The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16
WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, DEC 49, 1874


Taking the message altogether, it
will not be found mischievous. The
sins OF the document are those OF sug-
gestion. The President has been al
most rs careful about committing him
self to anything definite, as if he were
a member in good standing of the
Democratic party, and his name was
Bill Allen.-Cincinnati Commercial.
The country owes a debt of graft
tude to President Grant and Secreta-
ry Bristow for their earnest efforts to
lead it back to specie resumption. By
what method that end should be
reached is ques ton of secondary i'm.
portance. The first necessity is to
bring the country and Congress to de-
termlne that by some method the end
shall be reached as speedily as possi-
BILE. Firmly adhering to this posi-
tion, which, since his veto message of
last spring, had been abundantly vim
dicated by events, and especially by
the complete failure of legislation
looking toward expansion as means
of relief, the President suggests a
method by which specie resumption
can he attained, and the Secretary of
the Treasury sets forth the same plan
somewhat more in detail.-St. Louis
Democrat
The message is notable for what it
does not recommend, as we'll as for
what it does. 1t does not recommend
the undertaking of the trans CONT
mental canals, as the suppositious
organ at the capital led most people to
expect, but it leaves these earth dis
emboweling schemes to the Congress
sional Transportation Committee. To
them and to Congress is left the ques-
ton whether the Union shall be bound
together by water bands He does
not recommend additional legislation
to enforce the civil and social rights
OF the freedmen, as in two former
messages. He seems inclined to leave
this to the logic of events. The
phrase is our own, and we know not
what it means, but it sounds well.-
Cincinnati Gazette.
We do not expect to find in the
messages of President Grant any of
the polished rhetoric in which some
of the early occupants of the execu-
tive chair were fond of indulging. or
any of the compact logic for which
, Mr.. Lincoln's state papers were re-
:, markable, And yet the future his
torian, looking to these annual COM
munications as sources Of information
, ; upon the condition of the country al
!, the time of their issue, will find few
, that are more valuable to him than
those which bear the signature Of U
O S. Grant. General Grants idea of 8
Presidential Message is that it should
be summary of national affairs az
o they are presented in the workings Of
). the different executive departments
= He indulges in very little theorizins
or abstract reasoning; when he has /;
q recommendation to make he puts it il
n blunt and understandable English
V and, having stated his views ON th'
. subject plainly and concisely, he leaves
q its extended consideration to Congress
: and the country. In our judgment, |
o much better state paper can be mod
i eled on this plan than upon the forme
one of converting the annual messag
, into finely written essay on govern
,, ment and political economy.-St
Louis Globe.
u The full text OF the message, whicl
e is printed elsewhere, does not remov
= the objections founded upon tn
y synopsis which appeared in yesterday
- Times. The President fails to indi
IL cate policy that will inspire the con
1T fidence of the country. On the con
Is trary, he leaves to Congress to devils
L some means that will relieve the pre-
lie valent business depression and restor
le the prosperity which financial improv
y idence and political mismanagemer
have brought about. There shoul
W be no delay in returning to speci
III payment, exclaims the Prcsiden
IN Then why not indicate way in whic
i'd it is to be done, without throwing tn
IN responsibility upon Congress inimi
- cal to the proposition. A definit
'u recommendation could have done Il
ee harm. Such. for instance, as the +.
n tirement of the S26,O0O,OOO of leg;
IN tender notes which the Treasury pr
out during the panic and a law ft
ed the cautious funding of an addition;
s. quantity of greenbacks in five p,
We cent bonds, with a change in IL
ou banking law, making bank issues FRI
- on pledge of government securitie
ld three per cent of the interest on I'll
Ill bonds to be retained while they al
SO held in pledge.-St. Louis Times