Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-03

which it is difficult to express a genera
opinion From the sound, practical sug.
gestiOns with which the Governor start.
out be runs into all sorts Of vagaries, and
discusses questions which have no role
vAncy TO u time or condition.
The statistical portion of the message Il
complete and valuable, showing exactly
how much money has been expended dur
ing the fiscal year, and to what purposes il
has been devoted. The facts and sugges-
tons in regard to the various benevolent
Institutions and the Soldiers Home
which latter the Governor truly describe:
as q the expression of our p~ensionary JUS
tice,'' are most timely and sensible. Re
trenchnent and economy are commended,
but not to the neglect of the unfortunates
dependent upon the State for protection.
The establishment of inebriate asylums is
recommended, for the reason that drunk
enness is on the increase. This is perhaps
q valid reason, but It would seem to bethe
duty of the Governor to suggest some
plan for the suppression of this vice. To
prepare hospitals for its victims, whilst the
causes which produce it are permitted to
exist, is only the application of opiates to
the diseased patient.
The message is copious enough to sat
isfy the most voracious appetite for official
literature. 1t is ~exhausting if not ex-
haustiye. It covers forty duodecimo
pages, whilst twenty would have been in
fnitely better. The verbose style of the
Governor is actually oppressive and suf-
fers much in comparison with the calm,
digniRed utterances of his predecessor.
A vein Of egotism peryades the entire
document, and is especially noticeable in
the lengthy report of the expulsion of DR.
Dorsey from the State Treasury; in which
Charles Anderson figures as the most sa-
gacious of meni We do not object to the
policy pursued by Governor Anderson in
that matter; on the contrary, think it
eminently proper; but he has devoted en-
tirely too much space to it in his message,
especially when it is remembered that the
question Of DR.. Dorsey's criminatity is yet
to be determined in the courts.
Viewed as a literary production, the
message falls far below what might rea-
sOnably have been expected from enc
whom the people had learned to hold in
high esteem as a popular orator. Some
passages are not only unworthy a place
in 8 State paper, but are absolutely
insdmissible in any composition. Quite
undignihed are the following: "The
various and somewhat loose sort of
accounting; "such little, but necessary,
rules of prison discipline as not throwing
bread crumbs, speaking, laughing, etc."
%knaek of keeping his c-ountenance" .;
"a year has made a happy change for US
al, if we have only the sense to improve
it" ".claptrsp u; "batch of South Ameri-
can republics abstract right of an
empty meal bag to stand alone'' "corpo-
rails guard hybrid fanatics and bar
barians"i parade and fuster."; patent
aiek plan of becoming a monarchy our
selves. Here are a few "choice samples"
"The Governor may set the prisoners free,
but he could not clear the filth and lice
from all the prisoners "a bigger thing
than might at first thought be guessed
"menaced and bulliedD ; mind your own
business; universal wet-nurse of all
the orphan republics.
Much space is devoted to an argument
againt the Monroe doctrine. The best
apology that can be offered for the intro
ductiOn of this homily upon matters not
pertinent to the affairs of the State, is the
excessive vanity of its author, who seems
to be laboring under the h~allucination that
all the parties to the Mexican imbroglio,
from the autocrat of the Tuilleries to
a Miramon and Juarez, with their motley,
anarchic principles and doings ITO use
his own language-are strainiLg their
tympanums to catch the first echo of his
uttered wisdom on this topic. He raises
mp a man of straw in the form of a Mexi-
can annexation scheme, and then proceeds
10 asssil it with his most potent logic.
He p%ronounces the Republics of South
and Mexico failures, and says it
would bes "vain thing for US to attempt
10 hold them up in this, their free right of
mutual slaughter and general ruin" The
Governor does not seem to have the
confidence in the applicability of
q republican form of government to the :
of mankind, for he says, and prints
it in italics, that ut is the nature of oar in
situations and habits, that ITS qoorst classes +,
must rule as, greatly beyond the proportion
their aum6ers7. If this be true of tour
institutions, . the product of the best form
Of republicanism, then is republicanism a
and monarchy a blessing The :
adherence of our people to the Republic c
all its vicissitudes is sufficient
Of this assertion. The doctrine,
irst proclaimed by President Monroe, and {
aow recognized as a cardinal rule of
action, that the United States =
will not tolerate European interference
Nth the nations Of this continent Gov
rnor Anderson describes us of doubtful
and uncertain purpose. We are J
opposed to hasty action on the Mexican J
question, because we believe the French
grant is about to withdraw peaceably
rom the contest, and we would leave I
and the Mexican people to
light their own battles, SO long as only
dexicans shall engage in them; but no in :
ervention on the part' Of a European c
monarch should be tolerated when we are
n q position to prevent it. GoEernorAn-
lerson would give over the Amer F
can republics to the tender mer- F
les of whatever power might
Zee fit to invade them. he says: at is
true that neither France nor Austria P
las any business in Mexico. But the an
Iwer Is veryplainEno more have we n
BE would place the robber and the minis
er Of justice upon the same footing =
We may have no legal right in our neigh
,Ors house, but it is our bounden duty to :
inter- and drive out the thief whose mis- s
ion is one Of pillAge and plumber. The
of Governor Anderson eliminates
@ba f~ollowin0. e Mr. Mo1roa--asIl