East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-07-25

tion in that City on the 4th inst, spoke
as follows: lEIasd h--Il0oI z.
TIE Union aWi the Constitution. bss yir8l
AS the one can not be discovered with.
out the other be destroyed, both shall be
perpetuated. JJ
w, l.. BANCROFT, responding to this
toast said: The recital this day of the
achievements and virtues of the men who
founded our Union, must fall with chas-
tening influence upon the hearts of our
countrymen. "The Union and the Con.
stitution ~ Twin oflsprngs of a royolu.
ton baptized in blood, we have known
them only by the individual benefits they
have created Eighty-four anniversaries
gladened united nation. The circle of
years added wealth to our industry, SUI
premacy to our commerce, lustre to our
position, and multiplied tenfold the page
ant of worshippers at the common Shrine
of patriotic devotion. The eighty fifth
is here. 1t marks an era trying and fear
fnl in our history. Civil war, with all it's
ignominies, is upon us. BY a portion of
our countrymen the Union is spurned and
the Constitution is contemned. 1t is tit,
then, for us who honor both, while unit
ing grateful euolgy of their founders, to
lay upon the altar of our country sol
emu oath that both shall be pcrpctuatcd.
This is no occasion fora protracted 9is-
cussion of those questions, which, belong-
ing solely and legitilnately to the decision
OF the ballot.box, have been, pot less pur.
posely than wickedly, pushed to the ar
bitrament of arms. And it is genial ev-
idence of the healthy toae of our public
sentiment, that men who have been long
identified with party strifes, may declare
unqualified devotion to their country, in
this her hour of peril, without 'incurring
the suspicion of former friends, or the de-
nunciation OF founer opponents. One OF
fourteen hupdred thousand ireemen, who
at the last Presidential election cast their
votesier statesman who crowned long
career of distinguished public service with
the unfading laurels of patriotic devotion,
| look to the past without regret, and to
the future without misgiving. Let those
who choose, carp at acts OF partlzanshlp
IN an administration not OF their election.
So long as it maintains a controlling de.
voticn to the Union and the Constitution,
so long it will merit, and will receive the
cordial cooperation of the people. 1t is
a puny patriotism, that Graves nursing
with political pap; it is suspicious dis
interestedness, that perslstently recalls
old party animosltles, even to lament
their existence. The fires OF this ordeal
will not leave our people less pure, or less
jealous of their rights, than before. ~
nation which executes justice upon trai-
tors, will not be likely TO forget is patri-
OTIS. Let US, then, unite in the hope, that
the national exigencies have rendered
party organization useless, and rejoice
over the consummation.
The sentiment demands word as to
the motives ofths great crime against civ
lization. History has recorded the sue
cessful vigilance with which the Ameri-
can people have resisted all encroachments
upon individual rights or State sovereign
ty. History must therefore declare, that
this rebellion is as causeless as it in wick
ed as retrogressive in its philosophy as
it has been barbarcus in its inception aud
progress. The political contest OF the
thirty years preceding the agitation of
sectional questions, turned principally
upon questions of State rights and these
were decided, without exception, against
any such construction Of the federal con-
stitution as would warrant the exercise of
doubtful powers by the genera. govern
This was sound political doctrine for oar
southern brethren then. They applied it,
rightlully enough, to their "peculiar insti-
tution," in 1850; they demanded it as the
basis of an adjustment of all sectional dit.
ferenccs, in 1855; they extended its ap
plication in 1861: and they manfully and
successfully helped sustain it in 1896.
Why did they repudiate it in 1860?
Could the mere probabilities of party de-
feat, or success, justify rebellion ? For
my own part, l am unwilling to admit
that to any one northern party will histo-
ry ascribe the honor or the infamy, of
the momentuous results to flow from the
spectacle thus presented by the country.
The power which delivered the south in
1852, and again in 1866, was potent to
save them in 1860. But, deaf to the
voice of patriotism, and reckless of the
admonitions Of experience, they rushed
lnadely into rebellion. Thus, they spurn-
ed alike the tried associates of a gener-
alton, principles they were pledged
to maintain a Union they were bound to
honor, and Constitution they were sworn
to support. DO you ask proof Of this ?
Go to tho graves of the honored dead
Invoke the shade of a jackson, Wright,
a Clay, Webster, or Douglas. Ar
raign the livingl Let them answer at
the bar Of the Worlds opinion for their
share in this days business. Search the
records of congress and of party oonven-
tons those tell tale witnesses at once
Of the littleness, as well as the greatness,
of such asaspire to be your leaders. From
the tomb, come only blessings nre" tne
Union, and malediosions upon those who
would dismember it.--From Cincinnatia,
comes faith plighted to the people, and
foresworn by those only who conspired
against the country. Charleston and Bal
timorc, testify to concessions, until con-
cession would have engulphed manhood
and meritel public reprobation. Chicago
corrected the capital error at Philadelphia.