East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-06-27
NUMBER 4S.

Of the ship, are willing to destroy
il in the hope TO command some one Of
the RATS that may float away from the
wreck. The effect is to degrade us to
level with the military bandits Of Mex
leo and South America, who, when beat
en- at an election, fly to arms, and seek
to master by the sword what they have
been unable to control by the ballot box.
The atrocious acts enumerated were
acts Of war, and might all have been
treated as such by the late Administra-
ton; but the President patriotically cal-
tivatsd peace-how anxiously and how
patiently the country well know. While,
however, the revolutionary leaders greet
ed him with ell halls to his face, they did
not the less diligently continue to whet
their swords behind his back. I'M
mense military preparations were made.
80 that when the moment for striking
at the Government Of the United States
arrived, the revolutionary States leaped
into the contest clad in full armor.
As if nothing should be wanting to
darksn this psge of history, the Seeded
States have already entered upon tho
work of con6sicsting the debts due from
their citizens to tho North and North
west. The millions thus gained will
doubtless prove q pleasant substitute for
those guarantees now 80 scornfully re-
jected. TO these oonfsications will
probably succeed soon those of lands and
negroes owned by the citizens of tho
loyal States; and, indeed, the apprehen.
sion of this step is already sadly disturb
ing the fidelity Of nonresident propric-
tars. Fortunately, however, in6nnity
of faith; springing from such a cause, is
not likely to be contagious. The war
begun is being prosecuted by the Con-
federate States in q temper as fierce and
unsparing IS that which characterises
conflicts between the most hostile ma
tions. Letters Of marque and reprissl
are being granted to all who seek them,
so that our coasts will soon swarm with
these piratical cruisers, rs the President
has properly denounced them. Every
buccaneer who desires to rob American
commerce upon the ocean, can, for the
asking, obtain warrant to do 30, in the
name of the new republic. To crown all,
large bodies Of Indians have been mus
tered into the service of the revolution
ary States, and are now conspicuous in
the ranks of the Southern army. A
leading North CaIolins journal, noting
their stalwsrt frames and unerring marks
manship, observes, with an exultation
positively fendish, that they are armed,
not only with tho rifle bat also ,oith tho
scalpiny knife and tomaha,ok.
Is Kentucky willing to link her name
in history with the. excesses and crimes
which have sullied this revolution at evs-
ry step of it's progress? Can she soil her
pure hands with its booty? She posses
ses the noblest heritage that God has
granted to his children; is she prepared
to barter it away for that miserable mess
Of pottage, which the qualification of the
unholy ambition of her public men would
bring to her lips? Can she, without lay
her face in the dust for very shame, be.
come participant in the spoliation Of
the commerce Of her neighbors and
friends, by contributing her star, hitherto
so stainless in its glory, to light the COR
sair on his way? Has the whar-whoop,
which used to startls the sleep Of our
frontiers, 80 died away in her ears that
she is willing to take the red handed saw.
age to her bosom IS the champion Of her
rights and the representative Of her spir-
it? Must she not first forget her own he
roic sons who perished, butehered and
sealpsd upon the disastrous field Of Raj.
| sin?
The object Of the revolution, as avow-
ed by all who are pressing it forward, is
the permanent dismembermeut Of tn Q
Confederacy. The dream of reconstruc
tion-used during the last winter ss o
lure to draw the hesitatiug or the hope
full into the movement-has been form
ally abandoned. If Kentucky separates
herself from the Union, il must be upon
the basis that the separation is to be final
and eternal. IL there aught in the or
ganization or administration of the Gov.
ernment Of the United States to justify,
on her part, an act so solemn and so
perilous? Could the wisest Of her law.
ysrs, if called upon, find material for On
Indictment in any or in all the pages of
the history of the Republicp Could the
most leprous-lipped Of its calumniators
point to single State or Territory or
community or citizen that it has wronged
or oppressed? 1t would be impossible
So far as the slave States are concerned,
their protection has been complete, and
if it has not been, it has been the fault
Of their statesmen, who have had the con-
troll Of the Government since its found
alton.
The census returns shows that during
the year 1860 the Fugitive Law was
executed more faithfully and successful
ly than it had been during the preceding
ten years. Since the installation Of
President Lincoln, not . case has arisrn
in which the fugitive has not been re-
turned, and that too without lany opposi-
tion from thepeople. Indeed, thcl fidel-
ity with which il was understood TO
be the policy Of the present Administrs-
too to enforce the provisions of this
law has caused Q perfect panic among
the runaway slaves in the free
States, and they have been escaping in
multitudcs TO Canada, unpursued and I'M
reclaimed by their masters. Is there