Ii the Yankee states,
w,a! have to be obtained. Tho consent Of the negro
wcti have tn be obtained. The OF the foreign
soarry which II would be proposed to send him would
have obtained These three conditions, all of which
wcrld have 10 concur would a fail. Tho North never
would ofscnt. Tho negro never would consent And
OF foreign governments, Lincoln tolls W in hts message
,ranspcr hither tho negroes he has stolen from II
they reject those comparatively few, Of course they
would reject the multitude. Liberia and Hayt the
only places open To tho negroes, and to Liberia and Hsyti
yiyccn says they not willing TO go.
Il follows that tho freed race would, according ~ Lin
cohis "plan,, Inevitably remain here under ciroum
stances ,uinp TO them and ntpcrable TO From such
rendition n society every feeling Of nature rcvoits
To such condition Lncons "pan" proposes 10 reduce
us The man whs could PROPOSE such scheme might
well speax ms IEcon brut0ly does of the conpar alive
snimpo nee people who nhabi acountry. n he de-
rtroycd MS he would raulate himself that the Iand
remained But 10 wosld not be tone generation and one
race alone that wvnd feel the The ruin would
come as nm abiding blight upon lind now OF the
brightest svo,s Tho earth aud the Temporary Interrupt