The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1864-01-06
The Presidents Message

ment! We dare not pass II oser with in
difference, for by doing so we would ee
gnly oil ''the treason of silence,n about
which the President, a few months since, |
hurled forth his official condemnation. Wa I
must therefore give our views Of the Mes |
sage, or our 'loyalty" might be doubted by /
Mr.. Lincoln and the man who taps a bell /
at lis righ. hand and another at his left /
"a man should say nothing unless he has
something to say" remarked Mr. Lincoln |
at Getlysburg,on being serenaded by band I
on lhe evening previous TO the consecration !
of the soldiers cemetery, and really we feel /
like following the advice, and would prefer
10 "ssy nothingp concerning this las, pro- |
dnciion from the classic pen of the ''Wes,- |
ern jester" As Anemus Ward would |
say ''for the people who like such kind |
of messages, this is just the kind OF mes
sage such people like" II will be ex;olled |
10 the skies by the ick.spittles, contractors,
pensioned editors and loyal thieves id gen
eral, who hover aronnd the Government
vulluTes hover over carcass. But to
dsinterested men-men OF sense, who are
not coming money from the blood and tears
OF the people-lhe reading of this cloudy
document will cause Them 10 sigh for their
country, ard to curse the day that the people
in their blindness and folly, called Abr aham
Lincoln, the incompetent, TO the chair OF
Stale.
The greater portion OF The Message is
business-like 10 character, but put together
in bungiing manner, and was no doubt
prepared by The chief clerks of The several
departments. The Abolition portion of it
however, is evidently Linco MS own, liber-
ally intersp persed with the ideas of Greeley,
Fred. Douglas (''American gentleman OF
African descent,") Jim Lane, Beecher,
Phillips, and Mrs. Lucretia Mott. These
radical Abolition digniiaries, we noticed,
were all at Washington, during the two
weeks he message was being prepared,
and, according 10 a correspondent, gave
their counsel and advice in the preparation
or the document Fred Douglas, The
negro, has for once, therefore, sent into
Congress has diclalon 10 the representatives.
OF the people. After performing this duty,
Fred re,srned 10 Boston, and made speech
10 mixed audiance of whites and blacks,
aud in il he complimenled the President,
and said ''he (Lincoln) had received him
Douglas with The cordiality and friend
ship due from one gentleman 10 another"
The most important feature in the Mes
sage is IFS tail or appe ndage-the Proclama-
tion proposing to exiende Executive elem.
ency TO a portion OF the rebels, provided
they ali turn TO be good and obedent Abo-
litiouisls, give up their slaves, and take an
oath that they will yield hearty support TO
all LiHcoln's Proclamatons and whims,
and 10 the acts OF the Abolition Congress
ln abort, he will pardon them, (cr some OF
them } if they stop ighsing and become his
serfs
This reclamation is nothing more nor
less than premedilated insult to those TO
whom il is addressed, and the oath the
President dictates no white man or decent
negro in America could or would take even
TO save mis- life. One half the people of
/ the free States would spurn it. The Proc
: lamation, then is worse than nothing, and +,
in the language of the Journal Of Commerce,
"sounds very much like the ukase from the
/ chambers OF an autocrat, instead OF the
voice OF an ordinary man, temporarily rep
/ resenting the Constitutional Government of
/ the United States" The President has
Welded 10 the demands of the radicals Of
! his party and the questions of peace and
/ Union be makes secondary TO the abolition
[ OF slavery The negro, not the Union, is
! what be is soIicitous over. He has taken
/ his stand he tells US, and The freedom OF he
| slaves is made paramount 10 a restoration
! of the Union The people, therefore, can
! no longer be kept in the dark in reference
/ to the objects oi the war. By The confession
/ of the President himself il is war Tor the
( negro and Tor nothing else Such being
/ the fact, let the people make up their minds
I that this war is to 60 on from year 10 year
so long as the present parry has control of
/ The Government. In the language OF a
prominent statesman who voted for Lincoln
/ ''oh, that we had JACKSON in the chair OF
Stale, il but for one day."-Carlisle Voiin-
/ teer