The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-01-22
portion Of which was heretofore yours.
[Signed BENZ. +. BUTLER.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. "a, 1862.
Mr.. Line oln in Eurone.

Mr.. Line DIN in Europe.
The Caledonian Mercury-one of the
most respected journals of Edinburgh
thus expresses the sentiments of the
etter (not the higher) classes in Eu.
ropo with regard to the Presidents late
Annual Message:
"The more the text of the Presidents
Message is considered, the higher mus
be our appreciation of its calm thought.
fulness, so different from the rowdyism
VIC were wont to receive from Washing
ton when Pro-Slavery Cabinets were in
the ascendant. President Lincoln
speaks OF the attitude assumed toward
the United States by European Govern
ments without irritation, strong in the
justice of the cause he represents, and
IN the power of the great people over
whom he rules. He speaks without ac
erblty even of the Rebels who have
done SO much to bring calamity upon
the country; and we believe, were the
mlscreants of the Confederacy at his
feet tomorrow, Mr.. Lincoln would
merely bid them depart and try for the
future to be wiser and better men,
When we recollect the rancorous hate
entertained in this country toward the
Indian rebels, e feel humiliated that
this village attorney, this 'rail-splitter
from Illinois, should have shown him =
self so superior to the mass of monar
chical statesmen. IF some Confederate
Gofgei should be found to lay down his
arms and yield up the cause ofthe Reb
els, In place of the massacres Of Arad,
we should have feast of brotherly
kindness, Mr.. Lincoln addressing the
Rebels as wayward children. He trulv
acts and speaks as the Father of his
Country; and yet this man, so kind and
merciful--lenient even to a faults
made the sport and butt of the idle lit
erary buffoons of Britain. The dav will
come when the character and career of
Abraham Lincoln will get justice in this
country; and when probably even his
causeless assailants will blush for the
share they took in lampooning a noble.
brave man, who in a fearful crisis pos
sesse d his soul in patience, trusting in
God, and that in His own good time
aud wise way all will be we'll. Too tru
ly does he say that the fiery trial
through which we pass will light us
down in honor or dishonor to the latest
generation There can be little doubt
what the verdict of future generations
will be if President Lincoln proceeds to
the end of his career as he has bcpun
Before two years of his administration
has been completed, he has reversed the
whole constitutional action of A merica
on the subject of Slavery. lie has
saved the Territories from the unhal-
lowed grasp of the Slave Power; he has
purged the accursed institution from the
Congressional District he has hung q
sIave'trader in New York, the nest Of
slave pirates; he has held out the rirht
hand of fellowship to the negro Repub.
lies of Liberia aud Iayti; and he ha.
Joined Great Britain in endeavoring tc
sweep the slave trade from tie coast Of
Alrical There can be no doubt of the
verdict Of pOsterity on such acts as these
, Within the light of the fiery trial of
: which the President speaks another
light has shone clear and refulgent-thc
torch of Freedom-tO which million,
ofpoorsiaves now look with eager hope.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Commercial, in speaking O