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

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city from relative in Louisiana, and is
dated at Point Coupee, May 2l. 1861
1t is worty careful perusal - COIaa'bus
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eve can not expect under the present
aspect of fairs that we will much longer
be allowed by our respective Governments
the privilege and pleasure of mutual
communication, for it is easy to perceive,
even to the most obtuse, that spirit of
evaporation is becoming scattered broad
cast throughout our once peaceful and
happy land, produced by elimination and
recrimination from the press, the pull pit,
the bar and the bench, and those whom
we have been taught to look up to with
veneration as the expounders of justice,
peace and good will to all men, are now
seen in the front ranks, advocating and
calling upon. fellow men in this enlight-
ened ninteenth century, to perform act S
aud deeds of bloodshed and violence that
would shame the very "angels' of hell,
and for what? Do they expect that peo-
pie will live together any better after these
deeds are performed? certainly cannot
think so. 1t may all do very well to use
this spread eagle style of language in re-
gard to raising millions of men and mil
lions of dollars it belongs to the Ameri-
can character to talk thus, but did it ev-
er occur to you that SOMEBODY must foot
the bill?
You tell me the North is like hive
of enraged bees, well, all l can say is
"rage," but there is something else that
| would like to be be informed about, as
well as can-recollect from what L saw
in the North there appeared to me to be
a great many poor men there especially
mechanics. These same men have wives
and little children depending upon them
for something to eat, and something to
protect them from the blighting frosts of
winter. Now if their husbands, brothers
and sons enlist under Mr. Lincoln's flag,
who will support these same poor women
and little children, for from what | have
seen and read, the Northern people as
whole will have but few sins t. answer
for at the bar Of heaven in regard to
having been exclusively generous to the
poor. think you will say that the
South is in the same fix, but even for
argument sake admitting we are, you
must bear in mind we do not expect to
march hundred thousand men iuto any
Northern State, but on the contrary we
are going to remain on our own soil, aud
fight beside our own hearthstones. We
crave nothing that the North possesses,
we covet not your houses or lands, we
would not hurta single woman or child
in your midst, nor would we employ the
knife of the assassin or the torch of the
incendiary, though they were offered to
us in countless thousands, but we have
been threatened with all of these, and
even the cup of the poisoner has been
portrayed to our vision. Now what have
we done to merit all of this Simply
refused to submit our lives aud property
to the rule and guidance of those who
were elected upon the open avowal that
neither would receive that protection
which was promised to other citizens OF
other portion of the then Union; for it is
immaterial, what Mr.. Lincoln's Inaugu-
raj may say or how his friends may try
to explain it why, he was publicly and
openly pledged both by himself and
friends to Chicago Platform, and no
Southern man could risk his political lib
erty and pecuniary possessions under the
rule Of a President elected upon that plat
form, and the irrepressible conflict, as
interpreted by Mr.. Seward and the rest
Of the Abolition partisans, and all we
ever asked was to let us separate in peace.
You may say we have seized the priv
ate property of the Government. The
South never took building, a vessel, a
gun, pound Of powder or anything else
belonging to the Government that she
was not willing to pay its full valuation
to the uttermost farthing, and as it was
partnership entered into for mutual
benefit and protection, we asked fair
divdened of the profits and losses and
let each one take his own. cannot for
the life of me, see anything wrong in all
this. J . ......r. .,r7 f
Mr.. Lincoln calls us an unlawful as
semblage. Well, 1 am not much of a
lawyer, but it seems to me that eight
millions of people of one heart, one mind,
and one feeling are capable of making
any assembly they may hold, "lawful.
You say the men of the North are anxious
for the fray, well do not know that we
of the South are, for We know but too
WELL the ruin and devastation that fol-
low in the wake of hostile armies, aud
we never would have inaugurated the
ages of woe and suffering that must cer-
.tainly follow this contest, if our pleadings
tor peace had not been rejected and all
our ovcrturcs met with duplicity, or un-
generous refusals. Aud if we do get at
it in earnest, we may as well acknowl
edged it first as last That the last refuge
for poor down trodden humanity and the
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SUI SHiS ever shone upon, has passed away in
oceans ofblood, produced aud carried out
by the bad passions of bad men, and as
the Jews crucifed Christ, SO have wo
crucified the immortal name of Wash
ington, and .an honest man may blush
to own himself citizen Of the United
States of America. f
And now all that Mr.. Lincoln's Army
needs is an Anti-slavery Bible and an
Anti slavery God, as for the expounders
Of them, these he lacks not for II we
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