The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-06
RATE or sUBscRIPTIoNs.
The Principal Newspaper Comment

sit is not SO much what the President
says as what he declines to say" that is
leading feature, so to speak, OF his
Message:
The first impression of the Message
Is that his EXcellency is chastened. Ho
makes no illusions to Congress hang
1mg iI,g on the verge OF the government.
Ihls IS something from an Executiya
who has been in the most unreasonable
humor for so many months. Mr.. Pierce
coulu not nave written weaker Mes
sage. Congress would n s readily have
neard an essay upon the cause of thun-
der as this tame and harmless dis0uisi-
tlon. Ihere is much that the President
regrets. There are some good words
from Washington and Jefferson. like
wise jackson. We marvel that his Ex-
Gellency neglected the other fathers of
their country. For any living fact, for
any suggestion, for any helpful Thought.
we might as well turn to the last novel
OF MIR: Trollope as to this Message.
his idols" -4sN W
I'VE have no heart to dwell upon
this dreary, lifeless document, There
IS nothing that any loyal man can read
with comfort or hope. Andrew John
son Is as much an enemy as when he
bLAC LAllOh DIS w hlte
mouse steps ten months ago. He does
not mean to aid us in the work of re-
construction. The duty devolVinp
upon Congress becomes more solemn
and responsible, and we look to Con
gress with infinite yearning. Let there
be kindness and patience, charity to-
ward all, malice toward none, frmness
and devotion; but above all a sinGle-
hearted determination, come well or i'll.
despite Presidents or Cabinets, to labor.
without ceasing, until over this land
there shall be peace and rest. liberty.
and protection, and all rights for ali. .
The Herald says that as mere ex-
hibit "of the working of the several
EX-departments during the last year. -.
the message is can interesting, instruc-
tive and satisfactory State paper"
while upon the great issue of Southern
Reconstruction it reads like chapter
from 1.-THE World before the Deluge. Z"
"NIr. Johnson devotes two tedious
newspaper columns to a defence of his
last years measures and general ideas
OfSouthern restoration, including some
beautiful extracts from Washington's
Farewell Address and from Jefferson
and jackson, in support of his theory
OF State rights and the power of Con.
gress, and then he drops the subject.
1t Is an argument in the court after the
jury had rendered their verdict, 1t
may be compared to history of France,
omlttlng the revolution which over
threw the Bourbons-ns a trivial matter
not worth mentioning in pleading their
claims to the throne"
The New York Times says the Mes
sage has "the merit of comparative
brevity." Its discussions are sin mod
GRAFTON and good temper, though not
with uniform good taste."
at has suited the Democratic Press
to belittle the significance of the recent
elections; but only something a little
short of Judicial blindness can have led
Mr.. Johnson to rely upon the Demo-
cratic rendering of popular opinion.
He, of all men, should be able to esti-
mate correctly the import of the YER
dict pronounced at the polls. He can
not complain of having been misrepre-
sented or misunderstood. He was the
exponent of his own case-the active.
energetic champion of his own cause.
He submitted his policy, in contradis-
tlnction to the policy of Congress. to
the people Ofthe North and West, ev-
erywhere avowing confidence in 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 Congressoit
became his duty, not indeed to abandon
his convictions, but to accept the will
of the people as the law of his Admin
istration, and either to withdraw all
opposition to the Congressional plan,
or to propose some new basis of adjust
ment. By neglecting to pursue one or
the other of these courses he has lost
the last opportunity of effecting a recon-
ciliation with the great majority of the
party that elected him, and has fur
nished weapon to his adversaries
which they will WELD to his sdetriment."
The World praises the Message for its
firmness, "indomitable steadiness,"
and says that it has ''the calmness of
conscious strength" 1t says furtri +
that sit is probable that the Republican
members of Congress knew of the
Presidents infiexibilitY when they
day evening. But this is a point of no
consequence. What is certain, and
what the country is most concerned TO
know, is, that the President remains
immovable, and Congress beIligerent,
The elections have not awed him into
any degree of submissiveness, and he
restateS his position with masculine,
convincing clearness, which must pro-
duce favorable impression upon all
candid men. He does not deign to pay
the Constitutional Amendment even
the cold compliment of passing allu-
sion; nor is there any reason why he
should"
The above extracts, coming from the
four principal New York morning jour
nails, are fair specimens of the tone of
the Republican and Copperhead press,
in regard to the Message, as also of an
intermediate class represented by the
Times and Herald. We should say
that fully three-fourths of the newspa-
pers of the country condemn the Mes
sage as weak, tame, partisan docu-
Sweet words for JeG. Davis from
Georgia.
Ieie0rdphtc Dispdtch to Richmond.
Mr.. Henderson introduced the fol-
lowing resolutions, Saturday, in the
Georgia House, and they were adopted
unanimously in both branches of the