Year: 1861

Probably no Message Of any Of the formc,
with more intense anxiety than this of Mr.. Lin.
coin Since the organization of tie goyernme
no such crisis has existed, and the people had
become almost painfully anxious to hear the
policy Of the Administration proclaimed by the
voice of the chosen Executive Of their will. That
utteranco we to day lay before our readers.


1t sets out with a brief history Of the policy OF
the Administration ut the first relating to Forts
Sumter and Pickens, showing conyincingly that
the rebels were without excusein their madattack
upon Fort that the neglect OF a previous Ad-
ministration had reduced to the utmost cxtrem-
ity; and sets at rest the idea that the evacua-
tion of that Fort was ever seriously entertained,
The question presented to the Government by
the Rebels, in the violent reduction Of Sumter.
is stated with admirable precision. After tx
pressing qualification at the patriotic response
Of the people to the call of the Government for
troops, the treason of Virginia is stated, with
out extenuation or aggravation The danger
GUS doctrine of border neutrality is most COM
pletely exposed, and it's natural and inevitable
consequences clearly pointed out in a single par,
agraph.


The suspension of the writ of habeas corr
pus is alluded to and justified as a military
necessity, and the gratifying fact is stated
that Foreign Powers generally sympo thize with
the Government Congress is desired to furnish
the 4" legal means for making the contcsta short
and decisive one" For this purpose 400, eco
men and $500 coo, 600, at least, are asked for.
Secession and State RIG hits are shown by a mas
tery argument to be completely at var with
every principle Of q safe OF stable Government
and the evils to flow from them as constitution
al remedies fer grievances are set forth In an
unanswerable statement. The President COM
pliments tie common soldiers and sailors who
have to a man remained faithful to the Flag,
while so many officers of the Army and Navy
have proved traitors, and draws from the fact
the comforting assurance that the instincts OF
the plain people are patriotic.


To set at rest the uneasness that any minds
may have respecting the future course OF the
Administration towards the Rebels, the an
nouncement is made that the Constitution and
the Laws will then as now furnish the rule of
action for the Executive. Any purpose OF com
promising away any of the principles which
nrevailed in the last election, is not only repu
dated, but declared to be fatal to the very ex-
istence of popular Government; the question
of departing from those principles, resting wlth
the People and not with the Government. The
MESSAGE concludes with an exhortation in which
every patriot will Join the President.


As a whole the Message is marvel tor Its
clear, unadorned, simple statement. Il might
have easily been made longer, but oocld not
well have been abbreviated. 1t carries Us back
TO the days when we had plain Republican pres
idents who contentcd themselves with setting
forth IN the simplest and most perspicuous Ian
cuage, the Executive suggestions. 1t is as we
expected complete vindcation OF the course OF
the Government, and has in it not one breath OF
concession or compromise. We thank God that
in these revolutionary times we have man at
tbe head of the Government whose blood has
NAT tho least faint of cowardice, compromise or
roor ..Jet us renew our trust an God, and go
fo,.,,o,d ,g;fhout fear and ,vith manly hearts,