The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1874-12-16
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE,

IL,
Since our last issue the Annual MESSAGE
II the President of the United States il
before us. Whether the results Of the
November elections which wss q rebuke
to the administration policy be accepted
asa sorgone declaration against any line
Of policy that might be proclaimed con-
trsry to the popular expression, or be-
cause Il isinherently weak state paper,
but little interest has been excited by its
pFomulgation. The fact IL people are
tired Of messages and documents. We
receive annually messages from the Presi.
dent and messages ffom the Governor and
i.ttsriy we arc getting repeated messages
from the spirit land and all are equally
1eliable and orscular or we might have;
raid, fat and unproftable." Bodies to
whom they are addressed seldom regard
suggestions and executive messages ars
devoid Of significance when merely in
defence Of previous attitude or apollo
;:y for fundamental errors. II was not
I" be expected that the obstinacy Of Presi-
sient Grant would recant. any Of his error.
"r retire him from any position he ossht
never to have assumed, aud hence we And
him a. persistent in maintaining them
n II defeat had not well nigh swept
away his party. He has learned nothing
from the elections and If NO relief from
his rough policy towards the South |.
insisted unc. By CoasFsss the PROSTATE
atates will have nothing to hope for but
the most partisan and dangerous e1cssses
committed under the sanction Of Landau.
let williams. Recommendation OH return
70 specie by legislative enactment, we do
not regard 40 feasible a. tho President
asems to declare and the grand politico
economical questions involved in either
the contraction or expansion of an almost
irredeemable paper currency are far from
being satisfactorily dealt with. The hn.
ancial distreas and the prostration of
Industries are to be found in bad and
ignorantlegislation and not simply in the
spirit of speculative extravagance and
national overtrading. The people NAV
be culpable for the latter but Congress
and the President are directly responsi.
ble for the first. The fuctuating value of
redundant currency CON never be more
fixed and stable without prosperous and
permanent revival of business and NO re
viyai can occur ,,n<;I . ,no.~.k.. ,.,
policy enters az an element Of confidence in
the permanency Of our body polite.
We have been regarding our financial
distress as panic, but it has proved to
be crash. We have been looking for
revulsion, and collapse threatens. The
President has proved incompetent to treat
the issues, let Congress approach the cri-
sls and deal vigorously with tho respon.
abilities thrown upon them.
If the country was In a condition tn be
aggressive wo should regard the paraprapb
IN the Ei.sident's message devoted n
Cuba as almost threat to the Spanish
Government in saying that an indefinite
continuance oftbis state of things "ma,
make some positive steps on the part OF
other powers . matter of self necessity. y
There was time when such euergetically
expressed language might lead to deplo.
matte controversy, but 80 contemplate
must We be in the eyes even ofthe Spanish
Government that the Cabinet of Marshal
serrano will probably not consider 1,
necessary officially, to read the banterina
phrases, certainly not to take umbrage
lest they are uttered in earnest.