Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-12-17
Summary OF the Presidents
NIcssnEc and Proclamation.


the Cincinnati Eaquirer, who have either not
r,, ,ir,o or .bo inclination to read carefully
; s,cb document as the Presidents Message,
and for tho benefit of such we have mado a
I summary of all the recommendations and
points It contains.
Tho Message opens with tho usual &C
acknowledgements to God. Tho President
notices the stoppagc by the British and
French Governments of the Confederate
rams, forbiddng them to loavo their ports
A supplemental African Slave Trade treaty
has been made, and carried into execution,
as we are next informed. The first person
introduced into the message, therefore, is a
negro
The President proposes TO settle with Eng
land some land claims in Washington Terri.
tory.
The maritime Jurisdiction Of Cuba, which
has been discussed between the United States
and Spain, is a question to be referred to the
. arbitramcnt of a foreign power.
The Scheldt dues arc to be paid.
G 1t is recommended that list of the names
@ OF all persons declaring their intention to be-
como citizens of the United States be for
wardod to the Secretary of tho Interior, and
that law be passed for that purpose 1t is
also recommended that the law be so chang
ed as to make the fact of voting bar against
any claim of no citizenship, set up by those
who desire an exemption from military ser
vice
Russia is to mako a line Of telegraph from
:. our Pacific coast.
The Consular systems Of the United States
begin to be self sustaining.
"a Tho President recommends a telegraph
,o across the Atlantic Ocean, and also between
is Washington and the forts on the Gulf Of
TO McXico.
A recommendation Is made for Navy
II yard on the Atlantic Ocean, and also on til,
b. Western rivers.
II. 1t is suggested that a Government Schoo
D. be established for the fostering and training
te of scamen for the naval service.
10 The Post Onco Department is nearly self
IN sustaining, being only about one hundred am
it fifty thousand dollars short.
g. Nearly q million and half of acres of Ian,
have been taken up under the Homestead
n cation Of tho law in favor of only those win
n have been in tho military or naval service o
G. tho country.
+ IIo compliments our Ministers and Consul
abroad.
Tho condition Of the Territories is salts
factory, although tho Indian difficulties il
'' New Mexico are not entirely suppressed
go lie alludes to the mineral wealth of tn
new Territories just discovered.
Of The President suggests tho expedicncy q
in establishing system for tho encouragement
Y of foreign emigration. This is pretty good
IL coming from tho head OF party which,
n few years ago, wanted to deny to emigrant
cs the right of citizenship, If net to forbid ,hei
TO- coming here altogether.
N. The President compliments tho manage
r. mcnt of tho Treasury.
D. IIo approves the National Banking Law
ke but thinks some amendments may be made t.
ss it.
m Even warmer than his commondations G
Of the Treasury Department is the praise of tn
o, President upon Mr.. Welles, tho Sec rotary c
m the Navy. lIe declares that his duties hav
is success. Shades of tho Sumter, Aabam
a. and Georgia, what do you think Of this amt
n zing declarationi What do the merchant
a. thing, whose ships have been captured b
"c tho hundred by Confederate privatecrs, thi
I" have roamcd without molestatoni Lincol
he is with Chase, to judge by tho pulling h
,o bestows upon him.
a. Tho measures of tho last Congress, for IL
nJ removal Of tho Indian tribes has been carrie
If into effect. He suggests tho propriety of
n . change in our Indian system.
n llc seems to favor canal being bui
be around tho Falls of tho Niagara, on ii
as American side.
r. The President next alludcs to tho state
/ feeling at homo and abroad year ago an
10 now, and dnds, in his judgment, greo
it Improvement, as well as in the military status
y, He attributes this change to the Emancipa
II ton proclamation and tho employment O
III negro troops
, Lot us look at that moment. Tho proc
~ lamation was, in fact, issued on tho 22nd o
September, '62, In October and November
;. following the Democrats carried all the olcc
tions, being greatly aided in so doing by thu
unpopularity of said proclamation. The par
ty OF the President has carried tho elections
I. in 1868, but the PROCLAMATION, so far from
49, helping to that end was a drawback upon it
n Before tho proclamation was issued McCcl
Z. Ian was within sight of Richmond, and W,
as had fought severe battle in tho centre o
s. Mississippi. Have we advanced further il
X either direction since tho proclamation wa
CO issucdi
he The President claims that of those VIII,
he were slaves at the beginning of the rebellion
fully ono hundred thousand are now in tn
At, United States military serv ice, about ON
iiu half Of whom arc in the ranks. SO far a
nc tested, tho President thinks tho ncgroe
M, make as good soldiers rs the whites
Nv The President then enters into defense
''' the Negro proclamation. He declares tn,
10 he will not retract or modify the proelamatio
while he remains in his present position.
>, The Message, taken as n whole, is bett,
40, written than either Of It's predecessors, au
wo miss many OF the little points that mat
thom so ridiculous and their author so a
surd.