Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-12-13
tins NV YoRK Pass ON rHE MEs,

eA1E,-Ihe IflOune thlnks thc ircst-
dents annual message is not so remark
able for what II does contain as what IL
does not, and adds:
"Mr. Pierce could not have written a
weaker message. Congress would have
as readily heard an essay upon the cause
OF thunder as this tame and harmless
disuulsition. There is much that the
President regrets. There are some good
words from Washington and Jefferson,
likewise jackson. We marvel that his
Excellency neglected the other father OF
their country. For any living fact, for
any suggestion, for any helpful thought,
we might as well turn TO the last novel
of Mr.. Trollope as TO his message, Eph-
rain seems irrevocably joined to his
idols. He clings TO his dog
mas with as much tenacity as when he
helped to carry the country In the late
elections. There is not one word for the
negro-not one word for the loyal In the
South-not one sentence which might
not as well have been written hundred
years ago as to-day, for all the comfort
and truth II brings"
The Times claims that the message is
not uniformly in good taste, saying;
HE has neither modified his views nor
given an indication of a READINGS to con-
cede aught of principal or policy to the
demands of the governing States or Con-
gress. He reviews the bearings of the
question precisely as he reviewed them
more than once during the last session.
His statement of the case is reitera-
ton of the statement heard many times
within the last nine months; his argu-
ments have all been used before; and his
recommendation is chiefly noticeable as
evidence that he has learned nothing
from the elections and forgotten nothing
in connection with his struggle with
Congress. This exhibition of unyield-
ing purpose on the part of the President
may not occasion surprise to those VINO
know tie firmpess of will which marks
his character We cannot but consider
it, however, a serious error OF Judgment,
and q source of difficulty which we
would gladly have averted in the session
now opened
The Herald says of it
at is an argument to the court after
the Jury had rendered their verdict. 1t
may be compared to history of France,
emitting the revolution which over
threw the Bourbons, as a trivial matter
not worth mentioning in pleading Their
claims to the throne. 1t is indeed re-
markable that after deliberately submit
ting his Southern policy against the plar
of Congress to the people in the late cleo
tions, the President should not have
word to say of the will of the people
as made manifest in these elections"
The World, of course, is in ecstacie'
over the ability and craftsmanship of thu
document, and says exultingly:
"What is certain, and what the coun
try Is most concerned to know, is, tina
the President remains immovable, an(
Congress belligerent. The elections
have not awed him into any degree o
submissiveness, and he restates his pc
| sition with masculine, convincing
clearness, which must produce favora
BILE impression upon all candid men. Ill
| does not deign to pay the constitutions
amendment even the cold compliment @
a passing allusion; nor is there any res
son why he should"
The Evening Post fully sustains tn
President in his arguments for the ad
mission of Southern delegates to Cor
gress, and declares the course OF Con
gress in violation of the Constitution
1t thinks, however, that if the Presiden
possessed a broader craftsmanship b
would urge upon the South the adoptio
of the Constitutional amendment as tn
readiest means of reaching q practices
settlement.