His mind, taxed beyond
its power, is running hither and thither, like some tortured creature on
a burning surface, finding no position on which it can settle down and be
at ease.
Again, it is a singular omission in this message that it nowhere
intimates when the President expects the war to terminate. At its
beginning, General Scott was by this same President driven into disfavor
if not disgrace, for intimating that peace could not be conquered in less
than three or four months. But now, at the end of about twenty months,
during which time our arms have given us the most splendid successes,
every department and every part, land and water, officers and privates,
regulars and volunteers, doing all that men could do, and hundreds of
things which it had ever before been thought men could not do--after all
this, this same President gives a long message, without showing us that
as to the end he himself has even an imaginary conception. As I have
before said, he knows not where he is. He is a bewildered, confounded,
and miserably perplexed man. God grant he may be able to show there is
not something about his conscience more painful than his mental
perplexity.
The following is a copy of the so-called "treaty" referred to in
the speech:
"Articles of Agreement entered into between his Excellency
David G.
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