Year: 1863

spent some time with the Chic Magistrate
in free conversation upon the condition Of
the country. The Presidents personal
appearance has been so often and so min.
utely described that we do not deem it
necessary for Us here to enter into any
details concerning him. We will simply
state that the description generally given
corcerning him is correct. He was, when
we saw him, neatly dressed in plain suit
of black, which fitted him as we'll as
suit Of clothes could be made to tit man
who, when be Strengthened up, looked to
be about seven feet high, with arms and
legs hung on long and lank body, as if
rather by accident than design. The i'm
preston made on US by personal observa-
ton is, that he is q good natured, kind.
hearted sort of mana jovial good
natured, and jolly fellow in private life
and one who would rather do a neighbor
service than harm him in any way No one,
however, can long be in his presence with.
out coming to the conclusion that he is a
man who has no will Of his own, sufficient
to carry him through any difficulty. He
is sprightly in conversation and tull Of an
ecdotes. This latter propensity of the
President predominates over all his other
qualities, and while it makes an agreeable
companion in private life, renders Pres
ident Of the United States ESPECIALLY in
times like these, when the nation is OF. the
brink Of ruin, and when sorrow and lamen.
tatlon are heard all over the land) su-
premeiy ridiculous, if not contemplate.
The President appeared to US to have
abandoned all ideas of managing public
affairs, according to any views of his own
and to let the radicals have their own way
entirely N the conduct of the war. The
rebellion has grown to such dimensions,
that the President seems to be utterly
confounded and bewildered. He weakly
consented to issue his two last emancipa-
ton proclamatious against his own judg-
ment under pressure from the radcals-
The result is most disastrous to the Union
cause. And having committed himself
and party to the policy of the radical
aboli,ionists of making the war against
slavery as a means OF reducing the rpLel.
iious masters, be is now forced to continue
in the prosecution of their mad scheme.
He has not the moral force to throw off





aud to change his course, Notwithstanding
the apparent ruin which must follow its
continuance


We said to him that the Democracy of
the Free States had with great unanimity
supported him while he maintained the
doctrines promulgated in his Inaugural
and first message to Congress, as we'll as
those objects for which the war was pros
ecuted, AS stated in the Crit,enden resou.
tons but as he had changed his policy
it was natural that the Democrats should
now oppose him. They had not changed
their opinions, but were more and more
convinced that the Union could not be re.
stored except by iguorng altogether the
question Of slavery in the States in revolt
Whereupon the President replied as fol.
lows: " That reminds me of two old far
mers, down in Illinois, who fell out about
the ownership of q pig. One took the
pig by the ears and tried to pull it one
way, while the other, by the tail, tried to
pull it in the opposite direction. The re-
suit was the pig only stood still and
squealed." This anecdote was intended
to illustrate the conduct of the Democrats
and Republicans on the the war policy;
but we think it rebounded and hit himself,
as it made him the squealpg pig.


The rant Of a miN and moral force Of
character are the chief defects in the Pres
idents nature. This, coupled with his in
experience as a statesman, subjects him
to be controlled and overreached by the
crafty radical abolitionists who surround
him and make him very dangerous man
to have in the Presidential Chair at this
time. Dangerous not to the reoelionists,
but to the liberties of the loyal citizens
of the United States. who form love for
their country and its Constitution. deem
it to be their highest duty to oppose the
radical abolition measures of managers
who control the weak willed though natu.
rally kind hearted Abraham Lincoln
Keokuk Constitution.