The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-12-09
The Presidents Message -0ptnaons Of
f1re Fsp.sAss

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President Grant makes It too evident that
the preparation of public doctlrnents is an
employment Mt which he ia not at home.
Ills manner Of writings feeble and iimninr.
and the substance and tissilc oiahis ideas
give an appearance Of repeating with inner.
feet apprehension views borrowed from
others rather than the digested results NJ
independent reflection. His long introdrc.
ton deta!ns attention without rewarfiinr
It., as the statistical statements and histori.
cal recital OF which it consists convey no In.
formation. There is nothing in this part or
Cne message which every member of Con.
gFeSs ard every reader of the document
does not Know rs well as the President
When we pass from the porch into thr
building, we find it an ill.arranced strtlc.
tire, made up for the most part Of mate
rails selected or abridged from the reports
OF the heads Of Departments, In point of
ability, this is the weakest message ever sent
to Congress by an American President.
From the New York Herald, December :.
To sum up on our financial affairs ft.
policy recommended In the message is poc,
and sound: on reconstruction II Is consist
ent with the policy of a uniform application
OF the laws; on our foreign relations it l.,
carefully conservative, perhaps little too
much SO on the Cuban question. Eut f. 0 |
hrst to last there is nothing in the messae !,
eXceptingthc tenure-ot-ofi?cc law calculated
TO disturb the harmony promised betwee,
the president and Congress, unless ther"
touching the division of the spoils, In -
word, 1t is good business message, and ii
dicates good administration and peace arl
prosperity to the country under Presider.
Grant, without panics and with steady r :
uuctlon OF the debt and quiet return
specie payments.
From the lew York Times, December 7.
The President has not attempted to ado: =
his message with any rhetorical artitice..
He gives a comprehensive and business-liE.
summary of the information which the
great body of citizens desire TO possess. IL
omltS nothing otiInportance and introduce !
nothing which is supeitluouS.
On every one of the subjects treated the
president speaks in the plain, simple,
straightforward manner which he has taught
us to look for in him.
From the New York Tribune, December
On the whole, while we may not full,
concur in it's every recommendation we re-
gard this as one Of the wiscst and most ju-
dlclouS messages ever transmitted to Cor
grcss, and confidently predict for it tt
hearty approval and concurrence Of til
American people.
From the Philadelphia Age, December
the message is not as short as was pro-
missed, nor is it as explicit as might be de-
sired. It falls too much into those gene
ralities and platitudes bv which; :. /
questions are a
From the Philadelphia Press (r'ornoyJ, Dec. 7.
The people of these United States who
are in accord witt, Republican principles
will read with pleasure, pride, and profit.
the message of President Grant, which will
be found elsewhere IN our columns. Those
who are not in such accord will find in it
much matter suggestive of thought, and
none to give offence. AS State paper it
ranks among the ablest Of productions.
There is none of that dog1natism that in
Andrew Johnson's papers insults Congress
and the people, nor is there any of that in
difference to established facts which threw
johnson so far back of the moving, thinking
present. 1t COMFORTS as nearly rs may be
with the popular idea Of message.
From the National Intelligencer and Express,
December I.
Nowhere does General Grants message
rise to the level of great State paper. For
the southern States he merely reiterates the
majority policy Of Congress, which is no.
thing more than Il policy of power enun-
ciated without mercy and applied without
scruple: and for our foreign relations he
has nothing more to enjOiu than weak
neutrality and harmless intimation OF
sympathy for struggling nationalties. Big
words for the weak respectful considera-
ton for the strong.