Year: 1862

United States now assembled al the fortified


capital Of the nation. His friends presume that


he wrote II, because it has nothing in II that


indicates the least spark Of statesmanship Ii


Is a singular message upon plural topics and


entirely does away With the idea that We


have the spirit Of jackson at the White


House" The leading Journal Of the Admins


tration in this State. at the capital. says viz


tnaIly. that Abraham IS an honest. good. clever


fellow, bat that he cannot write 4 message


that his friends expected much from him and


got nothing. especially upon the grand topic


that now arrests the attention of the entire


civilized world, aud directs all eyes to the


great drama now being enacted upon the thea


tire of American soil We say TO it,-Blessed


are they who expected nothing, for they are


not disappointed.


This message shows that the craftsmanship
claimed for the President by bis political
friends and admirers. Is played out" to use
common expression; that the head of nation


who could not withstand the fanatica partizan
pressure brought to bear upon true national
policy, is not the fit representative bead Of
such nation as ours.


We believe that the telegraph informed Us,


that on the day of the New York, New Jer-
sey and Illinois elections, the President closeted
himself and would see no one, as he was pre-
pairing his message. He could not have writ
ten farther down in his message than the sub
ject of Foreign Relations" before be began
to learn the disastrous result TO his adminstra-
tive policy as proclaimed by the people in
those elections, and, more especially, by those
around his old home in the State of Illinois,
1t seems, after that, he wrote without spirit
without hope, and ignored those topics most to
be looked for in Presidential message; and.
even in the topic OF Foreign Relations, he
seemed to have become reckless of his state
ments, when he says, our relations with
Great Britain, France, Spain aud other Euro
pean States remain undisturbed" How is it
with France and ourselves? Has she thousands
of troops in territory adjoining our own .
Where is the Monroe Doctrine and the spirit
of the people to enforce it? Are not our rela
tions and feelings in no wise disturbed by the
warike attitude of Napoleon on this threshold
of our empire? And how is it with Great
Britain and ourselves? Has she preserved to-
ward US the neutrality she promised and pro-
claimed Has she not winked at her people
in fitting out piratical craft and sending them
upon the high seas to plunder, burn and check
the commerce of the world Has she not in
more than one of her Provinces, openly per-
mtted insults to our honored flag Are not
our relations with her disturbed aye, more
than RULED Does not the national American
heart breathe an amen to the charge of per
fdiouS Albion p How, then, can it be said
with sincerity that our relations with her are
urdisturbed Is it because it is said so on
paper? We imagine not


We think that the President, after the late
elections. saw the error into which be had fall
en- by his proclamations but he became mo-
rose and stubborn upon the subject of the last
one in particular, but, to smooth it over, he
proposes amendments to the Constitution
which, under his lengthy arguments in support
thereof, are clearly. grossly inconsistent with
his proclamation, because if these amendments
are 10 be adopted by Congress and three-lourths
of all the States, and thus restore the Union,
how is his proclamation to take effect on the
lst OF January next, when he knows it will
take much longer time than that to get the
vote Of adoption, and how IS he to get the vote
of three fourthS Of the States, when be knows
that nearly half Of them are in rebellion This
offer Of amendments looks to rs very much Ike
concession and compromise but We presume
that he and his high pressure followers will
compromise the present difficulty if the great
leading feature Of his and their party-uamely
abolition or enancipatiou-can in any manner
be carried out.


He refers to one matter worthy of note
about our war finances, that Republican pa
pers try to figure down very low. The expen-
diture for our army and navy up to the lst Of
July, for the preceding year, was S427O42,
997 OF, which is owe. one million one hundred
and eighty six thousand dollars per day, and,
as over 100000 men have been sent into the
field since that time. and more ships built and
sent away, Of coarse it viii increase that per
diem very greatly, 50 that the Presidents view
of economy in the emancipation part of his ef
fort at message must be looked upon as an
appeal to the people to buy the negroes and
set them free, as the cheapest mode OF ending
the war, and at a mach less cost than the