East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-09-24
EAST SAGINAW, MICHIGAN, SEPTEMBER "a, 1861.

right and blessing. But the liberty of
the press is no greater right than lndl-
vidual liberty, and than thousand other
rights. The liberty Of the press is to be
enjoyed so long as it does not aid in the
destruction of the Government so long
as it is an engine for good and not for
evil: so long as it is an element for pre-
servatien and not for destruction. The
idea is the most idle, foolish and mis-
chievous that ever existed, to allow an In
fernal machine OF treason TO exist and
work its errand of mischief because 1t is
"Press" The liberty Of fire is great
right. We could not do without it. 1t
is necessary for warmth, for preparation
of food, for propelling machinery, and for
thousand purposes, and every one has
ri ght to enjoy it. But one comes at the
dark and fearful hour Of midnight, and,
with torch, passes from dwelling to
dwelling, and lights up the darkness OF
midnight with the flames Of happy homes.
He is arretted, and says, "1ou deprived
me of the liberty of fire What tyr
anuous and abominable government! =
Fire is free, and l am merely using this
right guaranteed TO me by the constitu-
tion, and now am deprived of it, What
a tyrannous Government to deprive a
citizen of the liberty of firep 20 -a
The right of implements of husbandry,
too, is a great right. In our wooded
country the right of welding the AK, in
stead of for cutting wood or splitting
rails, for splitting his neighbor's head
open. He would be deprived of that
liberty, and then he would cry out what
tyranny The right of the ak is sacred!
every man must have that right. The
right of individual liberty is one of the
most sacred rights under heaven; far
above the right of the press and every
other right Yet when man converts
himself from the enjoyment of true man
hood to the destruction of his neighbor's
property, put him in prison. And when
you hear this idle parrot prate about the
"liberty of the press" !" tell him it is to be
enjoyed SO long as it upholds right, and
it is not to be an engine of destruction,
going about on its merciless errands. In
my opinion Mr. Lincoln ought to have
laid his hand upon great many treason
able journals which he has not done.--
[Cheers.] A more abominable abuse
never existed. If Satan had been let
loose after his confinement of thousand
years, he could not have done more mis-
chief than these miserable, reasonable
journals. am for strong measures. /
did not learn my Democracy in the school
Of management. OF lobby, or trickery. |
learned it at the bar of Andrew Jacksons
court, where it was patriotic, and where
it taught that true democracy was not in
consistent with true duty. Why, its first
duty was to uphold the Constitution, and
in the language of the Son of Man
"render to Caesar the thiegs that are Ce.
sar's and to God the things that be
Gods" This is true Democracy.
Any Democrat that undertakes to en-
barrass the Administration, whether he
loves or hates it, in such crisis AS this,
is no Democrat and no good citizen, and
ought to be put up on monument fo'
scorn to point her slow, unmoving finger
at. His geEuineness must be about equa
to that of the old revolutionary soldier
have heard Of in the interior of Penn
sylvania. The inhabitants of the plac,
had determined on having 4th of july
celebration, of the ld-fashioned, spread
eagle kind, and looked for man for {
revolutionary soldier, to give interest tC
the occasion, and finally succeeded in find
iny one, an old German. He was brought
a great distance and placed upon the
platform near the orator, who waxeC
grandly eloquent upon the patriotic deeds
of the surviving hero, and at the close o
the oration he was desired to give some
of his personal recollections of the war
"You," said the President, "must have
known Washington "Yes, / knew
him." "Where dill you see him?" "At
Trenton" "Were you in the battle?'
ayes, / surrender to Washington" "Yor
surrender to Washington How wa
that?" "I rds con HeSsian !" [Grea
Laughter. .
Now, l think, when You find men prat
ing about the Democracy embarrassing
the Administration at such a time as this
when you ignore their history, you vii
find they were "Con Hessian.n Laughter
They are distressed for fear that | an
going to turn Black Republican, or Abo
ltionist, or something-particularly thos,
gentlemen that were not in Buffalo in '4S
They are'so much afraid of Black Repub
licans and Abolitionists now, that the,
cannot be with them in arrcsting rebel
lion, These very men, some of them
had my name published so long in blacl
letters for standing by the Constitution
that / am not so much afraid of what j
black as they seem to be. / think it will
be we'll for them to review their own his
tory. / have fought the Republicans a
my days, and will again when please
but when they will go with me to pu
down rebellion in arms, l will 90 wit
them. ] do not regard my political vii
: the so weak that / am afraid ia test it,
= Captain Marryatt tells of lady at
boarding school that went into the pal
lor, and seeing gentleman, came run
0 ming out, crying; "a man, q mani" An
A so it is with these politicians; they ar
: afraid they will get too near Black RI
$ publican to lose their Democracy in spit