East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-05-13

tfnel. W hI, even ~ ~ must hl"Nhh''
furm. is in great measure the law Of re-
taliaiion. NOn 10 what is necessary b
meet the enemy 'sacts; you ietaliate on
him, aud 90 sometimes ia great cxtrem-
itv, LAYING waste his coudtry, spreading
over il utter dcso'ation IL may be az
iuiliatory necessity % do that but to
undertake 10 sit here aud make laws o.
rectug the Executive aud the Generals
as 10 what they may, eHd what they mag
not, consider as military necesslhes, Is
utterly idle because they are constantly
changing with the changing cireum
stances; aud, rs lshave before said on az.
other occatioa, when you undertake. %
make the laas TO regulate what they may
40, you necessarily imply that they ma,
not DO anything but what yop have req
ulated. II was said by the honorable
senator from Ohio M Sacrmanl yes
tcrlay, that the Executive, through his
officers, may take ships and burn them.
Did we make any law for that ? No.
Do we complain of It's being done wrong
fully? No. 1t did not need any law then
TO do it. II is said that this coniiscatlon
is military proceeding, a military neces
sity. II it isl do not decide that point
we know whore 10 90, we know who is
to decide whether it is or not; and, If we
DO anything that takes away from the
Executive and his Generals the deciding
upon what H. military necessity, we uSufp
their rights, Esurp their powers.
WHAT LEGISLATION Is CALLED FOR,
Al - a.. Ia. tult H.
called for at the hands Of legislative
bodies depend, in a great measure upon
the cXigencies of circumstances, and
ought to be addressed to them, fitted to
them. The old law of the mischief and
the remedy, lawyers we'll understand
/ We should look to what is the present
/ law. and see what i needed, and what
shape the law should take to effect the
desired end When the Executive,
through its Generals and its armies, shall
/ have 10 put down armed rebell'on--and
nothing of great Importance can be done
here until that is eifccted-what is want
ed, what is needed? Nothing can now
be offered hy the President TO these peo.
PIE but that, if they will return to their
allegiance and be obedient, they shall not
be hanged. We all perfectly well know
that the idea Of hanging a hundred thou
sand men, or ten thousand men, or any
thing Of that kind, is idle. Nobody APP
prehends it; nobody has any fears of it;
and | trust nobody has any hopes of it,
Then that will not enable the President
to hold out anv i''l...coment at ali hecanse
they have no @PpIvncnsIons on that sub
jcct. All rcbcllions that are unsuccess
FIJI, that are suppressed, among any civil
led people, end in bill of amnesty, from
which some are reserved aud excepted
Cor punishment The great body of the
people are pardoncl. | recolect among
a civilized people of but one rebellion
p that was ever attempted 70 be treated il
any other way, and that was the Mon
mouth rebellion, under the Duke Of Mon
mouth, in England in the time Of Jane
ia very foolish rebellion, and on
which was readily suppressed. King
James sent Jellreys, and he hung tw,
hundred and odd people, including fe
males; il was called "Jeffrrys western
campaign" Though the people of Eng
land disiked the man for his bigotry, the,
disliled that rebellion; but when that eX
pertinent was tried on the b. itish people
when it shocked the humanity of tn,
British nation, it produced the culmina
ton Of the public disgust with that SAM
, James H., aud in less than six month
from that time Jeilreys was in the Tower
and his master was fleeing from thu
throne of England That was an attempt
TO deal in another way with rebellion.
| look TO no such result in this country
+ | know our people are exceedingly exas
peratcd, and / participate in that feeling
myself as an individual. But revenge
, evaporation feelings of vengeance
should not be entertained by nations; no
r by bodies representing nations. Rebei
must be treated with severity to eXtreu
i. itv; proper number Of those who al
? needed for example, for its wholesome it
{ iuence afterwards, should he brought
q condign punishment, but the great mas
I must have an amnesty.
now EXTREME MEASURES WILL WORK.
p a short time since MIR Cave Johuso
q was at Clarksville, aud he informe
p Commodore Foote that the rebel arm
: had gone away from GAINESVILLE, and h
. had better come there and take tn
f town aud take care OF it, These peopI
n had all been engaged in tho army prett
4 much, but Commodorc Foote came an
# took possession. The people We're
n great CONSERVATION, not knowing VIII;
It would happen; and he published car
p informing them that il they remained
IS their houses, and attended To their o
p binary business and behaved themsevt
Is they should be projected When Gel
Buell. got to Nashville he published
# proclamation TO the same effect Nov
% suppose you pass this bill 10 this shap
Is aud another city which has been pc
. s,,s,ed 6y the enemy is abandoned {
:, their SO, .liers are driveuout oft I'll
a people of that city have been almo
il entirely concerned witS the rebels, an
}, they come to our General and say, "W
y are satisfied that we cannot continu
a this rebellion any more; we are willin
lr 10 submit; We want To know whcth,
,e yuu will protect ns from wrong an
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