The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-08
FIrst-Rate Satire on the Presidents Mes
snge-CapitaI Hit.

A First-Hate Satire on the Presfdenps Mes
snge-capitaI hit.
From the Providence Or. I.) Post.l
TEE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE REpUoEB ToTBE LEVEL
OF TIE MEAHEsT UNDERSTANDINGS.
Feliow citizens of the Senate aud Hodss Of
Representatives;
Since your last annual assembling, a yea
ago, twelve months have passed by. They
have not brought any indications of a return
Of peace TO our distracted land. am pleased
to state, however, that the corn crop is quite
large Let US trust that in the course Of time
all viii be serene
Our fOreign relations are not so satisfacto-
~ as they would be if they were more So In
the month of June last we had reason TO ex-
pect that the maritime powers would cease to
recognize the insurgents as belligerent; but
they didn't. Some trihing defeats Of ours,
which occurred about this time, probably in
huenced them in this absurd course
Several Americans of pure African descent
have applied to meto favor their emigration
to more oongenial clirnes; other parties have
dona the same. On the. other hand, several of
The Spanish. h.American Republics have declared
that they will not receive such colonists at any
price. Liberia and Hayti are the only cOun-
tries in which these colonists would be re-.
ceived, but the colonists do not seem to appear
to care to 20 to either On inquiry, / find that
they have no burning desire to 60 anywhere
This pains me-. Time however, which "cuts
down all, both great and small, will probably
favorably affect their opinion in this regard.
The condition Of the National finances de-
mands your earnest attention. The large is
sues of United States Notes in the past year
has made the transportation of postage stamps
into currency unavoidable. In times past we
have always had specie enough to serve the
purposes of trade but although the United
States Mint is daily adding to this stock
have come to the conclusion that we shall
never have enough again. At all events, al
of United States Notes can not
sa6ely be maintained. / therefore propose
that a whole lot of banking associations be
started all over the country, and that the Gov
furnish these with circulating notes,
on the security Of United States Bonds depos-
tied in the Treasury. By these means we shall
always have an unbundant supply of paper
dollars and postage-currency, and what could
be finer than thati
as the war is of no Importance at all when
compared to the slavery question, | pass it
ovR without remark, to como at once To the
consideration of the latter. AS it is geograph
icaly evident that the North and the South
can never be separated, | propose to remove
the cause Of strife between them by amending
the Constitution, so that all slaves who are
not now free shall become so on the first day
Of january, in the year of our Lord two thou
sand and hirty-fve-~provided the States in
which they are held TO laber are willing to
emanoipate them in consideration of United
States Bonds 70 be made payable at that date
As this is an entire new idea of mine, you
will excuse my tediousness in discussing it. |
Without slavery the rebellion could never
have existed; without slavery il could not
continue. 1t therefore follows, as logical
that if we succeed in abolishing !
il by the year A. D. 2O35, the rebellion will
then cease, and all fears of foreign interven |
ton will be ct an end.
The main points in this plan are: First, the |
emancipation secondly, the length of time for
lone hundredand seyenty.tbree
years)i and thirdly, the compensation will be
unsatisfactory to the advocates Of perpetual
slaves; but the length Of time should, and pro-
badly would, greatly mitigate their diss ssatisfac-
tion. Personally have no doubt at all but
that il will have entirely passed out Of their
minds at the expiration of the term stated.
The time spares both races from the evils of
sudden arrangement, and will enable the slaves
to move up North gradually, and thus avoid
the dangers o taking cold. think am war.
ranted in stating that those opposed to the
measure will never "see it." Another class
will hail the prospect of emancipation, but
will depreoiate the length Of time. They will
feel that il gives too little to the now living
slaves. But to such of them as are in the
Methusaleh line-and 1t is we'll known thai
elaves often live to a very great age--it really
gives much. Besides, it saves them from be-
ing destitute vagrants, and gives the inspirit-
ing assurance that their posterity shall be free
forever, And man will endure any thing sol
that his ppsterity may be all right.
The plan leaves to each State choosing to-
act under II (which none of the eleven rebslI
lous ones Of course willy to abolish slave
nv now or on the thirty-frst day OF Decem.
Der, in the yea. Of our Lord two thousand
and thirty five, or at any other time. 1t also
provides for compensation, which must fur
iher mitigate dissatisfaction, especially amongI
those who are MOTTO be compensated Ii may
DO that those who are to pay, and not to re.
eeive, will object people@ that class usually
do. But such are blind to their own interest, |
for the war costs us more than compensated |
emancipation would And so, according to |
the promises laid down at the beginning the
war will end when slavery ends, viz: A. d. |
2035, it follows as a natural consequence, that
II will be more economical foE us to pay for
the slaWs, in addition TO paying TOR the war
op to that time, than il would to pay for the
war alone, leaving the slaves out Of the ques.
tion. The measure, repeat, would save
money, and IN that view would be prudent
and economical measure. Certainly il is not
80 easy TO pay something as il is to paw
nothing butt is easier to pay large sum
than II is to pay a larger one, aud tits easier
TO pay any sam when we are able than Il IA To |
pay 1t before we are able. In other words
there are four millions Of slaves in the SounI
These we would have to pay for at an AVERAGE
Of Eve hundred dollars each, making IN an
|two thousand millions Of dollars. Now n 10
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