East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-08-26
20. EAST SAGINAW, MICHIGAN, AUGUST 26, 1862.

sources OF the enemy being exhausted
they are greater, and | will tell yol
why. The Southerners are, las we Yan
KEGS are apt to call them the most shift
less men in the world. There is, natu
rally, an entire lack of system in al
they do, and in consequence, for six
months after the rebellion broke out
everything was lying around loose
! Though they lost the principal part o
the beef which came from Texas, tn,
great supply of grain, and though they
have expended a great part of then
munition Of war, yet this is what they
have done instead: They have organ
lied and systemized themselves, Their
government, and all the various offices
military and civil, under the govern
ment, go that, though they WELD a
much smaller weight, il moves with a
much greater velocity, MS bullet, issu.
iin!g@ from rife barrel. will do infinitely
more execution than cannon ball in
the hands of child. Now, gentlemen,
in order to meet this, we are TO 90
further in our organization than we
|
every man, woman and child engaged
in this war. / would like to see forges
and machine shops for manufacturing
arms in every public square in the ma.
tion. i would like to see every woman
engaged in making up army clothing
| would like 10 see every child tearing
up rags for lint. / would like To zee
every town organized so that by it's
committees of volunteer and patriotic
and devoted citizens, they know every
man in the neighborhood, whether he
was true to the Union or traitor. /
would like to see every contractor fol.
lowed from the time he receives the
yellow covered contract until the mo.
ment he has filed it, tracked wherever
he goes, into every shop; tracked with
every person to whom he speaks, tn see
who he brides or who bribes him. A nd
now let me tell you little incident that
occurred nine months ago. The cap
tain of a ship was offered a contract by
the government to carry government
freight. The agent asked him how
much he would take for his
ship. He said he would be satisfied
with two hundred dollars per week, to
which the agent replied "You are
fool; you can just as well take thou
sand. Laughter Tho man compro
misses between his conscience and his
interest, and took five hundred dollars
per week. "Now, this sort of system
can be put down in two weeks. We
can have competent espionage of the
Government, which would interfere
with our rights and enable wicked men
to enter our houses at all times, or we
can have the free, voluntary acts of the
people, compelling the same result
without unnecessary and cruel interter-
ference. In the South, gentlemen, every
thing is completely organized. A man
cannot walk over two miles square in
any part of the South without it being
known who he is and all about him
That is the kind of organization we
must have. 1t is known perfectly well
there whether he is a traitor to them or
loyal to this government. The conse.
quence is that a comparatively few men
have the mass of the uneducated com
pletely within their power, and it will
not be otherwise until we have overruu
the country and have satisfied those
who are friendly to this government that
we are going to occupy their country
and maintain our supremacy at all haz-
yards, and those who are disposed to |
return to the government. Then we
may be sure that they will return. and |
not till then. Gentlemen, these. are
great times. Everything is changed,
A few years ago we had great and
free government, sailing like a ship on
a smooth sea. Now we are embarked
on great ocean of perils and dangers,
a heavy cloud Of debt is hanging over
us, the Goddess of Liberty robed in
flames, and we must rise to a man and
put down this rebellion, or it will end
n putting us down. [Cries of "good,
yood," and applause