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MONDAY, DECEMBER IA, 1858.
THE MESSAGE.
!. The Presidents Message with the nc
companying Proclamation Of Amnesty,
would ordinarily absorb the profound atten-
tion Of the country for the space of d year.
Whether they Will now, amid the rushing
crowd of great affairs, hare any such time
to themselves, is to" be determined here
after.
The message itself is largely in the usual
round Of statement Of our relations with
foreign countries, expressed with some
thing more than the ordinary brevity.
There is one very significant omission
however, in the list There is no allusinn
" to Mexico, more than if no such country
existed. Probably the President felt that
The time had not yet come to discourse to
advantage on that matter; and so acted
on the proyerb, that though speech be
silver, silence is golden" ;.
As to the style Of the Message, it seems
to us little less Lincolnian than some Of
his papers. 1t is extremely brief, consider
ing tic number Of topics embraced in it,
and the great interest and importance at
1aching to those Of n domestic nature dis
cusscd. The concluding column, which
treats Of the rebellion, and the Proc1ama-
tion Of Pardon are the portions to which
the absorbing interest attaches. The Pres
idcnt is well pleased with the results Of
the Proclamation Of Freedom, uttered little
more than year ago, amid 50 much of un-
certainty and doubt More than a hundred
thousand blacks arc now id the military
scrrice-more than half Of whom bear
arms, and have proved themselves, in nu-
merous instances, worthy to bear them
But the matter Of chief and living con.
ccrn is the Proclamation Of Amnesty
This Is one Of the first actual steps toward
that reconstruction, Of which VIC hare heard
SO much. That it will be the theme of
intense and fruitful excitement, VIC can
not doubt 1t will, without question, be
productive of beneficial results in Europe
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and use
and thus the way is open for reconstruc-
lion But how, or On what terms? We
need bother ourselves with no theory
making whatever. We need not settle it,
whether the etats are yet in the Union, as
Shades or sae1s, to be filled up; or are all
dead d-aa States, and reduced to territories
All needfu questions will be settled, one
after another, as they come mp, as practical
9uestsons- theories, or questions in tlesi,
as the eccleslastics have it i.
And with one preliminary or underlying
condition, all such matters will be easily
adjusted. LetsIatery b destroyed and other
things viii give but transitory difficulty.
But what chance has slavery to be destroy
ed The country has been waiting with
bated breath for good while, to hear what
the President has to say On that topic His
message gives us the answer: II may add
at ths point that while l remain in my
present ponaon shaA not attempt to re-
tract OF modify the Emancipation Procla-
mntiDn 710F kt0U 7 3xfHfn tn sL1nerH nuu mr.