The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-06

lie confidence he has chosen to decline.
To those who wish him, well, and who
still desire to believe in his sincerity, II
will be a source of regret.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch, Rad.I
While it is by no means as good a
document as it might have been, we can
truly say the recent message IS much
better than we had expected. Whilst
we find in it reiteration of the views
he has heretofore expressed upon the
subject of reconstruction, and none OF
the 1olive-branchD which some prophe-
cied, it lis clothed in more temperate
language than has recently character
lied the utterances of its author.
From the Pittsburg Post, Dem.
The message of President Johnson to
the present Jacobin Congress, is, like all
of his productions, plain, sensible and
practical; and is so brief that 1T will
insure its general perusal. 1t is moder-
ate in tone, giving no evidence OF de-
sire for disagreement with Congress
but still its chief point is decided ar
gument in favor of the admission to
Congress of loyal representatives from
the Southern States.
From the Pittsburg Commercial, Rad.l
The Presidents Message to Congress
is about what we expected it to be, both
in the subjects that it embraces and in
the tone that pervades 1T. Restricted
by the necessities of the case, 1T ex-
hibits little that is either new or start
ling in our National affairs, our condi-
tion happily not affording occasion or
material.
The returns of the October and No
vember elections do not seem to have
reached him, and he is oblivious to the
fact that the appeal he made to the peo-
pie against Congress has been decided
against him-unless, indeed, the sub
dued tone of the President is to be
taken as showing that he fully cOmpre-
hends all this.
From the Baltimore Sun, Dem.l
The Presidents message is q temper
ate and conservative document in every
respect, treating of the political situa-
tion in calm and consistent manner,
and rejecting perspicuously and sue
cinctly the condition Of our domestic
and foreign affairs.
Singularly temperate and respectful
in the expression of his opinions and
forcible in the arguments and illustra-
tions with which he supports them, the
President leaves Congress no excuse for
factious hostility. He is content to dis
charge his duty, to lay before them as
the Constitution requires his opinions
of policy and right, and to leave with
them the responsibility which belongs
to them.
From the Baltimore Gazette, Dem.
The message of President Johnson
will disappoint alike those who ex-
pected it to be written in strong Ian
guage and defiant tone, and those who
believed that the result of the recent
elections would induce him to make
concessions to the dominant party. The
prevailing tone of the message is calm,
but firm; presenting but few salient
points and discussing none of the issues
in dispute except those of the relations
of the Southern States to the Union,
and of their rights, as coequal members
of the Union, to representation in Con-
gress.
[From the Cincinnati Commercial, Rad
1t is, perhaps, sufficientto say that the
message indicates no change in the
Presidents views on the subject of re-
construction.
There are some assertions in the open.
ing passages of the message, touching
the placable 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 he sustained by
testimony. As whole the message is 4
fair State paper, clear, compact, and
elegantly phrased. In the last particu'
lar it differs as widely from the Presi.
dents speeches, as the finished periods
of Webster from the mouthings of q
ranting stump orator.
From the Cincinnati Gazette Rad
Johnson shows his obfuscation by
talking of the rebel States as being in
and not out of the Union, rs if this de-
cided the question whether any terms
of restoration could be imposed. But il
he means that because the rebel popu-
lation and States are in the Union they
are liable to no penalties for rebellion
except through the civil jurisdiction, he
makes all his recOnStructions of the
State governments illegal, and cOnvicts
himself of the grossest usurpatiOn. II
the war subjected the rebels to any
terms. it subjected them to such as the
J-,;taJ Sto+aS cball coo fit tO imnogn for
the purpose of disabling rebellion and
placing the Government in loyal hands.