East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-09-17
NUMBER 7.

have elected n republican President in a
calm, peaceful, constitutional manner
that this constitutes no excuse or reason
for secession; that having wronged no
body they have nothing to redress; that
instead Of concessions or guarantees to
wrong -doers, they will leave them to the
fato they have provoked; and that above
all, they will not temporizo With treason,
negotiate with traitors, or parley with
men whose cannon are levelsd and whose
muskets are leveled at them. Hl'A
"Now to all this we concur heartily.
Suggestions Of compromised refer wholly
to another class Of citizens, class truly
devoted 20 the Union, and an xious to 60
with ms in tho struggle to uphold it. But
IL is useless to repeat the argument. The
Republican members of Congress ought
and perhaps do understand the matter
best AT any rate, the power to act is
with them, while the right of thinking be-
longs 30 their constituents"
And, finally, Congress adjourned hav-
ing done and said nothing to strengthen
or encourage ths Union men Of tho bor-
der States. Then came the struggle
within those States. Virginia, long
time poised, finally took the plunge
North Carolina and Tennessee followed.
These great and powerful States were
lost to the Union, because the republican
Representatives were beguiled with the
popular idea that they discharged their
first and highest duty in standing by and
on the "Chicago platform"
Then came civil war, menacing the Capi.
tol as its first consequence. The city Bal
tlmore revolted, but the State, thanks to
the firmness Of its Governor, and its 10y
al members of the Legislature, refused to
go out of the Union, else in tho begia-
ming, Washington would have fallen,
Though nothing was done in Congress
to "aid and comfort" Union men in Mis-
souri, and Kentucky, they have, like those
of Maryland, held their States, while
Western Virginia aud Eastern Tennessee,
unaided, and by their own indomitable
courage stand, with their property con
fiscated and their breath in their nostriIs,
firmly by the Union f.a gal
This brings us to the practical object
of this article. Three States, viz: Vir-
ginia, North Carolina aud Tennessee
were lost because Congress rejected their
Of adjustment while three
other States, viz: Maryland, kentucky
and Missouri, are struggling to maintain
their positions in the Union. - ~"
Congress, after the war had existed
three months, re-assembled. Its mem
bers, now called to face its stern realities,
discovered that something moro than the
Chicago Platform" was needed. Nov
il had become evident to minds that could
not, in February, be raised above the no
rizen ofparty, that the Union and its
government were endangered. And now,
with unanimity almost unparalleled, the
following Crittenden compromise resolu-
tion was adopted by Congress - s
"Mr. Crittendon introduced..a resolu-
lion as follows:
"Resolred, That the present civil war
mas been forced on us by the disunionists
Of the Southern States now in rebellion
against the government of the United
States that in this national emergency.
Congress, banishing all feeling of passion
and resentment, will reoollect only their
duty to their country that the acar 70 not
ragged for conquest or su9Iagation or inter-
fering O'th the rights or ssta5i,sh institutions
,f hese States, but to maintain and defend
The supremacy of the Constitution with
The rights and equality under itunimpair-
ID !; that as soon as these objects shall be
the war ought to ceaseJ
"Ihe first branch of the resolution, that
The present deplorable civil war was fore
ID on the country by the disunionists Of
he Southern States now in revolt against
Constitutional government in arms around
he capital Adopted Yeas 121 nays,
- viz burnett aud Reid Of Missouri.
"Tho remainder of the resolution was
dopted-117 against 2, namely, Potter
md Riddle" - q ,,.e.,...u'.'D 49,
That resolution, or any other breath
ng the same spirir, would have kept
hree powerful States in the Union, and
onderod Secession" comparatively pow.
rless, That resolution, adopted in. sea-
on, would have secured an early aud
,lorious triumph for the Union. 'e
The resolution was voted for now by
he representatives who loudly and vehe-
nently denounced it last winter 1t is
ccepted now by tho journals who so un-
paringly denounced us for suggesting il
rhen il was needed and would have been
Elective. Then, tho New York 7yT5me,
hough it invited the Gulf States to se-
ede, was a law for Congress, for the leg
stature, for the press, aud for the people.
Then, for venturing to suggest" the pro-
'riety Of cherishing Union sentiment in
Iorder States, this journal was denounced
n Congress, assailcd in tho Legislature,
rraigned by the press, and reproved by
lany of its oldest patrons and friends,
We told them all that in the conflict
1hich approached, the question of extend.
ng slavery in Territories, along with the
)hioago Platform, would be Emerged
nd become ''obsolete." But the AFRO,
ant and hashy cnlminations OF the 7riba
''e, like the howlings of a tempest,
rowned the voice eff truth and reason
low much all this has cost the country
a treasure and blood, in disaster and hui
in anguish and tears, we need
ot inquire. But wo shall, it is hoped