Maryland free press., 1862-12-05
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

- Both branches of Congress having or
ganizcd on Monday, the Annual Message O
the President was on that day transmitted
them. As is usual with documents of thi.
character, is of considerable length, and hav
ing no wish to infict our readers with its De
rusal in its original dimensions, we have taken
the liberty of looping off the uninteresting
portions and assuming the responsibility o.
such course being deemod disloyal.
After alluding to the lapse of another year
Of health and bountifnl harvests, since the last
meeting Of Congress, and attributing to the
Almighty the continuance of the war, the
President passes Immediately to consider
alton of our Foreign relations.
Of them, he appears to think that though
bad enough they are not as desperate as they
might be. He complains of the Foreign pow.
ers having acknowledged the insurgents as
belligerent, and thinks they would have backed
down from that position, but for the exaggera
ted statements made by 'disloyal citizens
abroad" of the temporary reverses" which
befel our arms In other respects our rela
tions with foreign powers are represented as
CITING on swimingly, if we except some
claims for violating neutral rights by the
blockading squadron, which claims are most
Iy in process of adjustment. Some, how.
ever, it is proposed to refer to mutual conven
tions, which proposition, he says, has been
kindly received, but not yet formally adopted
The "niggcr, under the title of Free Amer
leans of African descent is the next subject
broached and here we feel disposed to give his
Excellency full length of the rope, hoping,
however, that in his next he may find it con.
renient to devote the same space and as much
sympathy to the welfare of"Free Americans" )"
of the white species. He says -
Applications have been made to me by many
free Americans of African descent to favor
their emigration, with view to such coloni.
cation as was contemplated by recent acts OF
Congress. Other parties, at home and abroad
some from interested motives, others upon
patriotic considerations, and still Others in.
tuenced BY philanthropic sent me lts-have
suggested similar measures ; wIl.c, ON the
other hand, several of tho Spanish-American
republics have protested against the sending
OF such colonies to their respective territories
Under these circumstances, have declined
to move any such colony to any state, without
first obtaining the consent of its government.
with an agreement on its part to receive and
protect such emigrants in all the rights of
freemen and have, at the same time, offer
ed to the several states situated within the
tropics, or having colonies there, to negotiate
with them, subject to the advice and consent
of the Senate, to favor the voluntary emigra-
tion of persons of that class to their respcc-
tive territories, upon conditions that shall be
equal, just and humane. Liberia and Hayti
arc, as yet, the only countries to which colo
mics of African descent from here could go
with certainty of being received and adopted
Is citizens and regret to say such persons,
contemplating colonization, do not seem SO
willing to migrate to those countries as to
some others, nor so willing as l think their
interest demands. believe, however, opin-
ion among them, in this respect, is improving,
and that ere long there will be an augmented
and considerable migration to both these coun-
tries from the United States"
A treaty of any description with the white
people of the Southern States is q thing not
to be mentioned, but q commercial and consu-
lar treaty with the negro governments of Lii
IBERIA and Hayti, he says has been negotiated,
from which beneficial results to tho national
commerce is anticipated.
After saying that the project for an Atlantic
slegraph connecting tho United States, with
Europe has been by him favored, he takes up
the subject of the Territories, and says
have favored the project for connecting
the United States with Europe by an Atlantic
telegraph and similar project to extend the
telegraph from San Francisco, to connect by
A Pacific telegraph with the line which is be-
ing extended across the Russian empire.
Tho Territories of the United States, with
az important exception, have remained uudis.
turbed by the civil war; and they are exhibit
ing such evidence of prosperity as justiies an
expectation that some of them will soon be in
Q condition to be organized as States and be
constitutionally admitted into the Federal
Union.
The immense mineral resources of some o
those Territories ought to be developed as
rapidly as possible. Every step in that di
rection would have tendency to improve the
revenues of the Government and diminish the
burdens of the people. 1t is worthy of you
serious consideration whether some extraordi
nary measures to promote that end cannot bt
adopted. The means which suggests itself a,
most effective, is n scientific exploration of th'
mineral regious of those Territories, with I
view to the publication Of it's results at hom'
and in foreign countries-results which can
not fail to be auspicious.
The subject of the almighty dollar" o
In other words the finances, is next taken up
and the "dilligent consideration" of Congress
upon it urged. The "vast expenditures, h
Bays rendered necessary by the Rebellion hav'
''hitherto been promptly met, an assertion
which by the way, many of the unpaid sol
diers in the army have reason to dispute. O
the hereafter, however, he appears to enter
tain some uneasiness, and says:
The continuance of the war, however, an
the increased disbursements made necessar.
by the augmented forces now IN 4 the % neid, 9 de