Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-12-13
The PresIdenOs Message.

The Presidencs Message.
COMMENTS OF THE CONSERVATIVE PRESS
The New York Herald says that ss q
mere exhibit "of the working oftbe several
executive departments during the last year."
the message is an interesting instructive and
satisfactory State paper" while upon the
great issue of Southern Reconstruction it
reads like chapter from "The World be-
fore the Deluge." .. .... ..
"Mr. johnson devotes two tedious news
paper columns 10 defense OF his last years
measures and general ideas Of Southern
restoration. including some beautiful ex.
tracts from Washington Farewell Address
and from Jefferson aud jackson, in support
of his theory of State rights and the power
Of Congress, and then he drops the subject.
1t is an argument in the court after the jury
had rendered their verdict. 1t may be com
pared to history of France, emitting the
revolution which overthrow the Bourbons-
as trivial matter not worth mentioning in
pleading their claims to the throne"
The New York Times (edited by Ray
mond, author Of the Philadelphia johnson
Platform,) says the Message has "the merit
of comparative brevity." Its discussions
are in moderation and good temper,
though not with uniform good taste"
''It has suited the Democratic Press to
belttle the significance of the recent cleo
tions; but only something little short Of
judicial blindness can have led Mr. johnson
to rely upon the Democratic rendering Of
popular opinion. He, of all men, shsuld
be able to estimate correctly the import Of
the verdict pronounced at the polls. He
cannot complain of having been misrepre
sented or misunderstood. He was the ex-
ponent of his own casc-the active. eBer-
getic champion of his own cause. He sub
mitted his policy. in contradistinction to the
policy of Congress, to the people Of the
North and West, everywhere avowiDg con
fdence n the rectitude Of their intentions
and in the sagacity of their Judgment
When they decided against him, therefore
when they repudiated his policy and
ranged themselves on the side of Congress
it became his duty, not indeed to abandon
his convictions, but to accept the will of the
people as the law of his Administration,
and either to withdraw all opposition to the
! Congressional plan, or to propose some new
basis of adjustment. By neglecting to pur-
sue one or the other Of these courses be has
lost the last opportunity of effec,ing a re-
conciliation with the great majority OF the
party that elected him, and has furnished
weapon to his adversaries which they will
WELD to his detriment.
The Cincinnati Commercial says:
There are some assertions in the opening
passages of the message, touching the plac.
able and obedient spirit of the South, and
! the decline of animosities engendered by
the war, from which we have reluctantly to
dissent We only wish the cheerful face
| put upon matters in that quarter could be
sustained by testimony But we have not
space to discass the Presidents assumptions
here. As whole the message is fair
State paper, clear, compact and elcCantly
phrased. In the last particular it differs as
widely from the Presidents speeches, as the
! finished periods of Webster from the
mouthings of ranting stump orator.
! IN 1922, NJ. Labouchers, then clerk in
the banking house of Hope & Co., Amster-
dam, was sent by his patrons to MIR. Barring,
:, the London banker, to negotiate loan He
displayed in the affair so much ability as to
entirely win the esteem and confidence GfthO
great English fnancer. .....
" Faith said Labouchere one day to
DarlDg, your uauRhteT Is cndrHiuR Ciea
ture; wish / could persuade you to give
me her hand. . .-..... .-,-.
/" Young man, you are joking; for seri-
ously, you must allow that Miss Barring
could never become the wife Of simple
clerk ~ r. ... ...1,.-~... .......
j al But said Labouchere, /" if l were in
partnership with Mr.. Hope?"
!" Ohl that would be quite different
thing; that would entirely make up tor all
other deficiencies. --. .... . .
Returning to Amsterdam, Lobouchere
said to bis patron Mr.. Hope, you must
take me into partnership. I"
e My young frienG, how can you think Of
such thing? 1t is impossible. You are
without fortune, and" ...-t..
But if l become the son-in law Of Mr..
Baring?" ,.,a ...
! In that case the affair would soon be
settled, and so you have my wcrd.
Fortified with these two promises, NJ.
Labouchere returned to England, and in two
mouths after married Miss Barring, because
Mr.. Hope had promised to take him into
partnership, and he thus became allied tC
the house OF Hope & Co. .-s.e..