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to go bojondtbe (ireuuro oLnocossity In 1 1 The unusual exercise of power. Bui I Us i | poweri of Congress, 1 sUpposo, sro equal j r to the anomalous occasion, anil therefore I t refer the whole matter to Con great, with i the rhat a plan may bo' <1 t rued for!* t':-» aduiipmtration of justice in all inch < parts of inc insurgent State and Ttffiln- I rles m may .bo an -or the control of this f Government. whether by a voluntary re- i turn to allegiance and order, or by the pow- i rr of oar arms. This, however, is not to ! c be a per man not institution, but a temporary > substitute, and to-cease us toon at the urdi t nary courts can be ro-cslablithed in. pi-ace. < . It it iiaportanl^bwfc>irtue ini>rt Convenient I in era* sboeldjbc prncsm-d, ifypoMiblit, fur tho' adjustment Of «?.""* njjninsvjhe Gov- ■ ertmient. especially Vn "view or their in- 1 a creased number by i Vqo .1 kifTlsa if.-.r. " It • [ is ii inncb the daty oftiovcWWRit to reu- , der prompt jnslicr against itself in favor of j | " citiseat at it it to administur the same be- : , tweon private individuals. | , In reference to this Court of ^Claims, a | change is anggesUd, making its judgments 1 final, subject only to ou appeal to the Supreme Court. Brief reference is made to i the report of the I'ostmsUer General, from which it appears that that depurt . menl does not pay its own expenses, with- 1 out a draft on the Treasury, which however has always bWeu the case, and. is likely still 1 1 to be Tito President suggests that the re-ce-ding of that part of the District of Coluiu- . bia in Virginia to that state was unwise, and recoiumeods regaining it by aegolia- i lion. 1 The report of the Secretary of the In- • terinr is refered to, from which It appears , that the insurrection bar exerted a depressing influence, especially on the Patent anT[ Central Land Offices, while it will greatly ] tieoerat lmuu uuices, wune 11 win greatly

increase the demand on -the Pension office. And to this connexion it is suggested that there ara a large number of names an the pension rolls of person* naif in the rebel army, or In sympathy with the rebels, in I consequence of which the Secretary of the , luterior has directed a suspension of their )uty ; and it is recommended that Congress • uuthorizu their names to be stricke'u from tho rolls. In refer! ng to our relations with the In1 ' .dian tribe*, it is said that tbey , harm been , greatly disturbed, more especially in the \Soothern territories, which are iu a great ^measure iu the hands of the insurgents, and consequently >*ry little can be known j " about thorn, officially ; but from such infor- > -nation as hop been plitaiuej), the Pretidt-ut believes that most of the tribes bra still ' lays! at heart, and desire the protection of Federal troops, though some of them may ho couipelW, for t^e present, to assume the dfpeareajla of bpsHfltyl With reference to the subject of agricul- | ture, it is recommended that it receive "v"\ increased attention from' the tiuvernment, and ihe establishment df a distinct agricultural Upnifu is suggested. The subject of i the African slave trade f» inferred to n» j follows: Theexeentfoo of the liws for thn suppression t'f the African tlave trade hu« b«tm confide*) to the Department of the Interior It is a subject of gratnlation ' that ifte efforts which have been made for (he suppression of this inhuman traffic havo been recently attended with- unusual success. Fire vessels being fitted out for the Slave trade have been seised and condemned: Two mates of vessels engaged in the trade, and one person engaged in equipping a slaver, have been cortvictgd and subjected tfc tho penalty of One and imprisonment, and one captain taken' with a cargo of Afiicans on board his vessel, has been ceoviclH of the highest grade of [ offence under pur laws— the punishment of ' which is death . Deference. ii made to thn Territories or- ' ga cued recently, folio wed by reccommen dations iu reference to especial-ears in re- . gard to the interest of llw District of Col- ■ umbia. which has suffered so much from the - insurrection, and a passing notice in referench to n proper representation in the Fair ] of nations, to be bell) in London next year J Then follows aeveral items in reference to ; the rebellion, Ac , which we giro in fall, as follows : Under and by virtue -of the net of: Congress entitled an act to confiscate prop party heed for insurrectionary purposes, approved August C, 1861, the legal claims of j certain pdraons to the labor and aerlit-e of j jOertain other persons have become forfeit- j I «d. and number* of the latter thin liberated are already dependent on the- United' .States -vnd m*fi be provided fur M/ some way. llesiilN this, it U not impossible ■ • that aome of the States will pest similar | enactments fdr their own ben^t Vespv. lively, and by operation of which persons B of the same class wilHie thrown upon them for- disposal. la.ruoh case IrveonmiruJ I

that Congee*! provide .for. accepting such j X j person from such tiletes according to toine ! o I mode of. valuation in lieu pro Mat* of direct l'fi I or upon some other plan to ho agreed tl ' upon wifh such Skater respectively, thai j C 1 such persons, on such acceptance by the rr General Government, be at once deeinuil n' ! (roe. and that, in any event, steps b« taken ii colonising both classes (or life SjSaRfXt " Si i mentioned, if the other shall pot be brought ti iulo ex'slence), at some place or places in \ ! climate congenial to them. It-might lm f c ; well to consider, too, whether the free col- j nred people already in the United States j d •; could not, so faros individual* may desire, j'p j be included in *u«h colonization. | a . To carry ont the plan of colonization * may involve the acquiring of territory, and. . s also, tlie appropriation of money beyond i 1 that to bo uxpendud in the territorial ac- " 1 <jui%ition. Having practised the acquis!- 1 ' turn of territory for nearly sixty years, the , 1 i quostibn of tho constitutional power to do J 1 j is *uo longer an open oih- with us. The I power was questioned at first by Mr. Jeff, } 1 erson, who, howqrer. in the purchase of , c Lqilisiauu, yielded hi* scrapie! on ttu>-plua i ' 1 of great expediency. If it be «aid that * the only legitimate object df acquiring ter- i , rilory is to furnish home* "for white men, ' 1 this measure effects that object, for the 1 emigration of. colored men leaves addition- ' ! of room for white men remaining or coming 'here. Mr. Jeffdrson; however, placed tie importance of procuring Louiiiana more 1 ■ on political an«l commercial grouuds, than ' on providing room for (topnlation. , On this whole proposition, including the ' 1 appropriation of money with the acqnisi- ! ; lion of territory, doe* not tho expediency j amount to. absolute necessity, that, without ' ; which, the (Jorernment itself cannot be 1 T perpetuated ir the wur continue* T 1 In considering lha 'policy to bo adopted ' ; in coasinering ine poncy 10 uo auopieu

, for suppressing the insurrection, I havo " been anxious antrcareful.that the inevitable conflict f»r this purpose shall not degencr- c ate into a violent and remorseless revolu- '' j lionary struggle. I have, therefore. In eve- ' ! ry case, thought it proper to keep the in- " tegrity of the Union prominont as the pri- ' miry object of the contest on oar part, P tearing all question* which are not of vital ^ 1 military importance to tho more deliberate '' action of the Legislature. 1 In tho exerei-e of my best discretion, 1 u ■ have adhcared to the blockade «>f tho port* 1 held by tile insurgents, instead ,«>f putting 1 in force, by proclamation, the law of Con- 1 1 : gresV, enacted at the late session, for clot- h iog these porta. Bo, also, obeying t'e die- 1 ta es of prndencc, as woll a* thn obligations c I • of law, instead of. transcending, I have ad- 1 r- bered to the act of yongress, to cor.flscate * r . property used for insurrectionary purposes. ' , if a new law upon lite same subject whalj 1 I be proposed, its propriety will be duly con- ' sidered i - The Union -must be preserved, and hence ' , J all' indispensable means must be employed. ' , U'e should not be in baste to determine 1 f | that radical and estreme measures, which ' 1 j may reach the loyal as well as the disloyal, ' 1 afe indispensable. • j Thu inaugural address, at the beginning ' ^ 1 of thn Administration, and the messagn to . j I Congress, at the late speciat session, were t 1 j both mainly devoted to the domestic con- - ' troversy ont of which the insurrection and e i consequent war have sprnng. Nothing f 1 *more occurs to sfild or substraet, to or from ; the principles or general purposes stated ( . and expressed in that document. The lost I ray of-hnpe for preserring the Union peaceably expired at 'the assault upon Fort Bump- j J ter, and a general review of what Iras ocI rurrtd since may ru-l be nnprofilabU. | i What was painfully uncertain then is . much better defined and more distinct now ( f ' and the progress of i-venls is plainly in ^ f ! the right direction. The insurgents confl- ( ' dent I v claimed a, strong support from north - of .Mfcson and' Dixon's Line, aud tbo friends ^ ■ ; of tho Union were not free from" apprehen- ( - j sion on that point. This, howevsr.wwas ^ - ,| soon settled definitely, and On tha right • side. South of the line, noble little Dda- ■ i ware led off right from the flrst. Maryr land woa made to seem against the Unioq. r j Oor soldier* were assaulted, bridges were > j burned, and railrtmj* torn up within her s ! limits, and wa woye many days at one time j without the ability to bring a single rcgiif : menl over her soil to the capital. Now U»r bridges and railroads are repaired and open to the (tovernroent. Shu already >f ■ give* seven regiment* to the cans* -of the if . Union, and none to thn enemy, and her - |»ef pie. at a regular election, have sustain- • { ed.tlie Union by a larger majority, aud a 1 ' larger aggregate vote than lliey ever bee fore gave to any candidate, on any qnea- • I lion. Kentncky, loo, for some time in r doubt, is.oow decidedly, and I think on- • cbangnably, ranged on the siile' of the Un- • 1 ion Xl jis^hri is comparatively quiet, and n 1 1 believe cannot again be overran by the d | insurrectionist*. These- -three States of

Kentucky, Tod Missouri, udtbwr 1 l of which would proaAe a single soldier at o "first, hare 00 w an aggregate pr not lehs than forty tbonsaudnn tho field for th'e j ri while of their biliseos certainly not tl than a third of that numl>*r. and they a of doubtful whereabout* and doubtful vx- t are in arm* agxhwt it. After a t romswtisi tj'omty vtruyglte of months, win- , t close* on the ("ntim people of Western c Virginia, leaving then misters of their own j . country. .1 An insurgent force of about fifteen bun- r | for months dominating the narrfiw 'peninsular regtod of the counties of A ecu- 0 | and Norllminptos. and lynown as the t shore of Virginia, together win j , ! some contiguous parts of Maryland, bare j ; j laid dow/t their- arm«, and tbo people there | j have renewed their allegiance to and accop- ; 1 [ tetl the protection or tho old flag. This 1 i 00 armed .inswretlionisl? north of 1 1 the Potpmac or oast of tha Uhcsapeak". » j Also, we have obtained a fueling at each j | I of tbo isolated points on the Southern | ' coast "of llatleras, I'ort ltoyal, Tybee I*- , near Barannch, and Bbip Island, and we likewise hare some general accounts ct popular movements in behalf of the Union ' in North Gurolina and Tennessee. Those things demonstrate that tho causa of the Uuion is advancing steudly southward. ! Bincu your last adjoornmeni. Lieutenant liencrat Scott has retired from the head of lha army. During hi* long Mfe the nation not been unmindful of his insrit ; yet, cn calling to mind how faithfully, ably, and brilliantly ho ha* served the country from a time far back in our history, wheu few of the now living had been born, and thence forward cintinnally, I cannot but think wo are »lill his debtor*. F submit, therefore, for your consideration, what Wilier mark of* recognition is due to him mid \|| nr**

selves as a grateful people d With thn retiremenySff. Gonernl Scott ; c| the Executive of appointing in : stead a (Jenerenn-Chiof of tlie army. n, f* a fortnnata>^ircum*tonce that neither ^ in council or /nsnlry was there, so far.ns fi I kuow, any difference of opinion' a* to the w proper persou^lo be selected. The retiring t| chief repeatedly expressed his judgement ,] in favor of Dener.1l McUlellnn for the pu«i- i, tiou. and in this the nation seemed to give « a-unanimou« concurrence. Tho designs- 1 p tiou of General McUlellan is. therefore, a in a considerable degree, the selection of | 1, the country at well as of the Executive, f,ud a hence there is belter reason to hope thai | « there will be giren.him the confidence and • j cordial support, thus, by fair implication, ., promised, and without Which be cannot, t with so full afliciencr, servo, the country. [ 1 It has been said that iuio bad general i* „ better than two good ones, and the saying . „ is truo, if -taking to tnean*no iqore than 1 that oor army is better directed by a sin- u j*le mind, tbuugli inferior, than by two su- u perior ones at variance 'and cross purposes n with each otoer. And the same is true in | i all joint operations wherein those engaged c can have ucne buln common end in view, \ and can differ only as to the choice of f means. In a rtonn at sea no one can | wish 'the ship to. sink, nud yet not uu- j i frequently all go ddlrn together, because t many will direct ' and no single mind j t can bo allowed to control. . It continuos to developo that tho inenr- : t ruction is largoly, if not exclusively, a war ] 1 upon (be first principles of popular govern- 1 , ment— the rights of the people. Uoitclu- | 1 sive evidence of this is found in the most | grtveand maturely Considered public docu , meats, ns well a* in the general tone Of the 1 Insurgent*. Iu those document' we found , , the abridgement of thu existing right of 1 suffrage, audit e dentil lo tho people ol all 1 right to participate in the selection of pub • officers', except the legislative, boldly advocated, with labored arguments, to , prove that large control of the people in ! govesnment is the source of all -political | evil. Monaroby itself is sometimes hinted j at as a possible refuge from the power *of > (he-people. In my -present position, 1 conld scarcely ! , bo justified were I to omit raising a wara- | ing voice against this -approach of return- 1 ing despotism. It is not needed nor fitting here, thai a I general argument should be uude in favor j of popular institutions.' But there is one ; .■•oiht, with its connections, not so hackney.- 1 ed a* most others, to which I ask a brief attention : it ia the effort to place capital nn au equal footing with, ir not above, labor, ie the strecture of the Government. Ill* essnnied that labor is available only in connection with capital,— that nobody labors nnless somebody else, owning capital, somehow, by the use of it, induces liiut to labor. This assumed, it is next considered whether it is beet that capita! shall hire la- ' borers, aftd thus induce them to work by their own consent, or Imy them, and drive , ' jhem to it,' wiihoiit their consent. Having, r proccwded so Lr, it is- naturally:: concluded

lb at all laborer* ore either hired laborers r .,or what, we call slave* ; and farther, it is p Assumed that, whoever is onco a hired I ft bo- ' rer is fixed in that condition for life. Now. ^ is no such relation between capital ^ and labor as assumed, nor i* there any such thing u* a freeman being fixed for life in •' the condition of a hired ISSorer. Both v those aas&mfttiont are false, and nll^iTeren- c res from them are |troundle«s. Labor is 1 1 prior lo, and independent of capital, f'ap ' S»al i* only the frail of labor, and eoold . : never have existed if labor had not first eX- 1 , listed. Labor is the superior of Capital. | ogd desorrrs maeli tbo higher considers- ^ 1 tiorr. Capital hen it* right*, which ars 1 u j worthy of protection as any other right*.— ^ jtor is it denied that there i< and probably always will 1*. a relation between labor and 1 i capital, producing mutual benefits. The j error is in essoining that tho whole-labor of , j the community exist* within that relation. , a few men own capital, and that few avoid j ! themselves." and with their capital | 1 hire or buy another few to lab.»r for them. ! A largo majority belong to neither clq*', ' neither work for others nor . have other* . , workina for thetir. In most or the Boothern 'Stales ft mnjhrity of thu whole people , ol all colors are neither slaves nor naster1-. while in the Northern a Ittrgresnojority are , j aeilher hirers nor hired. Men wilh their ; j families, wives, sons and daughter*, work ' I for themselves on their farms, in their hou- ! Mi*, and in their shop*, taking the whole j product to jhenrtelve*. and asking no fa. vor* of ca -ita! on the one hand, nor of hire I laborer* or slaves on the other. It r is not forgotten that a considerable number | ' of persons mingle their own labor with their ' I capital— that 1*. they labor with Ibeir own ! hand*, and also boy or hire others to labor for them ; hut this i« only a mixed and pot , • a distinct class. No principle staled 1- . . 11., I I I... ,1... it nf lha lllivi'll

disturbed the existcucu Again, a* ha* already been said, ^here is . e not of necessity any »uch thing as the free j « laired hrtsorer being tlxed lo that condition 0 life. Many independent men, every c where in these Stales, a few years hack in j, lives, were hired laborer*. Tho pro- , penniless beginner-* in tho world 1»- ^ bors for wage* awhile, «aw«a^L»urplu* with ^ which to Imy, tools or land for himself, then on his own account another while, . and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just anfl-gener- |~ ons and prosperou* *y*TT-w which opens th, (| way to all, and— consequently energy and* n progrese and improvement of condition to | nil. No men living'arvynoro worthy to bo J trusted thjin those who toil up Iront pover- 1 | ty; none lose inclined lo lake or touch ® aught which lliey have pot honestly earn- * |od. Let I hem beware of surrendering a | 1 political pow-r whiqh they already possess, und which, if eurreiidowd. will surely he ' 1 ' useil to close tlie door nf advancement j { ! against such a* they, und to fix new ilisahil- ^ I and hardens upon them till ail of libj crty shall be lost. I From the first taking of our nutio' al i census to the last is seventy years, and wef ' j find our populut on at the end of the per j 1 iod eight limes a* great at it was al the < 1 beginning. The increase of those other j j I thing* which men deem desirable lias been I , j greater. >Ve thus have at one view whalj { j the popular principle applied to gov.ftnj ment through the machinery of the StJte* I and the Union has produced in a given j time, and also .what, if firmly. maintained, it I promises for tho future. There ore- already j among us thoso who. if the Union bo pre- : served, will live to see it contain two bunI dred und fifty millions. Tho struggle of ! to day is not altogether for two day. ik i* Jor a vast future also. With* a reliance en i /'rovidence all the more firm and earnest, I lot ns proceed iu thu great task which j event* have tlfvolved upon u*.- | —

CAP£ MAY OCEAN WAV£ C A PE ISLAND N.J. J. 8. IiFACB, * Editor, Publisher sad PreprlrJor. osk dobbak i'bh annum! Thursiiv. Doc 12, 18K1-

THE PEERIDENT'S MESSAGE. ! Comtntfncing .011 our first • page, and ending on ibis, will bo found tho most important nud interesting portions ol tho first animal Message .of President ; Lincoln, in full, with brief note* of tlie miuor points. After carefully reeding ' the message two or three times, we can ' find nothing in it, of which any reason- 1 i able mind ought lo find fault yet there , are t few, who aro never satisfied with j anything, which does not emanate from | {heir own egotistic brain, who will find | fuult with iv Uiit these form a class, or 1 d

ratli&r t*o classes^ not wurlk minding. tire the extremist! of "both sides. «e one class Mre lhc*.>soujhern sympathizers, or secret rebels . in tho loyay states, who are disappoiuled that the message is to conservative ; or. in other words, because they find wo little in it to complain of, and consequently ore hound ffnd fault hnVltOW, rensun or no reason. right' over against thuin^nre the* altrnist* of the opppositfl character, who u ifl find fault because there is no : ultraisin and vindictiveness. But as we . afe stUisDod to l>elong lo the greater class, the coaserva{ives, we have no ^faull to. Dud. The message is brief, being a plain, simple, mattcr-uf-fact statement of tho affairs of the country, with but very little effort nt argument on the exciting topic' of tfep day, reeining to take it for grnuted that very little argument, except gunpowder and the sword, ie demanded. At o-lirae like this, it would bo no' • . wouder if such n paper had savored' 1 somewhat of' vindictiveness; but wo . cnu scarcely imagine a document more ' j free from It. Indeed we seldom rend " 1 one mort^mild caliu and dispassionate. ' By some, it was supposed that themessage would recommend mriugenl measures iu regard to tho "slave property" l of rebels, fulling into the hands of our 1 ! army ; not only lo free them, but to r ! arm them against their rebel masters. r But, instead of thjs, it counsels vnodera- ' , lion in adop.ing iuensurcs which might • ' . affect the loyal, ns well ns the rebel por- ' ;idn of the South. As to tho right, in " n war point of view, to make use of n war point 01 iu», iw u»

their slave property, us well as any othhind of property, in any way that wo^Jd appear to slrcngiltrn the Union or weaken the rebel cause, wu cannot see that there can be npy doubt, any snue mind ; but as lo expediency, there may be some doubt ; and we prethe I'resideiit prefered to leave Uiut Mutter lo the wisdom of Congress, which, no doubt, will net advisedly. cub capeH'ay boys. 1 |~ We are always glad lo b«nr of the movements of our New Jersey troops, j und especially the Seventh Regiment, . ' nud more especially Company A of that ! regiment, us it is made up of so largo ' proportion of "Cape May boys," with whom we have been so "intimately acquainted- | Uy a private letter from Serg't Geo.'I W.' Smith to bis family residing next" ■ door to our office, wu have some interesting particulars. Four of the N: J. regiment* were stationed on Meridian ■llill, uear Washington. These were I I the 5tb, Cth, 7tli and 8th: On Satur- ' day, Nov. 3blli, thc Ctli and 8th went j down the l'olomuc, and the 7Ut, (and, I we arc not mistaken, tho 5lh with j them) struck their tents on Monday I morning, Dec. 2d, went on board' the' steamer City of Richmond, and started ' down the river tlie next morning, arriving opposite Uie.rcbel batteries nt Mktawomnn's Creek, nt 8 o'clock the same evening, where they had n line* time in' landing iu lenky scows Ac., in which' many of iheiu got n good welting ; and' . . tho weather being cold, their clotheswere frozen stiff on them. Now all this might do very well, hrith n good home, blazing fire nnd n soft bed to goto, but when we aro informed that they could not even get their tenia ashore ^ tliat night, bnt were eompellod to deepon the frozen ground, with only their blankets and frozrf garments to cover' 1 them, it makes us almost shake wilh an' "nger," ns we sit in our snuctum, by tt> , warm fire, while writing this. But such arc the hardships of camp life, lowhich our brave volunteers nro very frequently exposed Who envies them ? I or who grudges them any little nssistnnce t we enn render ? Our only wonder Is,- y I that any o^tbem livo through such hardships. On Thursday they were again ordered- ' to march, nnd that evcuing they were encamped opposite Acquis Creek, - 1 I where the rebel* have tons of their fa- " mous batteries, which nro in full view.of e our troopa ; nnd Mr. Smith says they ^ J i nra a huge looking affair, extending, he 1 ' should think, some five mile*, nod man- ♦ r i jied it is supposed, wilh a large force, - L_ —