East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-06-10

5 command. | am, respectfully, your ODE
: dient servant, GIDEON WELLEs."
e Under the plea OF the approach of TIL
{ sickly season, Mr.. Welles issues this or
4 der; under the same plea the negro ma.
. he called into any service in the South
} through the sickly season, and the terri
e rible effect it might have upon our arm,
+. and navy, was not thought of by an
republican official until recently.
/ Having made this progressive step il
our navy, (as my colleague from thc
} Bureau district Mr.. Lovejoy] wonld cal
it, it remains to be emulated in our ar
my. Not long does it await an imita
tor; Gen. ID. Nj. Hunnter, commanding
in the military department of South Car
olina. Georgia and Florida, issues an
order to enroll companies, regiments
and brigades of negroes in the military
service of the United States.
Thus, in less than two years after the
accession to power of the republican
party, the negro is made, as far as posi-
BILE, the equal of the white man as civil.
lian, sailor, and soldier. Nay, more
than this, the constitution is violated
that white men may be bereit OF guar.
anteed rights. White men are stripped
of the armor of American citizenship in
order that the negro may be clothed
therein. All this has been done against
the earnest protest of all conservative
men. And propositions and amendments
to bills appropriating money for the sup
preston of the rebellion, which provided
that no moneys should be diverted eth
er to the freeing, the support, or the en-
listment of negroes, have been invaria-
bly, voted down by the republican party
in this House.
Worse than this even, Gen. Hunter,
III his zeal for the negro, withdraws the
protection of his army from the loyal cit
izens of Jacksonville, Florida, in order
to perfect his negro boarding house aud
African military academy at the mouth
of the Savannah river. This is undoubt-
edly in harmony with his brilliant dis
covery that African slavery and martial
law are incompatible. Common minds
have heretofore considered martial law
and slavery, either for the whites or
blacks, among the most concordant in
stitutions upon earth. This proclamatory
commander, who vies in profundity with
the immortal General Phelps, undoubt-
edly considers martial law the very cas-
ket of American liberty.
Ny mind, Mr.. Chairman, revolts at
the idea of degrading the citizen soldiery
of my country to the level of the negro.
Sir, the American volunteer has always
been our reliance in peace and our vim
dication in war. am opposed, and you
will find the volunteer army of the Union
opposed, to the equalization in the ranks
of citizens and slaves.
WE MUST RECEIVE NEGRO DIPLoMATIsTs.
Having made such efforts for the ne.
groes of the United States,it would seem
that your zeal in their behalf would lag
and languish. But, no; you now go
wandering among the islands of the sea
and over the continents Of the globe in
pursuit of negro principalities and repub-
lies which you may recognize among the
earth. Hayti and Liberia furnish further
matte: for your infatuation to fatten up
on, and you at once proceed to establish
diplomatic relations between the United
States and these benighted and half made
parodies upon human government
At on annual expense of thousands of
dollars, you propose to receive negro di-
plomats from them and send United
States Ministers to them; indeed are you
tho champions Of negro equality, with
out regard to cost, place, propriety or
dignity.
This Congress has bean in session near
ly eight months, and all that / have re-
viewed you have done, and more you
would do if you could, for the negro
What have You accomplished for the
white man? Have you provided for the
payment Of pensions to the soldiers who
have been disabled while fighting the
battles of your country? Have you ap-
proprated money to relieve tho wants
and necessities of the widows and or
phans of white men who have perished
npon the battle-felds defending the con.
stituton and the flag of the country p
All, no; your time has been too much en-
crossed with the negro to think Of these
things. You have not appropriated ono
dollar forthese purposes--purpose which
should enlist the ability and the sympathy
of every patriot in the land.
If this statement is incorrect; if this
republican party or its administration
have ever made single effort in behalf
of the manned soldiers, single appro-
priaton for the support of the orphans
and widows of slain soldiers, L hope
some gentlemen upon the other side of
the House will correct me. There is
no response, and i am reassurcd in the
correctness Of my assertion by your 81
lence. The alleviation of the suiferings
of white men or the protection of their
rights is not in your line Of philanthropy.
Like your illustrious prototypes, Mrs.
Jellaby, Of the Bori.bo-la-ga- mission, or
the Rev. Aminibah Sleek in the play of
Serious Family, to the political branch of
which you abolitionists will soon belong,
your sympathies are never active in be-
half of practical and genuine benevo'
lence.