East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-02-09


~ still embodied, organized, sangqine,
confident of success, aud defiant in ITS
pretentions? Docs Il not now hold and
proclaim the same creed that il did be-
fore this invasion? 1t is true that most
Of It's representatives here disavow the
acts Of John Brown at llarpcr'g Forty
am glad that they DO 50; am rcioiccd
that they have gone thus far but must
be permitted to say 10 them that It is not
sufficient that they disavow that act, I'M
less they also rcpudiate and dcnomcc the
doctrines and teachings which produced
the act. Those doctrines remain the
same; those teachings are being poured
into the minds If men thorougout the
country by means Of speeches and pam
phets aud books, and through partisan
presses. The causes shat produced the
llarper's Ferry invasion are now in active
operation. Is it truc that all the people
of the border States are required by the
constitution to have their hands tied
without the power OF self-dcience, andre
main patient under threatened invasion
in the day or in the night? Can YOU cX-
pcct people to be patient, when they dare
not lie down to sleep at night without
1 first stationing scntinels around their
/ houses, to see if band of maraudcrs and
murlcrcrS are not approaching with torch
and pistol? Sir, ii requires more pa
/ ticnce than frccmcn ever should cultivate
/ To submit to constant annoyance, irita-
ton, and apprehension. Ii we expect TO
preserve this Union, we must remedy,
within the Union and in obedience to the
constitution, every evil for which disunion
would furnish a remedy, If the Federal
government fails toact, either from choice
or from an apprehension Of the want o!
/ power, il caanot be expected that the
Statrs will be content to remain unpro-
tcctcl
Then, sir, sec no hope Of peace, OF
fraternity, Of good feeling, between the
different portions of the United States,
except by bringing to bear the power OF
the Federal government to the extent
authorized by the constitution to protect
the people Of all The States against any
external violence or aggression. ! re.
peat, that if the theory Of the conStitu.
ton shall be carried out by conccding the
right Of the people Of every State to have
Just such institutions as they choose, Their,
| cannot be a conflict, much less an "irre
, pressible conflict" between the free and
, The slaveholding States.
, Mr.. President, the mode of preserving
, peace is plain. This system Of sectional
, warfare must cease. The constitution
& has given the power, and all we ask o
, Congress is to give the means, and we
= by indictments and convictions in the
c Federal courts Of our several States, vii
1 make such examples of the leaders o
J. these consproccs as will strike tcrro
= into the hearts Of the others, and Their
t will be an end Of this crusade. Sir, yol
Y must check it by crushing ont the con
!, spiracy, the combination, and then Their
# can be safety Then we shall be able t
3 restore that spirit of fraternity which in
# spired our revolutionary fathers upo
;, every battlefield, which presided owe
If the deliberations of the conventions tina
framed the constitution. Then we shal
/ be able to demonstrate to you that thcr
G is no evil unrcdrcsscd in the Union 70
L which disunion would furnish remedy
Il Then, sir, let us execute the constitution
in the spirit in which it was made. lie
d Congress pass all the laws necessary an
IF proper to give full and complete effect t
d every guarantee Of the constitution
/. Let them authorize the punishment G
r conspiracicsa combinationsin any Stat
II or Territory against the property, inst
,r tutions people, or government IF any oil
n, er State or Territory, and there will b
rs no excuse, no desire, for disunion. Their
~ sir let us leave the people Of every Stat
al perfectly free to form and regulate the
N domestic institutions in their own way
h Let each of them retain slavery just {
y long as it pcascs, and abolish it when
u chooses. Let us act upon that good 81
y golden principle which teaches all me
re to mind their own business, and let the
c. neighbors' alone. Then this Union ca
id endure forever as our fathers made i
divided into free and slave States, just {
Of the people of each State may detcrmi
of for themselves.