East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-03-25

Nf..aN .I.N I.I" HANlt NI|
shall successfully bind, as of yore, the
extrcmities OF this republic to its centsi
and that center to freedom. As the
logical AID inevitable result of this an.
tagonism in place Of brotherhood, this
antipathyin lieu of friendship, and this
malignant hatred for Christian charity,
men slackened their hold upon law and
lost their reverence for civil authority.
A leading axiom in our Declaration OF
Independence was prOnOmcedat the South,
a rhetorical flourish without foundation in
fact, whilst the constitution itself has
been long and publicly denounced at the
North as covenant with hell J"
Beyond this, ignorant and depraved
men in both sections, have openly scoffed
at the binding force and obligations Of
law; whilst at the North, striplings in
learning, neophytes in politics, and tyros
in Jurisprudence, have jeered at adjudica-
tions by our highest courts, and aided in
placing on the statute books OF dozen
States, enactments designed to nulify
the provisions and obstruct the execution
of valid Federal laws of the Union. l
Who shall say, then, that the culmin
ating point of our national safety aud
glory had not already been reached and
passed before the secession ordinance Of
South Carolinsp Who shall presume to
date the period of "a Union dissolved" as
recently as the assault upon our flag at
Sumpter9 Long ere that the elements
of ruin were rife in the land. This war
is but an apAsagal, an osstbwst of lara, from
tho volcanic fires belopy Happy for as if
its desolating march shall be arrested, ere
wild disorder and fearful anarchy shall
hold high carnival in our midstl Sr'7'sg
The lesson is this, as you win find it
along the track of time, craven upon the
mouldering sepulchres of extinct nation
alities Prosperity will not visit, and
peace win not reside with that people,
wherever found, who habitually mock at
law and despise civil authority.
= This picture is no illusion of faney--it
is no chimera of distempered brain! 1t
is the life-like, warm and palpitating
image of many bloody original. Par
don me moment longer on this point,
while speaking from recollection, but, |
believe, with historical accuracy ;g..r
When the laws of "the Saba men" of
Persia ceased to be regarded, and their
decisions to be respected, the sceptre de-
parted from the race. When "the Ori-
entail Magi" lost the monarch's ear in
Babylon and ceased to dispense justice at
her gates, the throne toppled to its fall,
and the Assyrian government passed
away. When the counsels of Longinus
were overruled, and his laws no longer
needed by the naughty lords Of Palmyra,
that monstrous city, whose gilded temple
Of the sun rivaled the noontide effulgence
of that grand luminary, fell beneath the
fierce assault Of Roman legions, and her
captive Queen, Zenobia, was led in chains
to grace the conqueror's triumph. When
the laws of Lycurgus were lost to Sparta,
she lost herself. When turbulent Jewish
factions refused to have their Sanhedrim
expound the books Of the Hebrew law,
Jerusalem was sacked and the nation
perished. When the Areopagus of
Athens abdicated their high judicial
functions and allowed the mob to adjudge
her philosophers worthy of death, Athens
herself perished, and Greece passed into
history. And when the populace trampled
upon 1.-The law of the twelve tables, and
the decrees Of the Roman Senate we're
powerlcss against mob violence on the
Quirinal, the glory Of the land Of Cicero,
Marcellus ana Cato suffered ia total
eclipse, and the itesselated paveniehts Of
the Eternal City resoundednto theltu-
multuous tramp Of her cVsndsl conquer
ors.ismoold boiruom ,idyia 1870 glo1sd
bn Shall the aduonitions Of the past still
fall upon the unheedine American sarsf
Shall our misguided footsteps continire to
Stake hold. on national death? y Has not
the time now fully come awhen we, as .
people, will listen TO the sxpostulatons,
the prophstic teschings Of Washington!
Is there nothing in the deep tolling,ithe
startling peals of Jefierson's s6re-bell By
night"It to arouse us TO new nsuergy, and
united eif6rtS ooLetns retrsee rodr steps,