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

to be accepted as our ultimatum, tel
inmates the controversy, And yet wha
matter Of difference between individual,
families, communities, States or nation,
was evor settled except by compromise
Wars, but for the spirit of concession
would be interminable., Even yictoriou
armies never refuse terms to tho van
pushed; conquered cities in the hour o
capitulatien, and at the mercy OF the vic
tors, receive concessions. Shall we then
at variance with our own kindred, clos,
the door against the possibility Of an ad
justment. Admit that, while threatening
treason, while organizing armies to over
throw the government, they have passed
the boundary of negotiation, let us re
member that they are blinded by passion
and endeavor TO reason both for them ane
ourselves That party to controversy
nearest right-thst party which is CON
scious Of least wrong-ean best afford to
manifest spirit Of conciliation.
''But in the controversy we are not
wholly blameless. II there are beams in
orr neighbor's eyes, there are notes in
eur own, Too many of us forget that
when this Union was formed, slavery was
the rnle---freodom the exception. While
we--climate, soil, and interest, favoring
and seoonding our sentiments and sympa-
thies--have been working out, other
States, with adverse complications and
elements, have worked more deeply into
slavery. Thousands upon thousands Of
our citizens, swayed by feelings to which
we are neither inscnsble nor Indifferent,
with no slavery 10 oppose at home, have
deemed it their duty to demand the abo-
lition of slavery elsewhere, forgetting, in
their zeal, that it exists in the Southern
States under the constitution, and with
the consent of our fathers. who bound
themselves and their descendants to obey
that constitution. Societies have been
formed, presses established, tracts distrib-
uted, and emissaries sent into the slave
teaching that slavery is sinful, and
that slaves ought to be emancipated.--
These lessons, in harmony with all the
of civilization, were easily
But in learning them, we did
not find written on the same page, nor in
the same chapter, that in our efforts to
abolish slavery we should provide indem-
nifty to the owners. When we refer, as
we often do, triumphantly, to the exam
pie of England, we are prone to forget
that emancipation and compensation were
provisions of the same act of Parliament.
at will, and may be said, that We are
the wrongs, eneroachments,
sggressions and outrages of slavery
True. Wo choose to do so just now. 1t
Is new and novel position, for we have
been all our life showing up the dark side
Of the slavery picture. But in view OF q
fearful calamity, there is no want Of con-
sistsncy or Of fidelity, in going to the
verge of conciliation with the hope of
lverting il. Then, after oil honorable
,ffers Of agreement have been exhausted
if
"' There comes power
Into some of our best ports, and arc at point
To show their open banner, |
Mocking the air with colors idly spread, lvsd
by the reflection that we have
lone our duty in endeavoring to preserve
peace, We shall bo prepared to go as far
Ind dare as much, as those whose impa
'ient zeal may precipitate conflict, the
horrors of which will add appalling hor-
-ors to the history of.the French revolu-
,ion."
From tho Evening Journal, Dec. u. L
eff our republican friends would but
urn their attention from the dead past
o the living present, with an intelligent
appreciation Of all that the lesson teaches,
,ur differences would cease. We only
liffer in this, viz: That with the election
# republican President, the issues upon
which his success was mainly based, be-
anne obsolete-obsolete, because, until
ve acquire moro territory, the conflict
,etween freedom and slavery is over
The moment the ballot boxes closed, on
he 9th day of November, the freedom Of
Kansas, Nebraska, Washington, New
dexico, Sc, Sc, was assured. The
york was finished, and however vche-
nently our friends may keep stumping,
heir fires will 60 out, and until fresh
uel is furnished, cannot be rekindled.--
The idea of sustaining the republican
arty upon questions that have been ar
,ued and decided, is as preposterous as
0 expect to reap wheat or harvest corn
rom fields in which seed was neither
own or planted. Let us, then, gather
nstruction from the dead past, but, as
nen of sense deal with, the living pres
nt.'s Issv yga or.. ..ru.,sr fpoiii
"With such fugitive slave law as the
onstitution demands, freemen, would be
and the necessity of personal
berty laws would no longer exist. 'Thon
9th questions are disposed Of 7rl q.
awe are reminded constantly, Of the
erfections of the Chicago platform 1t
'as and is good, strong, broad plat
orm,, one on which all might stand, and
n which more than a million of electors
id and do stand. But while it was just
5hat the occasion required, it was not
aud could not forcsee all that
night occur. Shall we,, thsn, because
mcrgeneies arise and issues offer, not
rovided for in our platform, refuse OF
estate to meet them? Shall we ignore
tartling facts, and neglect to prepare for
Genes which are to deluga the country
n blood, carnage and rapine, because we
o not find the line Of duty marked out