Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-12-12
President JohnsoR's Message.

Il ulkHhcu iDAnDoI w WHICH ~ ILIAhu
Of the weighty affairs Of the Nation
as we'll as for the profound statesman
like views and suggestions it advances
in furtherance Of the restoration, anne
Iteration and perpetpityof the States
under the true and impartial forms
aud principles Of constitutional govern
ment.
Taken altogether it is one Of the
best State documents that has emana.
ted from any President since the days
Of Washington. Weregret that our
limited space prevents its reproduction
entire in our columns, aud that We
are constrained to subject its prinoi-
pal features to an emasculating process
as follows:
/. The President expresses graft.
tude to God for the preservation Of
the United States" and next feyarts
to the late President Lincoln, paying
respectful tribute to his memory, and
recalls to mind his death aud the
manner Of it, and how il was deplofed
in the United States and foreign
countr les. .fIis removap SAYS Presi.
dens johnson, "caot upon me q heay-
Ter weight Of cares than"ver devoved
on any Of bis predecessor" A..
2. The support and confidence Of all
branches of the government and of
the people is invoked to assist him
in the fulfllment of his trust, The
union of the States, he contends, was
intended by it's authors to last as
long as the States themselves shall
last, and the words of the Constitu-
ton are, that the Union shall be per-
petual. The Constitution contains
within itself ample powers and re-
sources for its own preservation
against all infringements or usnrpa-
tons, an axiom which has always
been asserted by every patriotic
Chief Magistrate. Absolute acqui-
escence in the decisions of the ma
jority was enforced by President
Jefferson as the vital principle of re-
publics, and the events of the last
four years has established, says Mr..
johnson, that there lies no appeal to
force. The maintenance of the Union
brings with it the support of the
State Governments in all their rights,
but it is not one of those rights to
renounce their places in the Union
or to nullify its laws. The Govern
ment of the United States is limited
Government and 50 is that of every
State. Their mutual relations make
up their political system and in that
their connection is indissoluble. The
whole cannot exist without the parts,
nor the parts without the whole.
3. Peaceful and reciprocal emigra-
ton Is advocated as one of the best
means for the restoration of harmony
to the country. He alludes to his
of Provisional Govern
ors, the re.opening ofthe U. S. Courts,
Custom Houses, Post Offices, &c, in
the Southern States, as the proper
means whereby he has sought quietly
to restore the rightful energy Of the
General Government and the States,
Hints at the possibility of a general
in the early future, and
dwells upon the need Of a concur
renee of all opinions and mutual
Cancellation Of all parties in the late
terrible conflict. Advises the adop-
ton of the amendment to the Consti-
tuition providing for the abolition of
slavery forever. s-4
4. He afirms the treasonableness of
crime. Persons charged with its
should however have fair
and impartial trials IN the high and
civil tribunal of the country Trait
ora should be punished and the crime
made Infamous, .lasa