The mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1863-1943, 1863-01-31

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Presidents Message.

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Frem the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The President's Message.
We give this document in full this
morning. Its length prccludes general
commentary until tomorrow. II is an
absurd, fallaciOus State paper, pue:ilt
in its ideas and ridiculous in much Of it,
argument. In grammar and style it i
entirely unworthy Of the Executive Of
the United States ct this crisis, and is cal
cu!atcd to lower US in the estimation Of
the world. Take tho following specimens
of it:
Fellow citizens: We cannot escape
Jh::1.ory We Of this Congress will be re'
membrred in spite Of ourselves"
ave Of this Congress =" WhSo <.,A
Lincoln become a. member Of this Con-
gress? This Congress will be remem-
bcred as the Congress that legislatcd only
for the negro, and which, by all odds was
the most corrupt, icapable, imbecile body
! So, CIV " ..Med in this county,
| Hear another Of old Abc'S wise sentences :
1.-The fiery trial through which We pass
will light us down in honor or dishonor to
the latest generation.
| eve say that We are for the Union
The world will not forget that while we
say this, we do know how to save the
Union. The world knows VIC do know
how to save it, We, even we here, hold
the power and bear the responsibility"
Mark the elegance Of the above lines -
| The President declares that the only sure
way to save the Union is to destroy it, as
it now exists, by giving freedom to the
negro. lie says
"In giving freedom to the slave we
assure freedom to the free, honorable alike
in what we give and what We preserve.
1--WE shall nObly save or meanly lose
the last best hope Of the earth.
"Other means may succeed. This
could not fail"
Reliance on the white man might fail,
but in the negro the President puts his
trust. The President thinks it would not
be very bad idea to distribute the four
millions of negro slaves over the whole
country. lie says:
"But it is decided that the freed people
will swarm forth and cover the whole
land. Are they not already in the land J.:
Will liberation make them any more nu-
mcrous! Equally distributed among the
whites Of the whole country and there
would be but one colored to seven whites.
Could the one in any way greatly disturb
the seven?
There are many communities now
khar Onl0raI
to seven whites, and this without any ap-
parent consciousness Of evil from it. The
District Of Columbia and the States OF
MARYLAND and Delaware are all in this
condition. The District has more than
one free colorcd to six whites, and yet in
its frequent petitions to Congress be-
lievc it has never presented the free col
ored persons as one of its grievances.
This suggestion of the President would
send $4,000 negroes into Ohio ! How
would our people like that black inunda-
ton? The President thinks it would not
be any grievance. There he differs from
his own State, which, by q majority Of
100, 900, has decided against any negroes
coming into it, The Presidents distri-
button would give US $4,000 negroes in
Cincinnati. The President says:
"If there ever could be proper time
for mere arguments, that time is surely
not now. In times like the present, men
should utter nothing tor which they would
not willingly he responsible through time
and eternity"
1t was hardly necessary for the Presi-
dent thus to express his dislike Of argu-
ment. for ho gives US but precious little
of what would pass for that commodity.
He errs. however, in saying that it is not
the time for argument. 1t is the very
time we want it.
Take this specimen of the Presidents
logic:
us it true, then, that colored people
can displace any more white labor by be.
Ing free than remaining slaves? If they
stay in their old places, they jostle no
whto laborers. If they leave their old
places, they leave them open to white la
borerS Logically, there is neither more
nor less of it,"
1t seems never to have occurred to the
President that it would not be much con-
ISOLATION to the laborer in the North TO be
joStlcd out Of his place by Southern
negro, because that left room for white
man in the South.
Here is the Presidents definition of a
nation. He says:
"a nation may be said to consist Of its
territory, its people, and its laws.
1.-The territory isthe only part which
is Of certain durability.
Zone generation paSseth away and an
other generation cometh, but the earth.
abideth forever. 1t is of the first import
ancc to duly consider and estimate this
never ending part"
The President thinks it of more i'm
portance to look after the interests of the
land than Of the people who inhabit it.
The people are nothing, the land every
thing!
Here is the Presidents definition Of a
negro:
Applications have been made to me
by many free Americans of African de-
scent to favor their emigration, with a
view to such colonization as we contem-
plated in recent acts Of Congress.
So, negro is free American of Afri-
can descent! Goodness, gracious!
These extracts from the Message will
do for the present. 1t is full of similar
beauties. Il
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