East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-01-21

rimony Is OF all things the most easy; 10
get out of all things the most difficult.
As long as it Is so easy, we may expect
TO find matters as they now are, and the
matrimonial market as active as ever. %
tW 1851 .--------- .~-----------i NitNpY 4
lgnG % From the Ann Arbor Journal, republican.
COndisaon and Dangers OF Our
ITs91uoss1 frr COuutry. s7rgm01 sdi
Our country is still on the verge Of q
lprecipice. Slavery is the great bug bear
as well as the rock on which we fear we
are destined to split and 60 to pieces. At
least there is very great danger Of tt
The honest differences Of opinion are so
great, sectional ambition, prsjudices and
antipatbies so strong and unyieldiag, par
tizan struggle for power so violent--con-
scientiousness and self.righteousness SO
great, SO benevolent, SO philsnthropic,
and so binding in its nature as to limit
the views Of many Of its possessors to
one virtue and its vice, and 10 cause them
to overlook all others--that harmony and
national Union seem at times impossible.
Uniformity Of opinion is an impossi
biity. More charity, and more tolers-
tion of the different opinions Of others,
are necessary. Since the christian ere,
thousands OF persons have been burned
at the stake aud otherwise sacrificed, by
the orders of ecclesiastical courts and
councils, and christian priests, who were
conscientious in their acts, and thought
they were doing Gods service. Hundreds
of thousands and perhaps millions Of per-
sons have been killed in religious wars,
when both parties were equally honest
equally sincere, equally conscientious, and
equally devoted to the christian religion.
Conscentiousnes and devotion to prinoi.
pie, do not always save men from gross
errors and crimes. Free tolsration and
non-intervention In matters of religion
constitute the corner stones of American
Professionalism. Free toleration of polit-
ical opinions, and non.intervention By
Congress, or the people Of one State, with
the domestic institutions, government
aud laws of another, constitute the corner
stones of the Constitution and Govern
ment of the United States. They con-
stitute the only basis that is consistent
with our national Union. Remove or de-
stroy them, and our national fabric will
fall to pieces, or rather il will be impossi-
bic to reconstruct it by sre-union Of the
fragments now separated. s.tj Asl
The people of every State in the Union
claim the right of self-government .,
their birthright, and claim the power Of
absolute and unqualified sovereignty over
all local and municipal or State matters
aud questions over their own, domesti,
institutions aud municipal lsws---subordi
nate to the laws and government of tn
United States only in national, interns
tional and Interstate matters. No spir
tied and ambitious people, will quietly
submit to the constant criticisms and die
tstions on the part of others, In relation
10 their manners, morals, religious princi
pies, or domestic institutions much les
will they submit to any interferenoe o.
intermeddling in such matters, by eithe
their neighbors or foreigners. There i
usually great jealousy in such matters
and hence there is ngerthat any sttsmp
to interfere with the institution Of slavery
10 the States, will stir mp anew the fame
Of civil war in Delaware, Maryland snt
Kentucky, as well as in Missouri. % 500
To attempt to domineer over the whit
, race, for the purpose Of emancipsting tn
black, will never promote harmony, peace
or the cause of civilization in our country
and is not consistent with the reconstruc
tion Of the Union. .;sli ,nOa ,eJ, Co..
The greatest dangers Of our sountry
be apprehendsd now, are divided council'
anda a struggle in Congress TO oserrul
{ the policy Of the Administration in tn
!, management Of the war, and adopt meas
! ures which may alarm, the fears, and de
= stroy the confidence in the government Z
. the Union men Of the border slave State
J It may be well doubted, II the Unio
4 can possibly be re-construeted and maiI
s tanned without more harmony of feelinl
e more spirit Of conciiation, and less incli'
2 alton to push TO extremes the peculi'
r views Of political partirans, which are p.
a in accordance with the early ussges
the government. II We would have n
: tionsl Union and harmony, We must {
\ 4 back to the early usages Of the COVER
!" ment, during the Administrations !
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