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


The records of congress equally condemn
the conspirs tors. One of the last acts of
the majority in the late congress, recog-
nised the fact, that legal tenure to slave
property may exist in all the broad terri
tory south Of $50 30-There to be
blooming in all the wisdom and beauty of
a southern paternity, you will find the fu-
gitive slave law; and New York Phila-
delphia, Boston Cleveland and Chicago,
will testify how energetically the consti-
tutional rights Of our southern bretheren
We're yindicated, even in strongholds of
northern fauaticism. Add there is the
broken roll of the peoples representa-.
tives IAN .enduring monument of the
fidelity of northern representatives, to the
Union and the Constitution, it will trans
NIT for the execration of posterity, the
names of those who disdained their high
constitutional perrogatives that they
might inaugurate rebellion.
Think you that this cool periidy, this
base ingratitude, this permeditated trea-
son was without an object / tell you
nay i Parties and nations are never con-
vplsed, except new principles and new
ideas are evolved. And what was the
grard inspiration of this rebellion ? Find
1t in the antecedent declarations of Hun
ter and his eompeers, that the fitting key
stone of the social arch is slavery, and
that the toiing millions are but mud sills
in the social structure. Read it in the
discussions of the Confederate Congress,
and in the constitution of the Confeder-
ate States, the echo of our own, except
in reservation Of despotc power, for the
guardianship and local perpetuity of slave
ry. Mark it well in the subsequent stud
led utterances of a Stephens, that the po.
litical philosophy of Jefferson and his
compatriots was delusion, and that the
only enduring corner stone of our nation
al institutions is slavery. Was this the
creed of the men whose virtues we are
met to commemorate ? 1t is the doctrine
Of that Declaration or of that Constitu-
ton inst read in your hearing Yet, my
friends, it is the torch which set the guns
helching upon Sumpter, which menaced
our national capital and which has lit the
lurid fires of civil war all over our land
Is it ''abolitionism,r is it "partizan" to de-
nouncc il ?-Abolitionism is reasonable
in sentiment seGessionism is reasonable
in action. Partizanship has nourishsed
sectional animostes; secessionism had
precipitated national conyulsion.
But time presses, and L must hasten
on. i have said that l look to the future
without. .misgiving. 1t is because | have
an abiding faith in the justice as well as
the valor of our people. Armed to pre-
serve the Union and defend the constitu-
ton, they will see to it that while repress-
ing rebellion, no act is committed which
shall tarnish the one or weaken the in
tegrity of the other. In all civil con-
troversies, passions are evoked which
give tinges of terror to their recital
And thus it Is with this which is upon
us. On the one hand we find slave in
surrecton invoked, and on the other a
rising Of operatives and mechanics to
deluge with blood the streets of northern
cities. denouncc the authors of both.
But if this struggle shall be protracted,
and bolts of such horror shall be launched
upon US, say let them fall upon the
homes of those who initiated these ca
lamities, rather than upon our own heads
Fearful as is the election, shall prefer
a repetition, at the south, of the brutal
barbaritcs of st. Domingo, rather than
have re enacted, in Washington, Phila-
dclpha and Boston, the cultivated afro
cities os Paris, Lyons aud Toulon. In
the past, the south has held her fate
within her own keeping let her not
second time tempt destiny.
To-day an army Of two hundred and
fifty thousand freemen is marshalled in
defence of the Union and the Constitu-
tion. Twenty times that number wait
to exult over their triumph, or to ayenge
their fall! AS blood is offered without
stint, so treasure is proffered without
measure. And as our fathers met eighty
five years ago to found this Reptile, SO
are the representatives of their descend
ants this day convoked to take patriotic
counsel for its preservation. Let them
do their duty in this portcntous crisis,
avoiding all minor questions, and hence
forth the sacred memories that cluster
around old Independence Hall, shall be
blended with those of our national Capi.
tol, and the Fourth of July shall acquire
new claims to the homage of mankind.
"In God is our trust!" is the reveren-
tial language Of yonder motto. Founded
in His providence and raised to greatness
by His munifcent blessings, this broad
heritage shall never be divided. The
God Of Nature created it for one people,
binding it with the crystal arteries of
commerce, and scattering all over it
mines of wealth which need only to be
to become incalculablc. Let
us, then, again renew our oaths to pre-
serve the Union and defend the Consti-
tuition. Invoking the language Of poetry,
to give happier expression to the, go. -.
tions Of our no ~; -.:-.,,, ret Us unltedly ex-
claim
'swhatthough Secession sweep the Southern plainsi
Rise fellow nen--our Country yet remains,
with that dread name we wave the sword on high,
And swear with her TO live, for her TO dlef'
oTIIosE YANKEEs!-The organ in the