The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1863-01-10
From Medary's Ohio Crisis.
President Lineoln's Message.

negroes votes alone, his annual mess ge
would not be so startling. Did it ema.
nate from Hayti or Liberia, it would be
considered novel enough Was our war
one between the white and black races of
men, and the President the chief Of the
blacks, the world might be led to the con-
clusion that he was doing the best he
could for his constituents; but that such
document should originate from the seat
once lilled by a Washington, a Jefferson,
Jackson, and dozen of other worthless,
who were the admiration of all men Of
sense and of virtue, the chiefs of once
mighty and powerful nation, is one of the
most extraordinary events of this century,
or of any past century.
Why, if this message is the exponent of
those in authority, and the measures it
proposes are TO be obstinately carried out,
our wal, instead of being a three months
or a three years war, will last during this
age. Just think Of it for moment. Let
your mind travel into the future, with this
document as its guide, aud where, fellow
countrymen, does it land you?
We can only judge of public measures
by tracing them through their practical
effects. BY this method we can form
opinions Of their soundness Or propriety.
Could President LincQln succeed in reach
ing the goal of his apparent ambition, the
negro race must take the place Of the
white race aud be pre-. eminent in our fu-
ture history. We can see it in no other
light.
But some one will say, this is impossi-
BILE; it catr never occur. Then if it can
not, why try the experiment? Why
launch into wild experiment which must
end in disaster and defeat ? Why sacrifice
SO many white men to accomplish an i'm
possibility? Why destroy our own race
in an effort to make of the African that
which his own nature denies him?
In the midst of the waste of blood and
Of property, the President cooly ia ks of
freeing the negro and opening great Gov
ernment farms under the guidance Of
white soldiers, for the negroes pleasure
and profit He seems to have no more
soul-no more feeling of humanity for
white men, than though it were pleas
ure-entertain'ment to sacrifice them by hc-
tacombs to appease his appetite for negro
freedom. He shows this heartless trait in
the unfeeling manner he menti ms the In
dian murders of Minnesota. Not even
the slaughter of women and children by
neighborhoods and by counties seems to
touch heart, evidently made of flint, if
he has Il heart at all Have the scenes
around Washington killed every emotion
of human feeling that should be found, if
in ever so small u degree, in every human
breast?
To reason with one who could write
such message as this, at such time
and under. such circumstances, would be
the height of folly. 1t could not be un-
derstood by him, nor by men who are
ready to follow him in his wild and un-
bridled career. The style of the message
is beneath criticism, its substance is still
worse. With fields of slaughtered men
who trusted to his honor and few to camp,
scattered everywhere over the land-with
l5U, 900 sick and wounded in hospitals
with widows and orphans everywhere be-
moaning lost and loved ones-with power
ty and abject pauperism staring mill ons
in the face, who were happy aud conten-
ted two years ago, when he left his home
in Illinois to assume the high and respou-
sible Office he now nominally fills; that,
in the midst Of these terrible disasters he
could send forth such message as this, is
beyond the power Of any honest mind to
account for. Barren of sense as of details,
it is only of serious import when we re-
fleet on the position he holds, with more
than half million OF men in the army
subject to his caprice and dictation, aud
twenty millions more to be sacrificed to
his mistakes, and foolish, it not wicked
ambition to do something extraordinary
for the negro.
We lament-most sadly lament, that
the evil genius of the nation seems un-
stayed and unabridged by the recent de-
monstrations at the ballot-boxes beneath
his feet. Because if his policy and his
purposes are to be followed, this war is
not yet fairly opened in its horrd conse-
quences, and the past two years have only
been the drill hours of future barbarism
unknown to modern historians, and which,
ere it closes, will reach every house and
hamlet in the broad land, in some shape
or other.
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