East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-04-01
THE COURIER.
Asst SAGIN Aw
TUESDAY, APRIL l, 1862.
The country is in $ ersis!
-iGdrsss Of Repubiican STATE Committee

The country is in $ erisis!
-iGdrsss Of RepubLican State Committee
The particular "crisis' which the
country is in at this time, more than any
other time since tho breaking out Of the
rebellion, is this: a township election is
close at hand. Local officers are to be
elected TO dispense justice, look after the
educational interests, attend 20 the mu-
nicipal affairs and regulate the highways,
byways, roads, bridges, and other inter.
nal matters Of the several Townships,
Wards and Districts in the State. II
being the privilege of each locality to
regulate It's own affairs in It's own way"
subject only to the restrictions of la y.
As these elections must be carried on in
the good old way, and as there is no
great excitement among the people, but
cool determination To look well 10 their
interests, it is AZ difficult for the uniniti-
a,sd in political matters as it was for
Snifkins when his first little hit of gal
baby was born, to discover the CRISIS.
There is no crisis in the country. The
war against rebellion is progressing Wig
orouSly aud successfully. The damnable
system Of frand and peculation inaugu-
rated in the commencement, the like of
which never before disgraced any civil.
lied nation, has been in measure
stopped; the unjustifable censorship over
tho press is working its own cure the
wob spirit, at one time fearfully preva-
lent, has been checked; aud the manifest
desire Of the great body of the people is
that Law and order may prevail, aud that
the Union, aud with it peace and good
fellowship with all sections, may be
speedily restored. There il, however, il
VIC may Judge from the frantic efforts
which the leaders arc putting forth, a
crisis in the affairs of the Republican
party--God grant that it may terminate
tstally-they fear that tho rotten institu
tion will sink by the weight of its own
enorinitios, without even 50 much as q
decent "send OFF, from the Democracy
Hence the lying, "stop thief cry OF
secession" +" knights of the Golden
Circle, ""pro.slavery," etc, which :sraised
against men who have always been true
to their country, who secuted tho sixtcci
star flags of 1856, and the abolition or,
of mo moro union with shareholders,
then tho banner and the watchword o
the republican party; who rcpudiatc'
the "irrepressiblc conflict" dogma o
1SG0; who rallied as one man to the sup
por, ~ tho governments when attsoke,
by the armed hosts Ut secession, an,
VIII, stand to-day firm ~ rock in op
position to the efforts Of abolitionists OF
the other hand, who are endesvoring d
undermine the constitution and dcstro
the Union--is to divert attention froI
the trne issues, and by creating . storu
II passion and prejudice, carry the sprin
elections, that they may 20 into the f.
campaign with the prestige Of sacces
and the semi endorsement Of the lyin
aud villainous SANDERS they have coine
and Observation-Disclosures As mean All
false a. their authors arc base and cor
temptible.
Never in the history Of parties in th
State, have q sett Of men in either part
: rcsortcd to means so utterly pusillsninou
| aud desrcablc as the leaders of the r,
publican party are now using, and in q
doing they bat show their own weakness
Frightened at the contemplation Of the
own disgrsccfnl record, they sec that
Justice prevails their party must die; fea'
! ing such result. they throw their Who'll
soul into the struggle 10 avert their jus
doom, aud in the effort give vent to q
/ tho mcsnncss, scurrili,y, malicc, mer
J lsci,y, hi.,cr-ess sri hatred -vNich ia