East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-12-06

eul, Win bcnkimedto OF respect, trul
yours, JAS, y. BRlSBIN.
Please ansper.
RIcHMoSp, Va, Nov. I6. 1860.
SIR-Yesterday morning I receives
your extraordinary letter Of the 18th ins,
L sn really at q loss to understand wha
good end you expected to accomplish b,
the preparation and transmission of il I,
me.
The country is deeply excited. Sec
tional feelingreigns supreme. The Uniol
is reriously threatened with disruption
Patriouts and conservative men of al
parties, East, West, North, and South.
are looking to the future with fearful and
alarming apprehensions. The prudent
considerate, rejecting minds of the na.
tion are engaged in laudable and noble
efforts to allay the excitement, restore
confidence and kind feeling, remove eli
irritating causes Of difference, and, il
possible, save the Union from dissolution.
1t is at this time, and under such circum.
stances, that you send me letter denun
ciatory of the motives and conduct of 4
portion of the southern people, and which
in its tone and spirit, is well calculat ed
Il hope it was not so intended) to add
fuel to fame that is burning with
sufficient intensity now.
In your haste to assail your southern
fellow citizens you seem to have forgot
ten that your own State is, to some ex-
tent at least, responsible for the present
alarming crisis in public affairs. If am
not greatly mistaken, Pennsylvania is
one of the non-slaveholding States which
has passed statutes, now in full force and
effect, designed to obstruct the execution
OF the fugitive slave law. This is one of
the grievances Of which the southern
people have complained for years, and,
although earnest and respectful appeals
have been addressed to you to remove
this cause of irritation and complaint,
those appeals have passed unheeded.
As a conservative man, who ardently |
desires the perpetuity of the Union under
The constitution, i appeal to you and to
.he conservative element of the North to
arouse yourselves a. once and initiate the
proper measures to secure repeal Of !
hose obnoxious laws. Such action on
he part Of your Legislature will have a
most happy influence in relieving the
outhern mind and restoring peace and
luiet throughout our now fea.fully ex~
ted country.
The South asks only for the fair and
althful execution of the laws passed for
ne recovery and protection Of her prop.
rty-that you will cease to embarrass
nd lend your aid to effect their execu.
ion, according to their letter and spirit
that, if her property shall escape and
Q found in the non-slaveholding States.
ou will see that it is promptly restored
the rightful owner. Surely there is
atriotism enough in Pennsylvania and
ne other non-slaveholding States to grant !.
hat the law has declared to be our due, !.
specially when the preservation of the
mon depends upon it. In concluding 7
us branch of the subject, permit me to :
Id that, if the North will respect and =
ohold the rights Of the States, the Union
i'll be perpetual, the country will con- !,
nue. to grow in power and influence, the y "
'ople OF all sections will have secured !. !.
them the blessings of peace, quiet and ' '
der, and prosperity, such as has nev. :, !.
been known or appreciated in our ;.
'st history, will be the necessary result. = !.
IL will require prudence, wisdom and :
trlotlsm to avert the evils now impend-
over our country. elimination and .,
iammatory language can havo no other =
ect than to exasperste and thus prccip- ~
e result that is already imminent 6
this hour of danger to the Union, it is OF "
duty Of patriots in all sections Of our ~ ~
intry to cultivate kind, generous and ~ ~
icillatory spirit one towards another. a'
'ur letter, however, breathes nothing P'
tins kind; you taunt the South with .nP'
ar superiority Of numbers, and threat. IN
to crush them by your fancicd power. ar r
lou assure me that "two hundred ;n,
rginians" have agreed to place them. wi
yes under your command in the event ON
disunion, and that you are at my h.
rvice" and await my "orders." yir. Ia,
ians owe allegiance to this common IN,
Nth, and l have too much respect for in,
fellow citizens of all parties to sup. wi
c that "two hundred" Of them in any M; ~;
t of the State are willing to go to a.
,nsylvsnia for commander, even If =
y had determined to aid in ths un-
clous work of rcduoing q sister State
he abject condition Of q conquered bic
vince of the Federal government 7,
true Virginians will, l am sure,
'gnize their obligations to the State, SOC
will hold themselves in rediness to
'ond to the call of her constituted au- rol
rites. We now have in Virginia. shs
and legally organized, eight troops siz'
avalry, twenty-six companies Of ar. the
ry, one hundred and nine companies it j
Infantry, and one hundred and ten the
panies OF rilemcn, uniformed aud en-
prepared for service. Think YOU. wit
dear sir, under these circumstances will
any "two hundred" men in Virginia !
Id seriously propose to import a hol,
mander from Ponnsylvania? Mol mol Yo,
have been cruelty hoaxed by somc see
who desired to play off good joke Tn,
our expense. 7,
on have no right to come into vir. con