East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1859-12-22
NUMBER 81.

: the houses of influential citizens, and
= hurrying them from their beds TO ih
4 stronghold previously occupied, and there
t holding them as hostages, IL am not
G sure, sir, that an equal panic would not
be created till the extent Of the dauecr
c was measured. Besides, sir, if the panic
: had been much more extensive than il
was, the panics Of great and brave com
, munities are no trihes Burke said he
/ could not frame an Indictment against
whole people; it seems to me equally in
} bad taste at least to try 10 point sneer
, at State like Virginia. [AppIaase L
: The French are reputed gallant and
warlike people; but the letters from the b.
late seat of war tell us that even after 81
the great victory at Solferino, handful
of Austrians, straggling into village,
put corps of the French army = thou
sands strong-to fight. A hundred and
fifty men overturned the French mon
archy, on the occasion TO which | have
already alluded, in 1913. When tho
circumstances Of the case are taken into
consideration, / suspect il win be agreed
that any other community in the country,
similarly situated, would have been affect
ed in the same way. A conflict of such
an unprecedented character, in which
twelve or fourteen persons on the two
sides are shot down III the course of
few hours, appears 10 me an event at
which levity ought to stand rebukcd. and
solemn chill to fall upon every right
thinking man. 1i .. 01tr
! | fear, sir, from the tone Of some of
the public journals, that we have not
! IN =
ty of desperate misguided men, under
resolved and fearless leader had been "
organized in Virginia TO come and estab-
lisd themselves by stealth in Springfield,
IN this State, intending there, after pos
sessing themselves at the uncuaraed
hour OF midnight of the national arn,o-
rv, to take advantage of some local cause
of disafection, say the feud between
Protestants and Catholics (which led to
very deplorable Occurrences in this vi.
clnity few years ago) to stir up
social revolution; that pixies and rifles TO
arm twenty-five hlmdred men had been
procured by funds raised by extensive s
subscriptions throughout the South that,
at the dead honr of a Sunday night, thsiib
work of destruction had begun by shoot.a
ing down an unarmed man vino hadirc- M
fused to join the invading force; that b.
citizens OF the first standing were seized
and imprisoned - three or four others 81
killed. and when, ON the entire failure of =.
the conspiracy, its leaders had been triei,e
ably defended by counsel from his own u
part OF the country, convicted aud exc
cuted, that throughout Virginia, which %
sent him forth on his fatal errand. and
ne Ill
be tolled, meetings of sympathy held, rs 90
at the death of some great benefactor, 40
and the person that had plotted to put a a
pike or rifle in the hands of twenty,
live hundred men, to be used against
their fellows, inhabitants of the sanlcrr
town, inmates of the same houses, with M
an Interior intention aud purpose sofod
wrapping the whole. community iin-a
civil war of the dcadliest aud bioedliest
type, in which mans foes should be-.
those OF his own household - suppose, l.
say, that the person who planned and m
plotted this, and with his own hand, or
that of his associates acting by his com-a.y
mand, had taken the lives Of several fell N
low-beings, should be extolied, canonize6,
placed on level with the great heroes Of 3
humanity-nay assiniisted to the Sayierw
OF mankind and oil this not the efgect,of /,
solitary individual impulse, but theripe
frult Of systematic agitation pursued la =
the South, unrebuked for yeals,--what,
sir, should we feel, think, say under SUCH,
n state of things? Should we weigh er.
cry phrase of indignant remonstranoe \.
with critical accuracy, and divide our.
murmurs with nice discrimination among
those whom we might believe, however,
unjustly, to be directly or indirectly con-,g
cerned in the murderous aggression?--r,
L"No," "No." and applause.] s,taf-,v--
Alr Chairman, those who look upon
the existing excitement at the South as
or extrayagant, have, / fear,
formed very inadequate idea of the ma
ture OF such an attempt as that which.
was made at Harper's Ferry was intended
TO be, and would have been haiit proved.
successful. 1t is to want of reflection
on this point that We must ascrihc the
fact that any civilized man in his right
mind, and, still more, any nan Of intcll-
gence and moral discernment in other re-.
spects, can be found to approve and sym.
pathize with IL. l ain sure If sneh per-
sons will bring home TO their minds, in
any distinct conception, the real nature
of the undertaking, they would be them
selves amazed that they had ever givenit
their sympathy. Itsppcars from his oga.
statements aud those of his deiu,led ASSOC
ciates, of his biographer, Of his wrctched
wife, that the unhappy man who has Just
paid the forfeit of his life bad for yeam
ineditated general insurrection in tho
southern States; that he thought the
time had now come to effect it; that tho
slaves were ready to, rise and the non.
whites to join them, aud
both united were ready to form. q new.
Commonwealth, Of which the constitu.1
ton was organized and the officers chosen.
With this wild and thoroughly maturcd.
plan, he provides weapons for those on,
whose rising he calculated at Harper's
Ferry he seizes the nati,nal arsenal
where there was a supply of arms fora
hundred Thousand men; and he intended,