Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-01-05
THE GOvERNOR,s MESSAGE.

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States.
THE GOvEREOR's MESSAGE.
Governor Anderson s valedictory message is
of such inordinate length that we can neither
afford to publish nor the people to read it. The
following too caustic, but partially deserved
critical synopsis of it we take from Wednesday S
Cleveland Leader:
The Message of Governor Anderson to
the Legislature of Ohio, is remarkable
document, and one of which it is difficult
to express general opinion. From the
sound, practical suggestions with which
the Governor starts out he runs into all
sorts of vaga-ies, and discusses questions
which have no relevancy to our time or
condition.
The statistical portion of the message is
complete and valuable, showing exactly
how much money has been expended dur
ing the fiscal year, and to what purposes
it has been devoted. The facts and sug-
gestions in regard to the various benevo-
lent institutions, and the Soldiers Home,
which latter the Governor truly describes
as 'the expression of our. pensionary JUS
tice, are most timely and sensible Re-
trenchment and economy are commended,
but not to the neglect of the unfortunates
dependent upon the State for protection.
The establishments of inebriate asylums
is recommended, for the reason that
drunkenness is on the increase. This is
perhaps valid reason. but it would seem
to be the duty of the Governor to suggest
some plan for the suppression of this vice.
To prepare hospitals for It's 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 salts
fy the most voracious appetite for official
literature. 1t is exhausting if not exhaus-
tive. 1t covers forty duodecimo pages,
whilst twenty would have been infinitely
better. The verbose style of the Governor
is actually oppressive, and suffers much
in comparison With the calm, dignifed ut
-tteFsnces of his predecessor. A vein of
egotism pervades the entire document, and
is especially noticeable in the lengthy re-
port of the expulsion of DR.. Dorsey from
the State Treasury, in which Charles An
derson figures as the most sagacious of
men! We do not object to the policy
pursued by Governor Anderson in that
matter; on the contrary, think it eminent
ly proper; but he has devoted entirely 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 de-
termined in the courts.
Viewed as literary production, the
message falls far below what might reason
ably have been expected from one whom
the people had learned to hold in high es-
TEEN as popular orator Some passages
are not only unworthy place in State
paper, but are SO absolutely inadmissible
in any composition. Quite undignifed
are the following: ''The various and some
what loose sort of accounting; ''such lit
tie, but nessary, rules of prison discipline
as not throwing bread crumbs, speaking,
laughing, etc.; "knack of keeping his
countenance"; ga year has made happy
change for us all, if we have only the sense
toimprove it,; "claptrap"; ''batch of South
American republics; 'tabstract right of
an empty meal bag to stand alone"; cor
poraTs guard"; 'hybrid fanatics and bar
barians"; "parade and fuster"; patent
right plan of becoming mounarchy our
selves" Here are 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;
''manaced and bullied"; universal wet
nurse of all the orphan republics"
Much space is devoted to an argument
against 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 hallucination that
all the parties of the Mexican im0roglio,
from the autocrat of the Tuilleries to
"Miramon and Juarez, with their motley,
anarchic principles and doings"-to use
his own language-are straining their
tympanums to catch the first echo of his
uttered wisdom on this topic. He raises
up man of straw in the form of a Mexi-
can annexation scheme, and then proceeds
to assail it with his most potent logic.
He propounces the Republics Of South
America and Mexico failures, and says it
would be. 'vain thing for us to attempt
to hold them up in this, their free right of
mutual slaughter and general ruin" The
Governor does not seem to have the fullest
confidence in the applicability of a republi-
can form of government to the masses of
mankind, for he says, and prints it in ital-
les, that ut IS the nature of oar institutions
and hdo'ts, that ITS worst classes must rule
as, greatly beyond the proportion of heri
'aUa0bers." If this be true of eour institu-
tions," the product of the best form of re-
pubhcanism, then is republicanism fail |
ure and monarchy a blessing. The adhe-
renee of our people to the republic