East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-10-14
EAST SAGINAW, MICHIGAN, OCTOBER H. 1862.

most every hearthstone in the Nortl
has lost some loved one from its circle
assume the fearful responsibility of add
ing 70 our miseries and increasing ou
dangers by the vile passions and coarse
denunciations Of party conflict ? Blu
it is no high.handed outrage when view
ed in the degrading light of party servi
tude and usages. | blame the wicked
SyStsD, more than tho men. For once
then, let US lift ourselves above it. Lei
as let the people resolve that, turning
from these wellintrenched leaders. bury
ing their prejudces, forgetting, for the
time, all personal ideas of policy and
agencies, they will have but one party
and one object. That party shall be a
party to sustain the government in it,
present perl.
There is another thought with which
| wish to trouble you. 1t is the CON,
pieteneSS with which we must subordin
ate all our opinions and predictions to
the support of those whom VIC have
placed in power, if wo would render
them successful, if We intend even to
succeed in this, the means Of aid which
we are attempting to-day.
When the proclamation was issued
the partisan republican press of our
State pronounced tho death of the I'm
ion movement. Now, cried they, we
will see if the democrats will swallow
this Surely, the President has driven
them off now They can't stand that
| was asked this morning by Federal
ofiice-holder, What will be your plat
forms Will you indorse the proclama-
lion? We will answer these misguid.
ell men; those whose prejudices lead
them, perhaps honestly, TO underrate
the patriotism of our democratic fellow
citizens, by adopting platform broad
enough for the whole North to stand
upon; platform which announces that
we will sustain our authorized govern
ment proclamation or no proclamation;
whether it use negroes to dig or fight,
or refuse their service wholly, We will
have no denunciations of agencies or
agents, but, forgetting the past, with
Que united and fraternal effort, will,
with our voices, our money and our
blood, uphold the government of the
peoples choice in its war for existence.
T Applause
Mr. Emmons here illustrated the er.
roneous ideas entertained by the par.
tisan press in relation to the breadth
and liberality of this movement. He
read an artice from the Advertiser anil
Tribune declaring that the Union organ
swallowed, with maay .griniaces, the
proclamation. That it is precisely, said
Mr.. L. No matter what erimaceS,
what con tortions it may cost, even
though it dlslocates the joints, dozen
acikh IL, if il be part of the chosen in
strumentality Of our noble, our honest
President TO subdure rebellion To the
laws. IVociferous appaulse. Is it a
crime that we do not denouncc what we
dislike I? Do these partisan editors i'm.
agine it duty to attack everything
they cannot understand and may there
foro disapprove? Not now, my fellow.
citizens. | make my argument for the
war and it only. When it is over, when
we have flag over us and a consiitu'
tion saved, then we will discuss both
men and measures.
am a republican. | have been SO
from the first. ,eem it my duty to
oppose the spreading of slavery into
tho Northwest, because free labor dc.
mands and deserves the territory Ap-
plause.l have, however, many, very
many opinions not shared by large nun
bers of that party. They are shared,
however, by the great mass of the old
whig party, which contributed so large.
" to the constitution Of tho former.
When the present troubles are past,
they will bc discussed, and contended
for. But of what consequence are
they now? To what end shall | dis
cuss them? After the relation of mas
ter aud slave has so long existed; after
the degradation and constitutional dc.
generacy resulting from many genera.
tons of sertudc have marked the ser
vile race, believe that if both must CO
exist upon the same soil, unless you
propose to give the blacks equal poiti.
cal aud social rights, then believe, as
do in my God, that the relation of mas
ter AMI slave is the most bcnefcent. II
you are to free him aud still deny him
all tho benefits aud stinulants which
political liberty gives; ii he is to con.
stitute degraded caste; it we are not
to have negro Colonels, and negro JUS
tices and Congressman, and State Sen
ators aud Judges, in communities where
the black population will predominant,
then | say, | am as sure as that am
alive, this down trolden and rights-dc.
MED negro. had better be a slaDc. Ap.
plause IIc had bette have a master
| will not now discuss whether | would
so make them voters aud officers, our
political and social equals Even with
the few we have here, Michigan over.
whclmingly refused to do so. | do not
discuss it, because mention these opin.
ions and preferences, only to say that ]
put them all under my feet. Twill give
of my money, to its last cent, to sustain
the government; and, If in its opinion
ideas OF others. instead of mine must be
carried out this shall have no tendency
to abatc my zeal for the protection OF